Token conservatives on a liberal cartoon? Sounds like the Obama administration.
Limbaugh and Rove to take cameo roles in liberal favourite Family Guy.
… “Family Guy tends to be very liberal because it’s written by liberals, so we figured let’s give the other side some face time,” the show’s creator, Seth MacFarlane, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The Rove/Limbaugh episode will involver Brian, the cartoon’s staunchly left-wing dog, getting bored with having nothing to complain about now that Barack Obama is in the White House, and deciding to become a conservative. “Most of the show’s life has been under the Bush administration,” said MacFarlane. “But now that Obama has won, Brian is frustrated. He’s not happy unless he’s the underdog, so he switches parties and runs into Rush Limbaugh.”
… But MacFarlane says it is also a gamble for him with the programme’s four million weekly viewers. “I’m sure a lot of the reaction is going to be, ‘You monsters … you’ve got Karl Rove on your show!’” he said. “But we also take a lot of heat from a lot of right-wingers for the fact that we are so liberal, and so blatantly liberal, so we though ‘Let’s mix it up a bit’.” …
Full disclosure: Family Guy is one of my guilty pleasures.
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