Simpsons writer slams GOP for defending Trump with an argument popularized in a Sideshow Bob

Win an iPhone 11: Simpsons writer slams GOP for defending Trump with an argument popularized in a Sideshow Bob episode. A former writer for 'The Simpsons' slammed the GOP and conservative pundits for using what appears to be a joke from the show to defend President Donald Trump. 

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The fifth episode of the season shows Sideshow Bob - Krusty the Clown's former sidekick - successfully campaigning to be released from jail so he can run for mayor and ruin the Simpson family. 

He calls Birch Barlow - a right wing political commentator modeled on Rush Limbaugh - on his radio show and decries about how unfair its is that he is being convicted of 'attempted murder.'

'Convicted of a crime I didn’t even commit,' Sideshow Bob says. 'Hah! Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?'

'Because the Ukrainian quid pro quo was ultimately unsuccessful, the argument goes, no crime was committed, even if one was attempted,' Oakley added. 

The op-ed cites both House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley as both having fallen prey to 'excuse making.' Both have mentioned that aid was given to Ukraine without them having to do anything in response.

Oakley offers that the citizens of The Simpson's Springfield are 'as a whole, dummies' because the show has 'a continuing theme of the series is that the citizenry is “nothing but a pack of fickle mush-heads.”'

He continues: 'That the GOP has taken a cue from Sideshow Bob is shrewd, on one level.'

Bart and Lisa Simpson are eventually able to take Sideshow Bob down, in a plot that Oakley notes was piratically ripped from the Watergate scandal. 

'In court, under intense questioning from the kids, Bob finally erupts in an outraged confession,' Oakley describes. 'Why did he deceive the town?'

'“Because you need me, Springfield. Your guilty conscience may force you to

Simpsons writer slams GOP for defending Trump with an argument popularized in a Sideshow Bob,