Is it true that Matt Stone (South Park, Team America) is backing Bush?

[Freddie Stubbs]

There are people here on DU saying that this true, but no one has been able to back this up. Anyone?

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. i am interested as well............

[omnithrope]

2. Bah.

The South Park guys are morons.
Who cares?

[JUS]

3. I've seen no evidence of this

I've read recent interviews and neither Trey nor Matt has said anything about backing any candidate.

[Bleacher Creature]

4. Don't know, but I would tend to doubt it.

Team America is certainly a knock against the left, but I can't see either of them supporting a religious freak like Bush.

[TexasSissy]

5. They are Repubs.

They and their followers are sometimes called "South Park Republicans."

Do a google on that. You'll find an article or two on rightwinger.com or some right winger site. It's true, believe it or not.

But it sounds like they may be closer to libertarian, actually. Still, they side with the Repubs in a head to head match.

[JUS]

7. "south park repubs" is a term coined by right-wingers

it's not a term that trey and matt use...

there are just as many, if not more, "south park dems"...

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. I didn't ask if he was a Republican, I asked if he was supporting Bush

Does anyone have any proof of this, of is it simply speculation?

[liberal N proud]

6. Watch the previews for Team America that should tell you something

All Terra and Fear.
Blast them terrasts

[PretzelWarrior]

8. their cartoons take potshots at everyone...but slanted against LIBS

and this movie apparently really goes after the vocal LEFT celebs and almost provides a rationale for why the US should be a country-bombing world power.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

10. this is what i have found so far, that says they are not repubs

http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/trey-parker.html

While discussing politics, Parker told the Times that he is a registered Libertarian. Stone said: "I don't think I'm registered to vote."

http://www.lp.org/lpnews/0105/parker.html

Trey Parker, the co-creator of the politically incorrect and foul-mouthed TV cartoon South Park, has announced that he is a Libertarian.

[w4rma]

11. They say their votes cancel each other out, so I take that to be that one

is supporting Bush and the other half of the pair isn't. But judging from their work it seems to be a Hannity and Colmes type of relationship (i.e. the liberal one is a wimp).

[donco6]

12. If they belong to any party, it would be the Contrarians.

They just pimp anything that's popular. That's what they're all about. They do a good job of it, IMO.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. "South Park" co-creator Matt Stone has a message for all you undecideds

"Stay home," said Stone. "It doesn't matter who you're gonna vote for. If you really don't know who you're gonna vote for, or are uninformed, or haven't really thought about it? Just stay home."

Stone and Trey Parker have teamed up for the puppet parody "Team America: World Police," which debuted in third place at the box office this weekend with $12.3 million. A parody of 1980s action movies, the film ridicules both Democrats and Republicans.

In person, Stone has little patience for those on the political fence. "If you really don't know or you're just going to vote for George Bush because he's already in office, or you're gonna vote for John Kerry because he's on the cover of Rolling Stone, don't do that. That's lame. Just stay home. That's all we ever said," Stone told the San Francisco Chronicle in Sunday's editions.

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20041018/D85PR0DO1.html?PG=home&SEC=news