"Family Guy" Likens John McCain, Sarah Palin to the Nazis

I have never watched Fox's animated sitcom "Family Guy" until I heard about Sunday's controversial show, which involved a Jewish pharmacist being thrust back in time to witness the German invasion of Poland during World War II. The episode pretty much ensured that it would garner a lot of discussion and probably draw the ire of the McCain campaign because it compared John McCain and Sarah Palin to Nazis. Wow, that's deep!

It was a brief stab at the McCain/Palin tag team that occurred during a scene when characters Brian,an anthropomorphic dog, Mort, who is a Rhode Island pharmacist, and Stewie, a super-intelligent toddler, who beat up three Nazi officers, in order to steal their uniforms.

“Hey, there’s something on here,” Stewie remarked during the segment, as he noticed an anachronistic McCain/Palin campaign button on his disguise’s lapel. “Huh, that’s weird.”

What is sure to tick the GOP off is that the show’s creator and the voice behind Brian and Stewie, Seth MacFarlane, is a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, having donated $2,300 to Obama’s presidential campaign between 2007 and 2008 and tens of thousands to other Democratic causes since 2005.

He also spoke at an Obama rally at Bowling Green State University earlier this month, during which he read a transcript of an interview with Palin regarding Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which the Alaskan governor does not support. He read the lines in the voice of Peter, Stewie’s bumbling father on “Family Guy,” for comic effect.

Well, I wouldn't go as far as calling McCain and Palin Nazis, but their tactics have incited many of their supporters to engage in very troubling, hostile and racist behavior.