Simon Dumenco, writing in AdAge, issued a mea culpa on Monday for suggesting that Wall Street Journal Publisher Gordon Crovitz might not be so happy working alongside the likes of Homer Simpson once Fox owner News Corp. buys Dow Jones. Of course he wouldn’t. Homer Simpson is a cartoon character.

But seriously…

Crovitz, as it turns out, is quite the Simpsons fan. Here’s what he wrote to Dumenco:

For many years, I have kept a miniature Homer and son Bart in my desk drawer to call on for management advice and inspiration. Indeed, I must turn to the wisdom of Homer himself to find the right words of response: ‘You couldn’t fool your own mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine!”

That was Krusty the Crovitz. In the next edition of Mediafile: Montgomery Bancroft?