NEW YORK (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of "The Simpsons" over a parody of the channel's right-wing political stance, the creator of the hit US television show has claimed.
Wow, and I thought the "My god, I burned myself on hot coffee" lawsuit was bad. You've got to read this.
Posted by Mike at October 31, 2003 03:03 PM' "Now Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news," he [Groening] said." '
Jesus jumped-up Christ in a chickenbasket. I mean, I felt pretty safe in assuming FoxNews thought we were all stupid, but now I guess it's certain. Wow...can you imagine?
BessieMae: "Sally hon, I done heard on the sex box that them baby seals liked that oil up on 'em after all...from that guy I like, the yellow one that won the lottery that one time."
SallyJude: *Hic* Yeah Bess, too bad he only does the news between 6-7 M-F and at 8 on Sundays.
Or something.
Posted by: Chris at November 2, 2003 11:24 AM