Bring Back The Goons!

My little-known evil twin Jed writes:

When Mitch and I were kids, our teachers used to tell us – threatening the President, even as a  joke, was a bad idea; the Secret Service was always watching for these things.  Our fourth grade teacher, Miss Walburn, told us the story about the kid who’d written a joking threat to President Nixon, and gotten a visit from the Secret Service.   

Last Sunday I watched Family Guy.  It was the episode where Stewie takes over the world, and Lois sets out to kill him.

The “climactic” scene is a battle between the two in the Oval Office.  In one scene, Lois, firing a Minigun a la Jesse Ventura in Predator, chases Stewie with a stream of bullets along a wall of presidential portraits, leaving a stream of bullet holes in the pics of the last seven or eight presidents, as the “camera” “pans” along.

Then the shot stops when we get to George W. Bush’s portrait, with two or three holes in it.  Lois stops, pauses, and fires a long burst that obliterates the portrait. 

Now, while I am second only to Mitch in my support for real freedom of speech, isn’t this sort of scene covered by some kind of law?  Couldn’t the Secret Service grab Seth McFarlane just for a little?  Maybe rough him up for a while?  Knock out a few teeth with a tire iron or something?

I mean, remembering the vapors the media got over even the most trivial “threat” against Clinton, and the conspiracy-mongering they do and the “climates of hate” they find – nothing?

Just a question for your readers, Mitch.

There’s a reason we call him my “evil twin”, of course. I don’t necessarily endorse everything Jed says. 

3 thoughts on “Bring Back The Goons!

  1. I’m all in favor of putting Seth McFarlane in indefinite custody, someplace far away.

    Open season on Bush? A climate of hate? I heard Mike Savage rip into him last night. Maybe he has been infected with BDS.

    The Patriot has been a hoot lately. I heard Medved comparing the President to Jimmy Carter. Wish I could have called in to share my observation that the only thing worse than being a lousy one-term president is being a lousy two-term president.

  2. Where is the anti-Coulter crowd who insists she’s been calling for the assassination of Dems and Tics for years?

    Anyone? Anyone?
    Peev? (He’s reading this right now!!!)
    AC?

  3. Of course you don’t endorse it, you just like it enough to re-post it here? He’s calling for the arrest of a guy for making a drawing of a painting being shot. If he’s second only to you in support of free speech rights, I fear for the country.

    Shooting a painting in a cartoon is nothing like calling for assassination. I don’t remember Coulter said, so I can’t comment on that. The Family Guy bit is a lot like a girl burning her ex-boyfriend’s pictures. Catharsis, perhaps.

    MacFarlane didn’t have the president shot on the show. He didn’t call for the president to be shot. It certainly doesn’t rise to the level of a congressman telling Bill Clinton he’d better not set foot in his state.

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