# Today's B.C. "comic" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 6, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088 "2003-06-06T14:43:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/1 "2003-06-06T14:43:03Z")
I’m really gonna have to start avoiding this one. I’m getting sick of his point of view. [Today’s](http://www.comics.com/creators/bc/archive/bc-20030606.html) is just the final straw. I suppose you could read it as a joke, but it certainly seems like an endorsement any way you look at it. Yuck, and no thanks Mr Hart. The Christmas one with the menorah was certainly offensive and Hart just keeps on going. It’s the intolerance that I find so distasteful, and the smug self-righteousness. But then isn’t it wrong to be intolerant of intolerance? Whatever, I’m quitting BC. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/2 "2003-06-06T14:46:47Z")
I knew I shouldn’t have clicked on that link. I don’t want my eyes anymore. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/3 "2003-06-06T14:48:26Z")
If you find this distasteful, don’t read the one with the duck (Mallard Fillmore, I think). That, and I think you are reading far too much into the comic and are simply looking to be offended. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/4 "2003-06-06T14:53:59Z")
I don’t get it. What or who is the O’Reilly factor? ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/5 "2003-06-06T14:55:04Z")
Mallard used to be in the local paper. It didn’t last long for whatever reason (the local is often accused of being very liberal). I only occasionally see it and I usually don’t like the ploitics but it’s still funny. I mostly don’t like BC’s veiled evangelicalism. Politics shmolitics. ---
**Author:** ![desdinova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@desdinova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desdinova)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/6 "2003-06-06T14:59:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SpazCat \* > \*\*I knew I shouldn’t have clicked on that link. > > I don’t want my eyes anymore. \*\* My eyes! The goggles do nothing! Good god, that was hideous. Not at all shocking, but hideous. At least with Doonesbury and Mallard Fillmore they don’t pretend to be run-of-the-mill comic strips, and many papers will put 'em in the editorial section where they belong. B.C. is more like an editorial sniper hiding behind the guise of a comic strip. I’ve got the same beef with “Non Sequitur”, as well as “Bizarro” sometimes (although Dan Pirraro is a pretty cool guy, and I usually love his strips). ---
**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/7 "2003-06-06T15:04:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kabbes \* > \*\*I don’t get it. What or who is the O’Reilly factor? \*\* Depending on your perspective, it’s either: a) a talk show where those who waffle over the issues of the day are called to account to the court of common sense; b) the salvation of the Republic, the only shining beacon of truth in the Evil Lie-beral Media; c) an ego-boosting charade hosted by an intolerant bully; d) the most ruinuous thing to happen to television news. It’s tagline is that the show is the “No-Spin Zone.” It’s hosted by one Bill O’Reilly, who is someone about whom very few people have neutral thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/8 "2003-06-06T15:05:31Z")
**kabbes** , The O’Reilly Factor is a Fox News show dubbed by the host as “The No Spin Zone”. Thus the joke. However, the show is anything but unbiased. IMO (and other too. do a search). ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/9 "2003-06-06T15:07:51Z")
Ah. Thanks for the clarification. I knew who O’Reilly was but wasn’t getting the ‘no spin’ thing. As if any of us in the media don’t spin. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/10 "2003-06-06T15:13:34Z")
Why do you take this strip as an endorsement of O’Riley? While I am sure that Hart’s political views are more in accord with O’Riley than with the editorial page of the New York Times, it looks to me like he’s just making a joke on the O’Riley shows tagline. Seems harmless enough. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/11 "2003-06-06T15:13:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DaddyTimesTwo \* > \*\ ***kabbes** , The O’Reilly Factor is a Fox News show dubbed by the host as “The No Spin Zone”. \*\* Host Bill O’Reilly also [has a book with that title](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767908481/qid=1054912501/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-7129986-2600963?v=glance&s=books). Could someone clue me in on what Hart is supposed to be endorsing there? All I see is an esoteric bad joke. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/12 "2003-06-06T15:21:25Z")
Oh, please. That thing would be spinning so hard, he’d take off like a helicopter! ME ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/13 "2003-06-06T15:23:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BrotherCadfael \* > \*\*Why do you take this strip as an endorsement of O’Riley? While I am sure that Hart’s political views are more in accord with O’Riley than with the editorial page of the New York Times, it looks to me like he’s just making a joke on the O’Riley shows tagline. > > Seems harmless enough. \*\* Though I’ve found enough of Hart’s clumsy carping at liberals in what he thinks is “Christian witness” to be highly offensive, I concur with Brother Cadfael in this case – it’s just a bad pun on the “No Spin Zone.” ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/14 "2003-06-06T15:25:20Z")
Cheers folks. Not very funny then, even ignoring any political slant. Just a poor pun. ---
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/15 "2003-06-06T15:25:51Z")
I loathe Bill O’Reilly, and I think that Hart occassionally gets out of line with the Christian themes in B.C. Having said that, I don’t see anything in this trip that is setting off my offensensitivity meter. I thought it was a mildly clever little joke. If I am missing something, please enlighten me. Plenty of other things out there to get worked up over, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/16 "2003-06-06T15:28:28Z")
I don’t get it, either. Who or what IS the O’Reilly Factor? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/17 "2003-06-06T15:32:54Z")
butr, read the whole thread. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/18 "2003-06-06T15:38:09Z")
I thought it was funny. Geez, it’s a lot cleverer than any of the homogenized crap that Hart usually tosses off as humor. ---
**Author:** ![spinningplates](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@spinningplates](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinningplates)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/19 "2003-06-06T15:50:49Z")
Now that I look at that comic again, I notice the caveman with the No Spin cap is the clueless one and is looking a little morose. The other guy with the properly spinning cap seems confident and the one who’s in the know. Still, my first impression is that it was a slam on those who disliked O’Reilly. I don’t read B.C. often so I wasn’t aware of his political leanings, so I wonder how I came to my conclusions? Back to stare at that stupid comic summore. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088/20 "2003-06-06T15:51:49Z")
I loathe BC and despise Bill O’Reilly, but I just see this as (an admittedly witless) attempt at a play on O’Reilly’s tagline. It may have also been a tacit endorsement of O’Reilly (I’ll bet ten bucks that O’Reilly makes it his “most riduculous item of the day” tonight. His own publicity is like catnip to him) but Hart has done far more offensive things than this. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-b-c-comic/180088.md?page=2)