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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

[mhking]

Let the record show that you now make physical threats.

Oh. And you wouldn't know a physical threat if it hit you in the ass.

You're so caught up in your own analogies that you don't know that you've made a fool of yourself. Too bad.

No matter. I'm done wasting my energy talking to you. Go find someone else you can play your word games with. I'm not interested. And I would wager that most others here find your inanities tiring as well.

[DAnconia55]

According to Gibbon (among others), the fall of the Roman Empire stemmed from the rise of Christianity. (To be fair, though, Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" took 13 centuries.)

How dare you read something not approved by the 700 Club?

[DAnconia55]

At the end of the Western empire, puritanism was in full swing.

And led to 1200 years of human suffering and misery.

Some of us just miss the good old days, I guess.

[rockfish59]

What was that old post where the guy asked if duct tape would fix the bullet holes in his TV?

[honeygrl]

"Just as my parents did not allow me to watch "Three's Company", you should act like a parent and monitor what your kids are watching for yourself. Don't rely on Colin Powell's son to act as your babysitter."

My parents wouldn't let me watch that either. I wasn't allowed to watch Married With Children or The Simpsons either until I was 16 or so. I also couldn't watch MTV at all. And even when I had a TV in my room I followed those rules due to the "the door shall not be locked" policy for bedrooms. I'm 25 now and still can't watch MTV or Comedy Central when I visit my parents house.

[gwmoore]

Many thanks, webber. I was thinking in the physical sense of the tv programming, and offering some suggestions for good viewiing (History, Discovery, Learning, and Wings) all of which,(especially the History and Wings channels bring back some good memories of camaradarie and remembrance of those who are still on eternal patrol in a not so good time and place, some 35 years ago.) One can remember the good times, and honor the bad, as should be done. One can also do this without having to watch the rest of the slime which the 200+ channels of cable seem to offer up 24/7. I heartily thank you for reminding me of the obivious, which I had obviously, conveniently forgotten!

I wasn't even considering the issue from a Christian or Scriptural sense. Again, many thanks for reminding me (Hey, webber, I am a Catholic, and we are not really known for our extreme knowlege of Scripture, but I just happen to be a Lector (In the Catholic Mass, the Lector is the one who reads the Scripture, and leads the Prayers of the Faithful, makes the announcements, etc, and is up on the altar with the Priest(s)/Deacons (if any), the Altar Boys (now Altar Girls as well, sadly, tradition is dying, this is not meant to be sexist in any way, just that at my age (56) I fondly remember tradition, and wish the Church had kept the old ways) and I happen to be better educated than most, having studied at the Seminary to so become one (we are not ministers, just normal lay Parishoners who do this voluntarily. I feel somewhat sheepish). You are 100% right, however, as long as their is a public demand for this smut, the smut will be peddled, and money will be made. regardless.

Keep the Faith for Freedom

Greg

[garbanzo]

There is an unfortunate trend in fall-of-the-roman-empire scenarios that goes something like this:

The Roman empire fell because -

Social conservative: immigration, taxes, acceptance of immorality

libertarian: excessive and increasingly centralized government combined with overtaxation and imperialism

liberal: increasing gap between rich and poor, lack of affordable health care and housing, enviromental destruction

communist: class war

fascist: Jews

dolphins: declining fish stocks

and so on.

[FreeReign]

You are a nut.

[freebilly]

Would you like the this nation to be judged by God because it has become so immoral that God will have to step in and judge her like Sodom and Gomorrah, or are you one of those who is so up to the truth about the Bible that you definitely know for certainty that this was just a fairy tale, and was used only as a illustration the story of Sodom and Gomorrah never Really happen?

Gimme a break. My Bible says that "All have sinned and come short of God's glory."

Sodom and Gomorrah illustrate God's judgement on evil and sin prior to the coming of Christ. After Christ, men are saved by believing that God sent His Son, Jesus, to die on a cross for our sins.

It's of no consequence to me if God judges this or any other nation. My job is to share His message with others so that they might be spared eternal judgement and condemnation.

[misternuvistor]

"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."

I AGREE!!!! It seems that about 99.9999999998% of the people involved in commercial television, whether it be the producers or board-sitting-program-choosing-network executives, are all a bunch of morally-bankrupt sleazoids whose god is money, and nothing else.

Like you mentioned, they're all the typical greasy, greedy slimeball motherf***ers of the Hollywood-type, and are probably anti-war as well, (but that's another topic) who want to degrade things as far as possible, and to wring the most $$$ from it all in the name of capitalist free enterprise (not to knock capitalism or free enterprise in general, it's the commercial television industry that has abused free enterprise by mocking and ignoring morality in general for the Almighty Dollar, IMHO.)

Thank God for PBS, PAX, and the Discovery/Learning/History Channels, with their socially & intellectually redeeming programming, and TechTV, although they are starting to slowly go down the commercial tv sewer with their shows like "Unscrewed" and "Wired for Sex"... They sure didn't have programming like that a year ago or so...

-misternuvistor

[ffusco]

A historical event as large as the so-called fall of Rome, which took centuries had many factors, trends and events. All of these are grist for historical revision.

I subscribe to the idea that there is a rise and decline of all great civilizations so I understand it best in those terms.

Do you have a POV on why Rome fell?

[happygrl]

They come from what government SAYS is moral law.

Oh, I see. Then you must believe that your rights are whatever the government says they are.

Your thinking is that simplistic.

[happygrl]

This intellectual dishonesty will bite you in the *ss

I see that you know how to use big words, but nothing on your posts begins to approach an argument or a discussion, you merely throw accusations at me.

Try formulating an intelligent argument.

[happygrl]

Let's look at what you ahve written.

So you think it would've been better for the government to step in and make the decision for my parents as to whether or not I could go to a movie on my own?

Followed by:

The government run school is who told me to go see the movie to begin with.

It appears that your parents then abdicated their responsibilites in having you attend this movie at the directive of the government, despite you immaturity in dealing with the subject.

Did I get that right ?

[happygrl]

It is protocol on the forum to ping posters when they are referred to.

[happygrl]

do you realize that The Simpsons offer more positive religious themes than what other shows do?

I love what you posted about The Simpsons. I read a good essay on television once. It was discussing the fact that almost nowhere on television is there a family that depicts a typical Middle American household that prays before meals and goes to Church.

With one exception.

The Simpsons. Marge Simpson is the most moral Middle American mother on TV.

[happygrl]

At the end of the Western empire, puritanism was in full swing.

And thank the Lord for that, as it ended Empire and paganism and allowed the formation of Christendom, from which is derived our notions of human and individual rights and the ideas of Constitutional government.

All that came together in the ideas of the Founding Fathers, as Michael Novak ( Roman Catholic) wrote in On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding in which he credits two strands, Protestantism and Judaic thought, as the founding ideas of our country.

[happygrl]

opinions on Constitutional rights and law are worth exactly what anyone else is willing to pay for them: ziltch.

I believe he was referring to your opinions.

Cheers.

[GatekeeperBookman]

Watching TV is the mistake. Like going to a gang fight, cruising some 'hood for drugs, buying drugs, using drugs-all in the same catagory. TURN IT OFF.

[GatekeeperBookman]

When sick private tastes become public commerce-that should be illegal. Private tastes which are obscene, perverse & "have no redeeming social value". I don't wish to live in your sort of world. Where I grew up, everyone, even the lowest socio-economic group, had morals. Maybe they ( & you also ) shall re-discover them.