Y’know, when I was a wee tot, my brothers loved BC, and had bought a couple of the bound paperback collections. Back in the early 70’s, BC was hilarious. It was actually fresh and original, and the whole “cross-section of caveman life” thing hadn’t been utterly played out.
Oh yeah, and Hart wasn’t a steaming pile of Fundamentalist crap.
BC hasn’t been funny since about 1980.
Sorry, but I will always love Hart for this quote:
“It takes intelligence to enjoy wit and humor, but none to be offended by it.”
And no, that’s not directed toward any of the comments in this thread, I just love that quote.
Wow, i never realized that Hart was a fundamentalist. The last time i read B.C. with any regularity was as a kid in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At that age, i probably would have missed any Christian or conservative references if they’d been there.
Re. the cartoon linked by the OP:
On first reading, and before finding out about Hart’s recent history, i took the cartoon as an ironic dig at O’Reilly, or at least at the show’s motto. I actually thought that the OP was complaining that Hart was too liberal!
I suppose one could also read it as an unironic endorsement of O’Reilly, but it seems to me that such a reading would be out of character for a comic strip.
Either way, it’s not very funny.
I agree that it’s a fairly mild “joke”, and, while I think it’s slightly possible that there’s no inherent endorsement, I think there is. And it’s just the last straw. LIke Ogre said, I remember when BC was funny. Now it’s not and it irritates me.
“GROG!” 
I’m amazed that cavemen wore beanies. Whodathunkit?
It was a lame joke and nothing to be offended by. Just don’t read the damn thing because you know it’s gonna suck.
Um, lame, yes, but it’s not “just” a joke on the tagline: it’s obviously an endorsement of O’Reilly.
He’s also endorsing beanie hats then.
What I don’t understand is how all these people living b. C. manage to be C.-ian.
What I don’t get is this. It’s “B.C.” , as in “Before Christ”, with cavemen and all, but he constantly goes on about christ in the strip.
He should call it just “C” and be done with it.
And I agree, he was way funnier in the 70’s, but then so was SNL.
I type very slowly.
Peter once made a reference to rafting through the Panama Canal.
I don’t see why that’s so obvious. As has been pointed out already, the guy wearing the O’Reilly beanie is the clueless and sad one, and his propeller beanie doesn’t work.
Yeah. And?
I mean, who cares? It’s his strip, he can endorse whoever he likes. We are free to ignore his strip. I excersize that freedom daily. I could give a shit who or what he endorses.
I don’t care for Hart, having found him to be unfunny and overly evangelical a long time ago, but I don’t think this strip was particularly offensive.
I suppose it could be interpreted as an endorsement for O’Reiley (“See, Bill doesn’t spin anything! Even Johnny Hart says so!”), but anyone feeble-minded enough to follow that train of thought has signed onto the conservative right’s groupthink already.
Yes, perhaps the worst pun I have ever seen. It amazes me that he actually thought that was the least bit clever. I stopped reading BC years ago. And I don’t think they even publish it in my paper anymore. That’s why I respect Bill Watterson so much for retiring Calvin & Hobbes. Always leave 'em wanting more…
A bad pun, a failed joke, not an endorsement of O’Reilley. I think it’s a little too early to class B.C. with blatantly political comics like Boondocks, at least based on this particular strip alone.
I’ve never seen these references to Christianity that people keep talking about, what’s that about?
I read it as a gentle slam on O’Reilly, myself.
I don’t think it’s at all funny or clever, but I also didn’t read it as an endorsement of O’Reilly. Is it an endorsement by just mentioning him?
Ah, yes, that’s the beauty of accepting Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. Time travel is one of the hidden powers of those who believe. And don’t ask anyone about it cause they can’t tell you.
Good lord. It’s always such a mess when liberalism emotes.