Does Bill O'Reilly Think The Simpsons Are Real?
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I hate Riley and all, but darn is Elizabeth overthinking it. By stating that Fox is letting the characters run wild he obviously means the writers; he's ignorant, narrow-minded, and stubborn but he's not plain stupid and obviously doesn't believe that the cartoon characters are calling the shots.
Well, in defense of Fox, they are one of the few stations that would allow shows like The Simpson's to take jabs at them. Most stations would demand they remove the joke immediately before even thinking of letting the episode air.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary:_Impossible
For those that may have forgotten. I seem to be unable to find the clip of the ending of the episode. But yes, this is nothing new but it doesn't stop from being funny. Why? Because Fox News tends to be on one heck of a high horse. I like jabs on high horse corporations, people, or governments (including the United States).
For those that may have forgotten. I seem to be unable to find the clip of the ending of the episode. But yes, this is nothing new but it doesn't stop from being funny. Why? Because Fox News tends to be on one heck of a high horse. I like jabs on high horse corporations, people, or governments (including the United States).
Wow. The ridiculous amount of hate everyone is spewing is pretty funny. You treat Fox News like a super villain.
I thought so as well.Pyode said:
Bill, what are you doing? Why are you wasting time with this animated nonsense? Shouldn't you be gearing up for the annual War on Christmas(tm)? Those holiday ornaments [http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/20051201/fox_news_holiday_ornaments.jpg] aren't going to sell themselves!
Christmas! I meant Christmas ornaments!
Christmas! I meant Christmas ornaments!
This news article is not suited for this type of site and is a clearly misplaced jibe at a much-hated media network. I'm not a fanatic fan of Fox News, but this article is entirely nonsensical. A. This is a gaming site and this is totally out of context. B. It is heavily politically charged. C. The author is purposefully misinterpreting the words here.
You know what, I can make a sensationalist media article off of this one. My title will be; "Gaming Journalist Attempts to Diagnose Bill O'Reilly as Schizophrenic and Talking to Cartoons." Then I can publish it on a site about gardening.
You know what, I can make a sensationalist media article off of this one. My title will be; "Gaming Journalist Attempts to Diagnose Bill O'Reilly as Schizophrenic and Talking to Cartoons." Then I can publish it on a site about gardening.
I think O'Reilly is overreacting a little bit here, but not much. The video of that girl is blatant exploitation and I do think it's pretty fucked up that her parents would put her up to it (and you know they did, that video damn well wasn't the kids idea).direkiller said:
I don't think I would call it child abuse like O'Reilly does, but it's scarily close to it. Along the lines of Hollywood "stage moms" and WBC style religious fanatics.
Thank you. It's good to see at least one person on here who won't blindly jump on the "let's hate FOX" bandwagon.clicketycrack said:
There are a lot of reasons to have problems with FOX and O'Reilly, but this video is far from one of them.
Hang on there. Jokes about Fox are self-deprecating, and yes they've done that since the beginning. It's good for the show and the network, and can be pretty funny. (A personal favorite was the one where voice recognition software hears Homer say "what is this crap?" and looks up "Fox Broadcasting".)Monkfish Acc. said:
However, a couple years ago the show took a very bitter and substanceless downturn with ad-hominem attacks against Fox News, the network that doesn't show them. It's not self-deprecating because it says nothing about the Simpsons or the broadcasting thereof. It's a bunch of Liberal writers making substanceless attacks political opponents who are only tangentially related. There's a huge difference between "they show crap including us" and "they sure show crap on the channel without us."
And it's vague substanceless insults, not real humor or satire. "#1 with racists" isn't a joke. It's an
attack on people they don't like, which will resonate with other people who don't like them. The targeted reaction is not laughter, but "whoo! I hates them too!" I would much rather they specifically parody something O'Reilly says, a la Stephen Colbert, than throw out a vague but divisive insult and pretend it's humor. (And this is in no way unique to The Simpsons or the left, but they're the subject here.)
Now as for the phrasing ... c'mon, seriously? We're hearing a paraphrase of a snippet of a reference, and from that we're going to parse the words to consider the possibility that O'Reilly might not understand what animation is? If we're going to criticize him that's fine. But wouldn't we want to showcase intelligence and respectfulness when doing so?
Really? This is newsworthy? I expected better from Escapist articles than a vague "what he said *could* be construed as a little disparaging...." Even if it is everything this article hints at, that STILL doesn't make this newsworthy.
Fuck Fox, seriously. I'm tired of Fox being allowed to continue its reign of terror with its shitty programming and terrible news coverage. They pride themselves on their glass-box pundits who just sit in an empty room spouting their opinion without any fact-checking or real-time feedback. Their reporters and anchors still have an understanding of modern technology roughly equal to that of a time traveler from 1955 (great scott!) and either milk sympathy by pretending to be bullied and taken advantage of or just exaggerate the opinions of others so they seem insane or evil and respond only to the straw-man they set up.
They also have a terrible habit of stifling good ideas because they are simply not as marketable and don't appeal to the lowest common denominator. I'm talking about Firefly, Futurama, Arrested Development. Shows that had a devoted following and were critically acclaimed for being new and fresh ideas, but got canned by Fox execs due to terrible marketing decisions on their end of the deal. Canceling a show due to low ratings because you showed the episodes out of order, canceled half of them and put the rest in absolutely retarded time-slots is shitty business, and something which has done more harm to the medium than any censorship could.
But wait, there's more! Just take a look at their Sunday night animation line-up, which consists of a Simpsons, which died of old age 8 years ago and has since just been propped up in a chair as Fox cashes its social security checks, Family Guy, which is quite fine living off 80's nostalgia, fake controversy and serving as an outlet for McFarlane (or whoever is writing it these day, so maybe manatees) to express his political opinion through the liberal douche that is Brian, as well as the Cleveland Show and American Dad, which are various flavors of Family Guy that are supposed to be "edgier" but instead are even safer and more focused on issues that either were solved years ago or simply not very controversial.
They also have a terrible habit of stifling good ideas because they are simply not as marketable and don't appeal to the lowest common denominator. I'm talking about Firefly, Futurama, Arrested Development. Shows that had a devoted following and were critically acclaimed for being new and fresh ideas, but got canned by Fox execs due to terrible marketing decisions on their end of the deal. Canceling a show due to low ratings because you showed the episodes out of order, canceled half of them and put the rest in absolutely retarded time-slots is shitty business, and something which has done more harm to the medium than any censorship could.
But wait, there's more! Just take a look at their Sunday night animation line-up, which consists of a Simpsons, which died of old age 8 years ago and has since just been propped up in a chair as Fox cashes its social security checks, Family Guy, which is quite fine living off 80's nostalgia, fake controversy and serving as an outlet for McFarlane (or whoever is writing it these day, so maybe manatees) to express his political opinion through the liberal douche that is Brian, as well as the Cleveland Show and American Dad, which are various flavors of Family Guy that are supposed to be "edgier" but instead are even safer and more focused on issues that either were solved years ago or simply not very controversial.