Metzger Agrees to Stop Portraying Bart as Nazi

White supremacist Tom Metzger agreed Monday to stop selling T-shirts that depict cartoon kid Bart Simpson as a Nazi.

The judgment settles a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Twentieth Century Fox.

Under the settlement, Metzger is barred from selling or using copyrighted material from “The Simpsons,” Fox Broadcasting Co.’s hugely successful cartoon family.

Metzger, founder of the White Aryan Resistance, said in a telephone interview from his Fallbrook home that he had agreed several weeks ago to stop running advertisements for the T-shirts in a WAR publication.

“That was the main thing (Twentieth Century Fox) wanted,” he said. “Actually we had only sold about 16 or 17 shirts, but, when the story hit the press, I could have sold a thousand of them. I had people calling from all over.”

The ads appeared in one or two issues of a WAR publication earlier this year, Metzger said.

“We like to use humor and satire like anyone else does,” he said. “I didn’t create this particular (Nazi Bart) character. The shirts were sent to me by someone else. We always like to use things that we think are funny.”

Fox sued Metzger after the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith informed the studio that Metzger’s hate group was selling T-shirts showing Bart Simpson in full Nazi uniform saying: “Pure Nazi Dude!”