Posted on 06/09/2005 11:50:50 AM PDT by Dancing Jane
CBS PETITIONED TO PROBE SHOWTIME
Catholic League president William Donohue explained today the league’s strategy for dealing with Showtime, the cable network that recently aired a hate-filled episode of “Penn and Teller”:
“On May 23, 24 and 27, Showtime’s ‘Penn and Teller’ aired the ‘Holier Than Thou’ episode that has so enraged Catholics, as well as people of all faiths (click here). The obscene assault on Mother Teresa, her Missionaries of Charity and the Catholic Church was arguably the most vicious anti-Catholic fare ever shown on television in the United States. An excerpt of this show was sent to 350 persons of influence, including every bishop who commands a diocese. Now we want results.
“Beginning today, we are launching a nation-wide campaign demanding that CBS initiate a probe into this matter. Why CBS? Showtime is owned by Viacom, and Viacom has many subsidiaries in the entertainment and communications industries, none of which is more prominent than CBS. Now it may be that those who work at CBS had nothing to do with the offending Showtime episode. Nonetheless, CBS bears corporate responsibility. Just as important, the famous CBS name has been sullied by what Showtime did.
“We are focusing our attention on two persons: Leslie Moonves, Chairman and CEO of CBS, and Nancy Tellem, President, CBS Paramount Network (Showtime is a Paramount TV studio that will remain with CBS even if Viacom splits into two entities this summer). The petition (click here) seeks justice: We want those responsible for this bigoted assault on Catholicism to be held accountable for the damage they have done.
“In addition to pushing this petition on our website, we will ask our members to get involved: the July-August edition of Catalyst, our monthly journal, will reprint the petition. We are most proud of the support that we have received from those outside the Catholic community. They know what’s at stake and they look to CBS to correct it.”
"...dysfunctional terrorist-breeding Wahabi subculture and its state sponsors."
Interesting analogy between Islamic terrorists and Catholics. Thanks for the insight...into your mindset.
Penn is a libertarian...and like South Park, no cow is sacred to these guys and I don't mind...if they use equal jabbing...
To be fair, Penn and Teller did lampoon PETA earlier on Showtime.
Ping. Any of you see this?
I was referring to skip-intro's talking about the episode about PC on college campuses.
I don't know Penn's background, but those "claims" are straight out of ACT UP's handbook. Vile, disgusting lies.
> a woman who devoted her entire life to...
Jet-setting around the world and collecting fat checks from thieves that didn't go for food and medicine for the poor.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12495017&method=full&siteid=50143
http://slate.msn.com/id/2090083/
> a fat, bloated lard like Mr. Penn ...
... a man who has done FAR more to advance the human condition than Mother Theresa. Penn (and Teller, and Randi, and Carson, and Houdini before them) has spent years exposing frauds and saving lives.
> There are no such thing as Catholic terrorists.
I'm sure there are some in Ireland who might argue with you.
> Why isn't the Catholic League addressing the claims of Penn & Teller instead.
Because they can't.
... a man who has done FAR more to advance the human condition than Mother Theresa.
That may be the most unintentionally funny thing I have ever read.
SHOWTIME? You can't mean that paragon of reason that cancelled the excellent "Odyssey 5" to be replaced with the execrable, gay-recruiting series "Queer as Folk"?
All these things are apparantly true. There have been several from her organization that have spoken out about things like this but it has never received any press coverage.
Besides, Penn and Teller had a show a season or two ago where they bashed religion in general. No one was up in arms then. People only freak out when somone sneezes on a Qu'ran.
Thanks for clearing that up, and my apologies for the misunderstanding. Having worked as a volunteer in Mother Teresa's AIDS hospice downtown, I see red when I hear her hospices being ridiculed rather than ACTUP's damnable lies.
In spite of my enjoyment of Stargate SG-1, I abandoned Showtime after their first couple of left-wing political tirades posing as informative docudramas. One was the Clarence Thomas thing. I forget what the other one was.
They are lies.
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