The Cable Game loves "The Simpsons," and can't wait for the movie to open tomorrow. But TCG is less impressed by millionaires who get rich thanks to corporations and then pretend to be anti-corporate subversives. One such pseudo-hero is Matt Groening, who pretends to be brave speaker-of-truth-to-power while, in fact, he just weasels around.
A case in point is Groening's claim, "We love biting the hand that feeds us," which he said on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" last week. "We love attacking Fox," he said, as the audience cheered.
Well, Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable went to the
source: Fox itself.
“It's urban legend,” says a Fox News spokesperson. “While Matt likes to tell that story, it simply never happened. We thought the parody of FNC was funny.”
And TCG can confirm this, from her own sources. Groening is a great creator of fiction, and a funny guy, too.
