Saving Private Ryan pre-empted for Jimmy Carter Special

WSB Atlanta

[FreeAtlanta]

Just announced here in Atlanta, WSB will pre-empt "Saving Private Ryan" in favor of some Jimmy Carter special. Their excuse? Private Ryan has harsh language. Do you all believe that?

[FreeAtlanta]

hmmmmmm

[Paleo Conservative]

What's so "special" about Jimmy Carter?

[Ptarmigan]

WTF??????? I'd rather see Saving Private Ryan, then something abot Jimmy Carter.

[polyester~monkey]

but Carter had harsh policies. pre-empt him with a fiery Stormin' Norman speech

[Mike Darancette]

This a sick joke right?

[68 grunt]

Oh, dang the disappointment. I thought there would be something 'special' to report about the peanut farmer.

I understand there is a 'special' report about arafat right now, too.

[PianoMan]

Carter had a harsher effect on the economy.

[Brilliant]

The fact that they embrace Jimmy Carter says it all.

[FreeAtlanta]

I think private Ryan is a little too pro military for our left leaning local station. Maybe I am hyper-sensitive?

[Ichneumon]

Their excuse? Private Ryan has harsh language.

They misspelled "has a conservative message".

Unlike, say, Jimmy Carter.

[Mr. Mojo]

Fitting having a special on Jimmah on the day of Arafat's death.

Two Nobel Peace Prize winners cut from the same rag.

[Corin Stormhands]

I'm sorry, but fercryinoutloud, ain't you got a Blockbuster?

Yes, I know tomorrow is Veteran's Day. I'll be flying my father-in-law's flag instead of our regular one (he was in WWII).

But c'mon, SPR has been out on VHS/DVD for several years. And surely the TV version has to be greatly sanitized which loses the effect.

I'm not defending the station OR Carter. I just don't think it's worth raisin' a ruckus.

But maybe that's just me...

[elizabetty]

Disgraceful. Will they show him with his buddy, Michael Moore?

[MediaMole]

FYI, they are running Saving Private Ryan uncut -- rated TVMA.

The TV station may be afraid that the ninnies will call the FCC.

[FreeAtlanta]

I have been know to pull a few of those, but not even I can be this perverted. My wife and I were stunned when it was just announced. She wants me to email WSB and call them communists.

[orangelobster]

I didn't hear about the Jimmy Carter Special. I picture him in a top hat performing a tap dance number accompanied by a rendition of 'i've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.' Then, special guest Jerry Lewis comes out for a comedy team routine with jimmy.

[NetValue]

Well Jimmy is the local boy who left town, went to Washington and became one of the worst presidents in modern American history. That is a real distinction for the man of peace who never lied to us, right.

[Apercu]

Carter is an obscenity foisted upon the American public by the media elite and liberal cabal in an effort to "rehabilitate" his reputation. He is a traitor besides being the WORST president in the history of the US.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The DU'ers think this is a conspiracy by the Bush administration to keep realistic war images off television to maintain support for the Iraq war.

I'm dead serious.

[Blue Scourge]

Who cares about that damned peanut farmer.