Hugo Chavez Not A ‘Family Guy’ Fan
The United States is always chastising Venezuela for its conduit role in the trafficking of illicit drugs. What’s Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to do? Why, of course, criticize Family Guy.
Venezuelan state TV [on Sept. 22] broadcast an excerpt from “Family Guy” as an example of how the U.S. promotes drug use. The clip features Stewie… singing a song extolling the virtues of smoking weed. “We can observe how [the U.S. government] promotes and incites the population to consume that drug there,” said Tarek El Aissaimi, Venezuela’s Interior Minister. “There’s no subliminal message. It’s an animated cartoon where you can observe perfectly how they promote consumption and moreover they foster the legalization of marijuana.”
Considering the United States’ drug czar says legalization is not in his vocabulary, I don’t quite think Venezuela’s interior minister is on the mark here. The accusation that the U.S. government is promoting the legalization of marijuana through an animated baby, though, is the funniest thing I’ll hear all week. Nobody can sit through a Family Guy musical number without being stoned, though.
There’s a video of the clip at Drug WarRant.
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