Posted on 08/31/2009 2:18:02 PM PDT by Shermy
The Moscow City Court on Friday rejected an appeal by prosecutors to recognize “South Park” as an extremist cartoon, Interfax reported.
In June, Moscow’s Basmanny District Court ruled that the iconoclastic U.S. cartoon did not promote religious hatred and annulled a warning issued by prosecutors last September to 2x2 television about the extremist content of its cartoons.
Basmanny district prosecutors had said the “South Park” episode “Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics” about singing excrement was extremist in nature because it promoted “hatred between religions.”
The prosecutors appealed the court’s decision July 24, but the Moscow City Court refuse to intervene Friday.
“The Basmanny court’s ruling has been left with no changes,” Moscow City Court spokeswoman Anna Usachyova told Interfax.
Mark
South Park is excellent anti-PC humor; they get away with alot.
The creators, Parker and Stone are Republican/Libertarian.
So they’re not going to kill Kenny?
I don’t remember the episode and Wikipedia says it is all characters singing Christmas songs. I don’t get the complaint.
I wonder how many other shows have an entire page dedicated to the controversies it has started.
Maybe if Kenny got killed with Polonium-210....
ping
It’s probably the “Merry $%^&ing Christmas” song that made them complain:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/merry-fucking-christmas-lyrics-south-park.html
I’m not actually 100% convinced the mods will let even the link live for long.
“respect mah Authority!”
~Cartman
Oh yeah?
Well screw you guys, I'm goin' home.
“The creators, Parker and Stone are Republican/Libertarian.”
I listened to an interview they gave while drinking wine and lounging in a jacuzzi.
The interviewer asked if they hated Democrats. They said, ‘No, we hate Republicans, too; we just hate Democrats more.’ [paraphrase]
Really?
Well if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, I can live with it. The show is crude and funny, IMO.
Ha, I screwed that up.
“While ‘they’ were drinking wine...” It wasn’t me, I swear!
Yeah, they said that, but you can never tell with those two wise guys. I think you’re right, though. They are likely libertarian. I remember they had Officer Barbrady (an idiot who had just learned to read) trashing Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” in one episode — proving that he was now just a literate idiot.
Right - remember when he learned how to read in the ‘Chicken F*c*er’ episode?
The show is hilarious! Crude no doubt, but funny. I love Cartman!
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