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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

[NeoCaveman]

A massive public reaction could be effective.

That will just drive up ratings

Don't give trash free publicity to little watched networks

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Basic 200-level Lit course material, that's all, but I am not surprised it went over your head.

[Dan from Michigan]

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

I'm not defending the program. I've never seen the show, nor plan to.

It's a lesser of two evils choice for me. The bigger evil is government deciding what goes on the airwaves.

The best solution here is for "indecent" shows to go off the air by the market forces. If I despise a show. I don't watch it. If I really hate it, I'll write letters to the network, and also to the advertisers of the network. I don't like the gay lobby, but they are masters at this technique and are using it against Dr. Laura and Michael Savage, and I respect their tactics there if nothing else.

[Chad Fairbanks]

What really gets me is the number of Freepers who want the Government to take over as Parents... very scary - I'd rather speak with my wallet, by not supporting that which I disagree with - let the market work - others, it seems, want to be the Appointed Ones who decide for me, and I cannot stomach that...

[FreeReign]

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?

I would imagine it is illegal to show your 4-year-old pornography and it should be.

What do you mean by "checked in on you regularly"? It is illegal to many things, but a government should never spy on you unless they have a reasonable warrant with probable cause. Why would you even raise that question in this case?

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Some people treat symptoms and not the disease.

You mean like those who suggest we just turn the channel? Is that a band-aid solution. oops I said I was leaving--and I AM!

[NeoCaveman]

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.

The fact that it took 11 seconds of fear and pain to hit the ground is exactly why that footage should be shown over and over again to give us the proper persprective...drop the not from you screen name!

[mhking]

The example was appropriate for what you said.

Not at all; it actually IS an inappropriate example, but I'll play your game: No. I wouldn't want that. But considering that parent had violated the law, I would have the legal system deal with that parent commensurately.

But at the same time, I'm not looking for the morality police to tell me what I can and cannot watch; and what my child can and cannot watch. I like to think that I'm doing a pretty damn good job raising my child by myself, thank you very much.

[Mihalis]

...the marketplace should decide, period....

You're not seriously suggesting that the marketplace can decide everything. We're not talking about material goods and services here.

[Hyacinth Bucket]

I forgot to mention in my previous posts that I rarely watch TV (maybe 2 hours a week, more during the war). I don't subscribe to cable. I'm not even familiar with the show in question but I am familiar with the current trends of shows. In the old days, the worst thing about TV was that it was a big time-waster but now it shapes society.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Uh-oh... now the busy-bodies will call you Pro-Homosexual Agenda...

[honeygrl]

So was this show actually marketed as a family program? If not, then why would you let your kids watch it until you watched it first?

[Dave S]

No, YOU get a DVD player and watch all the horse sex

What horse sex? There was only discussion of sex, no sex in the program. Of course you wouldnt know that because you dont watch such trash you just want to make sure that no one else does. Why dont you and your kids move to Tehran. They have a high standard of morality on their state run TV.

[liberalnot]

you're a sick puppy!

[FreeReign]

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.

I asked a simple question. You then give me an assumption that shows poor judgement.

[mhking]

We're not talking about material goods and services here.

Television programming is a commodity. (I speak from the parallel experience of dealing with radio programming and time; I used to be a station manager) The marketplace (i.e., viewers as reflected in ratings) determines what programming remains on the air and provides an indication as to what type of programming may be tried in the future.

[kcar]

I think the brilliant framers of the Constitution, who crafted a wonderfully-wrought system of self-checking mechanisms to government expansionism in the hot summer before air-conditioning, were frankly a little tired when they got to the rhetorical marketing piece about "ensuring domestic tranquility or promoting the general welfare". The Bill of Rights said it all. FREEDOM.

[StupidQuestions]

If it is live, it is news. If not, it is history. Actually, I'm still upset that the networks decided NOT to show people jumping from buildings. That softened the event. We are entitled to honest depictions of the horror of such an event ... but that is a whole other debate.

I saw the second plane hit the South tower and understood along with the rest of America what was happening. I saw reporters in the street barely able to breathe and felt what was happening. I saw it all live and still was able to read what you did later.

I think there is a great deal to be said for live pictures of an event. I used to read Richard Nixon's Watergate speeches the day after he gave them. They were pretty good. But I had seen him deliver the speech with his nervous twitches and sweating lip. I got a whole lot more from the live event than could be gotten from reading it later.

Don't try to argue that there is no value in live pictures. It is a non-starter.

[NeoCaveman]

you're a sick puppy!

Nope. Not sick at all not in the least. You are the one that wants to censor reality so you can manipulate the sheeple you Liberal

[Dan from Michigan]

Uh-oh... now the busy-bodies will call you Pro-Homosexual Agenda...

And I'll have to call them Joe Lieberman bootlickers.....