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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

[happygrl]

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..

Apparently you were too immature to focus on the humiliation of those men rather than their body. Too bad your parents didn't have enough control over you to prevent you from 1) seeing the movie; 2) spoiling other people's experience of a serious theme.

[FreeReign]

I will continue to address any similar absolute statements about parents having the ABSOLUTE right for their kids to watch ANYTHING.

You can address what you want. I will parent my children. My wife has some input, as do both sets of our parents. Are you in either category? No? Then, quite frankly, I don't give a damn about what you think regarding my parenting skills. I'm doing (in my NOT so humble opinion) well enough without some puritanical know it all sticking their nose into my home. And additionally, (sensitivity be damned) you can take your hypothetical accusatory question, fold it six ways and do something unmentionable with it. I'm not being sensitive; I'm being realistic. I WILL RAISE MY CHILDREN. You won't.

You have a right to raise your children -- as do I -- anyway you want except you can't endanger your child. I never questioned you as an advocate of somebody wanting to endager your child or as somebody who does endanger your child. I did question if you were an advocate of laws that protect child endagerment and I did so not because I was accusing you of such, but only because your absolute statement was worded as such.

If you were confused about the intention of my question, then the polite thing to do would be to ask me what I meant with my question, just as I ASKED you what the intention of your absolute statement was.

You can take your paranoia and go stick it some place.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yes, having sex with animals is illegal - jokes about them are not. Also, no one on the show had an sexual relations with any animal - so, in conclusion, your analogy about a NAMBLA Channel, with men having sex with young boys, was idiotic.

[Chad Fairbanks]

The proper thing to do would be to contact the station and it's advertisers. I'd only call you a hysterical puritan if you want Uncle Sammy to increase the regulation of content... ;0)

[happygrl]

That there is any debate about this at all is the stunning surprise to me.

As it is to me too. For many of the so-called conservatives, nothing trumps unlimited "rights." That attitude is not indicative a people fit for a republic, only a people fit for a libertine anarchy.

[Chad Fairbanks]

It's not about unlimited rights - it's about opposing government regulation... big difference.

I dont' want the government deciding on a whim what I can and can't watch - do you? If you do, you are in the wrong place, sister...

[happygrl]

No, you are just ignorant, that' s all. The Government has had responsibility for the use of public airwaves and has controlled content over them. That's whether you like it or not.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Not ignorant. But that IS typical of your sort - resorting to name-calling when you have no argument worth a damn...

They regulate it enough as it is, and you people want MORE, all because you are too damned lazy to care for your own children.

Contact the sponsors if it bothers you so much, but leave the Feds out of it...

[happygrl]

I wasn't name-calling, I was describing your state of being.

Too bad you can't win an argument without being rude, and sorry that you won't acknowledge the facts.

Don't make assumptions about which you are ignorant.

[Chad Fairbanks]

My state of being is one of such that I have a natural distrust of big government solving everything - especially moral issues. You, on the other hand, seem to think federal regulation of mroality is just fine.

But bear in mind that one day, the feds could decide that YORU morals are dangerous, and they could turn against YOU.

I'd rather take the commone sense approach - so my money wont' go to support the filth on TV, nor will I use the products of the sponsors of the filth 0 and I wn't hesitate to tell them;

That's not ignorant - that's activism, dearie...

[Chad Fairbanks]

darned laptop keyboards. Ain't used to this thing..

[Mihalis]

...That there is any debate about this at all is the stunning surprise to me...

It's a surprise to me too, especially here on FR. This thread has been dominated by people hopelessly trapped in a fanatical libertarian agenda. No fanatics of any type can provide solutions to real life problems.

[honeygrl]

Saying WTF (which is a common internet thing) and saying "effing" over and over and over aren't the same. I have read all the posts. I agree, your question was a stupid one.

[Chad Fairbanks]

But Big Government can solve EVERYTHING, right? WHen you dont' like something you run to uncle sammy and piss and moan and cry and gnash your teeth and say "We are doing it for the children!"

One political philosophy does that - hint: It aint' conservatism, man.

[happygrl]

Thanks for calling me dearie.

Government does regulate morality. The laws that we live by are based on morals. The government enforces those morals. I have no problem with that.

[Chad Fairbanks]

That there is any debate about this at all is the stunning surprise to me.

Here's a reality check for ya, "Will" - the debate you hate so much is part of the american political thingie that makes our country so great. Sorry you dont like it, but the fact is, the debate you are surprised at is focused on one thing: Should Government act as the parent, or should PARENTS act as the parents???

Debate THAT

[honeygrl]

"Yes, it was shown unedited on TV. Now that I have seen your post, I understand the reason why it was presented in that fashion. It wasn't to convey the human suffering and horrors perpetrated by one of the most evil regimes in history as I had first thought. It was so that the people at home who hadn't seen it in the theater could also get a good chuckle."

And you expect a 16 year old to really pay enough attention to a movie that long to get past the oddness of seeing old man parts?

[Mihalis]

I don't want "big" government solving everything either, moral issues or not. But I do want them to regulate food quality, for example, as they do. Or pharmaceuticals, as they do....things that affect our physical health and well being. But our spiritual health is as important, if not more so. When business crosses the line, they must be regulated. And they have crossed the line.

[Cultural Jihad]

LEARN TO TURN THE TV OFF, OR CHANGE THE CHANNEL And stop bothering the rest of us.

Of course, that moral-liberal attitude of yours you are proselytizing could be used to tolerate anything. "You don't like seeing women raped in the street, then don't look!"

[Chad Fairbanks]

Government does regulate morality. The laws that we live by are based on morals. The government enforces those morals. I have no problem with that.

Well, as soon as you tell me what laws were broken by this TV show, your argument will be relevent...

That being said, I think we both agree that much of what is on TV is filth. our only real disagreement is how to stop it. You want the government to step in and force it to stop, whereas I prefer to hit the purveyors of filth in the wallet...

Same goal, different tactics.