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Pennsylvania paper drops syndicated cartoon over Trump insult
FOX News ^ | 02-10-2019 | Staff

Posted on 02/11/2019 7:38:04 AM PST by Red Badger

At least one newspaper says it has dropped the syndicated cartoon "Non Sequitur" after a vulgar message to President Donald Trump appeared in it.

The Butler Eagle in Pennsylvania reported Sunday that the "shot at President Donald Trump" will cost cartoonist Wiley Miller "his place in the Eagle's Sunday comics."

A scribbled message in one panel of that day's cartoon appears to begin with "We fondly say go ..." followed by the message to Trump.

Ron Vodenichar, Eagle publisher and general manager, said in the paper that the paper was alerted about the message by a reader and included a syndicated comic strip.

"Neither the Butler Eagle nor any other newspaper that includes this strip had an opportunity to remove it even if they had discovered it before distribution. We apologize that such a disgusting trick was perpetuated on the reading public. The Butler Eagle will discontinue that comic immediately," he said.

The paper’s article was titled, “Loose Lips Sink Strips.”

It's not clear whether other publications have dropped the strip, distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication. The company's website says "Non Sequitur" appears in more than 700 newspapers.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: arewesnowflakesnow; cartoon; gfy; nonsequitur; politics; tds; wearesnowflakesnow
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To: alloysteel

There once was a man from Nantucket....


21 posted on 02/11/2019 8:25:00 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Is it just me? I can’t decipher any of the scribbles.

Much less the offending one.


22 posted on 02/11/2019 8:25:30 AM PST by IgnaciKat ('m)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Yup, Butler Co went for Trump 66% to 29%. It is seeing an influx of morons though.


23 posted on 02/11/2019 8:33:49 AM PST by Varda
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To: IgnaciKat

Second panel, lower right corner, there are scribbles, but you can clearly make out “_UCK YOURSELF TRUMP” with a few extra scribbles to camouflage it.


24 posted on 02/11/2019 8:36:36 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Red Badger
Reminds me of all the newspaper cartoons - in the comics section (not political cartoons) - containing offensive obcenities directed against Obama during his terms.

Right... I don't either!

Regards,

25 posted on 02/11/2019 8:39:10 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Red Badger

I took it out of my feed.

Sad too, I liked the non-political stuff in that comic.

For the record, I still read Doonesbury. But, I expect what I get there.


26 posted on 02/11/2019 9:05:18 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian

Unless and until we start hitting them where it hurts, in their pockets and pocketbooks, they will keep their crap going.

They would do no less to us, and have........................


27 posted on 02/11/2019 9:09:14 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Nifster

“Wow somebody has waaay too much time on their hands to “spot” that”

It’s funny how the mind works, that little bit of scratchy writing on the bottom right-hand corner might have jumped right out at somebody whose mind is attuned to the preciseness that would be required to notice that.

It’s like Mozart or perhaps that new Swedish chess champion who’s in his late teens. They just have a mind for it. The brain is an amazing thing. Some people can remember faces and names and all sorts of minutiae that other people don’t have a penchant for. That just goes with the territory.


28 posted on 02/11/2019 9:13:33 AM PST by Clutch Martin (TheSant trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Nifster
Depends.

If he's known for dropping "Easter eggs", people look for them.

Way back in college, latter 1970s, a guy from the Boston area would see how fast he could find "Amy" hidden in a Boston Globe editorial cartoonist's chicken-scratch. "Amy" being the name of the artist's daughter.

29 posted on 02/11/2019 9:23:23 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Red Badger

The same thing happened in reverse to Pogo after Walt Kelly died. His son took over the strip The offending panel there had the lead character Pogo asking the question;

What good is it to be Politically Correct,
If your Morally Wrong?

Within a month the strip was dead.


30 posted on 02/11/2019 10:14:22 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Nifster

Yes one time it showed a talk radio host whom it named Rush Slimebaugh


31 posted on 02/11/2019 10:46:57 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: alloysteel

“And here I thought it was just some kind of Latin in bad handwriting....”

As did, I’m sure, many of those familiar with the original sketch. I know I didn’t pick it up.

I roasted my local rag about this, and included the panel in question. With the GFYT wording highlighted.

Next step is contacting what’s left (the remainder, that is) of their advertising base. Oh, and Twitter.


32 posted on 02/11/2019 11:59:44 AM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: PAR35
But if you are just now figuring out that it is to the left of Doonesbury....

Indeed. Every time I post a pro-Trump comment, or take one of their anti-trump tirades to task, I get blasted for making a comment on THEIR comic strip.

I continue to do so. It's like taking a stick and dragging it across the bars on a monkey cage.

33 posted on 02/11/2019 12:46:30 PM PST by Oatka
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To: raccoonradio

Wiley frequently did hat tips to Jim Eason the legendary talk radio guy in SF for many years. That is why I started looking at his cartoons


34 posted on 02/11/2019 1:25:55 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: PAR35

More left than Doonesbury? I didn’t think that was possible. Although Berke Breathed gives Trudeau a run for his money.


35 posted on 02/11/2019 5:55:52 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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