Family Of Charlie Brown Creator Upset Over Flyers by NRCC against Charlie Brown

[Kadie]

Family Of Charlie Brown Creator Upset Over Flyers

Steve Large
Reporting

(CBS 13) SACRAMENTO His name is Charlie Brown. No he's not a cartoon character - he's running for Congress. But now the family of the man who created the popular peanuts comic book character Charlie Brown, is mad.

Supporters of John Doolittle are sending out flyers that are ticking off the Schultz family.

Flyers have been going out to mailboxes all across the Northern California district that John Doolittle represents. The problem, the Schulz family, never agreed for them to be used in the political campaign.

Watch newscast video here... They interview Brown and he slams Dolittle!!

http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_305001941.html





Peanuts gets pulled into politics


By Laura Brown
Sun News Service
November 1, 2006


The son of Peanuts’ creator Charles M. Schulz is questioning whether Republican campaign mailers lampooning a Democratic opponent named Charlie Brown infringe on the cartoon copyrights.

The mailers use iconic images from the cartoon strip: Charlie Brown’s yellow shirt with the black zigzag, Lucy’s psychiatric booth and the football that Charlie never manages to kick.

They came from the National Republican Congressional Committee in Washington, D.C., and are directed at the Democrat who is challenging Rep. John Doolittle (R-Roseville). The real Brown is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who is making a run against the eight-term congressman with a strength that is surprising some political pundits.

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“They’re nitwits. Doing this shows they’re not that bright,” Schulz said. “It’s clearly using Peanuts’ stuff. I don’t know if it’s arrogance or ignorance.”



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http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20061101/NEWS/61031011/-1/rss02

[bluestateguy]

1. Shultz was a self-described "Eisenhower Republican"

which means that he'd be right at home in today's Democratic Party if he were alive.

[asjr]

4. Indeed. Eisenhower was the first

president I ever voted for. Of course, back in those days the Republican party had meaning. Now it has become just the Party Of Mean.

[displacedtexan]

2. Republicans? Respect copyrighted material?

What is the Schulz family thinking?

BTW, the Schulz family makes school dram programs pay to use
the Peanuts images in their advertisements if they
put on "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown."

I wonder if they'll sue the RCC for royalty loss.

[northernsoul]

7. sound like copyright / trademark infringement to me!

Oh, and invasion of privacy because it puts the Schultz family "in a false light." BWAAAHAHAH! Some attorney is going to pay the RCC pay big $$$ for this.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. I went to school with Merideth Schultz

I seriously doubt that she would support pukes.

[liberal N proud]

5. But, They are republicans, they don't need to get permission

It is just one of those rights only the "Moral Majority" has above the rest of us.

[area51]

6. "I don't know if it's arrogance or ignorance."

Since it's being done by a member of the nazi party, it's arrogance for sure. Nazis think everyone else is beneath them.

on edit: quotemarks

[Kookaburra]

8. Nothing worse than

an arrogant, ignorant, wingnut.

[Kadie]

9. .

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