Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 01, 2013
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enjoy this classic tom the dancing bug every thursday panels from the annals of the tom the dancing bug archive check back every friday for a fresh, brand new tom the dancing bug! tom the dancing bug by ruben bolling lucky ducky the poor little duck who's rich in luck! ducky: hey, a quarter! pow hound: gimme that quarter!! hey... press: this'll be great on youtube! hound: the liberal media'll have a field day! oh, no! it's already started! who can help me?! rich guy pounds poor guy! poult: how 'bout me?! hound: james k. poult... unbiased media chicken! poult: i'll use my tiny media outlets to get the real story out! wasn't it convenient for lucky ducky to get beaten up right at election time? fox news poult: lucky ducky was obviously faking his head wounds! james k. poult so hollingsworth hound beat up a duck... ...it's not like he drove someone into a river, or stained someone's dress... woman: hey! bill: uh... hound: james k. poult was great! now let's see what the liberal media says... tv: ...the evening news. many see the smack-down as an attempt to teach lucky ducky to fight for himself. ...while thers say it was sort of mean and perhaps motivated by greed. hound: auggh! liberal bias! ducky: gotcha! the end
The irony is that Bruce Tinsley (the MF artist) probably owes much of his income to Garry Trudeau. Some papers have Doonesbury on the editorial page instead of the comics page. They then need a conservative strip to avoid seeming like they have a liberal bias, so they stick Mallard Fillmore there too.