He saw very clearly. I keep thinking about something he said last month and a few times recently... He said he felt like he had failed at teaching most people the true nature of the left. I think he had one last lesson for everyone who today watched the American left dance on his grave. Compare the reactions to when Ginsburg died and you can see the difference between the sides. These people hate your guts and want to ruin you and they will do it gleefully.
A big difference between Conservatives and Leftists also explains why Conservatives are funny and Leftists aren't: Conservatives can laugh at themselves and the Left cannot. Few people realize how important that is to humor.
I still believe Seth MacFarlane is a closet Conservative masquerading as a Leftist so he can get away with a LOT of the jokes he makes on the show. Yes, they skewer Conservatives but they make a LOT of hilarious racial, sexist and gay jokes and completely destroy the Left on a lot of things. If he didn't play the part of flaming Leftist, there's no way they get away with a lot of their jokes. Also, they made the character of Brian a completely stereotypical phony Leftist who is the least likable character on the show. There's an episode where Quagmire called out every Leftist hypocrisy that Brian embodied in one rant and it was spot on.
Even when they made the obligatory "Let's make fun of Trump" episode, it wasn't even remotely funny and I think they knew it wasn't. I think the entire bland episode was itself a parody of how the Left would laugh at anything directed at Trump that is supposed to be nasty, no matter how terrible it is. i.e. - Every late night/cable talk show and SNL and all those other awful anti-Trump shows the Left produced. They probably preened around talking about "how fu%*ing hilarious" it was while most other people realized it was one of the worst episodes they ever produced.
Also, anyone paying attention a few episodes earlier would have picked up on a hint that was the plan when an episode mentioned President Trump at the end and Peter looked at the camera and joked, "Don't worry, we've got an episode coming up about that" or something to that effect. I took it as a joke about the Left saying, "I know you think we have to hate Trump and make fun of him, so we'll serve up your red meat soon."
I could be wrong on all of that, but I'm not wrong when I recall Rush talking about doing the Family Guy episodes. (I think this was in reference to the Star Wars episode cameo.) He said that he walked in and knocked his lines out of the park on the first try and he and MacFarlane hung out afterward, had dinner together and got along very well. There's not too many Hollywood "Lefties" that could even come close to doing that.
(Let's also not forget that James Woods did a few Family Guy episodes.)
He knew they would make fun of him and it would be a joke. But Rush UNDERSTOOD the joke. Jokes are funny. He never backed down from the PC left.
He saw very clearly. I keep thinking about something he said last month and a few times recently... He said he felt like he had failed at teaching most people the true nature of the left. I think he had one last lesson for everyone who today watched the American left dance on his grave. Compare the reactions to when Ginsburg died and you can see the difference between the sides. These people hate your guts and want to ruin you and they will do it gleefully.
A big difference between Conservatives and Leftists also explains why Conservatives are funny and Leftists aren't: Conservatives can laugh at themselves and the Left cannot. Few people realize how important that is to humor.
This is what unity means.
I still believe Seth MacFarlane is a closet Conservative masquerading as a Leftist so he can get away with a LOT of the jokes he makes on the show. Yes, they skewer Conservatives but they make a LOT of hilarious racial, sexist and gay jokes and completely destroy the Left on a lot of things. If he didn't play the part of flaming Leftist, there's no way they get away with a lot of their jokes. Also, they made the character of Brian a completely stereotypical phony Leftist who is the least likable character on the show. There's an episode where Quagmire called out every Leftist hypocrisy that Brian embodied in one rant and it was spot on.
Even when they made the obligatory "Let's make fun of Trump" episode, it wasn't even remotely funny and I think they knew it wasn't. I think the entire bland episode was itself a parody of how the Left would laugh at anything directed at Trump that is supposed to be nasty, no matter how terrible it is. i.e. - Every late night/cable talk show and SNL and all those other awful anti-Trump shows the Left produced. They probably preened around talking about "how fu%*ing hilarious" it was while most other people realized it was one of the worst episodes they ever produced.
Also, anyone paying attention a few episodes earlier would have picked up on a hint that was the plan when an episode mentioned President Trump at the end and Peter looked at the camera and joked, "Don't worry, we've got an episode coming up about that" or something to that effect. I took it as a joke about the Left saying, "I know you think we have to hate Trump and make fun of him, so we'll serve up your red meat soon."
I could be wrong on all of that, but I'm not wrong when I recall Rush talking about doing the Family Guy episodes. (I think this was in reference to the Star Wars episode cameo.) He said that he walked in and knocked his lines out of the park on the first try and he and MacFarlane hung out afterward, had dinner together and got along very well. There's not too many Hollywood "Lefties" that could even come close to doing that.
(Let's also not forget that James Woods did a few Family Guy episodes.)
MacFarlane seems to be really obsessed with gay rights.
He did make a joke about Kevin Spacey being a pedo.
A couple of episodes post-2010 (when MacFarlane stopped writing for the show) are critical of BLM and illegal immigration.
There was also a massive takedown of Millennials in one episode. Additionally, one of the episodes of The Orville completely lambasted social media.
Republican Town!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6pv0_eK960&feature=emb_rel_end