Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 19, 2012
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Transcript:
Toggle: Okay, l-l-let's get a level, Skye! Woman: Obama... Obama... Socialist... decay... traitor! How's it sound? Toggle: G-g-good. Scary good. Like... like... you really ARE evil! Woman: Me? Ha! I wear Hello Kitty underwear! Engineer: Could mean anything, dude. Toggle: Not... evil.
Then so is every media outlet that sells advertising; every store that sells merchandise of which the owner doesn’t approve. You prefer a state of affairs where the New York Times is sold only in stores with a liberal management, and the Wall Street Journal only in stores that have a conservative management? Should actors refuse to appear in movies or plays unless they endorse the morality or message of the play or movie? Or for that matter, of the role? Who would play the villains, then? The people who do voice-overs for advertisements (political or otherwise) are ACTORS playing a ROLE, not citizens making a statement. Or do you really think that beautiful model is just an average housewife who LOVES scrubbing her bathroom with Product Q?