The Huffington Post‘s David Moye reports that Matt Groening made an appearance on Saturday at this year’s Comic-Con. Matt related that 21st Century Fox executives had directed the series’ writers to go easier in their portrayal of Fox News. Apparently the segment that included the disclaimer that they were “not racist, but No. 1 with racists” was a stretch too far for the suits. There may be some pushback from Matt, though, considering that during his presentation he got fired up enough to lead the crowd in a chant of “Lock him up! Lock him up!” Gosh, what could have inspired that?!?
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