Fitzwater Criticizes ‘Doonesbury’

WASHINGTON —  White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Thursday that he doesn’t read the comic strip “Doonesbury” because it “glorifies drugs.”

Fitzwater, whose comment came during a routine briefing at the White House, was asked if he had seen the latest Doonesbury strip, which pokes fun at Vice President George Bush’s role in the Reagan White House.

“I don’t read ‘Doonesbury,’ ” Fitzwater said. “He (cartoonist Garry Trudeau) glorifies drugs.”

Jake Morrissey, a comic strip editor at Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, Mo., which distributes the cartoon, said Fitzwater is “perfectly entitled to his opinion” but that “I don’t find that an accurate description of the cartoon.”