Family Guy's Brian the talking dog

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cubby1223

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Originally posted by: Lemon law
If I were a conservative, I would rather watch the fantasy world of Fox rather connect the dots on the failures of GWB's conservative vision that laid a giant stinking turd.

And the new GOP vision is, more of GWB's stinking turd that caused the greatest economic disaster in world history.

You're a partisan idiot, for reasons that have already been discussed a thousand times on this board. The options are either (1) you're an idiot, or (2) you're trolling. Either way you are not worth any further of a response :D
 

Jschmuck2

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Originally posted by: Sacrilege
Isn't most media, artwork, and a lot of literature created by liberals? Why do you think Fox News gets such high ratings: because some conservatives watch that all day rather than fictional programming.

If conservatives don't like it, go out there and create/write something.

Why is that, do you suppose?
 

feralkid

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Originally posted by: eleison
I use to watch Family guy. Ever since they equated the GOP with Nazism, not any more. Another TV show that gets on my nerves is the Simpsons. I actually own seasons 1-7 on DVD. But as the years went by, I noticed the commentary being more skewed towards the left. I stopped buying. Now a days, if I happen to catch it on tv, fine. However, I don't really look for it anymore and I definitely don't buy the DVD's. That being said, compared to family guy, the simpsons is foxnews.. hahaha..





It took you that long to figure it out?

Woah, daddy.....:roll:

 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: eleison
I use to watch Family guy. Ever since they equated the GOP with Nazism, not any more. Another TV show that gets on my nerves is the Simpsons. I actually own seasons 1-7 on DVD. But as the years went by, I noticed the commentary being more skewed towards the left. I stopped buying. Now a days, if I happen to catch it on tv, fine. However, I don't really look for it anymore and I definitely don't buy the DVD's. That being said, compared to family guy, the simpsons is foxnews.. hahaha..

Are you sure you haven't just become more right wing over the years, and that's why you didn't notice the commentary before (or it didn't bother you)? I've been watching The Simpsons the entire time it's been on, ever since I was a kid, and I noticed it back then.
 

fallout man

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Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
Originally posted by: fallout man
Originally posted by: Unmoosical
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Goog Gog, how do you people go through life seeing everything as Liberal or Conservative. It's a fucking cartoon.

:thumbsup:

HAHAHAHAHAHA... HA!

A few days ago, I was reading the comment section of yet another news story detailing how the "librul media" was "projecting bias" unto the "helpless American people." One of the folks made a comment about how the dog from Family Guy is a liberal media shill.

At that moment, I though to myself that such a comment sounds like an insane wingnut talking point, and set a virtual timer until I saw it pop up on P&N.

Congratulations! You're bat-shit-crazy!

Yo, fuckwrech: read the whole thread and then go here:http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=52&threadid=2295065

Yo, tainstain: I see what you did there. As I said in my post, I fully expected this topic to come up one way, or another.
 

Lemon law

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For what it is worth, those highly creative artistic types, with rare exceptions, tend to be liberal in their political outlook. So when we deal with exactly those creative types who staff the Simpsons and Family Guy, the dialog thus tends to be Liberal in outlook.

Leaving the Fox Network, whose owners tend toward a more conservative bias with a dilemma, muzzle the creative, or lose viewers.

Maybe what Fox has failed to do is find equally creative conservative programmers who can attract anything like that number of viewers. And since commercial revenue, which is in turn is set by the market share of actual viewers, which then drives per minute advertising rates, it also then it also becomes a what makes Fox network make the most money question? And we can see where Fox is on the issue as they continue to field Family Guy and the Simpsons, both big money makers.

Its more of a simple human nature type of thing.
 

fallout man

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Originally posted by: Lemon law
For what it is worth, those highly creative artistic types, with rare exceptions, tend to be liberal in their political outlook. So when we deal with exactly those creative types who staff the Simpsons and Family Guy, the dialog thus tends to be Liberal in outlook.

Leaving the Fox Network, whose owners tend toward a more conservative bias with a dilemma, muzzle the creative, or lose viewers.

Maybe what Fox has failed to do is find equally creative conservative programmers who can attract anything like that number of viewers. And since commercial revenue, which is in turn is set by the market share of actual viewers, which then drives per minute advertising rates, it also then it also becomes a what makes Fox network make the most money question? And we can see where Fox is on the issue as they continue to field Family Guy and the Simpsons, both big money makers.

Its more of a simple human nature type of thing.

Doesn't "American Dad" count? Oh wait...
 

Jschmuck2

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Originally posted by: Lemon law
For what it is worth, those highly creative artistic types, with rare exceptions, tend to be liberal in their political outlook. So when we deal with exactly those creative types who staff the Simpsons and Family Guy, the dialog thus tends to be Liberal in outlook.

Leaving the Fox Network, whose owners tend toward a more conservative bias with a dilemma, muzzle the creative, or lose viewers.

Maybe what Fox has failed to do is find equally creative conservative programmers who can attract anything like that number of viewers. And since commercial revenue, which is in turn is set by the market share of actual viewers, which then drives per minute advertising rates, it also then it also becomes a what makes Fox network make the most money question? And we can see where Fox is on the issue as they continue to field Family Guy and the Simpsons, both big money makers.

Its more of a simple human nature type of thing.

Why do you think that is?
 

Jschmuck2

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Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
Originally posted by: Lemon law
For what it is worth, those highly creative artistic types, with rare exceptions, tend to be liberal in their political outlook. So when we deal with exactly those creative types who staff the Simpsons and Family Guy, the dialog thus tends to be Liberal in outlook.

Leaving the Fox Network, whose owners tend toward a more conservative bias with a dilemma, muzzle the creative, or lose viewers.

Maybe what Fox has failed to do is find equally creative conservative programmers who can attract anything like that number of viewers. And since commercial revenue, which is in turn is set by the market share of actual viewers, which then drives per minute advertising rates, it also then it also becomes a what makes Fox network make the most money question? And we can see where Fox is on the issue as they continue to field Family Guy and the Simpsons, both big money makers.

Its more of a simple human nature type of thing.

Why do you think that is?

 

trooper11

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Yeah its obvious that there are times when you see bias on the liberal side and on the conservative side, but Ive gotten to the point of just trying to tune it all out and glean whatever enjoyment I can from the media I watch.

Family Guy has its moments of political fancy, where they decide to base the whole show around it, which just isnt as entertaining as the episodes where it might be lightly sprinkled throughout the episode. But there have been episodes that you might say lean left and those that you might say lean right (Brian getting in some kind of trouble for some radical idea he has), so its pretty even I guess.

Besides, for the most part, they avoid over doing the politcal stuff and just stick to the comedy, so I continue to watch. When Family Guy is on a roll, it can be hilarious.