Posted on 01/04/2006 1:11:05 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
Advertisers spend millions for 30-second spots. Just think if they had a whole half-hour to sell their ideas. That's what shows like this are - commercials for weirdos. Children and teenagers are very impressionable, and run in packs. If the cool kids say something is funny, the wanna-be's laugh. If the cool kids beat somebody up, the wanna-be's pile on. TV and Hollywood have positioned themselves as the cool kids, and I'm not gonna take it.
There is a war in this country to normalize every form of deviant behavior, and shows like this are on the leading edge. The only way deviants can feel better is to feel accepted. Well, people like me are tired of them trying to convince the kids that deviants are normal. Unless we stand up, they have no one to look to but the people who've gotten it wrong. Dead wrong.
Stuff like this is not "take-it-or-leave-it". It's "fight-it-or-you'll-regret-it".
You got it buddy.
I had a choice of answering your posts or catching the train home on time.
That choice was a no brainer.
Anyway heres a dozen examples from one year:
Still the Bad Guys: A Review of This Season's TV Arabs By Jack Shaheen
The 1984-85 television season continued the trend toward denigrating the people of the Middle East. Over 30 programs—from the the popular A-Team to Bugs Bunny cartoons—enhanced stereotypical portraits. Arabs were seen as a group separate from Americans—an indigestible lump, a foreign body.
Here are some selected distortions, many of which appeared in programs that had nothing to do with Arabs.
* On the A-Team series, a Middle Eastern princess will marry some rebel "with a towel around his head." The A-Team beats the socks off the rebel and his henchmen.
* In a Bob Hope Special, Hope, dressed as a used-camel salesman, boasts: "Now that the Arabs own Beverly Hills there'll be caravans down Rodeo Drive."
* Hail to the Chief features Libyan terrorists who hold Bob Hope's USO tour hostage. "Give me a unit of Green Berets and I'll level falafel land in half an hour," shouts the U.S. general. Chief flashes anti-Arab barbs weekly.
* On Dynasty, Ahmad, the Arab character, proves no Arab can be trusted. Rather than keep a promise to John Forsythe, he beds Joan Collins.
* Top-rated music videos, Rock the Casbah (The Clash) and California Girls (David Lee Roth) feature Arabs flaunting oil riches and ogling blondes.
* Lace I and Lace II focus on a desert kingdom, complete with veiled, cackling women, clad in black.
* The TV movie Key to Rebecca, focuses on Sonia, an Egyptian belly dancer with kinky sexual habits, who hates the British. Joining Sonia are hordes of Nazi-loving Egyptians, including the half-German villain.
* A Miss Marple TV movie begins with Marple happily arriving in London. On entering her hotel, however, she is stunned by a six-and-a-half foot tall Arab 'giant' and his three dwarf-like wives.
* In a Highway to Heaven episode a man dresses as an Arab to enhance the value of some homes. Such a ploy ensures "a fair shake."
* On Cover-Up Arabs are drug merchants with "bad breath" who kidnap American women. White slavery is the theme and the destination is Tunisia—"the marketplace of the world."
* On What's Happenin', Amid, the Arab, is a hit-and-run driver who sups on goat's milk and pigeon's brains. His Rolls Royce demolishes the protagonist's car. Amid won't pay up-his father has business relations with the U.S. government.
* In Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales Bugs is told to tell the Sheik's "bentheaded son" a story. If not, Bugs will be "beheaded" or "boiled in oil."
Rent a DVD, don't watch, read a book, go on line.
No one is forcing this on you.
Take care of yourself rather than trying to impose on others.
Doesn't sound quite so smugly smart that way, does it?
Most of those sound like news reports while the rest suggest that Arabs are more than a little thin skinned!
How many times did SNL belittle Czech men as being "wild and crazy guys?"
Guess we'd better watch our for some Czech to go 9/11 on us, eh?
In other words: Free speech for me but not for thee!
It sounds like a repackaged version of another failed "liberal" religious TV series which was called "Nothing Sacred" and featured a rebellious liberal Catholic priest as the main character. The "religious" metaphorical and symbolic context is merely a ruse to sell the same old liberal social engineering propaganda. Silly. They never seem to learn.
Apples, meet the oranges, you have nothing in common.
They never but would, but if they did I'd watch atleast the first episode.
Oh good gravy. Free speech deals with the GOVERNMENT saying you can't say something.
No, *censorhip* deals with the government saying you can't do something.
Free speech, on the other hand, is the principle best summarized by the paraphrase of Voltaire's position, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." That's not in the same spirit as "I'll do what I can to keep it from airing".
This isn't free speech - it's commercial television. The clue is the word "commercial". Commerce ain't free.
Why does this garbage pass as "entertainment"? It's so perverted in every way. I am insulted by the concept, much less the actual program.
No...I think if you search the constitution...you will fail to find the word "censorship" anywhere at all in the document. However, a search will turn up the words "Freedom of Speech" in the 1st Ammendment. Please document the word "censorship." I am speaking constitutionally here...and as someone else pointed out...NBC is COMMERCIAL TV...which means they sell it...so I can chose not to buy it with my speech.
As usual, the Christians' wailing and gnashing of teeth over this TV show is generating more buzz than if they just ignored it.
They boycotted Picket Fences, which turned out to be a great show. They boycotted NYPD Blue- another great show. They boycotted 'The Last Temptation of Christ' which was a horrible movie but lasted in the theaters twice as long as it would have had it been ignored.
But that's religion for you...
THanks! Your luke wamr conservatism has inspired me to speak out against this anti-christian garbage!
Now go to hell.
Unlike you anti-Christians, Christians are tired of being doormats for the leftist media. Time to take action...you go play with your remote...
Yes, Mr. Wildmon knows of that invention...something else that you liberals can play with while we take action to get these trash shows OFF the air.....
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