# Doonesbury not printed.  Obscenity is relative.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 23, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-not-printed-obscenity-is-relative/241639 "2004-04-23T14:52:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-not-printed-obscenity-is-relative/241639/21 "2004-04-24T15:45:36Z")

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“Bitch” is strong language?

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-not-printed-obscenity-is-relative/241639/22 "2004-04-24T17:34:31Z")

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> [@EDS-MB20](#):
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> I guess you don’t recall all the coffin photos from WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, and Kosovo.  
> It used to be patriotic to have pictures of the coffins.  
> It’s only Bush who’s politicized it.

From what I read, not allowing pictures of coffins has been DoD policy since 1991.

Incidentally, the Boston Globe didn’t run the strip either, but I don’t think we can blame that on pandering to right-wing fundamentalist Christians or anything.

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