HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 10/20/08 – Sunday night’s installment of Fox’s animated sitcom, “Family Guy,” was controversial from the start, involving a Jewish pharmacist being thrust back in time to witness the German invasion of Poland during World War II. However, the episode ensured its discussion around water coolers Monday morning by comparing Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin to Nazis.
The brief stab at the Republican presidential and vice-presidential nominees occurred during a scene when characters Brian (an anthropomorphic dog), Mort (a Rhode Island pharmacist) and Stewie (a super-intelligent toddler) beat up three Nazi officers, in order to steal their uniforms.
“Hey, there’s something on here,” Stewie remarked during the segment, as he noticed an anachronistic McCain/Palin campaign button on his disguise’s lapel. “Huh, that’s weird.”
The show’s creator and the voice behind Brian and Stewie, Seth MacFarlane, is a supporter of McCain’s Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, having donated $2,300 to Obama’s presidential campaign between 2007 and 2008 and tens of thousands to other Democratic causes since 2005.
MacFarlane also spoke at an Obama rally at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University earlier this month, during which he read a transcript of an interview with Palin regarding Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which the Alaskan governor does not support. He read the lines in the voice of Peter, Stewie’s bumbling father on “Family Guy,” for comic effect.
Even though MacFarlane donated as much as he legally could to Obama and he campaigned for him, perhaps he would claim the Nazi reference was just a joke. Lighten up, right?
No.
I find it despicable that MacFarlane would connect the torturous Nazis with John McCain, especially since McCain himself spent over 5 years as a prisoner of war, being tortured.
McCain deserves far more respect from MacFarlane.
Where's the gratitude for McCain's service?
Does MacFarlane support the troops?
We know he looks down on Navy veteran McCain so much that he would depict Nazis as his supporters.
Then again, it could be that MacFarlane means no terrible disrespect to McCain. Maybe he's targeting his supporters, the people at his rallies, the Joe the Plumber-types.
We're the Nazis.
And it's the Right that's so negative and ugly. Sure.
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Did 'Family Guy' Go Too Far With Nazi 'McCain' Pin?
6 comments:
Video's gone already.
I didn't think it would last long.
That's why I did those screen grabs.
Talk about living in an upside-down universe. Seth MacFarlane's candidate has promised to meet unconditionally with the Iranian Hitler. His pastor of over 20 years is pals with Louis Farrakhan, who has declared Jews public enemy #1. And it's MCCAIN-PALIN that's analogous to the Nazis???
This is worse than disappointing. It's depressing. I'm a big Family Guy fan, but I have gotten really sick of Seth McFarlane's anti-Republicanism leaking into his show.
This might be the last straw. I'm sick to my stomach with disgust right now.
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Jewish and Republican?? Oy gevalt
These jerks cannot figure out to gain an audience and survive they have to keep the nutjob kook stuff out of their programs. Oh well, good riddance.
BTW, Letterman and SNL had their biggest rating in years when McCain and Plain were on their shows.
And, NBC is cutting 3,000 jobs. What a shame. Maybe they will all fail and the juvenile garbage will get cleaned out of the networks.
A button for the Alaskan Secession Party would have been more appropriate but too much a non-sequitur.
I'm real close to watching my last episode of family guy. As a southerner, I did not particularly like the episode I just saw where a classroom of kids was dumber than a pig. I noticed Seth's anti-Americanism with this McCain/Palin nazi stunt, and now he's attacking me, my family, and my friends with this lazy ass attempt at humor.
I thought he was better than this, and I think he usually is. Sometimes it's what we're like at our lowest moments that defines who we are, and I think slack-ass Seth is showing his true colors with this crap.
I'd like to see him portray any other group of minorities this way. It's easy to pick on "white trash southern folk" like we're a bunch of idiots waving the rebel flag.
Mind your own business, Seth. You don't know what it's like on the McCain/Palin side and you don't know what it's like being in the South.
Thank you so much for this article, I needed this to regain some sanity.
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