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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

[Dr. Frank fan]

I can't understand why some around here are so enamored with Rupert Murdoch.

I can't understand why you think there are people around here or anywhere else who are "enamored" with Rupert Murdoch.

[plusone]

Used to be that you didn't have to cringe when you flipped past the channels. Now it's like some kind of freak show carnival. When they bring pedophiles to prime time, will you also just tell people to 'turn it off'? We can't always bow to market forces, we can't surrender completely our community standards to some billionaire board of directors who get to define 'pop culture'.

[StupidQuestions]

Married women constitute a very important demographic group to advertisers. If you were correct about the ratings for the premium channel program, commercial channel programmers would likely notice it. TV seeks to maximize audience. If vulgarity attracts a large audience, more programs will be vulgar. The Fox programmers are not trying to drive the culture but react to it.

It is part of Free Enterprise. It is the marketplace at work!

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

There is also a little button on the front of the TV - and the remote control - labled, "Off". Works for me everytime. LVM

That is the lamest argument of all, and always the ones who use it are so smug. Why can't you grasp that the problem occurs BEFORE YOU TURN THE CHANNEL? "Oh sorry kids, pretend you didn't see or hear that-- here, I changed the channel to Barney"

YOUR ARGUMENT IS A CHEAP COP OUT. And this doesn't just go for KIDS either. It goes for anyone, no matter young, middle or old age, who have a RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM this crap. It does NOT have to be mainlined into every household on public airwaves (or cable for that matter) in order to uphold your freedom of the "press" (which this is not) argument. People can get this crap and all other related crap at a special, dingy little bookstore like they USED to.

[ffusco]

That's discrimination! If a man had sex with a mare- well there'd be one disapointed horse! Not to mantion trying to get out of the barn gracefully.

[peteram]

Yeah, it's interesting however that the Fox Television Network continues to push the envelope of good taste with crude programming, while the Fox News Channel can be so balanced - even somewhat conservative at times. Makes you wonder where Mr. Murdoch is in his political philosophy.

[webber]

"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."

Not only that, but if nobody complains to the FCC or advertisers about such filth, they will think they have the green light to continue, and eventually this is all you will see on TV. Is that what they really want? An Expensive TV that they bought that they can't turn on?

It boggles my mind that they don't realize that if you don't "push the camel's nose out of the tent, it will enter completely.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

NO, the REAL disease is the mainstreaming of porn and perversion into everyones home via TV internet etc. You have the right to look at and do what you want so long as you don't squash the rights of others. We should go back to the days of dirty little rooms where people who crave this kind of crap can have all they want and leave the rest of us alone. This country has turned into a cesspoool. We have a right to be FREE FROM garbage. The damage is done sometimes before the channel can be turned. Our TV stations used to have a code of ethics--perhaps you are too young to remember that. We need to get back to the media taking some responsibility (and #1 they can get rid of that syphlitic dirtball Howard Stern and his sick piggish friends)

[webber]

"We threw our TV away years ago. I recommend you either do the same or switch the channel."

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.

[MediaMole]

By the way, was Murdock behind "Queer as folk"? That was a sick series.

It's on Showtime, which is owned by Viacom -- the same people who own Simon and Schuster, which published "lying history."

[Hyacinth Bucket]

"The Fox programmers are not trying to drive the culture but react to it."

Oh really, do you know the kind of people who produce these shows? These are the white collar scum of society. They have always wanted to re-shape society according to their miserable lifestyles and then make money too in the process. Of course, people will watch the shows because as human beings we're curious.

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.

[Fraulein]

but I don't think I'm the stallion she's looking for

LOL!

[ffusco]

If I had kids I would be just as appalled, trouble is that TV and Radio are free- so you are free not to watch it. Or turn off the set after 8pm.

Free media needs viewers to have an audience for commercials- they need racy crap to get viewers since they are competing with cable - which is almost all R rated nowadays.

[kcar]

The right to be free from garbage? I don't remember that one being enumerated. I do remember we have the right to property, (.e.g., to earn money and pay for things of our choosing), but the freeware of TV (as opposed to the equipment) has always been paid for by advertisers, who basically follow the tastes of the viewers that tune in, and they do tend to have all kinds of demographic info re: who does. So when it's free it's basically worth every penny (popular tastes prevail). And the recipient has no right to expect anything of much value at all.
Turn it off - turn to FoxNews only. Whatever. Regulating others tastes is a waste of valuable lifespan.

[ffusco]

No one said its ok to have an abortion, but our society deemed that it's a personal decision years ago. Many women have decided that it's their body and it will be difficult to take away their "right" now that they have claimed it.
Fortunately many more people are responsible and never need to make that choice, but on a personal level aren't you worried about other people, perhaps not as moral as you making decisions for everone else? That worries me more than some smut on TV.

[webber]

Adolf Hitler would have just loved to have read some of these posts. Just don't read about the holocuast if it bothers you. Don't try to stop the behavior of other people, if a Nation want to declare a certain immigrant population as non-human, then that's their business. If you don't like it, don't live there. If some people want Black Slaves, who are you to tell me I can't have one just because you don't believe in slavery. Move to a state that don't have slaves. If we want to imprison American Citizens because they look different, and have shown no hostility to America or other Americans, who are you to say they can't especially when it has become Gov't policy. Just don't read about it. Just live your life and shut up. RIGHT?

[StupidQuestions]

These people live and die by ratings. Sponsors want ratings and demographics. The idea is to make money. If they don't get the numbers, they are out of work.

Yes, I do know them. Do you? Their jobs depend on ratings, not on social manipulation. Rupert Murdoch is interested in making a profit. Is there anything wrong with that? Don't we believe in Capitalism and allowing markets to operate? That is what's going on here.

If a show gets good numbers on Showtime or HBO it will influence commercial television. It has to. It is a natural process of the free market.

[mhking]

There's an On/Off switch, and you as parent have control over what your children ultimately watch.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

I do not have kids. I do, however have nieces and nephews. I have no idea how you arrived at the conclusion "TV is free so you are free not to watch it" since when and HOW do those 2 statements connect? Just because the word "free" is in both statements? otherwise NO, I should not have to turn the set off at 8pm. Smut should not rule. OK? And smut dealers and perverts and addicts should not rule either.

[ffusco]

Who told you to shut up?Go write letters, more power to you. Your on a TV crusade- fine with me.


Re Hitler: When someone forces you to watch TV at gunpoint it will carry more weight as an argument. also slavery and genocide are fundamentally wrong to anybody with a soul.