Mallard Fillmore and intolerance

Every few weeks, a Letter to the Editors pops up in Newsday complaining about the Mallard Fillmore comic strip. The complaint is always essentially the same. It is argued that it is a political cartoon not a comic strip. That it is offensive, etc. The time and amount of emotion invested in complaining about a comic strip is amazing. It is also symptomatic of larger problem that I have touched on before. Far to many liberals seem aggressively intolerant of any conflicting points of view. On the same Newsday comic pages are Boondocks and Doonesbury. These intensely political comic strips however do not get complaints from the right, nor should they. Even if you disagree with them, they are often funny and well executed, as is Mallard Fillmore. The truth of that matter is not these people object to the quality of the strip, but its politics. They are so offended by the conflict of opinion that they regularly feel the need to write public letters condemning them. Condemning a comic strip.
More to come…