Hugo Chavez Doesn't Like Family Guy

[Paregoric Kid]

It's Not True That Corrupt Presidents-For-Life Are the Only People Who Don't Like Family Guy, But...

Tim Cavanaugh (http://www.reason.com/contrib/hitandrun/131.html) | September 29, 2009, 7:25pm
...it is true that Hugo Chavez doesn't like The Family Guy. Charlie Devereux reports (http://www.globalpost.com/notebook/venezuela/090922/stewie-griffin-promotes-drug-use-the-us-government-says-venezuela):
Venezuelan state TV today broadcast an excerpt from "Family Guy" as an example of how the U.S. promotes drug use. The clip features Stewie, the matricide-obsessed infant son of Peter and Lois Griffin, singing a song extolling the virtues of smoking weed.
"We can observe how [the U.S. government] promotes and incites the population to consume that drug there," said Tarek El Aissaimi, Venezuela's Interior Minister. "There's no subliminal message. It's an animated cartoon where you can observe perfectly how they promote consumption and moreover they foster the legalization of marijuana."
Since I don't know what the bracketed "the U.S. government" replaces, I can't be sure El Aissaimi is accusing the government of promoting pot, but I can see how an outside observer -- particularly one whose own understanding of the concept of independent media is not strong (http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4700415,00.html) -- might get the impression that the broadcast networks take their orders directly from Uncle Sam. El Assaimi is reacting (http://en.mercopress.com/2009/07/22/venezuela-reacts-angrily-to-us-report-on-cocaine-smuggling-and-corruption) to a July 20 GAO report (http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-09-806) accusing Venezuela of opposing the United States in the global war on some drugs.
Full piece, with a clip of the musical number, here (http://www.globalpost.com/notebook/venezuela/090922/stewie-griffin-promotes-drug-use-the-us-government-says-venezuela).
Update: Thanks to commenter Jonas for correcting my Fox pas of giving Family Guy an article.

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

That dude needs to get a sense of humor. Family Guy is my favorite show!!!

[I-Nod]

Should we tell him its a cartoon?

[SHELLEY]

communists always have something to whine about
them and fucking nazis- waaaah waaaah waaaah

family guy is the ONLY cartoon that i have ever seen
that has managed to actually offend me on more than one occasion
and i do not offend easily!
so i have to give them props for raunchiness, creativity, and simply being fucking hilarious

[wisegal]

i cant watch cartoons. i think i just came out of the womb an adult. when i was a kid i was obsessively watching Madonna videos, not that Nickelodeon shit.

[clonaze-whammed]

Hugo Chavez isnt communist.
that quote is by his interior minister and not the president himself.
I agree that family guy can be fucking hilarious.
Bigtime kudos to Hugo Chavez for not conceding to the Bush regime on a plethora of political issues.

[SHELLEY]

Hugo Chavez isnt communist.


thank you for that quote
it is now the contender for "best internet lulz of all time"
although still second place to someone who said that
"food stamps aren't paid for by taxpayers, they are funded by the government"
LOL :D:D:D

[clonaze-whammed]

thank you for that quote
it is now the contender for "best internet lulz of all time"


I dont think so.
the government of Venezuela is a social democracy.
Granted that a lot of his rhetoric is socialist and resembles communist ideologies, but the fact remains, the government is democratic.

[nick]

I dont think so.
the government of Venezuela is a social democracy.
Granted that a lot of his rhetoric is socialist and resembles communist ideologies, but the fact remains, the government is democratic.

Oh man,anyone to the left of Attila the Hun is a communist in the U.S.


Oh and I'm with Hugo on this,hate family guy.

[SHELLEY]

I dont think so.
the government of Venezuela is a social democracy.
Granted that a lot of his rhetoric is socialist and resembles communist ideologies, but the fact remains, the government is democratic.

LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
heheheheheheh and the usa is a free-market democracy right? :D:D:D

[trainwrecker]

Any country or leader that is a victim of so much American propaganda must be on the right track.

[Dirt McGirt]

Any country or leader that is a victim of so much American propaganda must be on the right track.

^^Quite the leap. Chavez is a dictator (http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13145105) and a thug (http://worldpolicy.org/wordpress/2009/04/22/peter-wilson-chavezs-crackdown-makes-us-venezuelan-thaw-more-difficult/). Nothing more, nothing less.

But when you have that much oil, you can talk all sorts of shit. Just ask Ahmadinejad (http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/30/news/international/Iran_oil/?postversion=2009093007)

[SHELLEY]

Any country or leader that is a victim of so much American propaganda must be on the right track.

LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1oneoneon eone!!!!!!!

thank you guys for the larfs, i really needed that today :D:D:D:D:D

did you know that north korea is also a democracy?
the people love him, he got 99.9% of the vote in fact! wow!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/world/asia/09iht-north.1.20696199.html

[More Feen]

A year and 0.5 ago I had a trip to Russia (Moskva & Sanktpeterburg) and watching TV in the hotel room, there was a Russian politician condeming Family Guy: asking the Russian TV station(s) not to aire it.

I think it was because he was worried it would corrupt the youth of Russia with its lack of morality.

I've seen the english/american versions, and it is funny, but damn, some of the gags are just crude as anything I've ever seen/ heard of. Some literally took my breath away: I cannot fucking believe they went there!

" And now I play the waiting game...."

"I though if I shook him hard enough, he'd stop crying..., well, it kind of worked though."

How does shit like that get past US sensors?

FOx

M F

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

Anyone seen the new one Sunday?? Frickin Hilarious!:p

[SHELLEY]

Anyone seen the new one Sunday?? Frickin Hilarious!:p

damn there are new episodes now?
i missed it, does anyone know if its on on demand?
i know i could download shit on the computer, but i have a laptop on the floor
and hate watching movies/shows while sitting here by my internet port

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

damn there are new episodes now?
i missed it, does anyone know if its on on demand?
i know i could download shit on the computer, but i have a laptop on the floor
and hate watching movies/shows while sitting here by my internet port
Watch it here (http://www.hulu.com/watch/98264/family-guy-road-to-the-multiverse) Shelley ;)

[Paregoric Kid]

yeah and there is the new spinoff The Cleveland Show too. you can probably watch both on hulu right now.

[bigfootlives]

communists always have something to whine about
them and fucking nazis- waaaah waaaah waaaah



Hugo Chavez is socialist not communist. There are only a few true communist states in existence anymore

[clonaze-whammed]

Oh man,anyone to the left of Attila the Hun is a communist in the U.S.




thats what I cant understand nick.

Just because someone leans to the left and has socialist ideologies doesnt necessarily mean they're communist.

Chavez is a socialist, not a communist, and there is a difference between socialism and communism.

[SHELLEY]

okay fine i won't call him a communist
how about dictator and asshole? and whiner of course

[clonaze-whammed]

LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
heheheheheheh and the usa is a free-market democracy right? :D:D:D

I think Bill Hicks said it best Shelley:

"It's just a handful of people that run everything, and that's provable.... I have this feeling that whoever's elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what promises you make on the campaign trail - blah, blah, blah - when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialist, capitalist scumfucks that got you in there, and this little screen comes down... and it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before, which looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll.... And then the screen comes up, the lights come on, and they say to the new president, 'Any questions?'

"...Just what my agenda is."

[SHELLEY]

I think Bill Hicks said it best Shelley:

"It's just a handful of people that run everything, and that's provable.... I have this feeling that whoever's elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what promises you make on the campaign trail - blah, blah, blah - when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialist, capitalist scumfucks that got you in there, and this little screen comes down... and it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before, which looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll.... And then the screen comes up, the lights come on, and they say to the new president, 'Any questions?'

"...Just what my agenda is."

[Paregoric Kid]

Lenin used the term socialism to describe the transitional phase between capitalism and communism. it is essentially the road to communism. socialism doesn't work either, apparently we are damned to repeat the economic mistakes of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

[clonaze-whammed]

Lenin used the term socialism to describe the transitional phase between capitalism and communism. it is essentially the road to communism. socialism doesn't work either, apparently we are damned to repeat the economic mistakes of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

Yeah thats a fair point, but as long as the governement is democratically elected the full transition to communism wont occur.

[SHELLEY]

Yeah thats a fair point, but as long as the governement is democratically elected the full transition to communism wont occur.

did you miss this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/world/asia/09iht-north.1.20696199.html
kim jong il was voted in for another term, by his own people, in an election
and he got 99.9% of the vote too, i guess that makes him not a communist?

[DanCollins]

i wonder what happened to that .1 percent that didn't vote for him

[SHELLEY]

i wonder what happened to that .1 percent that didn't vote for him

i wonder what kind of dictator fudges his election results THAT much

[Paregoric Kid]

actually the DPRK is "officially" a socialist republic. I don't think any country has been able to make the transition into real communism because socialism just doesn't work. even the Soviet Union was constitutionally socialist even though the "communist" party was in charge, kind of like how the communist party is in charge of China's mixed market socialist state. its funny to think that even the Chinese communists have a free market wing of the party now, hilarious! the Soviet Union went under because they ran out of money and went bankrupt, that is the road the US is currently taking, bankruptcy.

[losangeleslifer]

Oh man,anyone to the left of Attila the Hun is a communist in the U.S.


Oh and I'm with Hugo on this,hate family guy.

Aw Nick you stick in the mud. You acting like an old bugger.

Loosen up mate.