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Doonesbury pulled
LYNCHBURG — The publisher of the The News & ' Daily Advance of Lynchburg says he decided not to publish a Doonesbury comic strip satire of the Rev. Jerry Falwell because previous strips were in bad taste.
Falwell said Friday the strips probably had been pulled because of what he called their “racist” content.
The strips by cartoonist Gary Trudeau poke fun at Falwell’s support for the white minority government of South Africa and President Reagan’s policy of “constructive engagement” with the country.
Publisher T. George Washington said Trudeau’s satiric play on the “We Are the World” benefit recording, an earlier series, was offensive, racist and in bad taste.
The cartoonist’s criticism of Falwell and the president simply repeat positions covered at length on the editorial and news pages of the newspaper, Washington said.
Falwell said a reporter showed him the strips. Referring to Trudeau, he said, “I personally don’t care what he says about me, as long as he spells my name right.”
The pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg and founder of the Moral Majority drew criticism several weeks ago when he condemned the use of economic sanctions against the South African government.
Like Reagan, he argued that sanctions would hurt South African blacks economically without doing much to change the nation’s policies.
Doonesbury episodes this week depicted President Reagan making, at Falwell’s initiative, a benefit recording for South Africa, similar to the record and Live Aid concert used to raise money for famine relief for Ethiopia.
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