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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

[liberalnot]

notta newbie. different name. been around since 1998 and first registered in 1999.

[Physicist]

You response is hypocritical.

Spell it out for me.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Come one man, use your head. You want people to take repsonsibility? Silliest thing I've ever heard....

[NeoCaveman]

?Ummm... guys? We're trying to have a nice healthy debate about Smut here, so if you could bring that argument back to the thread it started on, that would be cool... ;o) Now, back to the Smut...

Dammit Chad there are plenty of websites for smut.....

[Sonny M]

Your child can't live in a bubble. This kind of thing is going to happen

You just have to deal with it.

Honestly, I should have elaborated more in my post. A few years back, one of my friends had a niece who was in the 2nd grade, sweet girl, really nice. On certain days some of the boys in her class used to say some very crude and sexual remarks. Her father and my friend (his brother) got really ticked, when they told me what the boys said. I recognised them as being some pro-wrestling catch phrases.

Now I know I am asking to be mocked for this, but yes, I sometimes do watch pro-wrestling.

Anyway, it seems like these kids were watching the shows and the next day, usually tuesdays and fridays, repeating or re-enacting stuff they saw or heard on the set to her. Her father went to the teacher and complained, she told them that when they see the kids do it, they punish them, and if they know it happens, they also punish them.

My gripe isn't so much the programming, as it is, who its aimed at. If the show is meant for adults, then put it on later and don't show the commercials during times when you know little kids are watching it. Its like when fox shows commericals for some sleazy show during cartoon hours after school, or when NBC puts a commercial on for sleaze on saturday mornings. I don't think its asking to much if they can air the commericals for these programs at least during shows when they know its a predominatly adult audience. Pro-wrestling though was the worst offender, they had toys, marketed directly at kids, showed commericals during kids programming and then ran adult storylines intermixed along with childrens story lines, now thats just wrong.

[Dan from Michigan]

So I have no right to see what find entertaining for free but you do?

Apparently, so......

[liberalnot]

re-read the posts. i did not say that. you said that.

bye.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I know there are plenty of sites. But, the Smut HERE is so, well, wholesome... ;0)

[NeoCaveman]

notta newbie. different name. been around since 1998 and first registered in 1999.

You can change your name without losing senority, ask Jim. I do not believe you because of your ad hominem attacks on that other thread I linked....commie

[Dan from Michigan]

I love that "block senders" option.

[lawdude]

I, for one, know how to use the ON/OFF switch.

[NeoCaveman]

I know there are plenty of sites. But, the Smut HERE is so, well, wholesome... ;0)

ROTFLMAO, Then what's the point of it...

[Chad Fairbanks]

He could ask Jim to change his name to NewbieNot... ;0)

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, it's a niche market ;0)

[liberalnot]

that's rude.

your friend advocated violence.

i said that professionals do not advocate violence.

that angered her.

why you're so involved in that, i don't understand.

good night.

[honeygrl]

"Show business people will always push the envelope whether people wanted this or not. There would be controversy for a while until eventually this becomes the norm. Then, they push the line some more. "

That's because it gets the highest ratings and makes them more money. If family safe shows made more money, that's what they would show. They don't, so that's not what they put on the air. When the the family shows start getting the ratings that the more risque shows do, you'll start seeing them in primetime TV. It's all about the ratings and money.

[StupidQuestions]

Nice dodge but how about dealing with the central issue: You seem to want to government to impose your opinion on all television viewers. Why is that? Are your standards better than the rest of us? Better than mine?

[Dave S]

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?

Dont you get it. Webber never watched it. He just got marching orders from PTC and off he went. The episode they are complaining about was the premier episode and on Fox... do you think anyone with half a brain was really shocked by what they saw?

[kcar]

This is a little different and less noble than what Voltaire said. You seem to say that if he wishes to inhibit your freedoms, you'll defend that, by you death, his right to do so, even though you disagree. I think Voltaire was talking about speaking their piece, not effectively gaining the Crown's ear.
Big Difference. If you want to whisper sweet nothings that'll go nowhere, have at it I'll even support your "rights". But if you wanna effectively use the armed might of the State to constrict my options, consider yourself in the crosshairs, sucker.
Re; freedoms, Don't let your generousity get away from you, because it generally isn't just yours.

[NeoCaveman]

that's rude.

No, just calling you on it

your friend advocated violence.

Not my friend, we never agree and aren't friendly.

Post your proof that she advocated violence, she didn't