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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

[Chad Fairbanks]

Hmmm... lets see. We get TV for Free, essentially, because Advertisers (who sell products and services) pay money to advertize during shows.

In order to ensure the max return on their investment, they choose shows that are watched more than others.

So yes, I'd say the Market can play a big role in the content of television. That is, if people would take he proper route in expressing their displeasure - that means follow the money.

It's not the government's job to protect you from being offended - that's YOUR job...

:0)

[ffusco]

Cleaning up TV would be just treating the syptom of a depraved culture( if that is your opinion) the disease would still be there. Turning the TV off would be most effective for you, now in this case.

[Physicist]

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

Should it? Wait until President Hillary's judges decide what constitutes pornography, then we'll see.

Why would you even raise that question in this case?

I wanted to see how much government intervention you'd accept. My mistake was in turning up the heat too fast; the frog always jumps when that happens.

[freebilly]

I see, so it's okay to have abortions, it's just that if YOU don't want to have one, then don't have one.

Something like that.

"...But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD ." Joshua 24:15

[honeygrl]

"Turning your tv off may work for you,but what about the kids who watch programs like this without their parents knowledge? Maybe the kids are watching shows like this in their rooms.If we don't do something about this it will only get worse! TV shows are getting more vulgar every year! "

If you can't trust your kids to turn shows that aren't appropriate then don't give them a TV in their room. There are parental controls as well with most dish TV networks or digital cable so you can password channels you don't want them to see.

[NeoCaveman]

you're a sick puppy!

You slander a libertine like me.You slander a fundie like RNMomof7 what are you doing here? You seem to attack everybody except commies, commie.

[Mihalis]

Illegal immigration is rampant. Politicians are reluctant to fight it because they need the votes. America's demographics are changing and so is your precious "marketplace". You'll be living in a foreign country before you know it.

[liberalnot]

well, you just pay your money to the left's hollywood movies and television. how much are cable tv and movies? and then people on the thread complain about it!

i would argue that there need to be limits. it's called "decency". children should not be seeing this.

from what i read in the new york times, mexican and south american television did not edit the jumping from the towers. it's a different culture. but, some of those people down there enjoyed seeing american get hit by terrorists, and believe it or not, celebrated.


kids are watching too much violence on tv, imo.

i have better things to do with my time.

[Dave S]

DID YOU CALL IT CENSORSHIP IN THE 1950s, 1960s 70s and 80s? Do you realize NO ONE called it censorship then? There was a different standard

And we had three channels then too. Everyone was targeting the same audience. Not so today. There is plenty of programming for your child to watch. What the heck are they doing up at that hour on a school night anyway? What kind of parent are you?

[Chad Fairbanks]

Psssstt.... Dave - the alleged 'Horse Sex' was in their minds - overactive imaginations running wild based on a few stupid innuendos...

It's always the Prudes with the Dirty Minds...

[LasVegasMac]

No, you did not ask a "simple" question, my friend.

The question you asked is called a "loaded" question.

The poor judgement is on your part, other wise you would have framed - put it in some type of context - your lame question.

Nice try.

LVM

[liberalnot]

you were rude to me.


if you stopped and thought about it for a moment, i have the true conservative position:

i don't pay money to hollywood nor television.

shut the money off to these leftists and they'd go away.

[liberalnot]

"you couldn't be a professional because you justify one act of violence for another. "

yep, i said that!

professionals do NOT advocate violence, as she did.

[honeygrl]

"It has really become a very serious issue in the last few years. I grew up watching CHiPs, Knight Rider, (not the most innocent shows but still fairly clean) etc. Now, kids are watching Jerry Springer, and vile sitcoms and reality shows. God help them and God help us too because they will eventually be adults and in charge when we become old. "

Well, when you start trying to get Jerry Springer off the air let me know and I'll sign whatever I have to and write/email whoever I have to. That man needs to just disappear already.

As for the primetime comedies though, just learn to use the parental controls on the TV or don't let your kids have one in their room. The primetime shows really are meant for adults, not kids.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"...but what about the kids who watch programs like this without their parents knowledge?"

I raise my kids, and you raise your kids.

I don't need you worrying about my kids.

[StupidQuestions]

Thank you for adding the simple 'imo'. That is exactly the point. It is your opinion and you are absolutely welcome to implement it in your own home --- but not in mine. No one here is defending smut ... just the right of other people to watch it.

I don't want the F.C.C. acting on your opinion to reduce my viewing options. Please don't write the government asking for action against anything and everything which, In YOUR OPINION, is wrong. And, I won't write them either trying to get my opinion imposed on you.

[FreeReign]

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

Should it? Wait until President Hillary's judges decide what constitutes pornography, then we'll see. I wanted to see how much government intervention you'd accept. My mistake was in turning up the heat too fast; the frog always jumps when that happens.

I wanted to see if you were an anarchist. You -- the frog -- never jumped.

[NeoCaveman]

you were rude to me.

So sorry to hurt you little feelings, we had a run in before.

if you stopped and thought about it for a moment, i have the true conservative position: i don't pay money to hollywood nor television. shut the money off to these leftists and they'd go away.

I agree with that position, and you never articulated that one before now.

[mhking]

Illegal immigration is rampant.

Constitutional freedoms have survived much worse. I'll trust that they will weather this as well, without compromising them.

[liberalnot]

so, you're advocating no free speech?