A New Low… Liberal Media Now Running Terri Shiavo "Pull the Plug" Musical Comedy for Children (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 5:18 AM
Well, here’s a new low from the godless left… “Family Guy” marked the 5 year anniversary of Terri Shiavo’s court-ordered death by staging a children’s musical comedy about pulling the plug.
Maybe they’re preparing us for Obamacare?
Since when did mocking a family over the court-ordered death of their daughter become good humor?
NewsBusters reported:
Seth MacFarlane marked the five-year-anniversary of Terri Schiavo’s court-ordered death by staging a preschool musical about it in his crass FOX cartoon, “Family Guy.”
MacFarlane denied Schiavo human dignity in the March 21 episode by referring to her in lyrics sung by cartoon preschoolers as “the most expensive plant you’ll ever see” and a “vegetable,” and noted “her mashed potato brains.”
The child who played the role of Schiavo’s husband, Michael, ultimately concluded, “There’s only one solution, it’s in the Constitution, we’ve got to pull the plug.”
Schiavo died on March 31, 2005, after her parents fought numerous legal battles, appealing to the United States Congress and Supreme Court, to keep her alive, against the wishes of her husband.
A chorus representing pro-life protesters sang in the show, “Terri Schaivo is kind of alive-oh. What a lively little bugger … Terri Schiavo is kind of alive-oh, the most expensive plant you’ll ever see.” A “doctor” sang, “Maybe we should just unplug her.”
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Evil Otto commented:
MacFarlane is running out of things he can use to shock people, so he’s desperately seeking out the most offensive subjects he can. His hope is that conservatives will get up in arms over this and talk about it in their media, driving people to watch his show.
It’s no different than the toddler who rubs crap all over his face and yells “look at me!!!” Except the toddler doesn’t get paid millions.
Brad commented:
What a vile show. Don’t watch it. Boycott it’s advertisers.
Mrgoodwench commented:
Has there been any musical about the fat drunk killer Ted Kennedy? or his waitress-sammich ?
How about Baanee Faanks’s gay brothel and pot-growing enterprise ?
Sure a dead private citizen’s death and suffering is so worthy of vitriolic filth……nice going fox
Afterall if an innocent baby makes you so indignant just by being born, a dead woman whose parents wanted her to live , will surely make your vile simmer !!
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Andreas K. commented:
The Schiavo case is complicated. The question is, what would she have wanted?
Just a few weeks ago I was talking with my mother about similar cases and I told her that, should end up like this in some European hospital… let me die.
And that’s the problem with the Schiavo case. It can’t be judged or solved following any rule book. It’s an individual decision. Personally I don’t think she would have wanted to exist like that, but… we don’t know what she wanted, do we?
Sometimes we humans are more merdiful to animals.
As for the musical.
Well, when can we expect “Holocaust! The musical!”? Or maybe “The Intifada Musical”
These people are just f*cking nuts.
sliderblaze commented:
i like family guy. funny edgy but it also lets reminds me that the right is waaaay more compasionate than the left. i often use it as an example when my lefty friends scream about their compassion. On a related note, some old guy came up to my care at the convenience store two days ago and said, “you know god is not a republican”
I responded “so i guess that makes him…..”
He goes on to say a Democrat. So i respond, so he approved of them creating the KKK and denying civil rights…. walked away he did. so i pull out and that ass had a “god is not a republican” bumper sticker, he must nota liked my NOBAMA bumper sticker
Kathy commented:
Terry Schiavo was in hospice and the only medical equipment she required was a feeding tube. That may have made the musical less compelling, watching a woman starve to death may seem heartless to even small children how much easier to describe her as an expensive plant that requires a hospital full of devices and that to end her life was pulling the plug not removing a feeding tube and waiting a week.
oldguy commented:
You don’t make the connection between the Schiavo case and what’s happening to America?
patman commented:
You have to wonder about ALL media, even Fox.
It’s like Disney. They make big $ off families and children, then ABC pays $200k to a woman who murdered her daughter and buried the body in a Winnie the Pooh blanket.
Being that this is America I stand firm for freedom of speech and capitalism.
Don’t like it? Don’t watch it. But don’t act surprised.
USMC Thomas commented:
Seth MacFarlane is a coward, choosing to ridicule the most defenseless or least dangerous under the guise of social humor. How about a show about Mohammad marrying a six year girl and consummating the marriage when the child reached nine. It’s feminism issues would certainly appeal to a libturd like MacFarlane.
Aitch748 commented:
What a pathetic desperate little freak Seth MacFarlane is. This guy has descended into Ted Rall territory.
myohmy commented:
Who watch that cartoon anyway?
Hugh commented:
What is wrong with those people? Where is their humanity? To ridicule someone who was utterly and tragically helpless. That is really chilling. The people who run that production are textbook sociopaths. I haven’t ever watched that show–and never intend to. Appalling. This is not what the world needs more of. What a bunch of real freaks.
Militant Conservative commented:
Don’t care about this. Alright everyone be resposible like me and get a living will. There fixed it myself.
Now then, do not give up the fight against socialism.
powder is dry.
squeaky commented:
teri died and no one really knows if she indured
suffering or not. a guy in the lab coat can make you feel better, but in the end who knows.
sometimes people are allowed to pass by people who only viewed them as a drain on the estate. how much of teri’s insurance settlement was spent by her husband to advocate her death while a pregnant girlfriend stood in the sidelines…..
Texmom commented:
Even my college age sons think Family Guy has gone way over the edge lately, and they used to like the show. When they are alienating young college kids, you know they have pushed it too far.
AuntieMadder commented:
Who said Family Guy is a program for children?
Fwiw, I don’t find Family Guy to be at all funny and don’t watch it. What little I’ve seen of it and about it has been offensive.
BigJ commented:
I’m sure both viewers loved it.
OCBill commented:
The refrain of her lack of societal value (“expensive vegetable”) recalls the George Bernard Shaw quote, “If you’re producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then why should we (society) continue to support your existence? Your life is of no value to us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.” This is the same guy that proposed using gas to kill of the undesirables by the thousands long before Hitler built his first gas chamber.
OCBill commented:
Make that, “If you’re NOT producing as much as you consume”…
Britny commented:
“Who said Family Guy is a program for children?”
I don’t think it is — but the Terri Schiavo stage show within that episode of Family Guy IS for children.
You can watch it on Hulu.com if you want.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Sorry, Britny, I don’t want.
And, Patman, I don’t wonder about the media anymore. I KNOW!
Cher Cropper commented:
Eugenics in animation anyone? Fitting in that it keys right in with the debate over health care “reform”. Eugenics still exists within the progressive minds of today, and is the reason abortion funding was included in the Pelosi’s bill Sunday. It will still be there even with Obama’s EO, which doesn’t mean squat under rule of law. EO’s cannot overrule Congress by fiat.
Moonbat_One commented:
And you didn’t even mention how Michael Schiavo stood to cash in on insurance if his wife died. He wasn’t even acting in any sense of compassion, he just wanted the money.
texas commented:
That’s disgusting! Have they no soul?
The Terry Shivo incident broke my heart.. sigh.
Peggy commented:
Terri wasn’t kept alive by a single machine. Not one. But hey, lets rewrite history and send the truth down the memory hole.
How much you want to bet that people would remember the false version because of this program?
It was also said before she died that Terri’s cranium was filled with fluid and that she had no brain left except for the stem. This from one of the experts. At her autopsy, her brain was found to be intact but shrunken.
Since then, the experts have reexamined many cases of so-called vegetative diagnosis and found that many have higher brain functions even though they have zero means of communicating that to anyone. Terri was condemned largely on the basis of her ability to respond to stimulus. It was forbidden to do any of the tests on her which now reveal higher brain functions in similar cases.
Yeah real funny. Let’s make a musical about it!
newton commented:
Everyone,
This is what you can expect from Obamacare. If you’re of no use to society, they’ll pull the plug on you and make a cartoon musical out of it for good measure.
Ha-ha! That’s funny!… Not!
Let’s hear it again for Family Trash… ahem… Family Guy…
newton commented:
“Even my college age sons think Family Guy has gone way over the edge lately, and they used to like the show. When they are alienating young college kids, you know they have pushed it too far.”
That’s because your kids were Well Raised… unlike those other kids who watch the show and laugh at it.
You know, I didn’t like it when McFarlane allowed to show a “musical” skit in which the fatso was telling a poor man at a hospital he had AIDS. Did anyone ever say a peep? Just wondering…
DRH commented:
Well, when I clicked on the video, I saw an ad.
That’s Allstate, Stan.
Anyone have a policy the can cancel?
donh commented:
Now that Obamacare has passed the next job of the media is to push forward the debate on endling the lives of helpless people. We saw this with Kieth Olberman’s public oedipus complex broadcasting his wish to unplug his father. I heard a man just yesterday in the market expressing his frustration at being unable to unplug his mother. This is how nazi final solutions get rolling. The media injects novacane into the moral nerves easing the population into making ” difficult decitions” , and the languange creates kindler gentler euphamisms for murder like ” difficult decitions”
greenfairie commented:
Just a couple of days ago, I read a piece by “Robin In Berkeley” at American Thinker. It was about the callousness she has seen and experienced toward the disabled and the elderly. Especially by the young.
South Park did a Schiavo episode years ago, but it was really a rip on Michael Schiavo. Cartman wanted to pull the plug on Kenny so he could inherit Kenny’s video game system and asserted his right to do so through a friendship pendant, which he claimed overrode even Kenny’s parents’ wishes. It was surprising to say the least.
But this is like Bill Maher and Ted Rall writing a script wtih Dr. Mengele. I can have a twisted sense of humor but this is just plain evil.
Ian Christopher commented:
This is the first time I’ve ever heard FOX referred to as the “LIberal Media.”
bitterclinger commented:
As I recall, Terri’s parents were willing to take over her care (over the objection of her philandering husband). She often smiled and was a favorite of the nurses on the unit. I was outside gardening when it was announced that she died. Tears rolled down my face for her parents and the way she was starved AND denied water unto death.
There’s a special circle of hell waiting for those involved with this.
Don Rodrigo commented:
The previous week, Family Guy did a nursery rhyme about the Lockerbie crash.
I was channel surfing, and, as misfortune would have it, I happened onto that scene.
burt commented:
Yes, Fox is very liberal. The folks at Fox went to the same liberal colleges as did the people at ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, PBS, ETC…
Employees at Fox donated four times as much money to John Kerry as they did to George Bush.