I've alway felt this guy was full of it, now I am positive. See the video at the link below.
Conservative blogger and screenwriter
Bill Whittle called out the show
Family Guy as a symptom of America’s decadent liberalism, and said that conservatives needed to regain the power of narrative in order to win elections.
At the RightOnline Conference in Orlando this weekend, Whittle charted the decline of American muscular values through the history of television.
“Any audience of people that grew up with classical Superman automatically love this country, because Superman is about the best America we can be,” he said. “When Superman was all over the pop culture, we were a nation that loved this country. Now, twenty years after the peak of Superman‘s popularity, along comes
Gilligan’s Island. That’s pretty neutral in terms of politics. Really about the only message you can get from
Gilligan’s Island is if you want to get off the island all you have to do is kill Gilligan.”*
“But if you’re a young person out there today and you can finish the theme song from
Family Guy, then all the anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, anti-morality messages of
Family Guy are in your head as completely and thoroughly as that theme song is,” Whittle said.
He argued that conservative electoral success was tied to the ability to successfully weave narratives around conservative beliefs. “You’re programmed by the pop culture, you’re programed by story,” he said. “It’s all about stories, and if we’re the villain in all of the stories that are told we’re never going to win another election again.”
Bill Whittle: 'Family Guy' Programming Youth Against GOP | Mediaite
You mean the immigrated alien from outer space is the best America can be? Selfless, , brave, courageous, not religious, mild mannered, dislikes guns and weapons, not interested in capitalism, does not kill and frowns upon the practice of killing, etc. etc. etc.
A lot of what Superman stands for can also be found in the US but IMHO Superman is more the ultimate perfect personification of what humans aspire to be rather than "the best of what people are actually like", American or otherwise.
family guy is a comedy series in which a big fat violent moron does all kinds of things normal people would never do, he is an extreme version of "some Americans" are. Every character in Family guy is extreme, whether it is the extremely religious father of Peter, the extremely capitalist father of Lois, the extremely oversexed Quagmire, the extremely docile mother of Lois, the mass murdering brother of Lois, the extremely man-mad sister of Lois, Chris Griffin is an extremely fat and awkward kid, Meg is a cutter, food-issue having, girl who is struggling with her sexuality etc. Stewie is somewhat of a born metrosexual mostly who sometimes likes girls but who has a incredibly gay relation with his teddy bear. Brian is the prototypical liberal who talks a lot of liberal points of views but who fails to uphold those liberal values time and time again.
All kinds of political and religious views are found in family guy, liberal, conservative, catholic, jewish, black, white, hispanic, asian, gays, etc. etc.
All kinds of social issues are paraded through the episodes but mostly it is just mindless comedy, mostly in bad taste but it seems to connect with a lot of people but to claim it targets one religion more than the other is untrue, Family Guy is a indiscriminate discriminator to all and everyone.
