The New York Daily News newspaper: “Son of a bitch!”
John Wayne got away with that expression in “True Grit” (1969) AND it was G-rated - heck 35 years ago !!!
The San Jose Mercury ran the strip in it’s full glory.
Detroit Free Press ran it intact.
Encouraging to see that most papers ran it. You could almost expect that deep South or small Mid-West might not.
I’m personally pissed that my usually liberal Akron paper whiffed on this one. Kinda.
As did the St Petersburg Times.
I will add that in the explanation, they said that “The strip’s creator declined to change the wording”, which makes me wonder if all the other papers that ran it with B----- or #%#, etc, were supposed to do so. Oddly enough, the Globe ran Mallard Fillmore with “Son of a B*^&*” coming out of John Kerry’s mouth yesterday.
P.S. Dunkin Donuts, bring back the cruller! (Get Fuzzy)
The Des Moines Register and Cedar Rapids Gazette, both ran the strips in there ungelded form. One or the other did have something earlier in the week warning that bad language was coming up at the end of the week but that under the circumstances it was appropriate language.
I suspect that the euphemism in Mallard Fillmore, that steaming pile of horse droppings, was the way the strip was written – the use of real words with hair on them might well be horribly offensive to the people who follow that line of blather and RNC inspired spin.
My take on the Boston Globe is, they suck these days.
They have Jeff Jacoby as a sop to the extreme Right in the country
Not surprising they didn’t run it.
Gee, **John Wayne and “Mallard Fillmoore” ** can get away with it? Hmm so it’s acceptable from the Right Wing but not the Left (“Doonesbury”)?
The Grand Forks (ND) Herald ran it in full. Can ND be more progressive than OH? :eek:
Actually, if I’m understanding correctly, the Mallard Fillmore strip actually had the “Son of a #&*@!” thing from the get-go.
Toronto Star: “Bitch”. 
JayJay
Oh I understood that “Mallard Fillmore” would never use that “awful” language. I made my comment because the Boston Globe didn’t even run the #**^%@@ Doonesbury comic strip.
And Duffer does that mean North Dakota is more progressive than Boston, MA too ?? 
Begen County, New Jersey’s The Record ran it as written, without any commentary.
Ah, okay! Actually, looking at last week’s sequence, it appears that “S.O.B.” at the very least appeared in most of the five strips.
Geez…my old paper used to only print the Sunday MF, and I thought that was stupid and shallow enough. I truly pity those who get the daily strip now. The whole week is the same joke! It’s like those people with minimal senses of humor who have to repeat a joke four times because they think you might not get it on the first try…
As mentioned in the OP, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran the random symbols instead of the words; until now I didn’t even know anything was censored, but assumed that Trudea had written the strip that way, using the old comic convention to represent curse words.
Shows you how self-defeating censorship is: what I imagined B.D. saying was “Motherfucker!” instead of the milder “Son of a bitch!”
the omaha world herald ran t he strip with the phrase edited to “son of a gun!”
Which, to me, conveys mild surprise. NOT what I’d expect someone who’s just woken up with half a leg to feel…
The El Paso Times refused to run the strip, and explained the ommission was due to the “offensive language”. When I saw the strip on the web I was pretty amazed at what qualified as “too offensive to print”.