# "Opus" comic strip suppressed **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 25, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907 "2007-08-25T18:08:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/21 "2007-08-26T04:18:14Z")
[QUOTE=LonesomePolecat] There are no details, but … Here we have a classic example of liberal cowardice and hypocrisy. [/QUOTE] Watcha gonna say when it turns out that the papers that won’t run the strip are owned by a bunch of cowardly hypocritical Republicans? Aren’t you jumping the gun just a bit with this preemptive rush to judgement? That didn’t work out too well for Bush and his party in Iraq, so why continue to do it? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/22 "2007-08-26T04:41:50Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] Aren’t you jumping the gun just a bit with this preemptive rush to judgement? That didn’t work out too well for Bush and his party in Iraq, so why continue to do it? [/QUOTE] Autonomic reflex? ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/23 "2007-08-26T12:05:47Z")
For the record, The Charlotte Observer ran the cartoon this morning. I honestly don’t know much about their politics. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/24 "2007-08-26T13:21:47Z")
The _Atlanta Journal and Constitution_ ran it here. The paper’s letters to the editor call it a liberal rag all of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/25 "2007-08-26T17:11:43Z")
That comic strip was ridiculously not funny. Just for the record. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/26 "2007-08-26T17:17:03Z")
I don’t understand it. It’s so not offensive to muslims. It’s not even offensive to radical islamists! And even if it was, so what? “Fuck 'em if they can’t take a joke.” -J.R. “Bob” Dobbs ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/27 "2007-08-26T17:24:33Z")
[QUOTE=vibrotronica] And even if it was, so what? “Fuck 'em if they can’t take a joke.” -J.R. “Bob” Dobbs [/QUOTE] Usually, that attitude is taken towards people who do not riot and issue death threats when offended. ---
**Author:** ![the\_PC\_apeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@the\_PC\_apeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_PC_apeman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/28 "2007-08-26T17:36:32Z")
The strip ran today in our local Sunday Gazette-Mail.\* \*I’d say the Gazette-Mail is somewhat liberal but that’s easily debatable. It’s a combined effort between the liberal Gazette and the conservative Daily Mail. After decades of a joint operating agreement, the Gazette now owns controlling interest in its press-mate the Daily Mail, but, maintains the separate editorial staffs. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/29 "2007-08-26T21:53:23Z")
“I prefer ‘Fatima Struggle’” I s’pose instead of Fatima Jihad ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/30 "2007-08-26T22:18:23Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] [Christians] have all the power. They control everything. [/QUOTE] No, no, you’ve confused them with the Jews. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/31 "2007-08-26T22:20:35Z")
FWIW, both [Democratic Underground](http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x30421) and [Free Republic](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885785/posts) consider this a story of interest. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/32 "2007-08-26T22:21:20Z")
It ran in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune today. That’s a bleeding heart fish wrap factory if ever there was one. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/33 "2007-08-26T22:29:13Z")
on GoComicsdotcom but not not Comicsdotcom ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/34 "2007-08-26T22:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=LonesomePolecat] Here we have a classic example of liberal cowardice and hypocrisy. Would they have been so sensitive about the feelings of Christians? I rather doubt it. [/QUOTE] Maybe they just don’t want thier shit torn up? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/35 "2007-08-26T23:05:15Z")
[QUOTE=LonesomePolecat] It was an action so cowardly and hypocritical, that I just naturally assumed it must have been liberals. [/QUOTE] Just like when I hear about an illegal deviant sexual perversion, I naturally assume it must have been performed by a [Republican](http://exitstage-left.blogspot.com/2007/07/republican-sexual-deviants.html). That’s just as fair, right? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/36 "2007-08-26T23:14:54Z")
It ran in the Cleveland _Plain Dealler_, (known to commies as a fascist rag and to fascists as a commie rag and to real people as “If it bleeds it leads” mediocrity). Does anyone know whether WaPo actually wound up failing to run the comic? The on-line edition has no story on the matter (as I would expect to find if they had a public statement explaining their decision to not print it). ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/37 "2007-08-27T00:19:56Z")
It also ran in the more self-avowedly “liberal” _Akron Beacon-Journal_. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/38 "2007-08-27T00:40:38Z")
It ran in today’s Kansas City Star, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/39 "2007-08-27T02:17:52Z")
It ran in today’s Chicago Tribune. Are there any confirmed sitings of newspapers in which it did NOT run? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907/40 "2007-08-27T02:43:21Z")
It did not run in the Post. Lame. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-comic-strip-suppressed/416907.md?page=3)