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The Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 84 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Bigotry, Democratic Party, Free Speech, OOT, Open thread, Politics at August 17th, 2017 - 9:01 pm

[This is a repost from December 2014. Seems appropriate given the idiocy flying around the airwaves in recent days. –Bunk X]


Pogo” was penned by a famous anti-communist conservative cartoonist and his missive was directed at the Southern Democrats who created the KKK and enforced segregation via Jim Crow Laws. Walt Kelly was often censored by the liberal media newspapers for posting strips like these, so he published his uncensored opinions in “The Pogo Poop Book” in 1966.

We need more people like Walt Kelly to fight the latest “Gibber of Goblins,” and these New Goblins don’t wear white hoods either…

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Cannonballism

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 199 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Communism, Free Speech, Humor, Open thread, Political Correctness, Politics at September 12th, 2010 - 11:00 pm


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One of the greatest comic strips of all time was Walt Kelly’s Pogo. Well drafted and lettered, and exceptionally well written, Pogo could be read on different levels. As a kid I read it for the absurdity and dialect of the denizens of the Okefenokee Swamp. As an adult I understood the political undertones and satire of the strip.

Walt Kelly is one of those folks that I wish I’d met. He was a true conservative, a devout anti-communist who also mocked the idiotic extremism of the John Birch Society (he referred to them as the Jack Acid Society) as well as Senator Joe McCarthy (Simple J. Malarky) and all with humor and acerbic wit.

Some of his strips hit too close to home for some newspapers, so he penned “bunny strips”  to give left-leaning papers a more palatable option. The “bunny strips” often made the same points, but in a much more subtle manner. From the Wikipud:

Kelly would tell fans that if all they saw in Pogo were fluffy little bunnies, then their newspaper didn’t believe they were capable of thinking for themselves—or didn’t want them to.

Why am I going on about Pogo and Walt Kelly tonight?  Because Friday the 13th comes on a Monday this month, bringing a whole week of bad luck. Fortunately for us, the curse is greatly diluted by each and every Overnight Open Thread.