Posted on 12/28/2005 1:12:12 PM PST by FerdieMurphy
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president of the U.S. bishops blasted a recent episode of the cable television comedy "South Park" that he said showed Mary in "a tasteless and ugly fashion."
In a Dec. 14 letter to Tom Freston, co-president and chief operating officer of Viacom International, parent company of Comedy Central, the cable channel that shows "South Park," Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., said the channel showed "extreme insensitivity" in choosing to show the episode.
The episode, which first was shown Dec. 7 and had repeat showings in the week following, was titled "Bloody Mary." During the episode, a "South Park" character claims to have been sprayed with blood from a bodily orifice of a Virgin Mary statue.
When Pope Benedict XVI investigates in the show, he declares that she was merely menstruating. The episode's premiere date came the day before the feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation for Catholics.
"You sound pretty offended."
I guess I don't know how to control my "sound" during typing. I don't know what could have made you think I was offended, since I specifically pointed out I wasn't. Is this your level of argument, to say "Yes you are" when someone says they aren't?
You don't have to tell me! I know! It's the uptight anti-fart people I'm worried about.
"Now, now. They don't use the F word on South Park."
No you weren't. You were told it wasn't used much. No need to make stuff up.
They assault the ivory towers of society. Racism, intolerance, pandering, and general stupidity are routinely lampooned. IT IS A LAMPOON!
If you don't like it, don't watch it. You almost have to be British to get the humor.
Any show that treats Barbara Streisand as an out of control, evil, liberal monster is ok with me!!!!
Bible thumpers do not need to watch this show! It is patently offensive to everyone...Jews, Christians, atheists, Muslims, retards, fatasses, etc...
No doubt with Jesus farting the Sermon on the Mount the whole way
I was really respecting (although not totally agreeing with) your religeous conviction........
Right up until that remark.
Or is that one of your points that has not been refuted?
I think there's a rule here that there has to be at LEAST one Mary thread per day :) (you could wait until tomorrow)
So it's okay to knock God and the Virgin Birth off of their "high horse."
Okayyyy....
Looks like altar boy may need a couple of extra 1000 years in purgatory.
They don't ~say~ it. It's bleeped ;~D
They do bleep it...
Let me clarify. He wouldn't do it to get a cheap laugh.
At least I don't think He would. But I could be wrong.
One thing I'm not wrong about, though, is that if the creators of South Park thought they could get a cheap laugh out of a writing a scene where Jesus farts the Sermon on the Mount while carrying His own cross to His own death, they would.
And the South Parkers would laaaaaaaaugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.
And then give me the flugle-nose because I (gasp!) name-called.
There is a need if both logic and the raw facts don't support your argument. As Moynihan once said, you're entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts ^^
Yep. Definite imbecile. Except that's an insult to the intelligence of imbeciles.
Dang it. You're forcing me to go back and look it up.
Nah - not worth the effort. I've got my DVD recorder set to catch all seven eps tonight. Sleepy now byebye.
"South Park fans tend to be intellectually challenged"
I disagree with your premise so the rest is just blather. Oh wait, how did I know the meaning of the word "premise" and concepts of logic if I'm a SP fan? I guess I'm just not one of the ones that "tend" toward imbecility.
Really good "dangerous humor" not only brings down the mighty, etc. but offers some insight into the bargain.
Truthfully, I don't watch it. I've seen enough.
"South Park isn't "dangerous humor" of the kind Sam
Kinison or Richard Pryor created. It's basically junior high school humor."
Did I say it was? I disagree with your latter statement. I think it is often very sharp and clever satire. I think their musical parodies are without peer. In the end I guess it's a matter of opinion. But I havn't criticized anyone for not liking the show, while taking a great deal of criticism for liking it.
Where did I say I was a "Southpark conservative"?
Have you ever watched the show? Define "godless immoral garbage".
There's nothing "conservative" about this crap.
Why must there be anything conservative about it?
Is there anything conservative about pine trees or fried chicken?
I enjoy both but I don't expect them to have a moral meaning.
Retards? You mean they offend their own fanbase? And if they're retards, would they know it if they had been offended?
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