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The trouble with 'Daniel'
Chicago Tribune ^ | January 22, 2006 | Lisa Anderson

Posted on 01/22/2006 10:47:32 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

NEW YORK -- A martini-sipping wife, a pot-peddling daughter, a gay son mourning his twin's death, an aging mother battling Alzheimer's disease--and his own habit of popping painkillers and literally seeing Jesus. Daniel Webster, a beleaguered Episcopal priest, clearly has issues.

And the American Family Association definitely has issues with him. The Tupelo, Miss.-based Christian family advocacy group unleashed an e-mail protest blitz, mobilizing its 3 million members effectively to try to defrock the fictional Webster and get his new "anti-Christian" television series, "The Book of Daniel," excommunicated from the NBC schedule.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bookofdaniel; daniel; hollyweird; homosexualagenda; nbc; religion; thebookofdaniel; trashtv; tv; tvc
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The show sounds boorish.
1 posted on 01/22/2006 10:47:33 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Well I've seen the show and the problem isn't that it's boorish, it's that it's BORING. Paint drying on a cold, wet day.


2 posted on 01/22/2006 10:49:58 PM PST by Nick5
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Don't think you'll have to worry about it much longer, as its ratings are in the toilet. I watched it once, and will never do so again. It was more stupid and boring than anything else.


3 posted on 01/22/2006 10:51:09 PM PST by The Foolkiller ( We're only trying to help people make right decisions-with the full force of government, of course.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Hollywood loves the Devil,

but refuses to acknowledge God.

There are no cell phones in Heaven!

4 posted on 01/22/2006 10:54:38 PM PST by Nitro
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Its DOA. NBC should take notes on how not to program.


5 posted on 01/22/2006 10:58:09 PM PST by oyez (Na)
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To: Nick5
Paint drying on a cold, wet day.

Were you ever in the US Navy, because you just explained a long, hard day with very few words? We always had at least two coats to do....

Red Lead and Haze Grey and underway.

6 posted on 01/22/2006 10:59:42 PM PST by Nitro
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To: Nick5

Can't be worse than 7th Heaven!


7 posted on 01/22/2006 11:02:43 PM PST by The Worthless Miracle
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Boycott GE.


8 posted on 01/22/2006 11:03:21 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Nick5
I mentioned on another thread that the concept sounded just right for a hilarious British comedy (imagine John Cleese as the put-upon clergyman). But PC/Liberal Hollywood would have absolutely no idea how to pull it off.
9 posted on 01/22/2006 11:03:46 PM PST by JennysCool (Non-Y2K-Compliant)
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To: The Worthless Miracle
Actually, the commercials promised it would.

The "Rev" is a drug addict, someone in the family stole the money from the worshippers and he talks to Jesus.

They stole that from "Rescue Me" and I didn't see it.

But, I'll bet few can be a sarcastic hard ass like Denis Leary.

10 posted on 01/22/2006 11:13:23 PM PST by Nitro
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Freaks. You don't cash in on Christians by insulting them.


11 posted on 01/22/2006 11:30:52 PM PST by Jaysun (The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides.)
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To: Grand Voyageur
It's real easy to get this show canceled. Don't watch it.

I don't know about that. I never watched "Laverne And Shirley" but it was a smash for years.

13 posted on 01/22/2006 11:41:22 PM PST by Chunga (Mock The Left)
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To: Nitro

They should have used Sears Weatherbeater.


14 posted on 01/22/2006 11:47:30 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Grand Voyageur

But tell the advertisers. Is there a way to get a Tivo to record only the commercials?


15 posted on 01/22/2006 11:48:13 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Jaysun

They put on garbage like this,and when it tanks,they claim that "Christian" programming doesn't sell.


16 posted on 01/22/2006 11:52:18 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: thompsonsjkc; odoso; animoveritas; mercygrace; Laissez-faire capitalist; bellevuesbest; ...
Moral Absolutes Ping List.

Ongoing Discussion about the controversial and somewhat cancelled-before-it's-broadcasted (and depressingly negatively stereotyped) series, "DANIEL."

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17 posted on 01/22/2006 11:54:51 PM PST by MillerCreek
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They should have used Sears Weatherbeater

I have two answers for that.......

One. There are no malls in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!

Two. Then we couldn't stop in "The Med" for excellent seafood and Osso Buco!!

18 posted on 01/22/2006 11:57:12 PM PST by Nitro
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To: MillerCreek

Hasn't everything that needs to be said already been said about this television show?


19 posted on 01/23/2006 12:13:05 AM PST by durasell (!)
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