http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/25/seth-macfarlane-s-juvenile-oscars-sexism-assassination-nazi-jokes.html
as egregious as the onion is there was a lot more that was not appropriate, are we going backwards?
If you watch the Oscars with your computer open to Twitter, it’s much like sitting in the gallery with a bunch of drunken sailors at a burlesque show. Or maybe a huddle of hooligans watching a soccer match. Whatever the analogy, it involves, presumably, copious amounts of alcohol, lots of shouting in colorful language, the throwing of things at the field (um, screen), with occasional flashes of wit and true comedy. Often of the most snarky kind.
With Seth MacFarlane hosting, there was a good dollop of very un-pc humor about gays, heavy women, shooting Lincoln, Jews, etc.; you know, all the usual suspects. Tweets that followed each tasteless joke registered offense from some, annoyance from others, a laugh or two, but, in general, the good-natured tone of MacFarlane’s delivery saved him from virtual tar-and-feathering. That was ultimately reserved for The Onion.
in light of all the hate rhetoric and attemmpts by some to continue to demean while others are trying to mend, this is not the venue for the MacFarlane insensitive oration. in the wake of so many deaths do to guns he feels it's ok to joke about Lincoln being shot which i think was totally out of place with almost 13oo gun deaths since Sandy Hook he and the Academy should be made aware that although it was a celebration it ain't that kinda party.
while worth 100 million that is not a reason to think like reublicans and dismiss as not guns, but a punchline or is he saying something between giggles?
