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Family Guy Writer Tweets Pearl Harbor Joke In Response To Japanese Earthquake
Bleeding Cool: Entertainment News ^ | March 12, 2011 – 7:54 am | Brendon Connelly

Posted on 03/12/2011 10:10:39 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

when a particularly tasteless tweet started rolling around the web last night, and I found out it had been written by Family Guy scriptwriter Alec Sulkin, I wasn’t too surprised. Here’s what he said: "If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google 'Pearl Harbor death toll'”.

This world view, that the citizens of a nation are somehow statistics to be tallied in a historical spreadsheet of deaths, and that there’s somehow a desirable, karmic distribution to be had is absolutely disgusting.

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KEYWORDS: earthquake; harbor; japan; pearl; twitter
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To: LRoggy

Whether it does, or not, is quite beside the point.
Japan today is a far, far different culture from what it was before WWII. I’m told there is a statue of Gen. MacArthur in Tokyo on which there is inscribed “Liberator.”
I spent the winter of 1945-46 in various cities in Japan (as a very junior Naval person), and was amazed at the friendliness; even ex-soldiers that I encountered, still wearing much of their uniforms (without insignia) did not display any rancor; a buddy and I wandered around Kobe (much of it a fire-bombed disaster scene) all by ourselves at night, feeling quite safe. I got the feeling that the Japanese were about as glad as we that the war was over, and ready to move on to a better way of life and democratic government.


21 posted on 03/12/2011 10:32:58 AM PST by Elsiejay
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I’m sure we pretty much evened that score by the end of WWII.


22 posted on 03/12/2011 10:34:46 AM PST by PLMerite (Thanks for fixing the clock.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Leftists are nothing but evil filth. I said it before and I’ll say it again: leftists have absolutely NO redeeming human qualities.

They are pure evil and should be treated like a lethal plague.


23 posted on 03/12/2011 10:34:55 AM PST by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: SE Mom

Obama would only mention Japan if it somehow brought attention to him. Obama is focused on and cares for Obama.


24 posted on 03/12/2011 10:35:27 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTzyU5MFgM


25 posted on 03/12/2011 10:36:18 AM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: KoRn

Indeed. Those who were responsible for Pearl Harbor paid the price. Done. Finished.


26 posted on 03/12/2011 10:36:49 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: OrangeHoof

I completely agree that the deaths of innocents are not something to be compared on some kind of sick spread sheet, but during yesterday’s broadcasts the qudience was reminded that the 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people. Nearly a quarter-of-a-million people wiped out in the virtual blink of an eye.


27 posted on 03/12/2011 10:37:58 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
There was a post of a picture of the Pearl Harbor Memorial as a response to one of the Japanese earthquake threads yesterday. The Mods deleted it rather quickly, but I guess there is a freeper who also sees this as some sort of twisted justice. F'd up brain function.
28 posted on 03/12/2011 10:38:17 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Elsiejay
There is an entire garden dedicated to MacArthur in Japan at Atsugi. The dedication of a garden is one of their highest honors.


The caption on his statue roughly say "MacArthur, the Father of Japanese Democracy."


30 posted on 03/12/2011 10:41:47 AM PST by mnehring
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The funny thing is that this writer probably isn’t even anti-Japanese, per se. Rather, it’s his innate vileness, which is something that fully permeates “Family Guy” as well. The unending pursuit towards ‘hip edginess’ has pretty much led such supposedly creative artists to devolve from simple dark humor to the downright celebration of evil.


31 posted on 03/12/2011 10:42:24 AM PST by greene66
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I knew there was a reason I don't watch that show.

Pearl Harbor was an act of War, just as was the bombing of Tokyo (read up on the B-29 raids some time).

Those of us who grew up south of the Mason Dixon Line still hear people telling us "The war is over.", so let it be.But the horror the Japanese people are facing is far from over, and the aftershocks alone would be considered significant earthquakes in their own right, and would each be of a magnitude devastating in most parts of the world.

The tsunamis have caused untold loss of life and property, and the full count of the dead will never be known. Entire towns have been wiped off the map, and each aftershock of magnitude has the capability of causing more waves.

Now, I suppose every 'family' has one of those people, who no matter how much they embarass us by being stupid and insensitive, are still family, even though they are bad enough to start the rumors of having been switched at birth...

Liberals are the 'attic children' of our culture, at large, all competing for the title of villiage idiot.

I offer my condolences to and prayers for the Japanese people in this time of crisis, and apologize for the idiots in our culture who do not have enough sense to shut up and let people merely wonder if that is their status.

32 posted on 03/12/2011 10:48:22 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Wow....what a perfect expression for that guys humor—worth repeating....”Family Guy is about as funny as a bag of dead kittens.”


33 posted on 03/12/2011 10:50:05 AM PST by savagesusie
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To: DoughtyOne
How do you get even with innocent men, women, and children?

Reparations? Is this a quiz? It seems the Libs keep this meme handy next to the race card, but for them, 'meme' is a compound word...

34 posted on 03/12/2011 10:50:47 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I have a sick sense of humor. That is way over the top.


35 posted on 03/12/2011 10:52:06 AM PST by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Perhaps Japan should purchase the Jackson/Sharpton insurance, get out of jail free, card.

“Compound word...”

LOL


36 posted on 03/12/2011 10:56:24 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Here's the proof of Obama's U. S. citizenship: " " Good enough for our 3 branches...)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Further proof I’m not missing anything in not watching that show.


37 posted on 03/12/2011 11:00:22 AM PST by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: KoRn
Exactly. The Japan that got nuked was the Japan that existed before the nuke. The Japan that emerged from the ashes is our friend and trading partner. Hollyweird once again shows its true colors.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

38 posted on 03/12/2011 11:03:14 AM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Sophomoric... about what I've come to expect from our entertainment industry morons.

Intellectually, they have never grown beyond 14 years old.

39 posted on 03/12/2011 11:07:53 AM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: Elsiejay

Geeze, you must be nearing 100 years old.


40 posted on 03/12/2011 11:57:40 AM PST by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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