Monday PSA: Bob Hope and the Golden Rule

December 17th, 2007

Filed under: Comics

The Golden Rule! Click for the full page.In addition to his many movies, television specials, and USO shows, Bob Hope apparently took the time to stop high school bullies as well.

Of course, Bob’s basically committing an argument ad populum fallacy here (an “argument from popularity”, stating that if many people believe something, it must be true!), but since when have logical fallacies stopped a good public service ad?

Click on the image to the right for the full ad.

(It’s not that the Golden Rule isn’t an important idea — it is — it’s just going to take more than Bob Hope and his list of four religions to convince me that it’s a “universal law.” I’d also like to point out that the Golden Rule isn’t exclusive to the religious — I’d like to think of it as a basic tenet of human morality.)

This PSA was originally included in April 1964 DC Comics (including The Adventures of Bob Hope #86) and then made an encore appearance in April 1967 comics. The script is by Bob Schiff (of course), with pencils and inks by Bob Oksner.

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2 Responses to “ Monday PSA: Bob Hope and the Golden Rule ”

  1. mike.
    December 18th, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    Gah, you gotta love early ’60s visual shorthand, don’t ya? Ties, suits and/or sweater vests = “good kids”; ducktails, baggy pants, no tie = “bad kids”. Anyway, that kid only got tripped because he was gloating. Which brings us to the REAL message of this PSA: if you go bragging to the bad kids about how you got tickets to see Bob Hope and they didn’t, prepare to get your ass stomped.

  2. t
    March 1st, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    Not to nit pick, but Bob does say “here are just a few samples.”

    At that point in history, with “Godless” “communists” as our “enemy,” there was a lot of happy talk about religion.

    A lot’s happened since then.

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