Concerned Women of America Blasts Fox Over Playboy Special

Newsmax ^ | 5/2/02

[areafiftyone]

Fox Broadcastings plan to air a racy special on Playboy magazine's notorious centerfold is drawing fire from conservative groups.

The network is due to air a two hour show, "The Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold," at 8 p.m. on May 10 and organizations such as Concerned Women For America (CWA) want Fox to reconsider showing the program.

"It's men victimizing women for the sake of money and ratings," Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America told the Associated Press (AP) which cited CWA as one of seven groups, including the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family, that wrote a letter of protest to Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox's parent News Corp.

LaRue told AP she was concerned the special would encourage men to treat women as sex objects and sends a dangerous message to girls.

"It communicates to 12- and 13-year-old girls that this is what you have to do to be attractive to men," she said. "It dehumanizes, it objectifies and it is a gateway to hard-core pornography."

A Fox spokesman, Scott Grogin, brushed off the complaints, telling AP yesterday: "We respect all of our viewers' rights to their opinions. If this is a show they don't like or feel is appropriate, please don't watch."

The planned show will feature a dozen women who are flown to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming one of the magazine's celebrated centerfold models. They're housed at Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's infamous Playboy Mansion, and are filmed while "sunbathing by the pool (and) primping for photo shoots." After being given Hollywood shopping sprees and evenings out at restaurants and clubs, one of them is chosen by Hefner to be featured in a centerfold shoot wearing little or nothing.

The AP described the show as a cross between ABC's popular "The Bachelor" series and its Victoria's Secret fashion show aired last November which sparked a Federal Communications Commission investigation that found that it didn't violate broadcast standards for decency.

Fox has drawn fire from some of the same groups protesting the Playboy show who filed complaints with the FCC last month about Fox's "Boston Public," show, charging that the classroom drama is loaded with sexual topics, particularly for a program airing it what used to be known as television's family hour, the AP reported.

Fox defended "Boston Public" and series creator David E. Kelley, saying "we're proud to have it on our air.

[Phillip Augustus]

I happened to watch a Concerned Woman for America on FOX recently absolutely roasting some feminazi. I was actually beginning to change my up till then negative opinion of them. And now they're up to their old tricks- which, ironically, places them on this issue in the same camp as the feminazis!

[Phillip Augustus]

They already do- they sell out over and over and over on immigration, and that is the ONLY long-term issue.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You couldn't be further from the truth about CWA. As I said earlier, these are real, conservative women who fight for conservative causes like eliminating abortion, keeping the homosexual agenda out of schools, reversing the trend to put ever more foul behavior on tv. Why does everyone woman who objects to pornography automatically get labeled as a feminazi? Does your wife, mother,and grandmothers approve of pornography? If not, does that make them femanazis?

Please examine their website befor you continue calling them names. I accept your apology in advance.

[weikel]

If they have a political agenda of censorship like the feminazis then they are feminazis.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It is apparently useless to try to enlighten you to the difference between asking a station to reconsider airing a risque show and liberal feminazi tactics as you seem determined not to listen so I will not try further as it would be a waste of both your time and mine.

[Phillip Augustus]

"Objecting" to pornography is one matter; advocating criminal penalties for the possession or distribution thereof is another entirely. "Feminazi" is probably too strong a word to describe that agenda; but, on that issue, it certainly places on the same side as the true feminazis.

[Don Myers]

"These women want to do it. "

areafiftyone is right. The women are just as blind as the men. They like doing it. They like being sluts.

[Don Myers]

"...but money is the only reason the rest of us get out of bed in the morning."

Vladiator, are you learning something?

[Don Myers]

"True morality has been abandoned for a subjective philosophy of "if it feels good, do it". A wholesale rejection of the natural law has created a society of amoral men and women who can't see the error. Light HAS turned to darkness."

And, yet, it seems so right to them. They have no idea of what they are doing, but they think that those who see differently are the blind and mistaken.

[Don Myers]

Social conservatives don't have a party.

[Ben Bolt]

Yes it is . I dont doubt it Ditto . Fire your satellite dish company , if you can afford to do so . Yep , you do . you dont have the right to abolish free speech babe , even if its something you dont want in your home . Yes you do have every right to do so its in the constitution that you want to destroy to have your way . Yes , it does . I happen to place a greater value upon free speech weather I like it or not . Nice rant ditto . The founding fathers even thought of you . Aint it great ?

[Ben Bolt]

At least thats a start . good luck .

[HELLRAISER II]

O.K. I admit that is just lowdown mean & uncalled for. What I thought you meant was that they're looking for Miss Beautiful Christian to put in their magazine, just a misunderstanding of words.

[HELLRAISER II]

That's what bothers me the most about the prudes, if you don't like it just turn the channel. It's easy, why do they have to Bi+ch & complain all the damn time.

[Ben Bolt]

No , they cant do that ! They are like the left in this country . In there mind the Republic is going to hell in a hand basket . But dont worry . They will shove there lifestyle down our throats while they save us from ourselves . Umhumm , what is the Catholic church up to these days ? Yeah ..

[BikerNYC]

Who said I never heard of CWA? I just thought she sounded like Catherine McKinnon.

[Corin Stormhands]

Who said I never heard of CWA?

You didn't. I just pinged you to my response to areafiftyone and his/her response to you that said "never heard of them." Sorry.

[BikerNYC]

I understand. :)

[areafiftyone]

You didn't. I just pinged you to my response to areafiftyone and his/her response to you that said "never heard of them." Sorry.

Yup - that was me. I never heard of them. But I did check out their website. So now I know who they are. :-)