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New TV Outrage - A New Low For TV:

YOUR IMMEDIATE HELP NEEDED TO DRIVE THIS GROSSLY INDECENT GARBAGE OFF TV AND OUT OF OUR HOMES...

First, we apologize to you in advance for asking you to read the filth below.  WARNING: it's EXTREMELY offensive. 

DON'T LET ANY CHILDREN READ THIS E-MAIL!

But millions of children were already exposed to it on TV, and you need to know how totally sick some TV shows marketed to children have become.

Here's what millions of impressionable youngsters across America who tuned in to the new Fox-TV show, "Keen Eddie," were subjected to last Tuesday evening (June 10) --

The plot involved a case about black market traffic in horse semen.  Detective Eddie hired a prostitute (whose ad in the newspaper read, "Forty Year Old Filthy Slut. Will Do Anything") to have sex with a horse!!!

FILE YOUR FORMAL INDECENCY COMPLAINT AGAINST THE JUNE 10, 2003 EPISODE OF FOX-TV's "KEEN EDDIE" WITH THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC) NOW!

This is what you letter to the FCC will look like:

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To: Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), Washington, D.C.

Michael K. Powell, Chairman
Kathleen Q. Abernathy
Jonathan S. Adelstein
Michael J. Copps
Kevin J. Martin

RE:   OFFICIAL FCC TELEVISION INDECENCY COMPLAINT:

This is a formal COMPLAINT of indecency on broadcast television. My complaint concerns the PROGRAM ON:
NETWORK:  FOX-TV
PROGRAM TITLE:  "Keen Eddie"
BROADCAST DATE: June 10, 2003
BROADCAST TIME:  9:00 PM Eastern & Pacific Time, 8:00 PM Central & Mountain Time

Documentation of the indecent material on which my COMPLAINT is based is provided below.  A video tape of this entire episode of "Keen Eddie" is available from the Parents Television Council. PLEASE KEEP ME INFORMED OF THE PROGRESS AND RESULTS OF YOUR INVESTIGATION INTO THIS MATTER.

COMPLAINANT believes that this material is in context and fully representative of the show's overall tone and quality.

COMPLAINANT also declares that such material is:

• Clearly indecent according to the standards of my community;
• Especially offensive because it was broadcast at an hour when millions of children were watching; and
• Because the popularity of this program with young viewers is well-documented.

The FCC should exercise its responsibility to enforce the existing law against indecency on broadcast TV between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. (Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1464) by levying severe sanctions against the broadcasters of this program.

PLEASE KEEP ME INFORMED OF THE PROGRESS AND RESULTS OF YOUR INVESTIGATION INTO THIS MATTER. SYNOPSIS, June 10, 2003 EPISODE OF "Keen Eddie"

The plot involved a case about black market traffic in horse semen.  Detective Eddie hired a prostitute (whose ad in the newspaper read, "Forty Year Old Filthy Slut. Will Do Anything") to have sex with a horse.

When the prostitute showed up at the stable, Keen Eddie's thugs asked her to have sexual intercourse with a horse because they needed its semen. 

Actual dialogue:

Prostitute: --No, that's not natural.
Thug: --------Extraction for insemination. If you look at the picture on  page 45 you'll see how natural it is...
Prostitute: --Forget it!
Another Thug: --You're a 40-year old filthy slut, you'll do anything...
Prostitute: --With a human...

The prostitute finally agrees to go through with it.  She goes to the stable and attempts to arouse the horse, but the horse drops dead. 

She explains, "I never laid a finger on it.  I lifted up my blouse, that's all… he needs to get aroused.  I happen to know a little something on this subject."

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CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR PROTEST TO ALL 5 FCC COMMISSIONERS

A copy of this COMPLAINT will be sent in your name to Gateway, Subway, Pier 1 and Nissan as a sponsor of this program, with the following message:

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I am outraged at the frightening increase in violence, sex, filth, smutty humor and coarse language on prime-time television. TV shows have been poisoned by a flood of offensive material that is helping destroy family values and seriously harming America's children and grandchildren… and SPONSORS LIKE YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT WITH YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLARS!

In particular, TV was poisoned by the June 10, 2003 episode of "Keen Eddie" aired on Fox-TV and sponsored by {name of sponsor}.

As a consumer, I am taking part in this grassroots campaign organized by the Parents Television Council (PTC) to urge you and all commercial TV Sponsors to STOP USING YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLARS TO UNDERWRITE THE FILTH AND VIOLENCE THAT IS POISONING THE MINDS OF MILLIONS OF IMPRESSIONABLE YOUNGSTERS.

I hope and expect to hear from the PTC that {name of sponsor} has adopted a new and more responsible advertising policy that will preclude sponsorship of any program containing material as indecent as that featured in the June 10 broadcast of "Keen Eddie."

Sincerely,

Your Name

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Call or Send a snail mail to the commissioners: Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554
Phone: 888-CALL-FCC (225-5322)
TTY: 888-TELL-FCC (835-5322)
Fax: 202-418-0232

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1. Go to Complaint To FCC and sign the formal indecency complaint to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) against this "Keen Eddie" broadcast.  The FCC is supposed to enforce the federal law against broadcast TV indecency during children's viewing hours.  Please help us flood the FCC with complaints about this "Keen Eddie" atrocity.

2. When you sign the FCC complaint, the PTC will also generate on your behalf a WARNING TO SPONSORS addressed to four of the national advertisers whose commercial dollars paid to air this show on Fox-TV.  Your warning alerts Gateway Computers, Subway Restaurants, Pier 1 and Nissan Motor Company that you are shocked at their irresponsibility in paying for such filth-filled content.

3. ALSO VERY IMPORTANT -- FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY NOW SO THEY CAN JOIN THE FIGHT.

Fox-TV's descent into this moral sewer was paid for by the sponsors who bought commercial time on this show.  

They include companies like Gateway, Subway, Pier 1 and Nissan -- all nationally-known brands that want to be  perceived as friends of the American family.

How can they allow their commercial dollars to pay for polluting our homes with graphic filth like this?  Whether these companies intended it or not, this kind of content directly violates the moral standards of decent families, especially those with young children. 

When TV Sponsors advertise on shows containing content like this -- whether it's bestiality and foul language on "Keen Eddie," or the  barrage of ultra-violence and references to oral sex, threesomes, masturbation and homosexuality documented by the PTC on other prime-time broadcast network shows -- we must hold the sponsors accountable for attempting to destroy our children's and grandchildren's moral values and character.

Moreover, your official indecency complaint to the FCC will support our campaign to demand that the FCC investigate, fine, and possibly pull station licenses of the Fox-TV affiliates who aired this "Keen Eddie" show.

And, hopefully, many of your friends and family will also forward this e-mail, so the FCC INDECENCY COMPLAINT and WARNING TO SPONSORS will be multiplied many, many times over!

We need you and a lot of other decent folks to take immediate action. Please don't delay.

With urgent thanks,

Parents Television Council

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P.S. Go now to FCC INDECENCY COMPLAINT to file your FCC INDECENCY COMPLAINT and to generate your WARNING TO SPONSORS.  This is how, TOGETHER WITH YOU, the Parents Television Council will stop the flood of filth, depravity, foul language and sick, ultra-violence on TV: overwhelming grass roots pressure brought to bear on one network, one show, and one sponsor at a time.

Also-PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY NOW SO THEY CAN JOIN THE FIGHT. 

Thank you.

Parent Television Council

[mhking]

If a parent wants his 4 year old child to watch hard-core porn, would that be all-right with you?

Poor example; that activity would certainly constitute child endangerment.

Are you telling me that I am not in my rights to allow my 10 year-old to watch "The Shield" (certainly one of the most violent programs on television, with it's realistic and often gross depictions of violence and bad language - also arguably one of the best cop show in television history) with me in the room to discuss and explain the adult aspects of the program to him?

[Ciexyz]

Sick, sick, sick. I'm signing the petition.

[ffusco]

If a parent wants his 4 year old child to watch hard-core porn, would that be all-right with you?

No it wouldn't. That's child abuse.

[liberalnot]

why people continue to be victimized by hollywood and television i don't understand.

never a big tv viewer, i'd rather do things than sit on my butt, i tossed my tv in the dumpster in 1994 when i saw how the cnn-abc-cbs-nbc protected the clintons.

i read books, have time for friends, and do some internet surfing.

you do not need tv to live a good life. i refuse to give one cent to those bastards.

[mhking]

I'm surprised to see so many Freepers here defend this type of programming.

It's not a matter of defending the program; it is a matter of defending our freedom to choose. You may find it repugnant, others may not. You are not the one to make that decision for others. Provided it does not violate the law, the marketplace should decide, period.

[Dave S]

Just live your life and shut up.

It was a couple minutes at the beginning of a TV show on a network that you should already know has no family programming (unless you consider Malcom in the Middle Or the Simpsons, family entertainment). Get over it. There is no comparison to a few minutes of salacious TV and slavery, abortion or the holocaust. You've definitely got a problem and its not with TV programming.

[kcar]

It's the appeal to the FCC thing. Oh great government, please protect us from our declining culture. Look, if it declines because THEY script it, time to redact. If it "declines" because WE let it, that's something else entirely. Either way, I don't want to ever rely on government's defense to anything not physically dangerous, and even then I'd like to be as self-reliant as possible.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Does mainstreamed smut do anything to insure domestic Tranquility, or promote the general Welfare? There are millions of women and children especially who would answer NO to that.

[NewRomeTacitus]

While personally revolted by much free programming I understand the networks' dilemna of having to maintain ratings share against cable while maintaining enough advertising revenue to continue.
The air I breathe in the city is unhealthy, yet it sustains my life while I earn enough to continue.
It's all about what you'd like compared to the worst case scenario.
My TV of 18 years finally wonked out and I bought a TV card for the computer. WinTV faithfully crashes my computer within an hour of activation (Athlon incompatability). While waiting for a reboot something more important than watching TV usually comes up. Ergo, I don't much care about fixing that crash problem because it's "parental limitation" forces me to be more productive with my spare time. Sometimes actual thinking occurs without the recycled blathering of actors in the background.
Less TV is a good thing, as Martha is about to discover.

[StupidQuestions]

What did you watch on 9/11? Did you not see the live images? If not, I think you missed something important. Same with the war coverage, the President on the carrier, etc.

[Physicist]

If a parent wants his 4 year old child to watch hard-core porn, would that be all-right with you?

I would frown upon it.

If the government checked in on you regularly to make sure you weren't showing your 4-year-old any hardcore porn, would that be alright with you?

[Mihalis]

I'm not advocating bringing in the Government on this one. A massive public reaction could be effective. But it won't happen with the apathy shown here.

[gwmoore]

It's dead, Jim!!!

Unfortunately, it is far too late to turn the clock back on television, and the nadir to which it has sunk... The kids are already indoctrinated, and it's kind of hard to undo. My best advice, stick with the History, Discovery, Learning, and Wings channels, and make good use of the "OFF" function of your remote.

DVD is the second great option, and even if we no longer have young kids here, there are still hundreds of wonderful movies and programming from back in the day when one could still enjoy onself.. Besides, a few days off TV is a wonderful experience, you won't believe the freedom that you will feel.

Keep the Faith for Freedom

Greg

[FreeReign]

But it is not YOUR place to tell me what my child can and cannot watch. I am the parent of my children, and I will make that decision, thank you very much.

If a parent wants his 4 year old child to watch hard-core porn, would that be all-right with you?

Poor example; that activity would certainly constitute child endangerment.

The example was appropriate for what you said.

[NeoCaveman]

Next to no one watches FX... stop giving them publicity

That is exactly how the "Ayatollah Rakolta" put Married with Children and FOX on the map

You work for Mr. Murdoch, don't you? You are giving him big publicity.

[LasVegasMac]

If a parent wants his 4 year old child to watch hard-core porn, would that be all-right with you?

and your point is ????

Your argument reminds me of the saying, "Do you still beat your wife?"

Have the Gov ban all porn to protect the children?

What else shall we ban to protect the children?

How else do we get the government involved in raising our children?

So, I assume you support the idea of parents giving up complete control of raising their children and letting the gov do it.

LVM

[Dave S]

knew your were pro-INFANTICIDE. And probably most everyone else who don't think their should be a moral std for TV.

If you have better moral standards than the rest of us, then turn the box off and read your kiddies a story or get them to run their asses off so they dont get fat. You are the kind of individual that would sue McDonalds for forcing you to get fat by eating Big Mac's. Dont like it, dont watch it. There are plenty of shows your kids can watch and there are probably a million better activities for them to participate in.

[Physicist]

I'm not advocating bringing in the Government on this one. A massive public reaction could be effective.

As you say, but this petition is supposed to go to the FCC, not Fox.

But it won't happen with the apathy shown here.

I am not apathetic. I will go to great lengths to interfere with prudes and busybodies.

[liberalnot]

you honestly think that watching people jump from a skyscraper to their deaths is "important"?

i saw the images on the internet and in the los angeles times and new york times print editions, more than enough.

television creates a morbid voyeurism, imo.

you see some of that here on fr: "let's say a prayer and then watch and watch and watch; oh, how awful!" some people follow accidents like flies on **** precisely what i don't like about the media. it's ghoulish.

[mhking]

There are millions of women and children especially who would answer NO to that.

Using that definition, there's nothing on television that DOES ensure domestic tranquility or promote the general welfare.

No one is forcing anyone to watch any single channel. While we haven't achieved the 500-channel universe promised ten years ago, the average consumer's cable or satellite system has 200+ channels. There's an up and down button on the remote control to allow you to get to the myriad channels out there. You don't like what's on Fox or CBS or USA or TNT? Then TBN, PAX and the Church Channel are just up the dial. You don't want your kids to see a particular channel? You've got parental controls on all televisions manufactured in the past eight to ten years. Most cable boxes and all satellite boxes have the same type of parental controls. There is no reason to "have" to watch something you find repugnant.

If enough people don't watch a program, the program will go away. That's how the marketplace works.

I don't need the morality police making that decision for me.