The Simpsons, tonights episode about Lisa's Environmental concern & Propaganda

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I found this link on LATOC http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,44363.0.html

quote from the LATOC link:

Axis09 (sometimes posts here) sent me a link to series 11, episode 17, which was aired in 2000. Lisa is POTUS and the US is in deep financial trouble. Lisa asks foreign leaders not to call in US debt, amongst other measures aimed at saving the US from financial collapse.

Spooky.

the simpsons is a propaganda cartoon. Since so many question news corp. why not question their tv programming and movies?

Lisa has had alot of these types of episodes. Its weird. She's had quite a few environmental episodes


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found this,

The Simpsons:
Cartoon or Conspiracy

America's favorite family is actually the voice of the conservative right

BY KWESI A. CHRISTOPHER

In most circles of the television industry, Matt Groening is likely considered a creative prodigy. His dysfunctional family of characters, the syndicated cartoon "The Simpsons," effectively revolutionized television with its new-age approach to comedy. Who would have surmised, some fifteen years ago, that a cartoon could capture the hearts, minds, and, let's not forget the most significant, Neilson ratings of viewers nationwide? What did Matt Groening have in mind when he presented his brainchild to the then flaccid News Corporation (parent company of the Fox network)? Did he intend solely to entertain the masses? Or were there ulterior motives that led to the birth of Homer, Marge, and their family? To create something of that level takes a mind of pure genius; but I am convinced, despite my adoration for the program, that "The Simpsons" is the product of a right-wing conspiracy to sway the American public from issues often pegged as controversial. I aim to prove unequivocally that, for the last decade or so, that the American people have been the victims of "The Simpsons Conspiracy."

"The Simpsons Conspiracy" has many dimensions. It is an inextricably complex plan that most probably took years to develop. I envision a group of middle-aged men---a la "The X-Files"--chain-smoking Benson & Hedges around a round table, looking at a list of objectives typically associated with the political left: environmental protection, animal rights, and various women's issues (beauty pageants, self-esteem, and sexism). With an ominous black light looming in the fore-ground, I imagine them throwing out ideas as to how these issues could be presented to the American public in a way that would make Americans view them as parody, and thus prematurely dismiss their validity. And they succeeded, courtesy of one spiky-haired, yellow-hued girl named Lisa Simpson.

For an eight-year old, Lisa is without question a savant, whose intellect should be a source of admiration. Nonetheless, she is not presented to the audience in a light conducive to anything save ridicule. Let us examine, for example, the famous episode involving Montgomery Burns' gubernatorial bid and Blinky, the three-eyed fish. The show raised countless environmental issues, such as pollution regulation and government perks, or general apathy toward industries that assail many an ecosystem. Now, I claim to be neither a member of the Green Party, nor the world's champion of the environment - a quasi-Captain Planet, even. However, how many people saw that episode and thought, "Hey, maybe I should become an active opponent of industrial pollution?" Or, how many gave not a moment's thought to nuclear waste routinely poured into our streams, rivers, and seas; but rather laughed to the point of tears? I, for one, was doubled-over on my living room floor. Yet only last year the President signed a national budget that drastically slashed expenditures for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and made it easier for mining and lumber industries to hack away at our forests. And no laughing could be heard from anyone, except the beneficiaries: large, exploitative, corporate industries.

Lisa's stance on animal rights--one episode immediately comes to mind: "Whacking Day." Ah yes, the day of unadulterated barbarity against our reptilian relatives. Why did we beat the snakes? Because tradition said so. We were being sheep to history, to our ancestors. We were blindly following the norm. We were conforming! Bending under the will of peer pressure, of the crowd! We were following a multitude to do wrong -- exactly what our mothers warn us of anytime they hear about gangs and that damn rap music! Think about how we realized that the snakes were our friend; that they helped clean our gardens. Think about how we realized that even though they did not look like us, or speak the same language as us, or sleep with people of a different gender like we do, they were still people like us! Think about the implications of that episode on our society today! Groening could have been telling us not to conform to the norm to do wrong! He could have been telling us how to cure society's ills! He could have been providing a solution to racism, sexism, and homophobia!

But none of us got that part, did we? Of course not. We were too busy yucking it up at the topless "Ninja Homer," and at the absurdity of Barry White's seductive song to the succession of slimy, slithery snakes. Our ability to look beyond the superficial and find meaning in the abstract was overwhelmed by the unparalleled wit. Each time we laughed, we took another step away from unmasking the right-wing objective that lay at the core of the episode's premise: to undermine the ideals of American social pluralism in favor of homogeneity.

Lisa on women's issues--something readily dismissed because of the steady improvements made by women in the last few decades. The Lisa that challenged beauty pageants did not make us stop and question parading our young daughters down runways, pounding into their ever-absorbing minds that it is perfectly acceptable for women to be viewed only for their aesthetic value. Instead, we thought about how annoying it was that this little girl did not simply smile for the media shots and keep quiet. When Lisa objected to "Talking Malibu Stacey's" infamous--"Don't ask me, I'm just a girl! (giggle)"--she was not revered for her courage. And the significance of "Lisa Lionheart" was most certainly dwarfed by Wayland Smithers' most interesting behavior, manifested partly in his peculiar screensaver. The episode ended with a cliche, "If I help at least one, it will all be worth it." But that episode left me thinking about Smithers, not girl power. The end result: another opportunity to address concerns that should be at the forefront of a national dialogue missed because of a well-written script.

In light of the examples above, is it not obvious that "The Simpsons" cannot be regarded as just a successful television show? I hope that I am not the only person who can see through the veil of a complex conservative coup in the making. For the love of God and all that is true, in the opening credits of the show, when Maggie is accidentally scanned in the supermarket, the display reads: "NRA4EVER." Is that not enough? Does that not demonstrate that the television show that most of us have loved for years, the very show that children and parents alike have ritualistically watched, as if practicing some religious idiosyncrasy, is the portentous precursor to a conservative, blazer-and-coat takeover? Do we not feel threatened by the robed horsemen of the right, charging forth, armed with their Wall Street '80s power toes and palm pilots? Does it not incite fear that the road of conservative perdition from whence we strayed is now rising up under our very feet?

We should be running to the hills, not to our television sets! We should not celebrate the comical nature of Lisa's politically and socially oriented antics; we should round up the horses, and ride through the streets letting all know that the Republicans are coming! the Republicans are coming! Let me be the first to sound the alarm, because "The Simpsons Conspiracy" shows a side of American pop-culture too grim for most to accept. "The Simpsons Conspiracy" is effectively blasphemy, because it says exactly what the oligarchy of world hegemony does not want the public to hear: question everything; because Big Brother can take any form -- from the food we eat, to the shows we watch, to the very thoughts we think.

http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~theindicator/oldsite/public_html/99sept23/articles/simpson.html

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The Simpsons Slam Fox News [VIDEO]

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/52173/

 

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Propaganda and the power of 'The Simpsons'

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread215282/pg1

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The Simpsons Slam Fox News [VIDEO]

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/52173/

 

Fox in general is pushing forth this propaganda in its programming.  Its disgusting and dishonest.

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OK- Lets all take a deep breath and calm down.

The show is written by a bunch of  pro enviromentalist leftys. With the exception of Flanders and Burns there are no right wingish characters on the show, and Burns is basically the devil.

For anyone who watches the show, this is nonsense. If anything the show is overwhelming pro left, and depsite the fact its on FOX, the writers take shots at FOX every chance they get. Its the same thing with Futurama which also overhwlemingly leftist ( its still my favorite cartoon ever though).

I'm not complaining about the show- Its one of my all time favorites, but right wing? Not a chance.

Theres a pretty good book out about the Simpsons that any fan should read. Its called the Philsophy of the Simpsons- or something like that. All the chapters are written by Philsophy professors who watch the show. Interesting stuff.

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yeah i can't buy into any simpsons conspiracy.

but it's not all left wing either.  they did have a very good NRA episode.  They also have 'nra 4 ever' on the register in every episode intro. 

I dno't think an overwhelmingly leftist group would promote the NRA with every intro.

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yeah i can't buy into any simpsons conspiracy.

but it's not all left wing either.  they did have a very good NRA episode.  They also have 'nra 4 ever' on the register in every episode intro. 

I dno't think an overwhelmingly leftist group would promote the NRA with every intro.

Its even in 24.

[240 is Back]

Its even in 24.

they show both sides of it.

hell, last night's family guy was overwhemlingly pro-legalization of weed.

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they show both sides of it.

hell, last night's family guy was overwhemlingly pro-legalization of weed.

Thats not the issue.  The issue is the propoganda about the GW nonsense that is not iron clad science, but a theory that all scientists do not agree on.

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eh, i'd say throw the politics out.  people on both right and left either defend or attack the notion of global warming automatically, because either Bush or Gore told them to.

Even Palin admits the global temp is rising.  The debate is to WHY.

Step back and just look at the data.  Something is changing.  If it's natural, okay, let's deal with it.  I don't buy that companies are doing it - as we used to be way more lax on polution control - however I can't rule it out until somebody can prove it's natural.


Anyway, people who claim to KNOW the truth about global warming are just idiots repeating what their partisan heroes babble.

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eh, i'd say throw the politics out.  people on both right and left either defend or attack the notion of global warming automatically, because either Bush or Gore told them to.

Even Palin admits the global temp is rising.  The debate is to WHY.

Step back and just look at the data.  Something is changing.  If it's natural, okay, let's deal with it.  I don't buy that companies are doing it - as we used to be way more lax on polution control - however I can't rule it out until somebody can prove it's natural.


Anyway, people who claim to KNOW the truth about global warming are just idiots repeating what their partisan heroes babble.

My beef with the GW agenda is that is is pushed by people trying to use it to push other agendas and force higher taxes and costs on people with no benefit to the environment or anything other than govt tax revenue.