Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 21, 1988
Transcript:
Person: Dukakis campaign. Message control. Mike: Yeah, I'm calling about yesterday's message-of-the-day, it wasn't on the news last night. Person: Yesterday's message? Hold on, I've got it here someplace...no....no....sorry, my office is such a...could you hold? I'll go look on the governor's desk. Mike: Uh, sure... Person: Found it! "Pick up dry cleaning at..." No, no, that's not it... Mike: Look, why don't I call back?