Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove to appear in Family Guy

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Right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and Republican strategist Karl Rove to play themselves in Family Guy episode


American right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and former president George Bush's strategist Karl Rove are to play themselves in a forthcoming episode of Fox's animation Family Guy.

In the episode being produced for next season, Brian, the liberal dog of the cartoon's central family, the Griffins, gets bored and frustrated because he feels he no longer has anything to complain about with Barack Obama in the White House, so he becomes a Republican and starts listening to Limbaugh.

"Family Guy tends to be very liberal because it's written by liberals," creator Seth MacFarlane told US trade magazine the Hollywood Reporter.

"So we thought let's give the other side some face time. So we put it out there to a lot of Republicans - 'we're doing this show, who wants in?' - and we got some bites. I'm sure the reaction from some will be, 'you monsters, how could you have Karl Rove on your show?'"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/14/rush-limbaugh-karl-rove-family-guy

[YOY]

dupe

n/t

[YOY]

1. Limbaugh already did a snippet of the "Blue Harvest" (Star Wars) episode.

I'm sure Seth will turn it around and make things blow up in their faces.

[reflection]

3. I remember that.

Wasn't it something about Limbaugh ranting that Lando Calrissian getting named Administrator of Cloud City because he was black? :spray:

[YOY]

4. Yup. Funny as hell.

Maybe it's a point that the gasbag doesn't ACTUALLY believe everything he say. He just gets paid millions to say it.

His listeners do believe it. It would be funny if it weren't so damaging to us all and the American political compass as a whole.

That's why they're called 'rubes'.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Do you think Rush Limbaugh really believes that tough sentencing is the way to go....

....for people who have become addicted to drugs?

I don't think so.

As for them appearing on Family Guy, I might care if I still cared for the show. It was genius in its first couple of seasons before it was originally cancelled. Then it got brought back but MacFarland and company just got very lazy in their writing and it just hasn't been the same since.

[YOY]

8. I disagree but everyone has their own tastes.

n.t.

[johnnie]

2. I don't care what anyone says

That is still one of the best shows on the tube.

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6. They do not need any more face time....

unless they are getting ridiculed and called out for their bullshit.

[WilliamPitt]

7. Awesome.

:)