Last week’s news that the controversial comedic cartoon Family Guy was to invite right-wing ideologues to appear as themselves in the news series was greeted with outrage by many fans. As the creator Seth MacFarlane said, the show was liberal because it was written by liberals. As a result, he and his team wanted to hear the other side – tsk, typical liberal thinking, giving all sides a fair crack of the whip (the use of which might be defended by the dubious guests on CIA detainees). If they wanted to have an illiberal attitude on this show for balance they should have banned all right-wingers from ever coming near it (aside from all the funding they get from a Republican propaganda channel), while continuing to promote a ‘liberal’ agenda. The perfect philosophical compromise. Now, on Internet forums dedicated to Family Guy, MacFarlane and his people are being called “monsters” and worse by so-called liberals, when it could all have been avoided had they courted hypocrisy while maintaining a liberal stance. Think of it as a double negative. Family Guy being contentious? Perish the thought! Come off it.