ho ho ho Merry Christmas!
Posted on 12/26/2008 5:05:13 AM PST by mattstat
Controversial civil rights group ISEF yesterday filed suit in federal court against Turner Broadcasting and its cable affiliate TBS to cease airing the movie A Christmas Story. For several years, TBS has showed the popular movie non-stop over a twenty-four hour period on Christmas day.
“It is shocking in this day and age, given all we know about the horrors of gun ownership, that TBS can irresponsibly inundate the public with these images,” said ISEF spokesperson Martin Baumlot. “This appalling movie is a fetishization of weaponry and an attempt to instill in children the false idea that guns can be used for other things besides murder.”
According to court documents, ISEF claims that the movie A Christmas Story is “nothing but one child’s irrational obsession with a gun. In the movie, he even imagines himself using the gun to kill several people. There is a disturbing image of bodies stacked like cordwood that is chilling in its graphic intensity.”
Well known film expert Dr H. Harrister from the Institute for the Very Clever, said that “While the ISEF’s claim has some basis—the film’s protagonist Ralphie does dispatch several bad guys—that scene is nothing more than humorous dramatization of youthful fantasy.” The scene is one in which noted criminal “Black Bart” attempts an invasion of Ralphie’s home.
When asked about ISEF’s assertion that the film “goes beyond the obsessive mania for gun possession, and enters the realm of sick perversion as we actually see Ralphie go to bed with the weapon, lovingly caressing it as he drifts off the sleep, fantasizing once more about the brutal murder of our winged friends, the duck”,...
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Satire.
And she blamed the movie as part of the culture that glorifies guns and violence.
The members of ISEF resent your implication that this is satire.
“Satire.”
For now....
Well, thank God that you don't have to live with her, even though your brother does....
ho ho ho Merry Christmas!
By the time we left yesterday, I was ready to club her like a harp seal. I think even PETA would have been supportive; she’s really wretched.
Perhaps Ralphie will shoot THEIR eyes out.
A Christmas Story is one of the best movies ever made...they don’t make comedies like that anymore.
It’s so un-PC, but not outrageous...just true to life.
This article may be satire, but it’s also a reflection of how excruciatingly sensitive society is in this country.
With all the stupid crap on TV some one has to pick on this movie.They need to watch some of the other Sh*t TV.The TV isn’t responsible for raising your kids .Watch what your kids watch and explain what is good and what is bad .Simple.The movie is a classic leave it alone ...
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