Offend everyone spirit? What Family Guy is this NY Times reporter watching? I don't remember the scene where Obama is seen eating fried chicken and watermelon on the WH lawn. I don't remember the scene where Mohamed is in bed with a group of young boys. And, I don't remember the scene where Hilary Clinton is portrayed as man-hating lesbian queen.
It seems if Family Guy really embraced the "offend everyone spirit" so many Democrat politicians and protected religions wouldn't escape the poke of their satirical barbs. Just saying.
Anymore, Humor is all about shock. Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby and all the old comics hardly if ever used swear words. they didnt have to because their humor was smart and didnt have to rely of shocking people using the F bomb.
I watched this episode and found it distasteful. While I enjoy Seth McFarlane’s humor, his political bent is very obvious. “The Cleveland Show,” based around the black character Cleveland from Family Guy, also slammed the Right last Sunday when the “short Republican neighbor” appears to murder his own mother, and while Cleveland asks him to show where he buried the body, a McCain/Palin sticker is shown on the rear of his car as they drive away. The “body” was a sex doll that he’d gotten rid of.
McFarlane can be funny, but in this case, his shows were obvious slams of the Republican party and the Palin family.
I’m sure DAVE ITZKOFF, NYTs, said the same thing when everyone was accusing Rush of mocking Michael J. Fox even though he wasn’t.
DAVE ITZKOFF, former editor at Maxim & Spin
Dave Itzkoff: The Genre Dunce Who Won’t Stop Dancing
Dave Itzkoff has been an embarrassment to the New York Times Book Review for some time, imbuing his “Across the Universe” columns with a know-nothing hubris that one expects from an investment banker who considers himself an art expert simply because he’s had his secretary send in a tax-deductible donation to the opera.
“Family Guy,” the Fox animated comedy series, is either irreverent or crass, depending on your tolerance for unmanly humor....I'm guessing it has a mostly lesgaybi audience, something less than msnbc. if olberman said it it must be funny right?
Can you believe I get paid to write about Family Guy? My A1 NYT story on the show’s fight with Palin on Down syndrome http://nyti.ms/93C0dG
about 4 hours ago from web
Sources say he will admit to an affair with Leslie Knope of the Pawnee Parks & Recreation dept. RT @jodyrosen Bayh bimbo explosion TK?
8:24 AM Feb 15th from web
The moment after Dick Cheney said “I am the vice president,” and before he corrected himself on This Week, did your heart also skip a beat?
8:15 AM Feb 14th from web
I couldn’t stop myself from looking at the naked Snooki pictures. It was like staring into a bright orange fake-tanned sun.
3:57 PM Feb 12th from web
When I hear the name David Duke, I always think of the guy who tried to rape Edith Bunker, not the KKK guy. That’s how non-racist I am.
3:58 PM Feb 10th from web
This show, written by manatees, has already jumped the shark...
It has long saddened me that we as Americans are loosing our ability to laugh at our selves. not too long ago I told an amputee and my friend said that was politically incorrect. to which i reminded him of two things, I’m an amputee and the joke was on me. sometimes we need to laugh at our selves and then things hurt less.
Sarah better learn to let this stuff roll....otherwise they will flood the media with things trying to insult her...
My reaction to this “joke” is that it’s kind of confusing and just not clever. Obviously, Gov. Palin has a Down Syndrome son, not a daughter. So... huh? The screenwriter seems to think that A) simply mentioning Sarah Palin and B) reminding us that she has a Down Syndrome child is funny. Even if it weren’t in poor taste, it would be pointless. There’s nothing worth laughing at - or responding to. If Sarah felt compelled to respond at all, it should have been with pure disdain, as if this wasn’t even worthy of her attention.
If Sarah Palin calls out every person or show that offends or makes fun of her or her family, she’s not going to have time to run for President. I like her and I don’t like Family Guy, but she needs to get above this. Otherwise this will be like the kid in grade school who reacts to being made the target of jokes only to have the jokes increase because of the reaction
I am glad Andrea Fay Friedman likes to laugh and have humor and sarcasm, and it would have been well within bounds if she had laughed and mocked at herself and not at the expense of others who care for loved ones with physical handicaps. These loony lefties are so blinded by hatred of Palins that they have lost even basic human decency.