In 1992, Dan Quayle said this:
“t doesn’t help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ‘lifestyle choice.'”
And was derided as an intellectual Lilliputian for the rest of his life by the my-own-fart-sniffing leftist elites.
So, if a member of Obama’s cabinet were to speak directly to a cartoon city, you’d think she’d be tarred, feathered and tossed into a septic tank, right?
Apparently not, because I haven’t heard much about this bit of brain-dead galumphery from EPA head Lisa Jackson:
Last April, Jackson gathered a small band of managers to watch “The Simpsons Movie,” which in 2007 portrayed the EPA head as its main villain. In the movie, the agency head disastrously builds a dome over the fictional town of Springfield to contain its lake pollution and its residents.
The hurtful portrayal, Jackson said, highlights that citizens are nearing a point where they don’t trust the agency. Under her watch, the agency would never dome off a town. “No, we’re not going to do it to you, Springfield, wherever you might be,” she said.
Personally, I’m still waiting for the FCC to offer its reassurances to the Griffins.
[CAUTION: this show is rated TV-14 for a reason – shoo the kiddies out of the room before viewing]
Harvey, I’ll wager you mean second scariest after:
“We’re from the Government, and we’re here to help.” (in context, by Ronald Reagan)
BTW, air broadcast is dying and the FCC know it. To preserve their control-freaking, anãl empire, their next domain is the Internet and everything attached to it – unless Congress stops them.
Yeah…it’s a little hard to buy into the global warming scam when you’re shoveling another foot of fresh snow out of your driveway and it’s just above freezing and the forecast is for more of the same for the foreseeable future.
Jimmy – got it in one 🙂
What’s wrong with the EPA doming-up towns and cities, that’s a situation that’s a guaranteed job creator. I mean just think how many people you could employ and jobs you could save or create by spending just a few paltry billion dollars in stimulus money doming-up towns and cities. I’m talking good paying union jobs here! Plus, once the project is completed, it would help keep all those misguided TEA Party people penned up where they can’t cause us any more trouble….Rahm, pitchin’ this idea hard, The White House.
I LOVE Family Guy, all politics aside. I’ve practically memorized most of the shows. Ha, now that I think about it I sang the FCC song in my head when I hit the play button actually. It’s kind of funny though when Seth McFarlane argues for less government intervention in anything though, seeing as that he epitomizes the Democratic party.
Podcasting is where it’s at. The FCC hasn’t touched that yet (thank God). I don’t know what I’d do without my uncensored daily hour of the Adam Carolla Podcast.
The biggest lie of all…. “We’re from the Government, and we’re here to help.” The second biggest lie of all, “We’re glad you’re here!”
yes, let the union hacks build them as long as they do it from the outside in so when the last brick is installed, they’ll be inside. and when it collapse….oh well.
Excuse me while I apply the eye-bleach.
I can think of a few cities that could use doming/dooming, San Francisco, New York, Boston etc. just as long as its air tight.
I forgot Washington.
All one has to do to be assured of the decline of civilization is watch one of the so-called “adult cartoons” on television today. Crude, rude, vulgar in the extreme, demeaning to both sexes and moronic in their plots and sophomoric in their writing, they have, as nothing else perpetuated the stereotype of the Ugly American.
Yes, I know, free speech, free expression and free airwaves. People are free to chose whatever drek they choose, but that they do not see the link between the proliferation of this kind of pig dropping and the coarsening of our culture is fascinating to me.
And yes, I’m a prude, a mother, and a grandmother. I’m also no fun at all. Beat me up at will.
You may begin.
seanmahair – I’m not gonna beat you up. I feel exactly the same way about reality TV shows.
I don’t want to ban them, I don’t want to watch them, and it makes me sigh in despair to think they both exist and are popular.
I feel the same way when I click on the trending topics on Twitter. Every time I do that and read a few of those tweets I lose a little bit more faith in humanity.
You’re entitled to your opinion, just as much as I’m entitled to my opinion when I think that those shows are hilarious. That’s the beauty of America.
I’m just of the opinion that agencies such as the ATF, EPA to some extent, and DEFINITELY the FCC go against the basic tenants of the concept of individual freedom, the Bill of Rights, and every idea that this country was founded on. I’m truly surprised that there isn’t a more formal and active anti-restrictive agency coalition. But then again, I’m more libertarian on this issue than most.
I cannot attack your positions, seanmahair, when I agree with them!
I agree, seanmahair. I don’t want them banned. Not mine, or amyone else’s place. But what is the facination with seeing a cartoon character say poo poo and pee pee? Juvinile.
The big picture is the EPA head getting offended by a cartoon, and promising not to put a dome over a cartoon city. The fact that she would react like this, and take th e parady seriously, says much about the liberal mnd set.
“The hurtful portrayal, Jackson said, highlights that citizens are nearing a point where they don’t trust the agency.”
No dear, if people weren’t ALREADY at the point where they don’t trust the agency, they never would have cast the EPA as the villains in the movie. Duh.
Thank you all for your very kind remarks. I as well don’t want to ban them. I’m against banning most things. As the mother of 6, I know the best way to get your kids watch something is to tell them they can’t.
Storm you’re so on target. That someone in a position in authority would put such an emphasis on a cartoon is asinine. But that’s the libs for you. They’re only good on shallow.
Capt. I too am not a Tweeter or a Twit or whatever the new term is. I can’t keep up with Facebook so……..My point was not that they weren’t funny, I’m sure they are but they are also the other things I’ve described. When we have people in the government who are making decisions based on what people think about a cartoon, I’m worried that all of the adults have left the building and now the middle schoolers in charge. But as I said before banning is not an option.
Harvey: love your posts. They always make me think and that, you darlin’ man is what makes life as a homo sapien different from say, life as an invertebrate….. or life as a lib as opposed to oh anything else.