<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Chloë Grace Moretz</a> is still not over being the subject of a meme, claiming the experience has had lasting impacts on her mental health and even her Hollywood career.
The 25-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">actress</a> addressed the joke once again while speaking with <a href="https://www.etonline.com/chloe-grace-moretz-on-what-she-hopes-fans-took-away-from-her-addressing-family-guy-meme-exclusive">Entertainment Tonight</a> during a red-carpet appearance this week. 
“I think the big thing is that compassion is a really key thing in humanity and just being kind with the words that you say with one another, the things you say online,” she said at the premiere of her Amazon sci-fi series “The Peripheral.”
“I think compassion is key and I hope that the world can have a little bit more of that.”
Moretz is still affected by a photoshopped image of her that went viral. It shows the actress wearing shorts and carrying a pizza, but someone altered the original to shorten Moretz’s torso and lengthen her legs. This drew comparisons to a “Family Guy” character named Legs Go All The Way Up Griffin from the episode “Amish Guy.” 
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Chloë Grace Moretz: I suffered body dysmorphia after &#39;Family Guy&#39; meme <a href="https://t.co/R2C5p1nPrC">https://t.co/R2C5p1nPrC</a> <a href="https://t.co/4y2ouM2L72">pic.twitter.com/4y2ouM2L72</a>
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The “Kick Ass” star previously revealed how the meme emotionally scarred her during an <a href="https://www.hungertv.com/editorial/chloe-grace-moretz-on-fame-and-social-media-i-basically-became-a-recluse/">interview</a> with Hunger magazine in September.
“I’ve actually never really talked about this, but there was one meme that really affected me, of me walking into a hotel with a pizza box in my hand. And this photo got manipulated into a character from Family Guy with the long legs and the short torso, and it was one of the most widespread memes at the time,” she recalled.
“Everyone was making fun of my body and I brought it up with someone and they were like, ‘Oh, shut the f*** up, it’s funny.’ And I just remember sitting there and thinking, my body is being used as a joke and it’s something that I can’t change about who I am, and it is being posted all over Instagram.”
Moretz said that even now, seeing the meme is “very hard for me to overcome” and that she “became a recluse” and had anxiety over getting photographed after that happened.

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NASCAR has ordered driver Denny Hamlin to attend sensitivity training after the driver posted a video to Twitter. 
In a now-deleted tweet, Hamlin posted a “Family Guy” clip, which depicts an Asian woman cutting across multiple lanes without putting on her turn signal. According to <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nascar/news/nascar-mandates-denny-hamlin-take-sensitivity-training-over-racially-insensitive-tweet-about-kyle-larson/">CBS Sports</a>, the tweet was intended to make fun of NASCAR driver Kyle Larson, who caused a crash at last weekend&#8217;s race at Talladega Speedway. 
Larson, who is half-Japanese, caused Kurt Busch and Bubba Wallace to crash at the end of the race after attempting to pass the race leader on the final lap. Busch and Wallace both race for 23XI, which is co-owned by Hamlin. 
Hamlin deleted the initial tweet and apologized on Monday. 
“I took down a post I made earlier today after reading some of the comments,” Hamlin said. “It was a poor choice of memes and I saw how it was offensive. It came across totally wrong. I apologize.”
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I took down a post I made earlier today after reading some of the comments. It was a poor choice of memes and I saw how it was offensive. It came across totally wrong. I apologize.
&mdash; Denny Hamlin (@dennyhamlin) <a href="https://twitter.com/dennyhamlin/status/1518799403968090112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday, NASCAR <a href="https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2022/04/26/cup-series-2022-denny-hamlin-sensitivity-training/">announced</a> that Hamlin must begin his sensitivity training by the end of the week. NASCAR’s rulebook prohibits posts such as Hamlin’s on Monday. 
“NASCAR members shall not make or cause to be made a public statement and/or communication that criticizes, ridicules, or otherwise disparages another person based upon that person’s race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, or handicapping situation,” NASCAR <a href="https://twitter.com/bobpockrass/status/1519025343855841282?s=20&amp;t=HXn1SEvTh6_zElDduRcl3g">states</a> in its rulebook.  
Last November, NASCAR driver Kyle Busch was required to attend sensitivity training after using the R-word in a post race interview. 
At a November NASCAR Cup playoff race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia, Busch was bumped by Brad Keselowski, angering Busch in his post-race interview. 
“Well, he drills my a** coming out of [turn] four for no reason,” Busch <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nascar-driver-kyle-busch-to-attend-sensitivity-training-after-using-r-word-in-interview">said</a> after the race. “I mean, where was he going? What was he going to do? Spin me out? He was trying to do a [Kevin] Harvick is what he was trying to do. For what? For second place? To do what? He wasn’t going to transfer through with that. It’s freaking r*******, man. So stupid. I don’t understand these guys. I should beat the s*** out of him right now is what I should do. But that doesn’t do me any good either.” 
Busch apologized for his choice of words, and was required by NASCAR to attend sensitivity training prior to the start of the 2022 season. 
“NASCAR officials will require Kyle Busch to take sensitivity training before the start of the 2022 season following offensive comments made after Sunday’s Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway,” NASCAR <a href="https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2021/11/01/nascar-requires-kyle-busch-to-take-sensitivity-training/">said</a> in a statement. “The two-time series champion used a term that disparages those with intellectual disabilities when describing an <a href="https://www.nascar.com/video/franchise/nascar-cup-race-recap/race-rewind-bowman-bests-the-field-secures-grandfather-clock-at-martinsville/">on-track incident</a> with Brad Keselowski. Both drivers were eliminated from title contention ahead of the Phoenix Raceway finale.”
Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.

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Don Rickles dodged being “canceled” in his golden years. Pop culture “grandfathered” in the insult comic’s shtick before his 2017 death at 90, something today’s take-no-prisoners woke mob might not allow.
Is something similar happening to Seth MacFarlane? The multi-talented creator of FOX’s “Family Guy” tells jokes on that show that would get other comics busted, if not officially “canceled.”
Yes, “Family Guy” vowed to <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/family-guy-gay-jokes-peter-griffin-seth-macfarlane-a9170261.html">retire telling “gay jokes”</a> last year before a quick backpedal, but the program still traffics in yuks now deemed unacceptable. 
One recent episode ranked actress Carey Mulligan’s looks as a “5” out of “10.” She’s the star of the new film “Promising Young Woman,” an uber-feminist screed against the patriarchy.
Who risks inviting the PC mob to bang on their door like that? “Family Guy,” that’s who.
Here’s a necessarily incomplete list of other “Family Guy” bits, some dating back more than a decade, that could spark a sudden “cancellation.” 
“Scammed Yankees” 
Brian the dog develops a crush on Meg’s teen gal-pal, noting her ample curves in the process. Bestiality AND age-inappropriate attraction, all in a single episode.
&#8220;Peter Griffin: Husband, Father&#8230; Brother?&#8221;
The story finds the Griffins discovering their black roots, a theme that feeds several absurdist detours. Peter hears son Chris talking “street,” and then tries to exorcise the demons out of him.
Later, Peter demands reparations for his family’s historic struggles.
The episode ends with Peter’s sexually obsessed friend, Quagmire, finding a beautiful cheerleader bound, gagged and vulnerable to his appetites.
“Dear Diary: Jackpot!” he writes of the discovery.
“Tiegs For Two&#8221; 
Peter recalls meeting “Back to the Future” star Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, at a wine-tasting event. That explains the red stain on Peter’s shirt, caused by the actor’s chronic hand tremors. Peter breaks character to acknowledge the joke’s poor taste, but it doesn’t stop “Family Guy” from sharing it.
“No Meals on Wheels”
This blisteringly anti-PC episode, from season 5, features Peter trying to repel Mort, who is Jewish, with a “Scare-Jew” built from an Adolf Hitler dummy.
Later, Peter starts his own restaurant and bans customers with wheelchairs, including his buddy Joe, on aesthetic grounds. 
The restaurant’s “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Legs, No Service” policy leads to a farcical battle sequence. Peter breaks a leg in the melee and must use a wheelchair while the injury heals. That gives him a new perspective on how disabled people live their lives.
“When You Wish Upon a Weinstein”
No, not that Weinstein. This button-stomping episode traffics in the hoariest Jewish stereotypes possible. Consider Peter’s big number, “I Need a Jew,” with lines like:
“Lois makes me take the wrap ‘cause our check book looks like crap. And since I can’t give her a slap, I need a Jew.” 
And:
“Where to find a Steen or Stein to teach me how to whine and do my taxes on time.”
Team FOX worried the episode had gone too far, but MacFarlane reportedly battled behind the scenes to get it on the air. He won.
“The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire”
MacFarlane once again tempted fate, and angry protests, with a song dubbed “You Have AIDS” sung in barbershop quartet style.
Peter: I hate to tell you, boy, that you have AIDS
Group: You&#8217;ve got the AIDS
Peter: You may have caught it when you stuck that filthy needle in here
Group: Or maybe all that unprotected sex put you here
“Baby Got Black”
A typical sitcom might exploit a white character’s racism. Here, it’s a black character, Jerome, who harbors racist feelings toward a white character — clueless Chris Griffin.
Chris wants to date Jerome’s daughter, Pam, but the father steadfastly refuses. Peter breaks into a song about white people’s accomplishments to coax Jerome to change his mind.
It doesn’t work.
In between, Peter congratulates Pam for not being overweight and Jerome gets hassled by the police for, well, being black.
It’s a hodgepodge of racial humor and progressive messaging, all in under 25 minutes.
Herbert the Pervert
Everything this character says, or does, is wildly inappropriate. He’s an unabashed pedophile who lusts after under-18 characters on the show, like Chris. Enough said.
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This list only scratches the long-running show’s irreverent surface. The sitcom also mocks famous people in ways that would never fly in a conventional series. Consider how the show repeatedly fat shames veteran actor John Goodman, one of the less toxic examples.
So how does MacFarlane get away with it? To find the answers, it helps to understand “cancel culture.”
The current woke rules change on the fly, and that’s by design. The mob comes for people at select times and for select purposes. 
When Jimmy Fallon’s old blackface impression of Chris Rock “surfaced,” he had to make a full-bodied apology. Meanwhile, fellow late-night host, and serial blackface artist, Jimmy Kimmel, [mostly] got a pass.
Why?
Fallon is the least political late-night host on broadcast TV, and the woke mob couldn’t stand for that. So by forcing his apology it convinced him to sound more like, well, Kimmel. <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jimmy-fallons-re-education-trump/">Mission accomplished.</a>
It also helps “Family Guy” that outrage is part of its comic DNA from day one. Shows like “South Park” and “Tosh.0” similarly get a pass for being consistently rude and crude. The FOX show’s kiddie-level animation softens the satirical blows.
Most importantly, MacFarlane constantly signals the mob that he’s on its side. “Family Guy” routinely attacks Christianity, the GOP and, most of all, President Donald Trump.
One “Family Guy” installment, “Trump’s Guy,” found the <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2019/01/13/family-guy-producers-trump-episode/">President grabbing teen daughter Meg</a> by the you-know-what, among other gross behaviors. That gives MacFarlane enough wiggle room to tell jokes no longer allowed by the PC Police. 
“Family Guy” is offensive to its core. That’s its mission statement. Once upon a time, viewers could recognize that and either tune in or tune out.
Their call.
Self determination is in short supply these days, one of many reasons we rarely see comedy blockbusters at the cineplex (or home streaming). 
Love or hate “Family Guy,” the show refuses to follow the new comedy bylaws.
That doesn’t mean MacFarlane is off the hook. Author J.K. Rowling was part of the progressive protected class before she disagreed with part of the transgender community playbook. Cancel culture attacked her with a vengeance, including a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-urges-big-tech-to-censor-conservative-celebrities">shocking assault from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar</a> in The Hollywood Reporter.
Should MacFarlane ever say something kind about President Trump, the GOP or a conservative icon, the woke mob might “resurface” past “Family Guy” episodes.
At that point MacFarlane’s luck may finally run out.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Fox&#8217;s &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; took a surprising turn this Christmas by mocking gender ideology and political correctness in general.
According to <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/elise-ehrhard/2020/12/13/family-guy-mocks-woke-gender-ideology-wacky-politically">Newsbusters</a>, the episode that aired this past Sunday featured the Griffin family setting up Christmas decorations wherein Peter unveils a gender-neutral crèche. Transcript:
<blockquote>Peter: All right, time to put up the 2020 Christmas decorations. First, ethnically-accurate Jesus goes right here next to Father Mary and Mother Josephine, followed closely by the three genderless Wise People on their Bird Scooters, Tig Notaro for some reason, and of course, the Little Drummer Them. Because God forbid we call a boy a boy.
Chris: Dad, what are you saying&#8230;?
Peter: I don&#8217;t like what the world is! I&#8217;m white! When&#8217;s it gonna be our turn?!</blockquote>
&#8220;Family Guy&#8221; has previously mocked the excesses of gender ideology to the point that <a href="https://www.out.com/television/2019/10/07/family-guy-still-just-transphobic-ever">Out Magazine</a> deemed them &#8220;transphobic.&#8221;
&#8220;Family Guy once again reminded all of us how tired and outdated its sense of humor is by making some extremely lazy jokes about trans people in its most recent episode. During the October 6 installment, &#8216;Bri-Da,&#8217; Quagmire’s trans mother, Ida, who has previously been the butt of many transmisogynistic and transphobic &#8216;jokes,&#8217; came back to the show, and unfortunately absolutely nothing has changed,&#8221; the outlet wrote. 
&#8220;Even for someone who has complained about the show’s violently transphobic history, I had forgotten until this week how bad Family Guy can be. What’s particularly disappointing, however, is that the show vowed to change,&#8221; it continued. &#8220;Earlier this year, Family Guy executive producers Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin said the longrunning comedy — which is now in its 17th (!!!) season — was going to be <a style="font-weight: 400;" href="https://tvline.com/2019/01/13/family-guy-season-17-donald-trump-fight-explained-interview/">&#8216;phasing out&#8217; gay jokes</a>. That admission was followed by a February episode in which Peter has a heart-to-heart with Ida, which suggested the show was making good on its promise to be more LGBTQ+ inclusive.&#8221;
The show &#8220;South Park&#8221;<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/south-park-mocks-trans-athletes-1254732"> generated similar controversy last year</a> when it mocked the concept of biological males competing in women&#8217;s sports when the character Strong Woman went up against Heather Swanson, who looked uncannily similar to the late wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage and who identified as a female just &#8220;two weeks ago.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not here to talk about my transition, I&#8217;m here to kick some f***ing a**,&#8221; said Heather Swanson in an undeniably masculine voice.
The episode prompted some serious backlash from transgender activists, including Rachel McKinnon, a transgender world track cycling <a href="https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/rachel-mckinnon-becomes-first-transgender-woman-win-track-world-title-397473" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">champion</a>, who denounced both &#8220;South Park&#8221; creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker as transphobic.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not particularly mad about the South Park episode,&#8221; McKinnon said on <a href="https://twitter.com/rachelvmckinnon/status/1195053420249518080" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a>. &#8220;Yes it&#8217;s transphobic. Yes it&#8217;s lazy. Yes it contributes to harm to trans women and girls. But they&#8217;re lazy and increasingly irrelevant. F***, &#8216;Futurama&#8217; made the same stupid storyline in 2003. Transphobes don&#8217;t have new jokes.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;South Park&#8217; has been deeply transphobic the *entire time.* This isn&#8217;t their first explicitly transphobic storyline,&#8221; continued McKinnon. &#8220;It won&#8217;t be their last. Stone and Parker are transphobes. Write them off. Ignore their lazy show.&#8221;

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As the television season wraps up, it seems that Satan is having a bad year on Fox. The still-Rupert Murdoch-owned network canceled not only its devil drama &#8220;Lucifer&#8221; but also &#8220;The Exorcist,&#8221; which &#8220;blessed&#8221; us with anti-religious plots about sexually active gay and straight priests and mercy-killing nuns. It even waved goodbye to the sitcom &#8220;The Mick,&#8221; which routinely mocked religion as something only naive grade schoolers believe until they grow up to be &#8220;smart and progressive.&#8221;
Is Fox going soft? Rest easy, atheists. For people who want to ridicule God and those crazy believers, there is still Seth MacFarlane and &#8220;Family Guy,&#8221; which has been renewed for season 17. May 20 was Pentecost, the day Christians celebrate the Holy Spirit descending on the Apostles, and Fox was kicking the usual &#8220;comedic&#8221; dirt at the faithful.
In the episode, Peter Griffin, the title character, lapses into a coma and believes he&#8217;s stuck in an elevator with God. God says He&#8217;s incapable of getting out of the elevator. Later it turns out He is trying to decide whether Peter is going to heaven or hell. (MacFarlane&#8217;s God conveniently proclaims to Peter that atheists don&#8217;t go to hell but somehow the netherworld&#8217;s deepest torments are saved for people who say they are spiritual but not religious.)
When Peter asks God why He isn&#8217;t in Heaven, God uses the PR-speak of a Hollywood sexual abuser: &#8220;There was an issue. Uh, a few angels came forward. I don&#8217;t remember things exactly as they do, but I respect their experience.&#8221;
When God tells Peter he&#8217;s an &#8220;inattentive husband and a terrible parent,&#8221; Peter retorts, &#8220;Oh, says father of the year!&#8221; Responding to the reference of a somehow cruel God sacrificing Jesus for the forgiveness of sinners, God says: &#8220;Oh, please. He played that for all it was worth. &#8216;Why has Thou forsaken me?&#8217; &#8230; I did Him a favor.&#8221;
At the end of the episode, God tells Peter that he succeeded because he uttered, &#8220;You were right about everything.&#8221; God then explains: &#8220;That&#8217;s what religion is. It&#8217;s not about being good or bad. It&#8217;s just blind subservience to an imaginary being.&#8221;
Count on Hollywood for a snarky, self-satisfied, secular sermon served in a Sunday-night cartoon.
An hour earlier, a milder mockery of religion showed up on &#8220;The Simpsons,&#8221; which has been renewed for season 30. In this story, young Bart Simpson is in a coma after being struck by lightning and is seeing ghosts. In his dream, his annoying and nerdy friend Milhouse finds him in a dark room surrounded by crosses and lit devotional candles. He asks: &#8220;What&#8217;s going on, Bart? Are you into God now? I always was.&#8221; He then holds up a crucifix and says of Jesus: &#8220;Look at those abs. The secret is less loaves, more fishes!&#8221; Bart replies, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in some dopey religion. This is to keep out ghosts.&#8221;
At the end of the episode, after recovering from his coma and somehow possessing new psychic powers, Bart foretells to Lisa how everyone they know will die. Sitting in a Buddhist cross-legged pose, Lisa utters her last words: &#8220;Oh, my God! Now I realize, this has all been a waste of time.&#8221;
That might be an apt summary of a life spent watching too many hours of Fox cartoons.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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&#8220;Family Guy&#8221; and its creator, Seth MacFarlane, have made no effort to hide that they aren&#8217;t fans of the political right. But in last week&#8217;s episode, MacFarlane and the &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; writers took a break from suggesting Republicans are Nazis to pick on a new target: outraged internet leftists.
And they did it &#8212; in the words of radio host Steven Crowder &#8212; brilliantly.
The episode begins with the show&#8217;s resident human-slash-dog, Brian, making a joke about Kevin Hart on Twitter that, inadvertently, sets off a firestorm across the social media platform, with outraged leftists calling for Brian&#8217;s head over what they believe is his abject racism.
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&#8220;About to see the new Kevin Hart movie. Just kidding. I&#8217;m white and went to college. #BaywatchMovie&#8221;
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Soon, an angry crowd shows up at the family&#8217;s door demanding that Brian&#8217;s life be destroyed for what he thought was merely an off-color joke. He tries to call them off by claiming he&#8217;s a bona fide progressive (&#8220;I&#8217;m so far left, I&#8217;m spinning in circles!&#8221;) but the crowd refuses to believe him &#8212; that is, when he can get the words out. He has to try several times before he manages to find an opening for his statement that fails to earn him more scorn from feminists, transgender individuals and &#8220;human basketballs.&#8221;
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Not content with lambasting progressives once, &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; even took a second shot at the outraged mob (content warning for this one).
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Eventually the whole family finds themselves taking on the internet and winning.
If &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; is now making fun of progressives, then it may, in fact, mean that politically correct, perpetual outrage culture has finally outlived its usefulness.

Family Guys ROASTS Internet Leftists With ‘Twitter Outrage’ Episode

Family Guy&#8216;s ad submission to the 2017 Emmy Awards is stirring unnecessary controversy. The mailer features Peter Griffin as Kellyanne Conway dressed in her infamous inauguration outfit. The caption reads: &#8220;Alternative Fact: We Are The Smartest Comedy On Television.&#8221;
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Family Guy&#8217;s Peter Griffin transforms into Kellyanne Conway in new ad <a href="https://t.co/in4VywwkpX">https://t.co/in4VywwkpX</a> <a href="https://t.co/QbMwmodtgu">pic.twitter.com/QbMwmodtgu</a>
&#8212; The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/862921798408687616">May 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
Family Guy&#8216;s Emmy mailers are almost always controversial. In 2015, the promotion featured <a href="http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/11/family-guy-mocks-kellyanne-conway-emmy/">Peter as Donald Trump</a>. The caption read: &#8220;As long as we&#8217;re voting for dumb loudmouths, can I get an Emmy?&#8221;
In 2012, the mailer has Peter <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/family-guy-emmy-joke-seth-macfarlane-330496">saying</a>: &#8220;Come on, you bloated, overprivileged Brentwood Jews. Let us into your little club.&#8221;
In 2009, the comedy mocked leftist Hollywood sensibilities by having Peter dressed as the title character from the film Precious. The caption <a href="http://deadline.com/2010/05/emmys-family-guy-takes-on-precious-43787/">read</a>: &#8220;Vote For Us Or You&#8217;re Racist.&#8221;
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Side-by-side Family Guy Emmy ad versus Precious poster: <a href="https://t.co/Hsov5duJes">pic.twitter.com/Hsov5duJes</a>
&#8212; Frank Camp (@FrankDCamp) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrankDCamp/status/863139662818357248">May 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
Not unexpectedly, critics and supporters flooded social media:
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Multiple things can be true at once:
Family Guy is a left-leaning show created by Seth MacFarlane, a vocal progressive. While the writers of the show will at times attack progressive ideology &#8212; as they did with their Emmy ad aimed at Precious &#8212; their primary target will always be conservatives, or anything not progressive.
Not every attack on a woman&#8217;s appearance or choice of clothing is sexist. Sexism is not only determined by behavior, but by the intent &#8212; conscious or subconscious &#8212; lurking behind behavior. People can indeed be unintentionally sexist, but to tag someone with that label based on such little evidence is risky.
If the writers who came up with the Emmy mailer are targeting Conway because they see her as &#8220;lesser&#8221; due to her sex, that is sexism. If they believe &#8212; consciously or subconsciously &#8212; that she would be an easier target because she&#8217;s a woman, that is sexist. However, if they are simply mocking her as they would mock any other individual, that&#8217;s not sexist. One may consider it rude, offensive, (insert objection here), but it cannot be determined that the mailer is sexist just because it mocked a woman.
Would Family Guy make fun of Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama in such a fashion? Unlikely &#8212; but that&#8217;s not remotely unexpected. It&#8217;s a double standard that Republicans have dealt with for years, and will continue to deal with.
The complaint that Trump is fair game, but Conway is not is, in a word, insane. She&#8217;s a White House surrogate, and frequently appears on TV and radio defending the Trump administration. She&#8217;s fair game.
All of the above are true statements, and it&#8217;s perfectly legitimate to point out the hypocrisy of Hollywood progressives. However, one must be careful to criticize only what is fit to be criticized. It is paramount that one carefully analyzes potential offenses before leaping to condemn them, otherwise, it&#8217;s simply a waste of energy that makes conservatives and Trump supporters appear foolish and reactionary.

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Family Guy Trolls Kellyanne Conway With Emmy Ad — But Don’t Get Too Offended

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On Sunday, Seth McFarlane put the Family Guy spin on the now more than 50 allegations of rape aimed at comedian and tv star Bill Cosby. Family Guy has had numerous references to Cosby in their 14th season but this opening sequence takes it to a new level&#8230;
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Things aren&#8217;t looking good for Cosby. Not only is he losing support from longtime fans and colleagues, Drew University in New Jersey just became the most recent institution to revoke his honorary degree, along with the dozen other colleges and universities that have already done the same.
Adding insult to injury, his bartending license from <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/1/14/Cocktail_Tom_Cruise.png" target="_blank">Cocktails &amp; Dreams</a> was revoked as well&#8230;
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Coughlin&#8217;s Law: Anything else is always something better.

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Family Guy Takes on the Cosby Rapes

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