Posted on 01/24/2006 9:39:09 AM PST by nmh
Because of your efforts, NBC cancels 'Book of Daniel'
Dear (just received this through e-mail),
NBC's anti-Christian program The Book of Daniel has been cancelled! Your efforts, combined with those of hundreds of thousands of other AFA Online supporters, had an impact.
NBC's decision to pull The Book of Daniel shows the power of the pocketbook. NBC didn't want to eat their economic losses. Had NBC not had to eat millions of dollars each time it aired, NBC would have kept The Book of Daniel on the air. Because of your efforts, the sponsors dropped the program. NBC then decided it didn't want to continue the fight.
Even an impassioned plea by Daniel's producer Jack Kenny could not match your participation. "Ordinarily, I would never ask anyone to do this, but the AFA and bullies like them are hard at work to try and prevent you from seeing these beautiful shows, and that is censorship—pure and simple. And that is both un-Christian and un-American," Kenny wrote. His attitude is typical in today’s society. Non-Christians telling Christians what is Christian.
People like Kenny don't want people like you to have a voice. They want to deny you the right to get involved. You are supposed to sit back and take the trash. And when you do speak up they call you names.
This shows us that we don't have to simply sit back and take the trash, but we can get involved and fight back with our pocketbooks. I want to thank the 678,394 individuals who sent emails to NBC and the thousands who called and emailed their local affiliates.
Thanks for caring enough to get involved!
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Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association
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No, it's a self-aggrandizing, looney-left producer trying desperately to find an alibi for the demise of a fourth-rate turkey that interested basically nobody.
Exactly! And there are people on this board who believe that if you had written to Burger King and said, "Hey, could you guys be more like McDonalds so I can spend some money with you?", you would be a fascist trying to censor BK and control the lives of everyone who ever gets a jones for a burger.
That is/was a problem with Nielsen's diaries. People write down shows that are 'popular' but they never watch it.
Next, the person may change his viewing habits with the Nielsen box in the room. They may like a particular show, and although they don't feel like watching it (it's a repeat, a better, one time movie is on HBO, etc), they will either watch it (or at least leave the TV on so the box records it) or claim they watched it.
That's possible, but Nielsen does meter every television set within a HH.
Good effort!
Then Heath Ledger will soon collect the award in my tagline, yes?
Thanks!
Meanwhile, the actual Book of Daniel isn't in the "new testament" at all but is part of the TaNa"KH (Hebrew Bible). However, thanks to people like Abe Foxman and Yoffie and their ilk most people think the Bible is in its entirety a chr*stian book. Goodness knows attacks on the Bible are never defined as anti-Semitic.
I saw, at COSTCO, that E L Doctorow had a book called, Book of Daniel. The story line has no similarity to the TV show, though. The book had a storyline similar to the Rosenberg trials.
Hey, hey, hey, goodbye!
Who does he think would be seeing this movie that would have their minds changed? How many people who oppose gay marriage has he actually talked to? And people say the President lives in a bubble.
Thanks Liz, you always have great facts to back up your claims.
Has it been doing CSI numbers, I don't think that the sponsors would have been so hesitant to buy time on it. As someone else pointed out, Heather Graham's sitcom was cancelled after one showing with no boycott in place.
If anything, I think that the boycott kept the show hanging on a couple of more weeks, since no one wanted to be seen to be caving.
That is no surprise. But not where I live.
Its on WB here in PHX after 1030 PM.
1. Kenny is in "Catholic recovery" and loosely based the family in "Daniel" on his gay lover's family. For a gay man who uses Jesus as a plot device to start defining what is and isn't Christian is like Howard Dean deciding who gets to work at the Heritage Foundation.
2. Kenny also appears to believe that writing a letter to a business and asking them to change their product mix is something that both Christ and the Founders would look down on. Somehow, I don't think so.
3. I concur with your assessment. To be a Christian means to love Christ, and we are obligated to love our fellow Christians as well. Kenny took a leak on Christ and on my brothers and sisters, but it's unChristian for me to say that's out of line? Sorry, not buying it.
The sad thing is, they think they're the smart ones and we're just easily-duped rubes.
More good news!
Sam Alito's nomination passes out of committee, now this.
Hit'em where it hurts, in the bottom line. No sponsors, no money, no religion bashing. Maybe they learned their lesson and maybe they didn't.
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There are plenty of bad shows out there. Someone's watching them.
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