It’s one thing for the reality-based community to cast aspersions on Fox News viewers; it’s another when the Republican network ridicules its own audience.
For those of you who can’t watch online video clips, I posted a quick transcipt after the jump.
This is Simpsons creator Matt Groening on The Daily Show. Referencing an episode in which the show mocked Fox News with a news crawl intended to ridicule the network’s partisanship, Groening explained:
“We’ve gotten in trouble for attack Fox. We had an episode in which we had Fox News — you know the little news crawl? And that was one of our favorite moments.
“‘Albert Einstein + Brad Pitt = Dick Cheney’ … ‘Rupert Murdoch: Terrific Dancer.
“We have been forbidden from doing that again, because the Fox viewer might confuse our cartoon with actual news.”
News Corp. said it; not me.