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2006-04-15 Home Front: Culture Wars
Comedy Central Issues Jive South Park Censorship Explanations
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Posted by Frank G 2006-04-15 18:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Looks like a pretty direct admission that they consider Islam a violent murder cult, rather than a religion. I suppose they deserve some credit for that...

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2006-04-15 18:20||   2006-04-15 18:20|| Front Page Top

#2 They should just call themselves "Corporate Comedy Central" now. Just lost their badge of daring and cool.
Posted by 2b 2006-04-15 18:32||   2006-04-15 18:32|| Front Page Top

#3 And Scientism is not a cult? I thought the CEO of Borders made a pretty persuasive defence of their decision not carrying the mag with the cartoons on the cover. This comes no where near and is sheer dhimmitude. I hope the next time these guys mock Christianity someone torches their studio when no one is in it. Once they decide to play dhimmi they better be ready to be an equal opportunity dhimmi.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-15 18:33||   2006-04-15 18:33|| Front Page Top

#4 I meant Scientology, not scientism. Hard to keep them all straight.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-15 18:37||   2006-04-15 18:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought it was a breathtaking admission.

As a viewer of "South Park," you know that over the course of ten seasons and almost 150 episodes the series has addressed all types of
sensitive, hot-button issues, religious and political, and has done so with Comedy Central's full support in every instance, except including this one.

In effect, they say for the first time we have encountered an issue we are afraid to deal with.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-04-15 18:51|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-04-15 18:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Run this letter by the next clueless moonbat who says 'violence doesn't solve anything'.
Posted by Pappy 2006-04-15 19:12||   2006-04-15 19:12|| Front Page Top

#7 The subject line on my note said "Grow a spine and stop rewarding threats of violence"
Posted by lotp 2006-04-15 19:16||   2006-04-15 19:16|| Front Page Top

#8 same response letter?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-15 19:19||   2006-04-15 19:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Haven't got one yet.
Posted by lotp 2006-04-15 19:25||   2006-04-15 19:25|| Front Page Top

#10 I give them credit for airing the episode at all. The setup was beautiful in part one they basically predicted the fear of airing it and mocked it mercilously, then set up the obvious comparison of Jesus shitting on Bush, about as offensive as they could think of, with a simple image of Mohammad knowing which would be censored and thus making an even stronger statement.

Comedy Central could have just shitcanned the whole thing and let Trey and Matt scream censorship. Instead they showed an episode designed to make them look bad if they censored it.
Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz  2006-04-15 20:53||   2006-04-15 20:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Apparently, time for Team America II
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-15 20:59||   2006-04-15 20:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Unfortunately they just made it that much worse when they *do* have to draw the line against the Islamists. Then they will be 'upppity Dhimmis' and will be treated much worse then if they (and others) had taken a stand now.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-04-15 21:44||   2006-04-15 21:44|| Front Page Top

#13 HEE HAW!!! That's what I've been trying to think of since my last post. I couldn't get Smother's Brothers and Hootenanny out of my head. It's Hee Haw.

That's about how funny Comedy Central is these days. Corporate approved- what some corporate geek dressed in a suit thinks that his boss and a "target audience" will find funny. It's not spontaneous, not edgy, and if its funny, its only because it got the time slot on Saturday night when people are often drunk enough to laugh at anything even remotely snarky.

But now it's not even Snarky. It's cleric approved. Man, they are so dead.
Posted by 2b 2006-04-15 22:10||   2006-04-15 22:10|| Front Page Top

#14 I really don't care what excuse they throw out there. I'm done with them. They did it out of fear and surrendered to the terrorists, just like the argument in the cartoon. Time to find a new station.
Posted by 49 Pan 2006-04-15 22:41||   2006-04-15 22:41|| Front Page Top

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