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Vanity Fair Goes Full Neurotic Overanalyzing if South Park Is Sufficiently Anti-Trump
Newsbusters ^ | August 9, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/09/2025 10:34:02 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Almost everybody would agree that the first South Park episode of the current season slammed President Donald Trump. However, that was not enough for Vanity Fair's Hollywood Correspondent, David Canfield. Displaying steroid levels of insecurity, he just has to know if the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are really really anti-Trump.

You can see Canfield's desperate insecurity in his story on Wednesday, "South Park Has Been Pissing Viewers Off for Decades. Then It Came for Trump," which led off with this subtitle: "The show has a history of controversy and provocation—but it’s still virtually impossible to know where Trey Parker and Matt Stone really stand."

That was the first clue that Canfield just had to find out for sure if Parker and Stone were as satisfyingly anti-Trump as himself. Therefore he leaps into a highly neurotic microanalysis of just what are the politics of the show's creators.

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He just has to know for sure. There cannot be any measure of doubt about whether Parker and Stone are safely anti-Trump enough. Otherwise the Vanity Fair writer will continue to spend sleepless nights trying to figure it out.
1 posted on 08/09/2025 10:34:02 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

One word:

ManBearPig......


2 posted on 08/09/2025 10:40:16 AM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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Or else what? Parker and Stone don’t care who they piss off. That’s kind of the point of parody. They’re social commentators. That’s what they do. That the liberals respond in this way tells me that they have zero sense of humor. Give yourself over to us completely, or you’re not a true believer. Unreal.


3 posted on 08/09/2025 10:42:48 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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They are shills for Paramount, who just gave them a big payday.


4 posted on 08/09/2025 10:43:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PJ-Comix

That episode was really offensive so I turned it off.


5 posted on 08/09/2025 10:49:09 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Trey Parker and Matt Stone hate both conservatives and liberals. This writer has nothing to fear: they will continue skewering Trump, Catholic priests and other public figures.


6 posted on 08/09/2025 10:50:51 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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What do I care? I have never read Vanity Fair and doubt that I ever will. I have never watched South Park. And I've never heard of David Canfield.
7 posted on 08/09/2025 11:00:25 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Were it not for Trump, woke would have been more devastating than all the horrors, wars and plagues.)
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To: PJ-Comix

South Park never really recovered from losing Chef and the introduction of PC Principal. Them trying to turn Garrison into a Trump wannabe in 2016 sealed it from being funny ever again. I’ve tried to watch but never laugh. I give up.


8 posted on 08/09/2025 11:02:01 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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To: PJ-Comix

They took on Charlie Kirk but he just stepped into it, loves it, and poof, there goes all the wind out of their sails.

What if they gave a South Park and no one was offended?


9 posted on 08/09/2025 11:07:45 AM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: PJ-Comix

I’m guessing no more than three out of 10 people are still paying any attention to what South Park does or does not portray. This show, just like SNL still considers itself to be the eye in the storm of trending topics.


10 posted on 08/09/2025 11:22:03 AM PDT by lee martell
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Says more about Vanity Fair.

South Park is just offensive. The two creators have had nothing to offer society - except offensive juvenile humor.

‘Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public’


11 posted on 08/09/2025 11:51:30 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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I sort of tapered off watching South Park over the last few seasons. Right now I have a couple of episodes recorded that I might or might not eventually watch. The show just isn’t all that funny now, and their political satire was always pretty lame no matter who was the target.


12 posted on 08/09/2025 12:53:44 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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South Park has a reputation for stomping on toes all around and making fun of trannies. And didn't they call Hillary a "sh*t sandwich" in 2016?

There is also possibility the last two episodes were over the top parodies of lefty paranoia even while doing Trump no favors.

It's not enough to dislike Trump. To be a true Democrat you must be an hysterical ninny about it.

13 posted on 08/09/2025 2:33:18 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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I gave up on South Park when they had a quadriplegic Christopher Reeve sucking the stem cells from aborted fetuses.

Oh wait. No, I didn't. That was funny as hell.


14 posted on 08/09/2025 2:38:59 PM PDT by Drew68 (I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since yesterday. Save some tears for tomorrow.)
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Just a cartoon Saturday Night Live failure. What may have been funny at one time has just turned into Demonrat poo.


15 posted on 08/09/2025 3:08:35 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: dfwgator

Not sure what you’ve been reading, but they’ve been very vocal with the disdain for Paramount as of late.


16 posted on 08/10/2025 3:35:24 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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Well, this is interesting...

Greg Price
@greg_price11

If you want to know why South Park never took swings at Joe Biden the same way they’ve been doing to President Trump, the show’s lawyer also just so happens to be the guy who funded Hunter Biden’s legal defenses.

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https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1953489012838019245


17 posted on 08/10/2025 3:36:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: rarestia

Ping to my reply #17.


18 posted on 08/10/2025 3:37:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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Yes. Hunter’s patron has been the South Park attorney since Day One of South Park.


19 posted on 08/10/2025 4:05:31 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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