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| Beeb brushes off death threats, goes ahead with Springer-based opera |
| 2005-01-08 |
| From Sky News The threats have nothing to do with the Beeb's Streicherist anti-Israel propaganda or their terror-inciting distortions of war news, but with an opera based on the Jerry Springer show. SPRINGER SHOW GOES AHEAD BBC executives were tonight under guard after the controversial show Jerry Springer - The Opera was aired on BBC2. The corporation said it had received threats from individuals who objected to the programme's "blasphemous" content. It is believed Roly Keating, the controller of BBC2, and Jana Bennett, the director of television, are among those who have been given private security guard protection. A BBC spokesman said executives' families had been subjected to "a large number of abusive and unpleasant calls". Lots of "C" and "F" words no doubt, read on. Private telephone numbers of those concerned were posted on a campaign group's website, which was later taken down following legal action by the Beeb. The corporation refused to bow to religious groups which had demanded the show not be aired. Now if they were Islamic..... A record number of complaints, 40,000, were made prior to the show going out. Critics say the opera features more than 8,000 swearwords and portrays Jesus in a nappy admitting he is "a bit gay". Good thing it wasn't Mohammed, but the Beeb could do that only in some alternate universe where Joe McCarthy had sobered up and people started listening to him. Tory deputy leader Michael Ancram joined the criticism. He said: "You can choose to go to the theatre, you can decide that you want to pay a sum of money to go to see something. That is where you go to see freedom of expression." But BBC director general Mark Thompson said that as a practising Christian he found nothing in the show that he believed to be blasphemous. If they had shown John Lennon in a tutu, now that would be blasphemous to the chatterati. "An hour-long programme is going out in front of it, putting it into context, and making it very, very clear to the public that it does include a great deal of strong language," he said. The opera, which plays to packed houses in the West End, contains a total of 3,168 "f"-words and 297 "c"-words. Eegad, you'd think it was the internet or something. The dull, docile, slavish masses of the Brit-bigot pseudo-elite are swarming to this opera, no doubt to affirm their collective superiority over typical Americans, as seen on Jerry Springer. The total number of obscenities is calculated by multiplying the number of swearwords by the number of people singing them. Is this an official EU standard? Science marches on. Prayer group Christian Voice held a vigil outside BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane, west London. No suicide bomb though, so Beeb does not take them seriously as a religious group. How would this program rate under Victoria's (AU) infamous "Vilification of Religion" statute, I wonder? |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #2 "...a total of 3,168 "f"-words and 297 "c"-words." Sounds like a REALLY imaginative show... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-01-08 9:06:52 PM |
| #1 And the Beeb lowers the bar, yet again, lol! Too funny, AC! |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-08 8:55:41 PM |