In Op-Ed, Portland-Based “Simpsons” Writer Bill Oakley Says One Of His Jokes Has Become an Actual Republican Talking Point

In an op-ed published Sunday in The Washington Post, Bill Oakley—a writer and show-runner during the series’ ’90s golden years, who moved to Portland a decade ago and now has a burgeoning career as a fast-food critic—wrote that Republicans are using “the Sideshow Bob defense,” which argues that a crime is not a crime if the perpetrator ultimately fails to commit said crime.