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othing to do with Bill Maher. It's just that the reason he trends is that he's calling out his own team. And you know, until he runs out of material to insult his own team. And by the way he insults both teams, so he's not firing it only at his own team. And that's why he's on my list, because he goes after both sides. But you see Bill Maher essentially using his position to try to make things be…

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ovocation or something. So I'm not sure that there's anybody who pushed back on it. I haven't heard anybody.

Yeah, let me say this definitively. Although a number of newspapers decided not to run that series — so they just put repeats in there or left a blank — nobody complained. Let me say that again. So I have many client newspapers who run Dilbert. Thousands of them. A few thousand. Not a single one of them said this is offensive. Not one. But a number of them didn't run it. Do you know why? Was it worth the hassle? That's it. Just wasn't worth the hassle or something. I think in some cases different entities within the newspaper made the decision, so it's not even clear that the decision is some kind of coordinated decision. I think just somebody said we don't need this trouble. Something like that.

Now immediately after that I've got a Sunday comic that my editor called me and said, you know, maybe you'd want to wait a week or so for this one. Now my own editor is very unlikely to edit me for content. I don't know the last time that happened actually, if ever. I think it's maybe never happened that I can think of. So I've been edited for lots of other reasons but not for being too provocative.

So let me give a shout out to Andrews McMeel an

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d Universal Press, part of the same company, for being very pro-speech, very pro-creator, very free speech, and have always been on the side of the creator. Completely unambiguously on the side of the creators. Now having said that, they're also a business. And so when my editor said, you know, this Sunday that you submitted, I feel like we need to wait at least a week because things are a little…

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