Out of the Time Machine
Over at comics.com, an episode of Li’l Abner(originally ran January 23, 1935) wraps up with the Yokums winning a feud without firing a shot. Cartoonists didn’t get any more right wing than Al Capp, especially in his later years, but here’s how Mammy Yokum summed up the feud:
Only fools uses guns. Smaht folks uses brains, an’ sometimes a smack in th’ nose helps.
That high pitched scream you just heard was Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Bryan Fischer getting their undies tied in a knot. No doubt Fischer would say Capp had “feminized” hillbilly feuding.