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Prison newspaper featuring bearded pig in turban pulled
Fifty thousand copies of a prison newspaper were pulled after “diversity chiefs” became “extremely concerned” over a cartoon sketch of a sneezing, bearded pig wearing a turban was found accompanying an article by an inmate who “suggested that swine flu was the result of a failed plot by Osama Bin Laden to â??eradicate every pig in Christendomâ??.”
Officials worried that it might offend Muslim prisoners.
(Hat Tip: Rob Tornoe.)
Community Comments
June/23/2009
@ 11:39 am
Damn. There goes that idea.
June/23/2009
@ 3:18 pm
Would have been better had it been a rat?
June/23/2009
@ 4:15 pm
The banned pig cartoon looks like it is drawn in the style of MAD Magazine cartoonist/Rankin Bass animator Paul Coker, Jr.!
June/23/2009
@ 5:02 pm
Imagine pigs in cartoons. Tasteless.
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