'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.
I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.
Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire.
With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.