when they (ineptly) try to be hip
and funny.* "Mallard Fillmore" tries so hard to be a
conservative "Doonesbury," "This Modern World," or "Boondocks," yet
fails so miserably. There must be
sort of
conservative sugar-daddy bankrolling a make-work scheme for right-
wing cartoonists, 'cause Lord knows that "Mallard Fillmore" isn't in
the papers for its quality or humor.
(* Notable exception being P.J. O'Rourke. Though he's considerably
more funny when he's in one of his libertarian [as opposed to Rush
Limbaugh conservative] moods or he's not doing political comedy,
which kinda proves my point above.)
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)