AFP File Photo of vile, infidel pig.
Posted on 06/18/2006 4:10:29 AM PDT by Caipirabob
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey's public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the popular Walt Disney cartoon "Winnie the Pooh" from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the Turkish press reported.
Several other cartoons featuring pigs also failed to win the green light from TRT management, according to the left-wing Cumhuriyet daily.
The station initially considered scissoring the scenes showing Piglet, but abandoned the idea because the small pink-skinned character, one of Winnie the Pooh's closest friends, appeared too often, Cumhuriyet and the mass-circulation Sabah newspaper said.
TRT officials were not immediately available for comment
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AFP File Photo of vile, infidel pig.
"Hide me Pooh! The terrorists are after me!"
Ping!
good. if you don't like our cartoons, don't watch them. go back to doing whatever it is you do. we don't criticize your cartoons, even though they are probably pretty weird.
Yet, people still think you can negotiate with them, you'd have a better chance to reason with a 4 year old than you would with these idiots.
Arnold The Porcinator Ziffel.
No more afraid than we are of a "wardrobe malfunction."
Who's afraid of the big, bad piglet.
The big, bad piglet, the big, bad piglet.
Who's afraid of the big, bad piglet.
I heard Salman Rushdie recount his first censorship experience from when he worked for Pakistan TV - his sitcom script was censored becaused it included a scene with pork in it.
"Pork," his boss said quite seriously. "Is a four letter word."
Gotta laugh...
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