Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove to appear in Family Guy

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American right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and former president George Bush's strategist Karl Rove are to play themselves in a forthcoming episode of Fox's animation Family Guy.

In the episode being produced for next season, Brian, the liberal dog of the cartoon's central family, the Griffins, gets bored and frustrated because he feels he no longer has anything to complain about with Barack Obama in the White House, so he becomes a Republican and starts listening to Limbaugh.

"Family Guy tends to be very liberal because it's written by liberals," creator Seth MacFarlane told US trade magazine the Hollywood Reporter.

"So we thought let's give the other side some face time. So we put it out there to a lot of Republicans - 'we're doing this show, who wants in?' - and we got some bites. I'm sure the reaction from some will be, 'you monsters, how could you have Karl Rove on your show?'"

MacFarlane was appearing at an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences event, where the cast of the animation performed a live read-through of its controversial episode about abortion, which Fox has refused to air.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/14/rush-limbaugh-karl-rove-family-guy

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Gotta love Seth McFarlane!

Can't believe I'm saying this, but for once I'm looking forward to hearing Limbaugh and Rove!!!

[Marblehead]

1. not a good idea

how much are they going to be paid?

[Berry Cool]

2. Keith Olbermann has to have a looooooong talk with that boy.

What??? Poor Rush and Rove don't get enough air time???? They need more, on Family Guy?

Is the show going to have a new slogan: "The Family Guy: Fair and Balanced"?

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3. Karl Rove???

I guess innocent until proven guilty and all, but . . . really? Karl Rove? Is there anyone who believes this man is not a criminal? I guess it really doesn't matter as long as there is entertainment in it.

[Hippo_Tron]

4. Rush was already in the Blue Harvest (Star Wars) episode

It was actually a really funny gag and if Rush were a slightly less despicable person I would give him props for doing a perfect parody of himself. But alas he is that disgusting and thus I cannot.