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Fox Family Feud Over ‘Family Guy’
Brooks Barnes
NY Times
Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008
A Sunday night episode of the Fox animated series “Family Guy” stirred up trouble by suggesting rather directly that Nazi officers would have supported the McCain-Palin ticket. And it was another arm of the News Corp. conglomerate, Fox News Channel, that first reported on the episode.
Fox (the broadcast network) aired the episode in which Stewie, the obnoxious baby character at the center of the series, and Brian, a talking dog, traveled back in time to Poland during the 1939 German invasion. The characters ambush Nazi soldiers in an alley and steal their uniforms so they can travel without drawing attention. Putting on an overcoat, Stewie notices a McCain-Palin campaign button affixed to the lapel. “Huh, that’s weird,” Stewie remarks.
“Family Guy” has never been known for its taste level. One recent episode depicted Jesus binge drinking, and the hit show once got in trouble with the Federal Communications Commission for showing a partially nude cartoon character. The series’ creator, Seth MacFarlane, is a prominent supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential bid. So fans of the program seemed to take the scene in stride: by mid-day Monday, the vast majority of blog mentions of the episode were favorable.
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And the phones at the network’s Los Angeles press office were silent until … a call arrived from the Fox News Channel asking for comment for a story it was preparing and which subsequently appeared on the Fox News Web site.
According to a Fox executive who would not talk on the record for fear of angering his News Corporation colleagues, this generated more calls from other reporters.
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October 21st, 2008 at 5:31 am
I laughed my ass off watching that show. The sad part is its all to very true
October 21st, 2008 at 6:08 am
So Fox is complaining to Fox? I’m confused. And I did see the show and at the time I thought it strange that what I was seeing was in fact airing on Fox.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:03 am
they are backing obama,even mentioning nazis with mc cain is incriminating in this dumbed down day and age.here in britain we have news stories with black mc cains whos ancestors were apparently owned by white mc cains and we dont even get a vote over here in the land of stewie.leave family guy alone its a quality show without the propoganda,just shows how sly a fox can be though.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:52 am
Family guy is soooooooooooooooooo not funny.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:56 am
I watched that episode. Hilarious.
i’m NOT an Obama or McCain supporter. i’m a Family Guy supporter.
While it is true that producers of any tv program have the power to insert their views inside their programs, what the heck. This one was funny.
McFarlane tends to insult everyone equally. So, i never take him seriously. Today he insults my ‘group’, tomorrow he insults the other side. All for fun.
Relax, people.
Stewie is the best character in any series. Isn’t every child innately egotistic? That’s what Stewie represents: a child’s mean, confused egotism. It goes counter our idyllic view of children.
Remember the kids in “Lord of the Flies”?
October 21st, 2008 at 9:57 am
Pedophilia, gay sex, bestiality, incest – it’s great family fun on Family Guy (sarcasm). Family Guy is evil, in my opinion. It mixes hilarious stuff with evil stuff, so it’s like a temptation… kind of like prostitution or drug abuse – it may feel good for a while, but it’s not good for your soul.
I won’t watch it because I’ll be in the middle of laughing, then they throw in something disgusting or way too nasty. McFarlane is arrogant, calling Walt Disney “satan”. McFarlane is the real “satan”. I loved Walt Disney, although I now dislike the Disney corporation.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Anyone with half a brain can see what goes on in family guy or american dad. What needs to be said is again people not concentrating on what is more important. This show hate it or love it is no more a problem with the kool aid drinkers watching sports. We have a bigger problem people still drinking Tang thinking obama is going save us like Jesus. McCain is not worth mentioning since he’s irrelevant.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
relax people. I didnt think there would be so many uptight people on this site. Its just a show and i guarantee you that most people that watch family guy werent offended by and thought it was funny. Its like howard stern, i have sirius only to listen to him and im not offended by him, the only people that are, are people that dont listen to him. So what im saying is most people that saw the family guy episode know what they are getting into and are generally good sports. Plus, if you had to pick between a conservative or liberal about who would be more likely to promote antisemitism who do you pick? To take it a step further, do you think conservatives or liberals were my likely to have been pro segregation? Conservatives and Liberals are both obnoxious because they are so far to one side but c’mon people. We all know conservatives arn’t famous for their compasion, no matter what bush says. So in conclusion, it wasnt such a big deal, Family Guy has taken shots at liberals, just like Southpark has. They pick on everyone. I didnt hear any bitching when they made a joke about Michael J Fox and his disease; or the “prom night dumpster baby” musical, that got noooo attention. Its so fucking lame when people get so worked up about 1 thing and then choose to say nothing about 1000 other equal or worse things.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
i love this show!
its comedy folks get over it !
October 21st, 2008 at 6:41 pm
V; you are talking about a cartoon, not reality. But perhaps in your world…………… You are what exactly what is wrong America. Lets spend billions defining what marriage is while our brethren starve. You are a jackass!
October 21st, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Seth McFarlane is a clever man that has the balls to tell it like it is and was. I do not really watch the telli(programming)but i do catch the show to take my mind if the reality of this world. If you watch this show and get offended ,then you do not get the big picture.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:49 pm
family guy is just a vulgar rehashing of old simpsons storylines. every episode has been a complete simpsons rip off. but i guess when you are all masonic then theres no toes to step on.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Walt Disney Inc.
Walt Disney, he was a 33 Degree Freemason of the Scottish Rite and his whole life he has spun threads from the Mystery Schools into the children’s minds with the purpose of getting them used to the occult for days to come. Tolkien Walt used the Le Sacre du Printemps (the Rite of Spring) music for Fantasia. This piece of music was written AS a pagan ritual where a virgin sacrifices herself by dancing to death. According to CIA informants opposed to the NWO, CIA contractors were brought in to build the underground tunnels under Disneyworld in 1977.
These contractors were sworn to secrecy, but were only informed on a need to know basis why the CIA was involved with an amusement park. To work on the secret tunnel project took an “Above Top Secret” clearance. A major programming center was constructed under Lake Holden. (Many of the lakes in Florida are named Lake So-and-so, rather than So-and-so La ke.) The tunnel system was built for programming trauma-based total mind-controlled slaves.
It was built of concrete with steel reinforcement. Lake Holden lies just to the northwest side of the Orlando International Airport and just south of Interstate 4. (It is close to Range 29E on quad maps.) It is only (as the crow flies) about 12 miles from Disneyworld. In spite of Draconian measures of secrecy, numerous lawsuits (Fed. & State) were filed over the years by victims trying to expose the Disneyworld programming tunnels, so that finally the programming center was dismantled, cleaned up. Disney wanted to put out more “adult” films, they did a slight of hand and created the label Touchstone films so that people wouldn’t associate movies like Splash (which showed what looked like bared breasts) with Disney Productions.
Another label, Hollywood Pictures, was created by Disney to help distribute Touchstone films. At first the personnel of these companies was simply Disney’s staff, but as time went on, they got their own production personnel.
Disney bloodline * history.msfc.nasa.gov/sf/disney.html *
October 21st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I like the show. Reminds me of the intelligence going around in the white house.
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 am
Here is some info regarding something called Club 33 at Disneyland.
http://www.disneylandclub33.com/
As for this Family Guy story, FOX has every right to cover or make note of shows on their own family of networks. NBC does it with SNL all the time when it comes to politics and CBS used to do it with Survivor.
January 16th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Family Guy, athough a cartoon, does have some political and social comments to make. I find it incredible that people who watch the show and know what the show is about bitch when the show goes a step too far . We had a show in the U.K. in the 80’s and early 90’s called Spitting Image which was principally a platform for the shows writers and producers to satirise the political and religious edicts of the day. Satire is the best way to show the corrupt and the inane for what they really are. Family Guy follows in this tradition but because it is an american show for an american audience the wit loses its bite because they cannot say what they really want to say for fear of retribution ,be it from the networks or the over sensitive media, who jump on the bandwagon and proclaim this to be newsworthy.It is not worth the effort of reporting on . The real issues are not discussed in the media only the frivolous and throwaway celebrity gossip . Ira , Iran , Afghanistan, the economic crisis , the theft of billions by corrupt bankers and financiers ,The road to enslavement by global corporations and the loss of our freedoms and birth rights, these are the real issues. Family guy is Entertainment with a satirical edge nothing more nothing less. Lets concentrate on the real issue and forget about the celebrity glossy sheen that the media and government want you to concentrate on. You are being sold into a life of slavery and oppression and its time to wake up and stop the progression towards a proletarian existence.