The Simpsons vs. FOX

[Aptastik]

Run time: 06:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkI8dPbgBY8   Posted on YouTube: July 17, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 23, 2007 By DU Member: Aptastik Views on DU: 1358

 
Hysterical excerpts from the Simpsons critiques of the Fox Network, and in particular, Fox News.

Pay special attention to the news crawl during the Fox News "debate" segment. Hilarious!!

[AX10]

1. The first K & R!

As an avid fan, I remember all of these hits at Fox!

:rofl:

:kick:

[rocktivity]

2. Matt Groening told Jon Stewart that Fox banned him from doing crawls

because the viewers might mistake it for a REAL one!

:rofl:
rocknation

[Aptastik]

5. There's more to it than that

In a classic case of truth being stranger than fiction, Fox apparently tried to sue itself over the matter.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of "The Simpsons" over a parody of the channel's right-wing political stance, the creator of the hit US television show has claimed.

In an interview this week with National Public Radio, Matt Groening recalled how the news channel had considered legal action, despite the fact that "The Simpsons" is broadcast on sister network, Fox Entertainment.

According to Groening, Fox took exception took a Simpsons' version of the Fox News rolling news ticker which parodied the channel's anti-Democrat stance, with headlines like "Do Democrats Cause Cancer?"

~snip~

"Now Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news," he said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/110103J.shtml

And for those who are curious, here's the list of what was on the news crawl:

Pointless News Crawls Up 37 Percent...
Do Democrats Cause Cancer? Find Out at foxnews.com...
Rupert Murdoch: Terrific Dancer...
Dow Down 5000 Points...
Study: 92 Percent of Democrats Are Gay...
JFK Posthumously joins Republican Party...
Oil Slicks Found to Keep Seals Young, Supple...
Dan Quayle: Awesome...

::edited to add link to source::

[rocktivity]

7. They'd be suing themselves, all right

Fox's right-wing stance IS a parody!

Now then, if you're going to do a crawl, do it right:

Pointless News Crawls Up 37 Percent...Do Democrats Cause Cancer? Find Out At foxnews.com...Rupert Murdoch: Terrific Dancer...Dow Down 5000 Points...Study: 92 Percent of Democrats Are Gay...JFK Posthumously joins Republican Party...Oil Slicks Found to Keep Seals Young, Supple...Dan Quayle: Awesome...

:rofl:
rocknation

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. I hope my career reaches a point I can poke my boss in the eye with a shit covered stick!

[philosophie_en_rose]

4. Librrrrrrrrruuuullllss!! Woohoo!

:rofl:

[Bjorn Against]

6. This is why I love the Simpsons

The Simpsons has always poked fun at Republicans, I am really hoping for moments like these in the movie.

[HamiltonHabs32]

8. thanks for posting this

I love DU

[sakabatou]

9. LMAO