I'd consider the author's arguments seriously if he bothered to buttress them with more sources than one Matt Groening quote, and one link to the Statemen's. I

I'd consider the author's arguments seriously if he bothered to buttress them with more sources than one Matt Groening quote, and one link to the Statemen's. I would speculate that he didn't want to do the research, because his opinion is the opposite of the consensus, and because he didn't even seem to like the "Golden Age" Simpsons that much. Pretty shallow overall.