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Sunday, November 02, 2003

because you can't make an ass of your organization often enough 

Posted by Nick : 6:37 PM

Matt Groening told NPR this week that Fox News Channel threatened to sue The Simpsons over a faux-news crawl found in an episode of The Simpsons where Krusty the Clow ran for office:
According to Groening, Fox took exception took a Simpsons' version of the Fox News rolling news ticker which parodied the channel's anti-Democrat stance, with headlines like "Do Democrats Cause Cancer?"

"Fox fought against it and said they would sue the show," Groening said.

"We called their bluff because we didn't think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. So, we got away with it."

Other satirical Fox news bulletins featured in the show included: "Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party... Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple..."

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