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Noting these bits.
Another episode introduced a girl with [[Down Syndrome]]. During a conversation, she remarked that [[Sarah Palin|her mother]] was the governor of [[Alaska]]. Another episode featured a repeated catchphrase "[[Laura Bush]] Killed A Guy!"<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/12/08/2008-12-08_family_guy_stirs_controversy_with_laura_.html NY Daily News: "Family Guy" stirs controversy with "Laura Bush killed a guy" catch phrase]</ref> This was a misleading statement, mocking a tragic car accident which occurred when she was 17 years old. Laura Welch, as she was known then, ran a stop sign and crashed into another car, killing its only occupant, 17-year-old Michael Douglas.<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp Snopes]</ref>
Another episode introduced a girl with [[Down Syndrome]]. During a conversation, she remarked that [[Sarah Palin|her mother]] was the governor of [[Alaska]]. Another episode featured a repeated catchphrase "[[Laura Bush]] Killed A Guy!"<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/12/08/2008-12-08_family_guy_stirs_controversy_with_laura_.html NY Daily News: "Family Guy" stirs controversy with "Laura Bush killed a guy" catch phrase]</ref> This was a misleading statement, mocking a tragic car accident which occurred when she was 17 years old. Laura Welch, as she was known then, ran a stop sign and crashed into another car, killing its only occupant, 17-year-old Michael Douglas.<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp Snopes]</ref>
Aside from the anti-Conservative and anti-Religious agenda being pushed, the show also is notorious for depicting an extremely unflattering (and at many times very inaccurate) image of the [[South (U.S. region)|South]], such as claiming they were still bitter about the [[Confederate States of America]] having lost the [[Civil War]], depicting them as being way behind in terms of technology and culture by a century to the extent of still having one-room schoolhouses (despite there not being any one-room schoolhouses for a little over half a century anywhere in America, let alone the South), everyone being outsmarted by a pig, having their personal standards being depicted as so low they viewed the character Meg Griffin as a goddess, being depicted as white-supremacists to the extent of falsely equating Klan activity being at its peak in Mississippi during the 1960s instead of Indiana during the 1920s or having blonde twin girls singing white power songs when the twins were actually from California, and also implying that one of the states, North Carolina, was 48th in Education (when, at the time the episode aired, North Carolina had actually doubled in rank, being at 24th place).
On the other hand, the show has made fun of liberal politicians as well. The episode ''Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey'' portrays former president [[Bill Clinton]] as a hedonistic sex fiend and a drug user.<ref>[http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/772/772102p1.html Family Guy: ''Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey'' Review]</ref>
On the other hand, the show has made fun of liberal politicians as well. The episode ''Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey'' portrays former president [[Bill Clinton]] as a hedonistic sex fiend and a drug user.<ref>[http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/772/772102p1.html Family Guy: ''Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey'' Review]</ref>