American Dad/CIAer Stan Smith: "Rigging elections is my bread and butter."

[smartvoter]

Don't know if anyone saw this, or it was posted here last night -- scanned & didn't spot it -- but the sneak peak episode of American Dad had this quote in it. He was rigging a school election for his son. There also was a hysterical scene with him creeping around at night with a gun after hearing a noise in his house at night, saying, "Osama is that you?"

Another real gem was a telephone call between Bush and God, wherein God tells Bush to keep the chats/comments to himself, followed by God breaking to talk to Cheney, answering, "Yes, sir?"

[burythehatchet]

1. I saw the premiere episode and something about it is very

fishy. I can't put my finger on it, but the story line seems to read like a liberal's wet dream. In fact, too much so, know what I mean?

[smartvoter]

2. Too "in your face?" nt

[fooj]

3. I know exactly what you mean! I laughed out loud more than a few times

Suddenly, it occurred to me that this was on the FOX NETWORK! Pretty strange! Was this our consolation prize? Who knows what those whack jobs are thinking...

[rox63]

6. Yeah but Fox is also home to the Simpsons

The longest-running subversive cartoon ever. :hippie:

[smartvoter]

9. Yeah. There's a difference between Fox and Fox News. Remember

when Fox News was threatening to sue the Simpsons over the spots portraying it as the network of evil?

[garybeck]

22. is there really a difference? or just a disconnect?

ultimately they all answer to the same media mogul, Murdoch or whoever.

I think when they put jokes in there about election fraud and such, it's just to rub it in our noses.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Who knows?

Maybe the only way to reach the brain dead 50% who actually vote for these criminals is through cartoons.

[Fly by night]

12. make that the 48% who voted that way. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

17. I agree..........................nt

[Old Mouse]

5. People believed less in government conspiracies

after the success of the X-Files then they did before.

I'm not saying it's on purpose, I'm just saying...

[Mojambo]

7. Interesting point

But the X-Files was drama not satire.

The cultural effect (if any) of American Dad will be quite different.

[burythehatchet]

13. I think you've put your finger on it.

The objective is to color the concerns of the left as so crazy by satirizing those concerns. Yep, that's it I think.

[AntiFascist]

23. Very interesting point....

but I think too many crazies are buying into the bullshit, which further "alienates" the conspiracy theorists. Why are Rockefellers funding (fake) UFO research? Have you seen some of the stuff floating around on the internet? It could make one think that the rapture is all about an intergalactic conspiracy.

[EC]

8. Maybe, it's their way of making fun OF us....n/t

[RunningFromCongress]

10. I doubt it...I think the writer/creator is just very liberal

[NationalEnquirer]

19. I think you got it.

Its their way of marginalizing us even more.
Gives more fuel to the "look at what that Liberal Entertainment Media is saying about us!" kind of folks.

[meganmonkey]

11. I couldn't stay up late enough to watch it.

Stupid Super Bowl (ducks)

[smartvoter]

30. LOL!!!

[zalinda]

14. It's going to be on again

on Cartoon Network.......Sunday and Thursday at 11:30 pm and also on Monday and Friday at 2:30 am

zalinda

[go west young man]

15. I havent seen it but my take on all creativity is this...

if its funny as hell, cool as shit, witty, colorful, fun, thought provaking and optimistic. It was made by a truly liberal minded person.
If it looks or sounds generic and self absorbed with no real feeling involved it came from the right.

Generalizations maybe, but hey we have all of Hollywoods coolest people and they have Nashvilles worst. Brad Pitt or Toby keith who would you want to hang out with?

[smartvoter]

16. I would definitely think it was made by liberals. Same people who did

Family Guy. Not exactly family viewing.

[darkism]

18. "Democratic party missing: feared dead"

On the newspaper in the intro when the freeper father is singing about how it's going to be a wonderful day and "preserve the American race."

What a riot! Obviously made by liberals. I love it!

[NationalEnquirer]

21. But its so over the top...

I wonder if it is really done by conservatives to make us look bad...

[smartvoter]

25. Cons can't laugh at themselves. I'd bet a pizza delivery it's by libs. nt

[vireo]

20. Haven't seen it yet but

My first thought was that perhaps wingnuts would identify with the title character and watch from that standpoint, just as many embraced Archie Bunker and laughed with him rather than at him. But then I went to the show's message board and saw this post:

"Being an American Soldier, I was totally turned off by the way you displayed our Commander in Chief and our higher Commander in Chief. It's too bad that you have to continue putting on low life, back alley shows that bring the morale and the morals of this great nation to a new low. Maybe one day your writers will get their heads out of their "fourth point of contact" and actually write a show that helps make this a better nation. Your show makes the Military, CIA, FBI, and all law enforcement look stupid, and you wonder why there is so much crime in the country. I hope this show hits rock bottom in a hurry......Totally dissapointed in staying up to see it..."
http://forums.prospero.com/foxamericandad/messages/?msg=446.1

Might be a put-on. Either way, pretty funny stuff; they might want to consider hiring this guy as a writer.

An aside: does anyone else recall reading after 9/11 that co-creator Seth Macfarlane had been booked on one of the hijacked planes that day?

[Helga Scow Stern]

24. Yes, he had been booked. He was saved by fate.

[smartvoter]

26. Followed the link and read the comments. The right wants the show axed

and is seriously wound up over it.

[Karenca]

27. OOOh!! They are PISSED!!!!!!...Read this..haha

highway__61: You should show some respect for the people that protect you AND your freedom to watch this kind of trash, scumbag. This show was made just for you!

and this:

I was totally turned off by the way you displayed our Commander in Chief and our higher Commander in Chief. It's too bad that you have to continue putting on low life, back alley shows that bring the morale and the morals of this great nation to a new low. Maybe one day your writers will get their heads out of their "fourth point of contact" and actually write a show that helps make this a better nation. Your show makes the Military, CIA, FBI, and all law enforcement look stupid, and you wonder why there is so much crime in the country

ha ha ha!!

[smartvoter]

29. Great stuff!!! nt

[Al-CIAda]

28. So says John Perkins too (CIA) author of 'Economic Hitman"

Audio-
Guest: John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
Fri., December 10, 2004
Deadline Live w/Jack Blood

mp3's-
pt1- Interview starts approx. half way through
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood1.mp3
pt2-CIA sequence of Empire (economics, assasinations, torture, vote rigging, etc.) Naming names...vote rigging!
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood2.mp3

Realplayer RAM-
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood.ram