In a 1990 People magazine interview, the late Barbara Bush said The Simpsons (still a fledgling series at the time) was “the dumbest thing” she’d ever seen. She never anticipated getting a written response from the Simpson matriarch herself. Nor did she expect it to be so heartfelt. 

Marge Simpson writes to Barbara Bush

On September 28, the former First Lady received a note from Marge, which read: 

“I recently read your criticism of my family. I was deeply hurt. Heaven knows we’re far from perfect and, if truth be known, maybe just a wee bit short of normal, but as Dr. Seuss says, ‘a person is a person’.”

Marge went on to say how she believed they both “had a great deal in common,” as........

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