The Simpsons takes a dig at Fox News

[Playinghardball]

[janlyn]

1. choked on my iced coffee!

Thanks for the laugh!!! And while super funny, it's kind of sad because it's true!

[premium]

2. The show Family Guy does it all the time. nt.

[onehandle]

3. #1 with Tea Partyers, natch. nt

[WestStar]

4. Funny, and Murdoch who owns both of them is laughing all the way to the bank.

n/t

[iandhr]

6. Thats why Murdoch lets the Simpsons mock them.

[eggplant]

9. Actually, that would be because Matt Groening has complete editorial control, per his contract. n/t

[former9thward]

10. There are two signatures on his contract.

His and the Murdoch representative. There is a reason the Murdoch representative signs it. Because it makes Murdoch a ton of money. He doesn't care who they insult as long as he is paid.

[eggplant]

14. Actually, the contract predated them making a pile of cash from the show.

This was a stipulation from day one.

[former9thward]

15. The point is that it does make money.

There are several shows on Fox that make fun of the network. They stay on because they make money. If they didn't make money they would be gone no matter who they did or did not insult.

[Populist_Prole]

5. Hah! Can't wait to show this to my conservative friend

A real Simpsons fanatic. The cognitive dissonance will kill him.

[Orsino]

7. The Simpsons finances Fox News.

Apology not accepted.

[iandhr]

18. Bart makes this point

[TxDemChem]

8. That's one of my computer wallpapers

At work

[90-percent]

11. Matt Groening

Matt's been a HARDCORE Zappa since he purchased Freak Out in 1966. He thinks Frank had the most iconic mustache in history.

Penn Gillette's first Zappa/Mothers show was a mere two weeks before my first. We both seem to have been pretty hardcore ever since.

-90% Jimmy

[mac56]

13. Welcome to DU.

And..... what?!

[BlueStreak]

16. In fairness

To be fair to Rupert Murdoch, the local Fox stations (which might have helicopters) are nothing like Roger Ailes' "GOP Network". So the cartoon is unfair to the extent that the local stations are tarred by the brush that the national network deserves so well.

But to paraphrase Sarah Palin, "That's what you get when you pal around with racists."

[xtraxritical]

17. This Simpson's edpisode is many years old.

Still pithy.