As we mourn the loss of Roger Rabid, longtime Fox News empire-builder, we may find his achievements easy to under-estimate, because they have been so often imitated since. But his creation -- a news network that freely mixed live-action humans with sketched 2-dimensional heroes, villains, and foils, subject either to reality's rules or cartoon logic as the plot dictated -- was at the time innovative, and a technical marvel.
My favorite of his lines comes from the scene were Roger and Slick Willie have been handcuffed to an enormous national debt for eight years, and suddenly Roger slips free. "You mean you could've freed our actions from the debt at any time???", a stunned Willie inquires. Roger shakes his head, and as he struts away, leaving Willie trapped, he explains "No, not at any time. Only when it helped rich people".
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