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...1960s Capp soured on his liberal friends. Said he: "They seemed to me smug and sanctimonious." He traded in his old Establishment targets, like the baby-kissing Senator Jack S. Phogbound, and replaced them with the likes of Radical Folk Singer Joanie Phoanie, who sang of protest between mouthfuls of caviar, and S.W.I.N.E.-Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything. A favorite target of campus hecklers, Capp received notoriety during a lecture tour in 1971, pleading guilty to attempted adultery after a woman student accused him of making indecent advances. As Capp became more conservative, Li'l Abner...
Many an Abner fan can still recite the poem with which Liddle Noodnik, the shivering infantile princeling of Lower Slobbovia, welcomed Senator Phogbound to his wretched kingdom...
...rage is usually supplanted by a mood of hilarity and revivified cunning. When the pro-Republican Pittsburgh Press protested that his venal, pompous and reactionary politico, Senator Jack S. Phogbound, was a calculated libel on the reputation of the U.S. Senate, Capp had a soft and devilish answer. He replied that he knew nothing of politics but what he read in the Pittsburgh Press, that Phogbound had been suggested by that newspaper's editorial attacks on Democratic politicians, and that he was not only hurt but genuinely amazed to find the Press damning instead of applauding his creation...
...occasional pat on the back is a good thing for those of our representatives who are trying to do the right thing, yet there is nothing like a little incisive satire (of which Capp is an accomplished master) for keeping the blatant demagogues under control. Senator Jack S. Phogbound is a type not peculiar to the U.S.A. We are all acquainted with a few Jack S.s, and in some cases a glance in the mirror may reveal the existence of a wholly unsuspected addition to the number...
...censored strips, the Senate needed one vote to defeat a bill to put Congress on the air ("and you know what'll happen to us if the American people can actually hear us!"). The Senate's only hope was hideous, snaggle-toothed Senator Phogbound of Dogpatch, "th' most ignorant commoonity in th' country." Phogbound's price was $2,000,000 to build a Phogbound University, "to be known as P.U." He got the appropriation (argued one Senator: "It isn't as though it were my money-it's just taxpayers' money...
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