February 1, 2008
Post Accused of Comic Strip Censorship
The news kind of seeped out slowly from
a couple of related discussions, but apparently the
Washington Post declined to run
the January 19th edition of
Darrin Bell's Candorville comic strip because it used the suggestion of Barack Obama's potential presidential assassination as a springboard to humor.
While there's certainly an amount of questionable taste that could be inferred from such a strip if things were to work out that someone might actually try to kill a President Obama, unless the
Post secretly employs Sherman and Peabody this seems like a dubious pull to me. That some people might have a hostile response to a black president and that a president might choose an unpleasant VP to ensure his healthy are thoughts that have been out there as part of the comedy landscape since Richard Pryor's stand-up days and Dan Quayle, respectively. Or at least Blowfly and Dick Cheney. I think readers can process that kind of thing in the spirit in which it was intended. I have to say it's sort of impressive that someone at the
Post is reading their comics that closely, though.
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