The Simpsons, "The Liberal Straw Man Song"

On a recent episode of The Simpsons the show took issue with how Fox News characterizes liberals.

If you're not familiar with the straw man fallacy see here.  The basic idea of a straw man fallacy is that a position is (mis)characterized so at to make it look absurd or easily refutable, criticize this distorted mischaracterization showing its flaws, then suppose to have shown that the actual position has been defeated.  It's attacking a "straw man" of the position rather than the strongest case for the rival view.  In "Politically Inept with Homer Simpson," Homer gets a job as a pundit on a conservative infotainment network.  The network execs readily acknowledge that they present a straw man of the liberal position by suggesting it's based on envy of the rich and turning kids into homosexuals.  Of course, there are reasonable, principled arguments for the liberal positions on taxation and tolerance of homosexuality or even same-sex marriage that have nothing to do with envy or making kids gay.