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The Simpsons Slam Fox News PART II [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 10:33 AM on May 22, 2007.


The further adventures of Kent Brockman and Lisa Simpson in their effort to expose the idiocy of networks like Fox News.
Simpsons II

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In the video to your right, Springfield's Republicans (which include villain Mr. Burns and a vampire) watch from their evil tower on high, as anchorman Kent Brockman tells some very real truths to the camera, Edward R. Murrow-style. Of course The Simpsons don't want to be too preachy and self important, so Brockman eventually sells out to the corporate suits he'd been decrying. Nevertheless, it's extraordinary that an animated TV show, once dismissed as kids' stuff, would have such intelligent and bold things to say about the media and its own network.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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god,
Posted by: andrewstromotich on May 22, 2007 7:17 PM   
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you guys suck

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» RE: god, Posted by: omnivore
I remember when the Simpsons...
Posted by: Mojoe on May 23, 2007 12:26 AM   
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used to be just a funny show.

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How'd you get a copy without the on-screen crap?
Posted by: Alan Smithee on May 23, 2007 4:40 AM   
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I haven't watched The Simpsons in over 10 years because the Fox network ruins the show with its logo on the screen. Kill off the Fox network and give us back our INDEPENDENT TV stations!

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So much cynicism . . .
Posted by: KaptainSpiffy on May 23, 2007 5:21 AM   
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from those commenting. With so much time on their hands, it seems. Maybe you should take up making greeting cards for Hallmark, nu?

'The Simpsons' is still a bright spot in television. It seems only clowns and fools are telling the truth these days, and it's good to still hear it.

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Fox and the Corportate Cabal
Posted by: saywhat on May 23, 2007 3:20 PM   
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I saw Fox News for the first time today! (I shut off my TV a year after the war started.) I was a captive audience at my auto repair shop waiting room. It’s worse than I have heard and read. It was so full of hate and mind manipulation - it was hard to believe their the mind manipulation could be that bad and that obvious. Over film of dozens of Muslims at prayer, over film of Muslims just walking around, was the most hate filled rhetoric I have heard.
The corporate cabal has something pretty awful planned for our future.
God help us all!!

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