An Outrage Smackdown: Family Guy Defeats Palin

Sarah Palin, a master of cultural outrage and personal offense, meets her match — an animated character on Family Guy with Down syndrome

Francisco Caceres for TIME

In the movie Annie Hall , Woody Allen's character, Alvy Singer, is standing in a movie line, listening to some blowhard intellectual hold forth about media scholar Marshall McLuhan. When the loudmouth cites his own academic credentials, Singer produces the actual McLuhan to refute him: "You know nothing of my work!" Alvy 1, Egghead 0.

Sarah Palin likes to position herself against the eggheads of the world, but she was on the receiving end of her own "I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here" comeuppance when she got in a public feud with the Fox animated sitcom...

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