Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 20, 1988
Transcript:
TV person: ...and Bush's message-of-the-day, delivered in front of ths gorgeous visual, was, "Read my lips: tax breaks for oil companies." In other news, in Bangladesh today... Mike: Wait a minute! What happened to Dukakis' message-of-the-day? They didn't run Dukakis' message-of-the-day! Zonker: Forget the message! What happened to the negative sound bites? How are we supposed to keep score without the day's negative sound bites! I want my N-TV! Mike: I want my message-of-the-day. I'm calling in.