Matt Stone & Trey Parker Are Not Your Political Allies (No Matter What You Believe):
News broke this week that a Blackwater subsidiary was arming violent drug users in Afghanistan. They took hundreds of weapons intended for the Afghan National Police and at least one of them (probably more) signed for the shipments with the name “Eric Cartman.”When I asked “South Parks”’s creators what they thought of these men co-opting their character they were completely unfazed.
“It makes perfect sense. It’s the name I would use,” Trey Parker said.
“Our first reaction to any story is ‘How do we put this into the show?’ and the second reaction is ‘Did Cartman do that?’ because he’s so real to us it’s like ‘I bet Cartman did that.’”
“I saw that and thought, ‘Wow, Cartman did that? That’s pretty cool. Sounds like something he would do,’” Matt Stone agreed.
