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In the wake of the Emanuel AME Church Massacre, time to ban the series 'Firefly'
Houston TV Examiner ^ | June 26, 2015 | Mark R. Whittington

Posted on 06/26/2015 3:58:17 AM PDT by Marcus

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1 posted on 06/26/2015 3:58:17 AM PDT by Marcus
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From my cold dead hands...


2 posted on 06/26/2015 4:04:33 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Marcus

This is like satire, right?


3 posted on 06/26/2015 4:04:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Yeah I think so but there are plenty of liberals who would like to ban it because Adam Baldwin is an unapologetic conservative.


4 posted on 06/26/2015 4:08:42 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Gaffer

No it’s a scummy blog pimp.


5 posted on 06/26/2015 4:12:31 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: cripplecreek

In reading it (I still think maybe satire) the gist of the argument is that Mal represents the future fictional Confederate Rebel who wanders the outlands after having been on the losing side. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

I’ve noticed that when you get a situation where one side feels they have the power because of all the successes they’ve had (e.g., renaming streets, taking down statues and flags) they get more arrogant and demanding and they always overstep.

In this confederacy eradication thing, the real problem here isn’t the confederacy and its connection to slavery so much as it is that age old tenet that “the slave dreams not of being free; he dreams of being master.”

And that’s the crux of it. It won’t end


6 posted on 06/26/2015 4:17:01 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Marcus

The analogies are getting crazier by the hour.


7 posted on 06/26/2015 4:20:08 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Obviously, it's time to ban Star Wars because of its glorification of the Rebel Alliance. </satire>
8 posted on 06/26/2015 4:24:50 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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I’m wondering when they’ll go after SyFy’s “Defiance”.

The town of Defiance, (formerly Saint Louis) refuses to join the oppressive Earth Republic despite facing threats from the alien Votanis Collective.

Its another space western.


9 posted on 06/26/2015 4:26:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Gaffer

His use of “modest proposal” gives it away. See Jonathan Swift ...


10 posted on 06/26/2015 4:26:59 AM PDT by tanknetter
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What a crock and a bridge to far. Star Wars should be banned also using the same logic.


11 posted on 06/26/2015 4:28:08 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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This is like satire, right?

Yes, it's satire.

But I have a question beyond the satire, for anyone who might have an opinion:

Why do you think Firefly failed? I actually thought it was quite good.

12 posted on 06/26/2015 4:28:59 AM PDT by samtheman
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Well when you expunge confederate history...then slavery disappears with it...I regret the loss of the Confederate flag flying over a CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL, but I will not miss the reference to slavery thrown in my face every day. It will be nice when that discussion finally banned. No now slavery didn’t happen. Nice.


13 posted on 06/26/2015 4:31:05 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else!)
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To: DoodleDawg

This is a good thing.

Either the Progs will realize that they are starting to look ridiculous here with their purging frenzy or ...

They’ll actually take these ideas up and by drastically overreaching spur a massive backlash.


14 posted on 06/26/2015 4:31:10 AM PDT by tanknetter
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I think Firefly failed largely due to poor marketing.

Most people never saw it before reruns.


15 posted on 06/26/2015 4:32:27 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: samtheman

I thought it was a tremendous show. Probably the best in decades. I’m at a loss to explain why it wasn’t more popular.


16 posted on 06/26/2015 4:33:13 AM PDT by Gaffer
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It will be nice when that discussion finally banned.

Wow.
17 posted on 06/26/2015 4:33:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: tanknetter

Yup. It’s exactly the same as putting a “Satire” label next to the title.


18 posted on 06/26/2015 4:34:18 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blow smoke up my ass and tell me it's raining...)
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To: samtheman

Its cancellation has never been fully explained.

The conspiracy-minded fans allege that it was cancelled for being too good: that the SyFy parent company suits saw it’s message as either too subversive (Libertarian sense) or too recidivist (harkening to the Confederate “lost cause” romanticism).


19 posted on 06/26/2015 4:34:57 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: mad_as_he$$

Why don’t you write a satirical piece calling for it to be banned?


20 posted on 06/26/2015 4:35:34 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blow smoke up my ass and tell me it's raining...)
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