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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

[beaversmom]

If they can't control their kids, it's not my problem, it's theirs.

No the problem is all of ours because we all have to live in the same society where children without parental limits live. This affects us crime wise, money wise, and contributes to the worsening of the moral climate in this country. This nastiness on TV affects the minds of children and adults. Why not just show the woman having sex with the horse; afterall, if you don't like it, just change the channel. Trouble is, you've already seen 5 seconds of a woman having sex with a horse. I agree with someone else on this thread that said just get rid of the TV. Personally, I would if I had a choice in the matter, but my husband likes to watch the some of the garbage that's shown on it.

[honeygrl]

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

I love/loved the show Married with Children. But my parents didn't allow me to watch it as a child. Parental control is the key. If you can't control your kids in your own home, then you need to start cracking the whip a bit harder. Just don't make the rest of us suffer for your lack of control over your kids TV time.

[Sonny M]

Then you get the oppurtunity to discuss with your kids what is appropriate and what is not.

I actually wasn't thinking of that exactley, check out my post 205, I elaborate on why I said what I said exactley. Its my fault for not having been specific enough.

[honeygrl]

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

Hah, so true!

[honeygrl]

"Certainly dont let Webber let his kids read the Bible. There is all kinds of smut in there. The sluts (er daughters) that get their father drunk and sleep with him. What about all the prostitutes? Seems most of the women in the Bible were hookers. "

I should've read further before posting something very similar after you already had it covered. oops

[honeygrl]

"Now, back to the Smut... "

You know the guys on the thread won't believe there is smut being shown unless they see photographic evidence (just thought I'd be nice and make the guys happy with this one)

[honeygrl]

"Haven't you just defined a free market operating as it should in a capitalist society? Do you really want to regulate that market and make it less free? Are you on the right or the left? "

I'm on the side of "I want to regulate my own family's viewing habits rather than the government doing it for me."
You can decide whether that is the right or the left. Doesn't matter to me.

[DAnconia55]

i've said the same thing, over and over and over, on this forum for years.

You just joined in April.

[honeygrl]

"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? "

I doubt it would've shocked me. The people shocked by it were likely only watching it to look for stuff to complain about anyway.

[LasVegasMac]

The question was simple. You have yet to answer it. In fact you would rather make up stuff about me, then answer it. The record is clear -- "my friend".

I'm not sure what to make of this.

You want me to answer this loaded question, ok, I'll play your game.....

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

No, no 4 yr old should be made to watch porn. What parent worth a crap would do that? If they did, they should not be a player in the parent job.

Again, WTF is your point?

No, I'm not making stuff up about you. You ask a loaded question and pretend that it is valid. Fine. I answered in kind.

BTW - do you still beat your wife?

LVM LVM

[honeygrl]

"Have you ever seen a grown man naked? "

Did you ever watch Schindler's List? I watched it for extra credit in high school (for history class) eeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww lol I don't remember all those (really old) naked men being controversial though at the time when they were encouraging teens to see the movie for extra credit in class. But I wasn't into politics and such then so I may have missed it.

[DAnconia55]

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

Hah, so true!

Can't be true. I know for certain that I am not a prude...

[ladyinred]

OMG. This has to be the lowest of the low. I am appalled. Sending a letter or two million to the FCC will do no good. They will say obscene is in the eye of the beholder. The best thing to do is contact the network and most important, find out who the sponsors are and put pressure on them. The bottom line is all they are concerned with.

[Chad Fairbanks]

No. I never did. I don't watch TV much.

[honeygrl]

"No. I never did. I don't watch TV much. "

I'm not sure if Schindler's List was shown unedited on TV or not. In the theaters though it had way more really old naked guys than anyone would want to see. And I mean full frontal nude old naked men that hung down to their knees. ick. But it was very educational and worth watching anyway. My 16 yr old friend and I ended up making the entire theater full of people angry because we snickered everytime we saw old man parts and like 3 couples walked out mad LOL..

[FreeReign]

You ask a loaded question and pretend that it is valid. Fine. I answered in kind. BTW - do you still beat your wife?

I never said anything that deserves that question -- "do you beat your wife" -- be asked of me. If I had said, "it is not YOUR place to tell me if I can beat my wife or not. I am the husband of my wife, and I will make that decision, thank you very much", then I would deserve that question. Do you get it??

I asked my original question to somebody who said, "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." Do you get it yet??

[FreeReign]

BTW, if you are going to join in a conversation that two posters are having I would highly recommend that you read all of the effing posts that the two posters have made so that you don't take any of the comments out of effing context.

Thanks for not doing that!

[LasVegasMac]

I never said anything that deserves that question -- "do you beat your wife" -- be asked of me.

Sure you did. The question, specifically, was...let me refresh your fading memory....

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

Now lets compare that to the question I asked you....

Do you still beat your wife?

I'd ask again, but I already know that you do not "get it".

LVM

[FreeReign]

See post #110

A poster said the following: "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.".

I then responded to this poster by asking him the following: "If a parent wants his 4 year old child to watch hard-core porn, would that be all-right with you?"

You then for some unknown reason thought I was asking the question to you and then you criticized me for doing it -- get it. Read the freeping context!!!

[jwh_Denver]

so instead of giving up on the tv altogether

I have given up on TV, except for Jay's monalogue and Married with Children.