“Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, who was just named host of next year’s Academy Awards, following his recent hosting of Saturday Night Live’s season opener, has been tapped to moderate the next Presidential Debate between President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney on October 16th.

According to a spokesperson for the Commission on Presidential Debates, MacFarlane expressed his desire to become a political moderator immediately after learning that last Wednesday’s debate set a 30-year record for ratings, with an estimated 70 million people watching.

“I’m not saying that I’m an attention whore,” MacFarlane told Hollywood & Swine. “I don’t have to, because everyone in America has been saying it since I put out my album of me singing standards.”

MacFarlane convinced Romney and Obama to agree to allow him to moderate the debate after donating a million dollars to each of their campaigns. According to MacFarlane, he hadn’t seen anyone so desperate for cash as Romney and Obama since he hired Adam West to voice himself on “Family Guy.”

MacFarlane insists he doesn’t feel any pressure moderating the debate after Jim Lehrer’s horrible performance last Wednesday night.

“Jim Lehrer lowered the bar for debate moderation, the same way James Franco lowered the bar for hosting the Academy Awards,” MacFarlane said. “Besides, in order to be a strong moderator you need an ego as big as the politicians debating. In that aspect, I’m probably overqualified.”

Since the announcement of MacFarlane moderating the upcoming town hall debate, many conservative pundits have criticized his lack of objectivity due to his public support for the Democratic Party.

“I’ll admit I’m not neutral,” MacFarlane said. “I even gave President Obama my ‘Family Guy’ secret for success to avoid the problems he had during the first debate. If you can’t think of anything clever to say, go to a cutaway shot of something random. People watching at home eat that stuff up.”