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‘South Park’ Creators Break Silence on Lawsuit Threats After Harry and Meghan Episode [Only Right Wingers Sue Them]
New York Post ^ | February 23 | Samantha Ibrahim

Posted on 02/23/2023 12:40:29 PM PST by nickcarraway

“South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have broken their silence amid the show’s recent mocking of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

SNIP

The showrunners ignited a firestorm of controversy after parodying a privacy-seeking ex-royal couple from Canada in the Feb. 15 episode entitled “The Worldwide Privacy Tour.” The cartoon characters — who claim to want to stay out of the spotlight, but instead go on various talk shows — bore a likeness to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are famously non-private as demonstrated by their Netflix series and Harry’s memoir, “Spare.”

SNIP

“It was all coming from the right, we were considered counterculture,” the animators said. “The Catholic League are always on our a-s — it kind of always came from that side.”

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So, it's all right wingers fault?
1 posted on 02/23/2023 12:40:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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They both were beaten to a Pulp by Media EVERYWHERE! It was great fun watching them be humiliated!! It’s called KARMA MEGAHN!


2 posted on 02/23/2023 12:42:25 PM PST by COSIllinois
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I’m actually surprised the SP guys aren’t drawing more fire over their portrayal of trannies.

Funny 10 years ago, but they wouldn’t get away with it today. The left would be all over them.


3 posted on 02/23/2023 12:44:44 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: nickcarraway

The faith community has a right and a left as well. Which is he talking about?


4 posted on 02/23/2023 12:55:18 PM PST by jettester (I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
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To: nickcarraway

Funny, I don’t remember any protests from the right when he made fun of man-bear-pig, or sally fields, barbara streisand ( all ultra left). Nope, just the left whined.


5 posted on 02/23/2023 1:00:55 PM PST by GMThrust
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To: jettester

Well they name the Catholic League, which are not really very “left”, though they are a bit of a category of their own, protesting lots of things that nobody else on the “religious right” cares about at all.


6 posted on 02/23/2023 1:01:26 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: GMThrust

Probably they’re talking about the early years of the show, when Jesus Christ was a regular character popping up now and then.


7 posted on 02/23/2023 1:02:41 PM PST by Boogieman
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"Cartoon figures resembling Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on “South Park.”"

Isn't it the other way around? Don't Harry and Meghan resemble cartoon characters?

8 posted on 02/23/2023 1:06:26 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Has Muhammad appeared on South Park recently?


9 posted on 02/23/2023 1:08:43 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Gain of Pfunction. Gain of Pfunding. Gain of Pfizer. Now in control of Project Pferitas.)
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He must of forgot about the what what in the butt song guy suing him.
https://www.looper.com/1022656/that-time-south-parks-matt-stone-and-trey-parker-got-sued-over-the-lollipop-king/


10 posted on 02/23/2023 1:13:34 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: COSIllinois

I saw the whole South Park sendup of Worldwide Privacy Tour. Very cute. Sent link to friends, but they weren’t able to see it.


11 posted on 02/23/2023 1:14:37 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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I will watch satire/comey, even against all things I respect and cherish, if its intelligent.

I saw the episode about Harry and Megan, just by chance. Their take on Harry and Megan’s search for cheap publicity (while demanding privacy) was spot-on, but their attacks on them just seemed to be taunting, not humor.

Their writers just aren’t that funny.


12 posted on 02/23/2023 1:20:36 PM PST by PGR88
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To: nickcarraway

I seem to remember the Supreme Court has already ruled that satire and parody is protected speech.

At to the fact that their royalness are public figures I don’t see the point of a lawsuit.


13 posted on 02/23/2023 1:26:51 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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(So, it’s all right wingers fault?)

Apparently.

A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.


14 posted on 02/23/2023 1:33:46 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: jettester

What “faith” are we talking about? Leftism is based on atheism.


15 posted on 02/23/2023 1:34:27 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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…also discussed one of their most famous “South Park” parodies, the 2005 episode “Trapped in the Closet and Coming Out of the Closet,” about Tom Cruise and his association with Scientology.

My favorite South Park episode.

Written by: John Doe
Edited by: Jane Doe
Drawn by: John Doe…

16 posted on 02/23/2023 1:41:02 PM PST by Allegra
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Why would anyone get worked up over a cartoon?

Some people need to have a drink or smoke a bowl and relax.


17 posted on 02/23/2023 2:36:38 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: ConservativeWarrior

Their pedo episode (NAMBLA) was a classic.


18 posted on 02/23/2023 4:01:57 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: LS

Marlin Brando Look Alikes!


19 posted on 02/23/2023 5:59:03 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Why would anyone get worked up over a cartoon?

It was pretty brutal humor, funny but brutal… I can see why Meghan got upset - no mercy

20 posted on 02/23/2023 6:45:37 PM PST by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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