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The Simpsons vs. Fox News (FNN suit was a joke)
Washington Post ^
| Friday, October 31, 2003
| Compiled by Anne Schroeder
Posted on 10/31/2003 9:10:27 PM PST by KneelBeforeZod
Doh! "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening may have crossed the line with his comment last week to National Public Radio's Terry Gross that Fox media empire almost sued itself. (Now that takes some talent!)
The story goes that Fox News Channel execs were none too thrilled last year when the wildly popular cartoon, which is on Fox Broadcasting, featured a fake news ticker mocking the station's conservative rep. The headlines included gems such as: "Do Democrats Cause Cancer? . . . Study: 92 percent of Democrats are gay . . . JFK posthumously joins Republican Party . . ."
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...Nonetheless "The Simpsons" (the show, not the characters) issued an apology yesterday: "Matt was being satirical and certainly there was never any issue between the show and Fox News. We regret any confusion."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: fox; foxnews; freshair; mattgroening; nationalpublicradio; npr; nprschadenfreude; schadenfreude; simpsons; terrygross; thesimpsons
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To: KneelBeforeZod
NPR is Mr Rogers for adults: Someone speaking in a boring simplistic monotone that is supposed to be soothing and leading us to a land of make believe.
To: nutmeg
Thanks for the heads up!
To: Nonstatist
"LOL. I don't think it's that high."
How about, 92 percent of gays are Democrats, would you buy that?
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11/01/2003 7:13:29 AM PST
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RipSawyer
(Mercy on a pore boy lemme have a dollar bill!)
To: carlson
Chris Wallace will be replacing Tony Snow on Fox News Sunday. Yes, Chris Wallace, son of 60 Minutes man Mike Wallace.
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11/01/2003 7:40:44 AM PST
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arasina
To: KneelBeforeZod
Is it anything like ManCow as guest host of Savage's show?
No Turd!
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11/01/2003 9:38:26 PM PST
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Mr.Atos
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