1961. Texas parents associated with the John Birch Society wanted to ban a textbook because its image of George Washington resembled comedian George Gobel.
@ClassicShowbiz Don’t these two claims sound kinda Twitter-exaggerant lefty or is it just me.
@ClassicShowbiz What an absolute drive by on George Gobel. I mean, at least that guy presumably had most of his teeth.
@ClassicShowbiz Like George Gobel's Child I was born to be mild!
@ClassicShowbiz I’ll bet if you ran Goebel’s picture and asked young people to name our first president they’d say it was him. Which, frankly, I don’t mind. I’m just a dirty bird.
@ClassicShowbiz “You can lead a horse to water, but before you push him in, just think of how a wet horse smells.” — John Quincy Adams
@ClassicShowbiz Finally something on which I agree with the John Bitch Society