Family Guy Writer Tweets Pearl Harbor Joke In Response To Japanese Earthquake

[pokerfan]

:wtf:

I’ve hardly seen a minute of any of them for a good while now, but I always thought the distinction between The Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy worked out like this: The Simpsons is humanitarian and generally rather liberal; South Park is libertarian, but cares more for the gag itself than for what this gag might mean; Family Guy is a wretched disaster that is neither funny nor clever nor even manages a meaningful point of view of any kind.

I’d be happy to admit I’m wrong about this if you provide sufficient argument. Those are just my impressions, from years of enjoying The Simpsons, not really caring for South Park and trying to make friends turn off Family Guy and do something less boring instead.

Nonetheless, when a particularly tasteless tweet started rolling around the web last night, and I found out it had been written by Family Guy scriptwriter Alec Sulkin, I wasn’t too surprised. Here’s what he said:

If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google “Pearl Harbor death toll”.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/03/12/family-guy-writer-tweets-pearl-harbor-joke-in-response-to-japanese-earthquake

[Jamastiene]

1. What a cold hearted jerk.

I would boycott Family Guy except I'm already boycotting them for their pro-Republican episode with Rush Limbarf. :puke:

I hope he at least gets flack for that, something, anything. That was over the line and beyond cruel and unnecessary.

[Politicalboi]

30. Rush Limbarf

:puke: I like it. And I also don't watch Family Guy, but love the Simpson's.

[arcane1]

2. What an asshole

How about this, Mr. Sulkin: if you wanna feel better about Pearl Harbor, google "Hiroshima and Nagasaki"

There, how's that?

[oberliner]

3. Aren't they about the same death tolls?

What is the point of the "joke" ?

[Posteritatis]

14. That the victims' great-grandparents killed Americans so they deserve to die, basically

That particular bullshit's been flying around the net since yesterday afternoon; a whole lot of Americans haven't let that go yet, and think the current population of Japan was involved.

[oberliner]

32. That is pretty sick

Hopefully those people have been shamed by what they are reading now.

[Posteritatis]

33. That implies people who'd say that have the capacity to feel shame. (nt)

[Fleshdancer]

4. FWIW, he apologized for it:

thesulk Alec Sulkin
Yesterday death toll = 200. Today = 10 thousand. I am sorry for my insensitive tweet. It's gone.

[Iggo]

5. It's never gone, Alec.

[pokerfan]

15. The Internet is written in ink, Alec

[AngryOldDem]

6. Good.

But it suddenly became "insensitive" with the advent of a higher death toll? Whatever...apology appreciated.

[Fleshdancer]

16. I completely agree...

Concentrating on just the death toll is weird.

[Tansy_Gold]

8. Maybe someone should remind him

of the death toll from saturation bombing of Tokyo, and atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

As someone said, an eye for an eye leaves all of us blind.




Tansy Gold

[Danger Mouse]

12. Tell that to the dead you asshat.

[pokerfan]

18. This apology is even worse, imo

What, 200 deaths is amusing but 10,000 not so much? :shrug: What's the threshold?

[JackRiddler]

20. So by his logic, anything that kills up to 2,402 Japanese is worth the joke.

That's not an apology, it's a confession of dementia.

[roguevalley]

24. apologies are cheap. the remark was a look into what he really

feels

[godai]

31. Oh, that makes it all better. n/t

[City Lights]

39. Too late, Assface Sulking.

You've already exposed yourself.

:thumbsdown:

[bluestateguy]

7. The war has been over for 65 years. We won.

Conservatives have an unquenchable nostalgia for World War II it seems.

[Iggo]

22. 'Conservatives have an unquenchable nostalgia for World War II it seems'

Cause their side had such snappy outfits.

[SaveAmerica]

29. How abouts the 'Civil' War (I'm deep in the heart of Civil War Reenactmentland)

[Rex]

9. Well that would be expected...have you ever seen Family Guy?

[Danger Mouse]

10. Alec Sulkin: A fucking insensitive dick bag. Oh, and Family Guy isn't funny. Shithead.

[Dappleganger]

11. He needs to make a HUGE donation...

something which will make his accountant wince.

[Cirque du So-What]

13. I could boycott the show

but I already don't watch it. I probably don't buy any of the consumerist crap peddled on the show either.

[somone]

17. Alec Sulkin needs to get his head out of Rush Limbaugh's pilodinal cyst

[slay]

19. Meh

i'm not trying to make light of the situation but who really cares what a family guy writer writes. i mostly find the show annoying but i've also liked some of it. some comedians push the line - hell cross the line - but that's what they do. it's not supposed to be comfortable and it's certainly not for everyone - or most people even. i think he prolly should of at least added the phrase "too soon?" to the end of it.

[Generic Other]

21. They tell us "ethnics" what we should never forget

and we don't.

[Night Crawler]

23. He's made up for it on his tweet

thesulk Alec Sulkin
If you wanna feel better about the floods in New Jersey, google "MTV's Jersey Shore".
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

http://twitter.com/#!/thesulk

[seabeyond]

25. i doesnt see a joke anywhere in the statement. just an ugly statement. nt

[GSLevel9]

26. what's WRONG with these people??? nt

[speltwon]

27. Love love love love love South Park. Family Guy does nothing for me

Happy to hear at least that it wasn't the actual guy behind Family Guy (his name escapes me), but some subordinate scriptwriter "Alec Sulkin"

[eleny]

28. Glad I don't watch the program

[meow mix]

34. same here, just the couple small blips ive seen was enough to turn me off

what a crap show

[CommonSensePLZ]

35. OMG 400,000 with two nukes and internment camps wasn't vengeful enough? Also

Boo. I like Family Guy.

The people who caused Pearl Harbor were not these innocent people who's houses got swept away in the tsunami, idiots. Nor were most of the Japanese we killed and detained that I mentioned in the subject.

[ellie]

36. Jesus, what an asshole.

[meow mix]

37. peice of garbage i actually had to login and respond

whats wrong with people

[browntyphoon]

38. Not funny. Fuck that guy