Johnny Hart – The Bellwether of PC
By Mitch Berg
Johnny Hart – the cartoonist who created BC among other strips – is dead at 76.
BC – which used Hart’s evangelical Christianity as source material – was a canary in the PC coalmine; its various religious messages were getting censored by major newspapers long before it was the norm.
Michelle Malkin has a collection of memoria for Hart.
April 9th, 2007 at 9:39 am
New Yorkers got their fill of Jesus-obsessed cavemen during the last Republican convention.
April 9th, 2007 at 9:46 am
angryclown, a little respect for the dead if you might.
April 9th, 2007 at 9:52 am
“We don’t care how you do it in
TexasNew York City”April 9th, 2007 at 10:15 am
I think it was the snake handling and the faith healing in the airports that got them, also the talk about what would happen to the plane if the rapture occurred during flight
/not
April 9th, 2007 at 10:17 am
billhedrick spoke in tongues: “I think it was the snake handling and the faith healing in the airports that got them, also the talk about what would happen to the plane if the rapture occurred during flight
/not”
?
April 9th, 2007 at 10:25 am
“New Yorkers got their fill of Jesus-obsessed cavemen during the last Republican convention.”
That’s because New Yorkers were outclassed.
April 9th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Besides, Jesus-obsessed cavemen find metrosexuals repugnant.
April 9th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Come to my neighborhood and say that, Frog Boy. Lots of cops and firefighters. Not exactly Queer Eye territory.
April 9th, 2007 at 11:32 am
New York. Where the sissies are tough!
April 9th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Lotta guys named Joey and Mikey.
Not so many named Terry.
April 9th, 2007 at 11:48 am
But you’re not a cop or fireman! (Didn’t you say they all lived on Lawn Gisland?)
You’re a clown!
You can’t possibly mean that you really live in Far Rockaway, and are merely roiling with Manhattan Envy – do you?
April 9th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Well Angryclown does have a seltzer bottle, you know – sometimes pisses on fires when drunk.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
OK, I have to diagram this for AC.
You may recall that a public display of Religion and bellicosity at the MPLS/STP airport made the news. I was sarcastically asserting (with the “/not” to indicate that it had not happened) that such a display at a NY airport was the occasion for your Christianophobia.
For a Clown you do not have a well developed sense of humor and the absurd.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
See, that’s not funny, billhedrick. You demonstrate the loose associations that are one of the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. Or maybe you just sniff a lot of glue. Not so much with the funny, however.
April 9th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
But in an ironic twist, Bill feels no need to assume a “creative” persona. What are some of the other criteria for schizophrenia? Could the obsessive need to be confrontational be on the list?
April 10th, 2007 at 7:53 am
AC, my real name is Bill Hedrick what is yours or do you know?
April 10th, 2007 at 7:54 am
ahh AC if you did not get the joke, I would suggest that the failure is not in the joke but in the density of the perceiver
April 10th, 2007 at 8:44 am
In bit of deep metaphysical irony, it’s revealed that there is no tangible evidence that Angryclown actually exists, outside of the faith of a group of blog readers!
April 10th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Angryclown is risen!
Or perhaps he’s just happy to see you.
April 10th, 2007 at 9:01 am
I was going to guess “tube of Carmex”, actually.
April 10th, 2007 at 9:13 am
Ok, that’s TMI AC. No need to describe your physiological reactions, thanks.
April 10th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Right, Bill C, that’s…the joke.
Is there something about the name “Bill” that makes people stupid? No, Bill Clinton was smart. Must be the Minnesota thing.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
“Angryclown is risen!”
Again with the capitalization. I knew it was a bragging thing. You must be so relieved.