The Simpsons Producer Fires Back at Bill O'Reilly, Pokes Fox Network for the 2nd Time
by Marivic Cabural
"If you're calling cartoon characters pinheads, what does that makes you?" This is the reaction from Al Jean, executive producer of The Simpsons to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly after criticizing the cartoon characters as pinheads.
In his program, O’Reilly attacked The Simpsons episode featuring a flying helicopter with a slogan “Fox News: Not Racist But # 1 with Racists.” With a voice screaming “Stop! We’re unbalanced!” then the helicopter crashes.
In his comment O’reilly said, “Continuing to bite the hand that feeds part of it, Fox Broadcasting once again allows its cartoon characters to run wild, “Pinheads? I believe so.”
On the other hand in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter Jean explained,“We did a parody of the Fox News crawl about eight years ago and we talked to the guy he does the crawls and he said he loved it, so they do have a sense of humor about themselves. We're shooting for two different audiences. Our audience was definitely pleased with the Fox News jokes.”
Since the audiences are pleased with the Fox News jokes, during The Simpsons Sunday episode they poke Fox News for the second time featuring a helicopter with the slogan "Unsuitable For Viewers Under 75."
Guess what Bill O’Reilly’s reaction to this? Pinheads?