'South Park' Controversy Continues
A Political Look at Hollywood
By James Hirsen
By now most people are aware that “South Park,” the animated TV show on Comedy Central, isn’t for children.
The evidence was there from the start in the first episode, which was a Christmas show that featured a violent battle between an animated Santa Claus and the Christian Savior, Jesus.
The show uses words that most parents would prefer their children not have in their vocabulary banks.
Catholics, Mormons, Jews, and even atheists have been mocked over the course of the show’s run. God has been depicted as a monkey and Jesus as a kind of superhero hypocrite who uses his miraculous powers to smite opponents.
The program has also viciously attacked loads of celebrities, which has contributed to its high ratings and long roster of offended folks.
In the 200th anniversary episode, everyone that the show has ever offended makes a repeat appearance. In it, Tom Cruise teams up with Bono, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton, and other “South Park” parodied celebrities of the past to plot their revenge.
Unfortunately, this time around cartoon producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone have offended a group that has responded with a warning that they could face violent consequences for satirizing the Prophet Muhammad.
A U.S.-based organization, Revolution Muslim, posted on its website that the "South Park" creators would "probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh." Beneath a picture showing the murder of Van Gogh, the post reads: "We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid, and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them."
Van Gogh was the Dutch filmmaker who was shot and stabbed to death in 2004 over his short film titled "Submission," which focused on the issue of mistreatment of women in the radical Muslim culture.
The posting provided details about a home that Parker and Stone reportedly co-own and also listed the addresses of their California production office and the New York office of Comedy Central.
Comedy Central responded by editing out from the show any references to Muhammad.
According to Parker and Stone's website, the network prohibited them from streaming the original episode on their site. The two wrote, “After we delivered the show, and prior to broadcast, Comedy Central placed numerous additional audio bleeps throughout the episode. We do not have network approval to stream our original version of the show.”
Now Parker and Stone have issued a statement concerning their network's decision to perform the redactions.
“In the 14 years we’ve been doing ‘South Park’ we have never done a show that we couldn’t stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn’t some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle’s customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn’t mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We’ll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different, and we’ll see what happens to it.”
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
CHRISTIANS
BallPoint
From now on, many of my columns will be about how God-fearing Christians can restore America to its former pre-1960s configuration. We can grow a nation of God-fearing, God-loving children to fill the halls of Congress, to fill the halls of universities, to fill the check out lines at Wal*Mart, K Mart, and the seats of every movie theatre and sports arena, from North Dakota to Texas, from California to North Carolina.
If I live to be 82, I could see that dream fulfilled. If you're 82 or younger, you could see that dream fulfilled.
Aren't you fed up with rude, insensitive, overbearing, and down right hateful people? I am. Real Christians---real Christians don't behave that way.
All I've heard all week, from the liberal media, is that tea party people are the scum of the earth…they're stupid hicks…they're evil…they're hateful. Of course the liberal media are without blemish or sin. Read on to see what anti-Christian, anti-humanity things occurred within the last few days.
A frustrated mother called Rush Limbaugh on his radio show this week. She called to tell Rush that her young son called her, that same day, from school, to say that his teacher told the classroom of children that "old people" are the problem with the world. This fountain of wisdom went on to say that the world would a good place if all the old people were dead. That kind of thinking---demonizing a group of people and wanting them dead---is reminiscent of------who else? Adolph Hitler.
A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, April 8, 2010, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action. This comes about a week after our commander-in-chief declared that he and his wife would not attend public church services. Ironically, he finds no problem attending black churches, giving his best imitation of idiomatic ghetto-speak, when he's pushing his agenda.
Police in Guatemala say a 13-year-old boy has confessed to shooting a woman to death for a payment of about $12.50. The National Police say the suspect was carrying the fatal gun when arrested. Spokesman Donald Gonzalez says the boy told police he was paid to shoot the woman as she took her two children to school on the outskirts of Guatemala City.
Twenty-some states still legally practice corporal punishment in America. A school teacher, interviewed on Fox News Network, said that he paddles disobedient students. A representative for the A.C.L.U. expressed its disapproval of corporal punishment in schools, citing non-specific, unverified injuries of students in the past. What about teachers who've been assaulted in schools and beaten by unruly, hateful students? Many years ago I saw a teacher interviewed on, I believe, "60 Minutes". He could not talk about his experience of being severely beaten by a student, without having, as he put it, "a halting speech pattern".
Jon Stewart, comedian, on Comedy Channel, spoke ill of everyone on Fox News Network, this week. He looked straight into the camera and said: "F--- 'em".
Christians, due to indifference or due to scripture, remain passive in the face of the onslaught of attacks on Christians and Christianity and the population, in general.
Obama, following the instructions of Communist/Marxist, Saul Alinsky, says we must have a civilian army as big and powerful, and well-funded, as our military forces. [Who does he plan to go to war with?] Well, we good Christians already have an army. The problem is we don't counter the attacks of Christian-hating atheists in America. And believe me, I know that not all atheists hate Christians. We are too passive. We sit around and complain about the incremental deconstruction of the rights of Christians in America, but never raise a hand to do anything about it.
Well, there is one thing you can do about it. You can raise your children to believe in and adhere to biblical injunctions and principles that have provided stability in our homeland these many years. Have lots of children to take care of you in your old age, who'll mourn your passing when the time comes, who'll keep Christianity alive in America. In twenty years, we could have an even greater army of Christians to battle the evil in the world.
The following is an excerpt from Tempest at Dawn, by James D. Best, which I am reading, at his request, to provide a review of the book, which I already find fascinating, enlightening, and entertaining:
Dr. John Witherspoon: an old teacher of James Madison.
James Madison: One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
"John, the government must remain secular," Madison said, exasperated. "You're wrong. The government must not force a particular religion on any one, but it must never interfere with the free expression of faith." Witherspoon reached out and touched Madison's forearm. "James, a government can never be secular when filled with God-fearing men."
From now on, many of my columns will be about how God-fearing Christians can restore America to its former pre-1960s configuration. We can grow a nation of God-fearing, God-loving children to fill the halls of Congress, to fill the halls of universities, to fill the check out lines at Wal*Mart, K Mart, and the seats of every movie theatre and sports arena, from North Dakota to Texas, from California to North Carolina.
If I live to be 82, I could see that dream fulfilled. If you're 82 or younger, you could see that dream fulfilled.
Aren't you fed up with rude, insensitive, overbearing, and down right hateful people? I am. Real Christians---real Christians don't behave that way.
All I've heard all week, from the liberal media, is that tea party people are the scum of the earth…they're stupid hicks…they're evil…they're hateful. Of course the liberal media are without blemish or sin. Read on to see what anti-Christian, anti-humanity things occurred within the last few days.
A frustrated mother called Rush Limbaugh on his radio show this week. She called to tell Rush that her young son called her, that same day, from school, to say that his teacher told the classroom of children that "old people" are the problem with the world. This fountain of wisdom went on to say that the world would a good place if all the old people were dead. That kind of thinking---demonizing a group of people and wanting them dead---is reminiscent of------who else? Adolph Hitler.
A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, April 8, 2010, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action. This comes about a week after our commander-in-chief declared that he and his wife would not attend public church services. Ironically, he finds no problem attending black churches, giving his best imitation of idiomatic ghetto-speak, when he's pushing his agenda.
Police in Guatemala say a 13-year-old boy has confessed to shooting a woman to death for a payment of about $12.50. The National Police say the suspect was carrying the fatal gun when arrested. Spokesman Donald Gonzalez says the boy told police he was paid to shoot the woman as she took her two children to school on the outskirts of Guatemala City.
Twenty-some states still legally practice corporal punishment in America. A school teacher, interviewed on Fox News Network, said that he paddles disobedient students. A representative for the A.C.L.U. expressed its disapproval of corporal punishment in schools, citing non-specific, unverified injuries of students in the past. What about teachers who've been assaulted in schools and beaten by unruly, hateful students? Many years ago I saw a teacher interviewed on, I believe, "60 Minutes". He could not talk about his experience of being severely beaten by a student, without having, as he put it, "a halting speech pattern".
Jon Stewart, comedian, on Comedy Channel, spoke ill of everyone on Fox News Network, this week. He looked straight into the camera and said: "F--- 'em".
Christians, due to indifference or due to scripture, remain passive in the face of the onslaught of attacks on Christians and Christianity and the population, in general.
Obama, following the instructions of Communist/Marxist, Saul Alinsky, says we must have a civilian army as big and powerful, and well-funded, as our military forces. [Who does he plan to go to war with?] Well, we good Christians already have an army. The problem is we don't counter the attacks of Christian-hating atheists in America. And believe me, I know that not all atheists hate Christians. We are too passive. We sit around and complain about the incremental deconstruction of the rights of Christians in America, but never raise a hand to do anything about it.
Well, there is one thing you can do about it. You can raise your children to believe in and adhere to biblical injunctions and principles that have provided stability in our homeland these many years. Have lots of children to take care of you in your old age, who'll mourn your passing when the time comes, who'll keep Christianity alive in America. In twenty years, we could have an even greater army of Christians to battle the evil in the world.
The following is an excerpt from Tempest at Dawn, by James D. Best, which I am reading, at his request, to provide a review of the book, which I already find fascinating, enlightening, and entertaining:
Dr. John Witherspoon: an old teacher of James Madison.
James Madison: One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
"John, the government must remain secular," Madison said, exasperated. "You're wrong. The government must not force a particular religion on any one, but it must never interfere with the free expression of faith." Witherspoon reached out and touched Madison's forearm. "James, a government can never be secular when filled with God-fearing men."
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