Venezuelan minister accuses Family Guy of being used by the US gov. to promote drugs

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Can you spell out hypocrisy?. Seriously, though, this is just being said on the eve of the law approval making legal that cable networks can be controlled by the government during the cadenas since they consider they are shown on Venezuelan soil, show TV shows shot in Venezuela or have Venezuelan employees, hence the Venezuelan laws apply to them even if they don't broadcast on air, if you don't like what you watch on TV, just change the channel... that's part of the base of free speech.

backslashbaby said:

I love that he would comment on a scene in Family Guy. The truth of things - well past hypocrisy - and he's publicly discussing Family Guy! That is so many kinds of awesome.

I'm totally stealing it for my WIP. Thank you!

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Oh? Now I am awfully curious! How are you going to use it?


ETA: Thread-Hijacking record?

"coughs, coughs" Venezuelan born and raised here.

My opinion? Another example of how they loose our time and effort instead of doing real things, I mean, this is the minister of internal affairs and he's talking about cartoons? What the hell? Doesn't he has anything better to do? The president has a weekly TV show that lasts over 5 hours, doesn't he has anything better to do? Stop counting angels dancing over pins or looking through pictures crying in the name of God, the fatherland and El Comandante that that is "Racism/Sexism/Antipatriotism/etc." and take charge of the country to do something different. Right now there's a problem in my region because the local newspaper showed a note about the high rate of crime with a picture of a 9 years old kid with a gun in his hand, what did the people from the National Assambly said? "The newspaper is racist, they are a showing a black kid weilding a gun in the newspaper!" I just facepalmed.

dgiharris said:

So let me get this straight,

A cartoon that pokes fun at drug use is representative of the entire US government promoting drug use???

Ummm... do they know that in America, freedom of speech means that people can express ANY view and that the US government is fairly limited in what it can do about it?

That is, the views expressed in American cartoons ARE NOT the views of the US government.

Sounds wierd having to say that outloud.

Talk about building a mountain out of a mole hill. Hell, this is like building a planet out of a mole hill.

Wonder how long he had to whip himself into an anti-America frenzy to come up with this stretch of logic.

Mel...

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Sorta. Apparently they think if a US cartoon promotes drug use, then the US government (for allowing such thing to be shown) promotes drug use. That is why is illegal to mock any Venezuelan politicians on Venezuelan television nowadays. See, their logic is that since a network is owned by a big capitalistic company and the US government is capitalist, then by association the media is saying things the US government wants to say but can't for being otherwise illegal, the idea of the world having more than two ways (right or wrong) would cause them a Rorschach-style breakdown.

backslashbaby said:

I hate it too. So much.

I was horrified to see all our shows on in Europe. It is strange thinking about people thinking we all love them and that they characterize us so much. Much less that they tell government desires!

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So you people are not like According to Jim nor The New Adventures of the Old Christine? My head a splode!

dgiharris said:

Do they have any concept of how many Cartoons and TV shows there are in America? In fact, there are so many that it would be beyond the governments ability to sock puppet them all even if they tried. Plus, have they noticed that half of the cartoons have a F**k the government mentality and make FUN of the government?

And if Family Guy is causing all these problems, then South Park would make them lose their freaking minds.

Plus, I'm sure we have cartoons that promote the hell out of drug use. I'm not a huge cartoon watcher but I'm sure i've seen a few chronically stoned characters on Adult Swim.

Mel...

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I doubt they have that concept at all, I finallly managed to watch the interview of the minister and I can assure you that either he has no concept at all of adult-oriented animation or plurality of ideas, thinking that EVERYONE in USA has two opinions: follows the Republican party and has two dozens of guns and tortures Mexican day laborers for fun or is a hardcore Michael Moore-watching Noam Chomsky-reading Che Guevara-admirer freedom fighter, whatever doesn't come in those two stereotypes makes the Chavistas groan, since even when they pretend to fight against racism and inequality, they only see stereotypes when they see Americans most of the time.

What was the point of showing the cartoon? The old extremist leftist idea that the US has an imperialistic, decadent culture that allows people freely advocating drug consume will sooner or later fall over its crumbling base(obviously, without any mention at all of the URSS)