Speedy Gonzales rival became Daffy Duck. Feeling that the character presented an offensive Mexican stereotype, Cartoon Network shelved Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999 (as a subsidiary of Time Warner, Cartoon Network is a corporate sibling to Warner Bros.). In an interview with Fox News on March 28, 2002, Cartoon Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg commented, "It hasn't been on the air for years because of its ethnic stereotypes." Despite such controversy over potentially offensive characterizations, Speedy Gonzales remained a popular character in Latin America. The Hispanic-American rights organization League of United Latin American Citizens called Speedy
The Fifth-Column Mouse again”, a patriotic chant that’s often used in American propaganda movies during World War II. That song was co-written in 1941 by Tin Pan Alley songwriter Charles Tobias (who also co-wrote the Merrie Melodies theme song some years earlier) as a response to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. "The Fifth-Column Mouse" was released on (1989), and later on the DVD set. The cartoon is now in the public domain. The Fifth-Column Mouse The Fifth-Column Mouse (later reissued as "Fifth Column Mouse") is a 1943 Warner Bros. animated cartoon in the "Merrie Melodies" series. Directed by Friz Freleng, the cartoon