Posted on 12/09/2005 5:50:13 AM PST by NYer
Catholic League president Bill Donohue remarked today about last nights episode of South Park (it will run again for the next three nights):
A South Park character gets a DWI and is ordered to attend AA meetings. Told about the 12-step program, he concludes that he needs a miracle to cure him. The plot then focuses on a statue of the Virgin Mary who is bleeding out her ass. The Vatican dispatches a cardinal to investigate and he is sprayed with blood when he walks behind the statue. He then declares this to be a miracle, which draws even more people. The alcoholic, now in a wheelchair, is also sprayed with blood: he then claims he is cured and jumps out of his seat.
Pope Benedict XVI goes to investigate. He, too, is sprayed with blood when he walks behind the statue. A reporter says, The pope investigated further and determined that the statue was not bleeding out its ass, but its vagina. To which the pope replies: A chick bleeding out her vagina is no miracle. Chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time.
Comedy Central is a subsidiary of MTV, which is owned by Viacom. On the board of directors of Viacom is a practicing Catholic and a distinguished public servant, Joseph A. Califano; he served under Presidents Johnson and Carter. We are writing to him today requesting that he intervene in this matter. We want a) an apology to Roman Catholics and b) a pledge that this episode be permanently retired and not be made available on DVD. In the event Viacom does not cooperate, we are asking Mr. Califano to issue his own statement of condemnation. We are asking our members to contact him as well. Remember, they chose to insult Our Blessed Mother on the eve of the Immaculate Conception, and the holy day itself.
Joseph A. Califano is chairman of the board of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. He can be reached at CASA, 633 Third Avenue, NY, NY 10017; phone, 212-841-5200; fax, 212-956-8020; email, employment@casacolumbia.org.
This is grotesque, please take action!
Don't worry. I woudn't watch that garbage, period.
I guess all the Freepers offended at this will cease to make fun of Tom Cruise for being offended at the episode poking fun at him.
We used to watch South Park, but after the inital scene where they announced where the Blessed Mother was bleeding from we turned it off and will never watch it again.
I've never even seen this show while flipping chanels. From reading this thread, I surely do not wish to see it. For some reason the Boomer generation seems to be anal retensive. Body function humor ain't funny.
I have watched "South Park" a couple of times. It was amusing and I even agreed with the message but it was too crude for me.
"You Germans have absolutely no sense of humour"
i have never watched this program, but something tells me they dont mock islam like they do the virgin mary.
Interesting that you brought that up, since that, rather than the "miracle" seemed to be the storyline. While AA is successful, I thought the protrayal of the dad when he "learned" he had a disease was hilarlious and in many cased right on. First, he confined himself to a wheelchair. Then he went to the "miracle" to be healed of his alcoholism. talking to the others..."What is your disease?" "Cancer." "Well, mine is alcoholism. I have a really bad case." The character assumed no accountability for his problem.
Of course it was extreme. That's how satire is done.
"South Park" now owes us n epsiode trashing Mohammed. Plenty of material to select from there, I might add.
"Dum dum dum dum dum..." ;~D
They're not making fun of Mary in this latest episode... they're making fun of people who think they're cured by anything coming out of a statue.
My favorite episode.
btw, I get the BYU channel on Dish and you should SEE some of the Mormon musicals.
That particular episode might be my favorite. I haven't seen any episodes from this season, however.
Which demonstrates only a superficial understanding of the 12-step philosophy, whose first step is "Came to understand that I was powerless, that my life had become unmanageable."
For most alcoholics, it's not enough to just put the cork back in the bottle. It takes a complete change of life. The alcoholic who just stops drinking -- South Park's simplistic "solution" to Stan Marsh's imaginary problem -- is just a dry drunk, a relapse waiting to happen. For the solution to be permanent and effective, there are 11 more steps to go through, and dodging accountability is absolute anathema to that process.
This strikes me as the childish whining of someone who was caught driving drunk and forced to attend AA. Does anyone know if that happened to Parker or Stone, or someone in their inner circle, recently?
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