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SilentPatriot on Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 9:50 AM - PDT
Matt Groening, the man behind “The Simpsons,” sits down with Jon to plug his new movie, and reveals how FOX prohibited him from using the faux news crawl out of fear that it would confuse the mindless FOX News consumers.
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Yes, on the ship of fools, all we want to do is is laugh while we watch ourselves sink.
When Krusty the Klown ran for Congress as a Republican, they had a hilarious version of FAUX news and their news crawls.
Oh, wow!
I can’t want to hear the response given by the Culture Warrior from Levittown!!!
Orwell’s Illegitimate Son @ 1:
You begrudge us a laugh now and then? As opposed to wailing and gnashing our teeth 24/7?
Laughing now and then doesn’t mean other things are not taken seriously. But without some humor, some laughter in life, you might as well crawl into a hole and die.
That reminds me, Fox News viewers are morons.
Montgomery Burns to Lisa
My god, are you always on?
Jon did not comment on the news crawl because there was nothing he could add to it.
I am now convinced that Fox News needs to be accompanied by a warning from the Surgeon General.
Jon Stewart is positive role model for men-children everywhere. :)
Laughing is the only medicine. D’oh!
Saw that segment….
Groening is a very cool operator….
Making fun of Fox under their very wing for many, many years….
That made my day!
And the statement about the faux noise sponge minions is not only hilarious it’s true.
“…mindless FOX News consumers”?
I always see left-wingers criticize Fox News in that manner, yet I never see specific examples of what annoys them so.
Did Fox News knowingly run a fake news story with fake documents in a pathetic attempt to influence an election like CBS News did?
Well?
ticktock @ 9:
as long as fux is still making $$ Rupert doesn’t care
Sure if your viewers are as brainless as Homer Simpson, but then again…
DFL, for your review:
http://www.janrainwater.com/htdocs/FoxNews.htm
How Bush’s man at Fox News worked to shape the outcome of the US election
Matt Groening has done some great stuff but this whole contrived fox controversy makes him look like a fellow conspirator. He works for Fox and if Fox really wanted him to stop bashing them they wouldn’t have let him go on Jon’s show and do it some more. It’s just publicity bullshit.
How many times did he have to force the issue before Jon picked up on it and let him continue the charade?
DFL @ 11:
Ok Bill..hows the loofah
I noticed that Matt brought up the Fox issue all by himself. Jon didn’t mention it.
DFL…
yer right.
given that the average viewer of FOX is 70+ years old, they are competent to decide what is accurate and what is boneheaded drivel…
and I imagine many of them are laughing at what they deem as non-stop satire
Matt rocks
“Did Fox News knowingly run a fake news story with fake documents in a pathetic attempt to influence an election like CBS News did?
Well?”
Probably, but I do know they play wonderful tricks with their graphics like placing a “D” next to kid diddler Tom Foley’s name on air. Oopsie!
It’s nice to be able to laugh at something now and again… This the Groening Interview was a hoot! Last time I checked he was still doing “Life is Hell”, too.
Just thinking… Maybe a “Mid-Day Happy Hour” built along the lines of your great “C&L’s Late Nite Music Club“.
A life spent only on serious endeavors would be, IMO, a life wasted.
DFL, if you’ve truly never heard specific examples of what annoys the left about Fox News, you’ve got your head in the sand. Here’s hundreds of specific incidents sof Fox News mendacity:
http://mediamatters.org/issues.....ws+Channel
DFL @ 11:
Let’s see, to being with: the frequent, daily “lies” told by Faux Noise people, such as
“O’Liely, Hannity, Brit Humm, Freddie boy Barnes, J. Gibson monkey,Charlie Krawmouth;
just to name a few. And, if not telling lies, their absolutely narrow-minded, biased
position(ALWAYS to the right) annoys me too. Further, they are an ugly group of
idiots, so with makeup, they still look like shit…I could go on and on and on about
Faux Noise and what annoys me, but I think you get the point..
DFL @ 11:
Yes. And here’s a list, vetted by the media watchdogs at FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, founded by Jeff Cohen, who was employed by Fox for a time)
http://www.fair.org/index.php?.....utlet_id=2
It’s probably too scary for you to read, but you wanted some examples.
And the Dan Rather thing-not a fake, look into it.
DFL @ 11:
Really? You never hear any left-wingers cite specific examples? Then let me help educate you.
http://www.newshounds.us/
http://forum.newshounds.us/viewforum.php?f=1
I think you’ll find all kinds of VERY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES.
…confuse the mindless FOX News consumers.
OK, that is downright hilarious! Not to mention, an oxymoron, too!
no audio in right channel. same thing happened with yesterday’s clips.
HillCountryGal @ 26:
When “Fox News consumers” and “mindless” are used in the same sentence, the word I think describes it best is “redundant.”
Hey DFL , sorry man. You asked for it.
But your Fox News bimbos are slutty looking. That’s something to smile about, right?
Cheer up funny face!
Homer: Fox has quality programming.
Arthur C. @ 22:
Wow, that is some kind of l o n g list put together by Media Matters. Thanks, it’ll take me at
least a couple of days to scope the ALL out. Lies and misrepresentation and distortion if Faux Noise
policy and goal…
Good luck edumacating DFL.
CafeenMan @ 28:
Well, that too!
:)
http://www.rawstory.com/showar.....ID%2F16541
I think New Zealand has it correct here.
Perhaps, if we quit laughing at the misery our leaders inflict upon us, maybe - just maybe - we’ll click the “Off” button on the remote control and actually DO something.
Anyone notice that Matt Groenig repeatedly missed the point?
If homer knocked up Marge in high school (or shortly thereafter) and is 38 now, that means he was roughly 17 or 18 at the time. Therefore, Bart should be 20-21 years old. This is why it doesn’t make sense. Groenig still couldn’t grasp that after multiple attempts, and thought that “not aging” explained it all away. It really doesn’t matter, but I thought it was funny how dense he came across.
OOOOOO!!!…Fox News is the Boogeyman!!!! OOOOOOOO!!!
LMAO!
:-)
Fox is absolutely right to ban the news crawl on The Simpsons.
Remember that studies have shown that Fox News viewers are far more likely to believe things that are demonstrably false than viewers of other media sources.
Running a cartoon crawl on a cartoon show is just asking for trouble.
As much as I like everything Matt Groening has done, I would really like to ask him one thing. The Simpsons have repeatedly poked fun at GHW Bush and Bill Clinton, the latter while he was still in office. And by poking fun, I mean creating an on-screen character to play them, not just an obtuse reference to some hot-button political topic. But after 6 years, we still have yet to see George W debut on the show. My question is, why? Is Groening under a FOX directive not to do so, or are his politics showing, or what? Or are they all afraid of what might happen if they parody a president who is himself a walking, talking (poorly) parody of what a REAL president should be?
Jay: “OOOOOO!!!…Fox News is the Boogeyman!!!! OOOOOOOO!!!
LMAO!”
No, dumb A, they just work for the boogeyman. They’re simply a bunch of bed-wetting party whores, but they get decent pay for it.
FAUX is helping perpetuate an unneccessary troop endangerment based on false pretenses, cheerleaded an impeachment for an indiscretion, and routinely act dismissive on possible impeachments for actions contrary to the Constitution.
And to top it off the “values” voters revere an Aussie who started the corporation after he got much of his wealth off of page 3 girls.
JayDee @ 38:
That would be an excellent question for the Simpsons staff. They were merciless to Clinton (”I’ve done it with pigs - honest to god pigs, I tell you!”). Yet not a peep on Bush.
HillCountryGal @ 33:
And Fox News is the oxymoron…
solid @ 39:
They did kind of sorta when they went through photographs while Homer was the Safety Lizard of him punching out George HW Bush, and georgie jr.
Although they didn’t show boosh, they had a great episode where the Simpsons were jailed for hating America, after a temporarily deaf Bart, accidentally mooned the flag.
Do Moonies moon the flag?
My favorite part of that news crawl was “Democrats cause cancer?” lol
I meant hat for JayDee @ 38:
JayDee @ 38:
Yes, and not playing partisian politics, that question should have been ask by Jon Stewart
or and answer sought from Groening himself. Anyone know how to contact him, so that
we can seek a response?
Audio’s been really crappy lately. Last couple of days I’ve only been getting sound from one side.
Do’h! Me loose brain? Oh Oh!
Hilarious that Faux Noise actually admits all their viewers are ignorant, uneducated, brainwashed morons, that believe any bullshit lies thrown at them.
Anyone got the problem I have? Any of the Comedy Central links, I get no audio. Links from other places work just fine. This true whether I use the Microsoft or the Apple link. Ideas?
Actually, one of the funnist put-downs of Bush was on The Simpsons, when Homer called him “President Koo-Koo Bananas” and wondered what other disaster he was going to pull us into.