{"id":117,"date":"2007-05-15T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/05\/comics-enriched-their-lives-7\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T20:34:00","slug":"comics-enriched-their-lives-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Comics Enriched Their Lives! #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/RkoZhAjEP7I\/AAAAAAAAACE\/pyr6vtS4rsg\/s1600-h\/5233_2.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/RkoZhAjEP7I\/AAAAAAAAACE\/pyr6vtS4rsg\/s320\/5233_2.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064888785805000626\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A liberal activist group is urging Republicans to repudiate a comic book being touted by conservative evangelist Jerry Falwell that portrays Michael Dukakis as a supporter of witchcraft and bestiality.<\/p>\n<p>Falwell  is  urging  his  followers to paper the political landscape with copies  of  the  30-page book, titled &#8220;Magical Mike: The Real Story of Mike Dukakis.&#8221; Among  other  things,  it  depicts  the  Democratic presidential nominee in a dress, wig and pearls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  last  thing  the  Bush  campaign,  the  Republican  Party and the presidential  campaign  need  is the distribution of 10 million copies of a comic  book  that&#8217;s  chock  full of enough intolerance to offend just about everyone  except  Jerry Falwell,&#8221; John Buchanan, chairman of People for the American Way, said Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014from a 1988 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holysmoke.org\/wb\/wb0181.htm\">AP article<\/a> about the late <a href=\"http:\/\/www.falwell.com\/\">Jerry Falwell<\/a>&#8216;s promotional efforts for a comic by <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_qa3827\/is_200309\/ai_n9255774\">Dick &#8220;Comics Commando&#8221; Hafer<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal activist group is urging Republicans to repudiate a comic book being touted by conservative evangelist Jerry Falwell that portrays Michael Dukakis as a supporter of witchcraft and bestiality. Falwell is urging his followers to paper the political landscape with copies of the 30-page book, titled &#8220;Magical Mike: The Real Story of Mike Dukakis.&#8221; Among other things, it depicts the Democratic presidential nominee in a dress, wig and pearls. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[264,352,1057],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-enriched-their-lives","tag-hafer","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}