It's enough to have to deal with ignorance and bias in media that bleeds into daily life through interaction with people who sincerely believe the lies. When it's in entertainment as well, I issue the fatal remote click. There are plenty of alternatives out there that don't insult my beliefs or my intelligence.
Superintendent Chalmers: “Thank the Lord”? That sounded like a prayer. A prayer in a public school. God has no place within these walls, just like facts don’t have a place within an organized religion.Sideshow Bob [Voiced by Kelsey Grammer, a Republican]: No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it.
Sideshow Bob: Your guilty consciences may make you vote Democratic, but secretly you all yearn for a Republican president to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!
Homer: You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don’t work out in real life, uh, Christianity.!
Ned Flanders: I’ve done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!
And most of all, this one:
Reverend Lovejoy: Marge, just about everything’s a sin. [holds up a Bible] Y’ever sat down and read this thing? Technically we’re not supposed to go to the bathroom.
Whoa L.N.! You have to learn to lighten up! The sarcasm light is on with the Simpsons. You are imputing seriousness where there is none. If you can’t laugh at yourself then you are taking yourself and others way too seriously.
So I suppose a lost three day weekend in Reno is out of the question?