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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

[Cannon6]

Try the off button

[Chad Fairbanks]

Physical Health, yes. But teh government has NO business regulating 'Spiritual Health'...

[honeygrl]

"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. "

Yes we were too immature to appreciate anything about the movie. That was the point of the last sentence. But we needed the extra credit at school so that was our only option for it.

[honeygrl]

"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. "

And I'm glad you agree that it is parent's who should be responsible for kids/teens and not the government. I was beginning to wonder.

[Cultural Jihad]

Needless to say, a corrupted people will never want to elect virtuous leaders. If we want to end corruption in government then we must end the corruption of people.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I can agree with that statement. :0)

[Cultural Jihad]

If you don't like seeing the airwaves cleaned up, then don't watch.

[Mihalis]

The reason why you make the distinction between physical and spiritual health is because you have the illusion that you are in control of the latter. Which is just an illusion. It can be manipulated and harmed just like your physical health and well being. Yours and that of your children, especially.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I rarely watch anyway, but if I do, and I see something that bothers me, I turn it off and contact the sponsors and tell them that under no circumstances will I buy the product they spent money advertising if they dont' stop supporting it...

Too bad more people dont' do that - then they might actually listen.

[Cultural Jihad]

And I'm glad you agree that it is parent's who should be responsible for kids/teens and not the government.

And hence we must allow the corruption of children on the theory that if the parents don't care then neither should anyone else?

[happygrl]

I see that, in your case, parental control didn't work, did it ?

So much for all your pontificating about that being the answer.

[Scenic Sounds]

If you don't like seeing the airwaves cleaned up, then don't watch.

ROFL. I'm seriously thinking of stealing that line and using it for my tag line.

Would you mind?

[Cultural Jihad]

Would you mind?

Please feel free.

[Amore]

I saw the show myself and I agree with stboz' assessment. I recommend that if this program upsets people, they ignore it. I've read the numbers on the show. It did ok in its debut, was 3rd in its time slot the next time, and 4th in its time slot the next time. I hear they've already shelved remaining episodes. If it hasn't been cancelled yet, it soon will be.

[FreeReign]

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.

The F word can be abbreviated many ways, the common aspect of which is irrelevant to it's appropriateness or inappropriateness.

A poster initiates using an F abbreviation once and I respond to that poster using the F abreviation twice and you criticize me.

Both of your comments are stupid.

[happygrl]

if the parents don't care then neither should anyone else?

You will see from my comments that I very much do care. We are in agreement on this issue.

---Happy~

[FreeReign]

If you don't like seeing the airwaves cleaned up, then don't watch.

...or switch to cable.

[jabotinsky]

amen to that,

i am so sick of the "shocked I am so shocked crowd." and oh yes "WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILKDREN!!!"

guess what none of us gives a rat's ass about your empty crusade.

I love craplike that on TV, yeah its mindless garbage, exactly what I need after a 12 hr day at work.

now maybe you should sell your NCR and try gardening.

and Bababooey to yall

[Scenic Sounds]

Thanks.

I modified it a bit. ;-)

[jabotinsky]

amen to that,

i am so sick of the "shocked I am so shocked crowd." and oh yes "WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILKDREN!!!"

guess what none of us gives a rat's ass about your empty crusade.

I love craplike that on TV, yeah its mindless garbage, exactly what I need after a 12 hr day at work.

now maybe you should sell your NCR and try gardening.

and Bababooey to yall