That’s about the size of it —
As Radley Balko noted in yesterday’s Morning Links, the Washington Post and other newspapers pulled Wiley Millers syndicated “Non Sequitur” cartoon from their comics pages two Sundays back, because Miller pulled a familiar-to-Reason-readers “Where’s Waldo?” gag with the Prophet Muhammad….
On the other hand, maybe comparisons or references to Waldo are just infuriating.
Over a month ago, I posted a criticism about the absence of Whitewater City Manager Kevin Brunner’s name on a notice about a public hearing for a failing tax district, and included a picture of Waldo.
The joke was straightforward (he’s not standing up for a notice about a project now that it’s failing) and conventional (everyone knows about the Where’s Waldo? series).
(There was a similar reference behind a Where Was George? speech that Ted Kennedy gave at the Democratic National Convention in 1988.)
Maybe some people just don’t find Waldo a laughing matter.
By the way, Reason includes the cartoon that the Washington Post wouldn’t run.
See, Just Admit it, Newspapers: You’re Scared of Muslims – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine.