Oct 19 2008
Family Guy equates McCain-Palin to SS
Okay, so I generally think that Family Guy is a decent show, but tonight the show stepped over the line. In an episode where Mort, Stewie and Brian go back in time and end up in Berlin at the beginning of World War II. They mug a trio of SS officers and on one of the uniforms they find a McCain-Palin campaign button.
To be honest, I don’t mind if actors and writers and animators have an opinion on politics. That is their American right.
However, I do find the political commentary offensive in this context. I was offended when Democrat Dick Durbin (one of my senators unfortuantely) compared American soldiers to Nazis and I am equally offended at the concept of the Nazis endorsing McCain-Palin.
There is absolutely no reason that Americans should resort to such an ugly way to characterize political opponents.
Yup, I can endorse having different opinions. I suggest open debate. I think name calling like this is petty and degrading to the entire political process.
While I would normally agree with you on all counts, it’s a freakin’ cartoon! If anyone, anywhere, for any reason takes the Family Guy to be a source for serious political discourse, then, well, you’ve lost me. When people in Lundsford, OH are literally hanging Barack Obama in effigy, people in North East PA are assaulting Obama canvassers, people in Overland Park, KS are ramming shopping carts into someone for wearing an Obama t-shirt, and stickers and signs are vandalized or stolen, a little humor regarding the rhetoric behind the actions doesn’t seem out of bounds to me at all.
Please share your response with me.
to be fair, Family Guy has a record of attacking anything and everything. I don’t think that this means their writers were trying to sway anyone, and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear a racist thing about Obama from the show either. You say name-calling like this is petty and degrading… I’m pretty sure that’s the point of Family Guy.
There was that Republican Rally where people were chanting “Terrorist” and “Kill him” about Obama… that is sort of like a KKK rally or white pride rally if you ask me. Poor McCain must have looked into the audience and thought “Gee, these are the people that are voting for me”. In that case, I think that family guy did not step over the line. McCain or Palin should have made a public statement or apologized to Obama possibly at the final debate. The episode was funny and I can say that I am just not shocked by anything in the media anymore. I can’t believe that there is still racism in our current civilization and that it is not dealt with. Also, that the best candidate in the past forty years might not get elected due to the colour of his skin. Tisk… tisk.
I think the episode was more offensive to fans of Back to the Future.
@Bill - Nice!
I know the Family Guy is supposed to be funny, but I thought it went over the line. I think Palin has stepped over the line calling Obama a terrorist and I think the McCain-Palin ticket has fostered hatred. However, I expect better of my own party.
I do not believe that “Look what they did” makes it right. I wouldn’t accept it from my children and I don’t accept it from Seth MacFarlane either. To be honest, I think the entire show has fallen apart in the last season and I thought this went too far.
I disagree with Shocker Toys because I think it happens on both sides of the aisle, but I do think we should call on our side to promote integrity even if the other guy doesn’t. It’s one of the reasons I like Obama. In general, though I’m sure there are instances where he wasn’t, in general, he has never been anything less than congenial to McCain and Palin. Too bad they can’t say the same.