Is Fox Censoring ‘The Simpsons’?
For the second straight week, "The Simpsons" mocked Fox News, but the gag is mysteriously absent from the show’s online versions. After all these years has Rupert Murdoch finally had enough, or is this just a case of the randoms?For the second straight week, “The Simpsons” mocked Fox News, but the gag is mysteriously absent from the show’s online versions. After all these years has Rupert Murdoch finally had enough, or is this just a case of the randoms?
You can watch the original joke, pictured at right, on Gawker.
Below is what you get instead from Hulu:
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