Morgan Spurlock's Supersized Islamist BS ("Inside an American Muslim Family" reality TV series)

DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL.COM ^ | JUNE 24, 2005 | DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL

[Brad’s Gramma]

He told me and a Detroit radio show that Muslims are no more representative of Qaeda and Hamas than Timothy McVeigh is representative of Christianity. Actually, McVeigh was an atheist.





Bump.

[Paul Atreides]

Boy, doesn't THAT sound familiar?

[Paul Atreides]

No, producers told me. "Morgan wants the show to demonstrate to America that we are Islamophobic and that 9/11's biggest victims are Muslims."

Big surprise!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Indeed it does.

This sickens me that SO many people will watch this and fall for it, hook, line & sinker.

[Bommer]

The entire series is nothing more but a PC commercial for the DNC.

[Paul Atreides]

We are going to P.C. ourselves into oblivion. We are the ones attacked, yet, we are supposed to spend the rest of our lives kissing the backsides of the attackers.

[cyborg]

I read about this in a city paper. He's also going to be working for minimum wage himself. I think he should stick to eating mcfries.

[Brad’s Gramma]

yet, we are supposed to spend the rest of our lives kissing the backsides of the attackers.

Not THIS chick!!!

[Army Air Corps]

"I read about this in a city paper. He's also going to be working for minimum wage himself. I think he should stick to eating mcfries." Another lefty did that in the heavily biased book Nickel and Dimed. Spurlock's movie Supersize Me should have been renamed An Idiot Demonstrates the Obvious. If I ate the biggest potions of fast food meals three times per day and did bloody nothing for excercise, I would not be surprised that I gained weight. That is what happens when we overindulge and do not exercise. Spurlock is a bleeding twit.

[cyborg]

I read Nickel and Dimed. I thought it was okay but to have a whole show devoted to Spurlock bogarting the idea is stupid. I never saw Supersize Me but it's popular amongst the vegan crowd for some reason.

[Echo Talon]

this guys show is BS, saw it the other day it was about working out and using supplements. It stank royal of a Michael Moore "Bowling for Columbine" job.

[xroadie]

So he ate macDonalds 4 times a day and gained weight and got sick in his movie. Big surprise. In his series the other day, he discovered that minimum wage is not enough to live on, another huge, earth shattering discovery. (I mean, has this guy ever worked a real job?) Now I suspect he will discover, by living with an American Muslim family, that they (Muslims)are people too.
Is there no beginning to this guy's talent?
Can we possible restate the obvious any more, and still sell it as top quality television?
The real appeal of this to the lefties is the snide condescension to middle America. Turn it on if you feel like it; makes me sicker than a month of McDonalds, though.

[cyborg]

The real appeal of this to the lefties is the snide condescension to middle America.

** You got that right! This show is going to be right up there with Oprah going to live in a housing project in Southside,Chicago.

[backhoe]

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

[dead]

I remember hearing the promos for this show, where they say "Learn what's its like, living as a Muslim in today's America."

I thought to myself, it's probably alot like living as a Jew, Hindu, or Christian in today's America.

If Spurlock wants to do an informative and interesting show, he should try living as a Christian in today's Saudi Arabia or Sudan.

[GSlob]

The title about supersized islamist should properly relate to a TV adaptation of a story from the "Arabian Nights", where a pious Muslim was granted by Allah three wishes as a reward for his piety.
At his wife's instigation he requested becoming supersized, and was instantly made so to such an extent that he could not even move. So, again on the advice of his wife, he requested to be rid of such a calamity - and lo, he became a eunuch. The third and last wish was - again with the major input from his wife - spent by him on his request to be restored to the status quo ante.
This short story has been begging for centuries to be adapted as a TV miniseries, and it is good that Morgan Spurlock is finally attempting it. Say, a story of each wish could be made into a separate episode...

[Army Air Corps]

Nickel and Dimed had lots of problems. For one thing, the authoress blew a lot of her cash on marijuana. Also, she was on a job for no more than a few weeks and, therefore, was not able to stay long enough to earn anything beyond the starting hourly wage (many of the places at which she worked would increase the hourly wage after someone worked there for a couple of months). She had a conclusion and set about to prove her socialist beliefs.