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17 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
How @DCComics owned @FoxNews @WashTimes & all conserv media:

DC announces Superman's"Truth Justice & American Way" slogan now "Truth Justice & Better Tomorrow." Conservs go nuts, giving DC tons of publicity.

American Way rarely been his slogan. Hasn't been for a long time.../1
..."American Way" was never in original comics. It was from the radio show in the 1940s in support of the troops when Superman was helping in fighting Nazis. (Ya know, our current MAGA types.) When radio show ended, so did "American Way." Then, it came back with the TV show.../2
...in the 1950s, right at the opening moments of the Cold War. It got canceled, and by the early 60s, it was ""truth justice and freedom" in the kids cartoons. (The comics still had nothing.) It came back again in 1978, when Christopher Reeve said it in Superman movie.../3
...then it promptly died. No one used it. Not even uber "patriot" Dean Cain: In his early 1990s show, he fought for "truth and justice" - no American Way. Closest we came back to American Way was 2006 in Superman Returns when Perry White says "Truth, Justice, All that Stuff.../4
...8 months ago, a slogan appeared in a comic: "Truth Justice and Tolerance." But the conservative nut jobs missed it. No free publicity. So, knowing that these guys had no knowledge of Superman past what they remembered from old reruns of the Superman TV shows from the 50s.../5
...DC made this nonsense announcement, the equivalent of "You know the slogan we've really never used? We're still not using it. We're using something else." And then got millions in free publicity from stupid conservs. It's like dangling keys in front of a baby. So predictable.

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