Posted on 04/13/2006 1:09:34 PM PDT by oldleft
NEW YORK - Banned by Comedy Central from showing an image of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the creators of "South Park" skewered their own network for hypocrisy in the cartoon's most recent episode.
The comedy — in an episode aired during Holy Week for Christians — instead featured an image of Jesus Christ defecating on President Bush and the American flag.
In an elaborately constructed two-part episode of their Peabody Award-winning cartoon, "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker intended to comment on the controversy created by a Danish newspaper's publishing of caricatures of Muhammad. Muslims consider any physical representation of their prophet to be blasphemous.
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Well, I'll be honest, I've only seen 2 episodes, but didn't care for either, I haven't liked what I've read about it, even in context.
Becky
You really think they're afraid of physical violence? Come on. How stupid do you think these people are? Thats an absurd idea.
I assume you’re being sarcastic, given the fate of people like filmmaker Theo Van Gogh.
But if somebody threatens your life, you can cave into their threats, or you can tell them to go piss in their turban and buy yourself a gun.
William Donahue isn't too bright. No sane person should be picking a fight with Parker and Stone.
There are a couple dozen or more cartoons from the 30s, 40s, 50s, etc., that have been banned from television. The decision to ban has come from the owners/developers.
For example, there is one group of cartoons called the 11 Censored/Banned in the early 60s. (IIRC, Ted Turner owns them and he is the one who has kept them from being broadcast since the early 1960s.) They are mostly from the 40s and 50s. They are, for the most part, deemed racial.
Disney keeps Song of the South from being released in the USA for reasons of 'race'. The DVD is available overseas.
Censorship/banning of film titles is somewhat similar to the banning/censorship of printed materials. Society goes through cycles. In the 60s, I remember the title of the novel, Fanny Hill, was only whispered. A couple of decades later it was on college required reading lists.
This is the riskiest series in tv history and the idea that this network would be afraid of a non-existent threat of retaliation is just silly. There is NO risk and NONE with any clout would say a damn thing.
If South Park does not offend it fails.
a bunch of fat lazy cows. (see also team mascot of southpark "the cows", see also nick name of mantatee "sea cow.", see also worshiping the golded calf a/k/a a cow)
If they did that, I WOULD RIOT! :)
I'm 62 and I love South Park.
Rather than being edgy, Comedy Central now seems like some big bully that only picks on those who can't fight back. That's not very funny... not funny at all.
Imagine Mohammed doing a Kasey Kasem bit.
Southpark is the only tolerable think on that channel. Everything else is just PC poopola.
Even when they SAY they have an un PC commedian it is a PC cartoon of being UNpc.
NOW THE REAL QUESTION:
IF this is not a set up job, is there the UNCENSORED mohamed episode out there?
Probably online...
> The show is a little too 21st century for the hayseed Right
A South Park thread always brings the FR libertarian conservatives out of closet...which is where the goody-two-shoes go to watch it.
Far from it. They said they did it out of concern for public safety, but what thay meant was that they did it out of concern for their safety.
All the mucky-muck goobers at all the networks are scared chitless of a fatwa. Dhimmi to the max.
Look, is that Buddah or the Dali Lama on the far left?
It's Buddha, part of the Super Best Friends.
Gee, think Barbra Streisand is happy that she's in the credits also? I think not!
I realy enjoyed the part of President Bush trying to explain his "new 1st amendment" and the media demands to know if he thought out the consequences to the fist amendment before he implimented it.
According to the context of the show... Osama Bin Laden MADE the cartoon showing those things, in "retalliation" for the showing of Mohammed. It was Monty-Python-style cutout cartoon figures mocking America, Americans, and Christians.
It was supposed to be OBL insulting us, when in fact, it just looked stupid.
And the point of it, the point of the show, is that IF OBL released such an insulting cartoon designed to insult us, ALL NETWORK NEWS CHANNELS WOULD AIR IT! (probably repeatedly). That's the hypocrisy... the enemy does it to us, we show it. We do it to them, no.
IOW, the showing of the images of Jesus and Bush and such were not meant to be funny on their face, merely tools to point out what the MSM will censor, versus what they will show without hesitation.
But I love it :~D
So it can't be all bad :~D
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