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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

[Smokin' Joe]

Bravo! Well said. IMHO, there is a marketing opportunity here for someone with the backing and know-how:

No programming heavier than PG, or rating option satellite/cable packages. That would be a good start. Then lets see where the Market dynamic takes us.

I cringe at the slutfest MTV has become, and even more when I think of my 15 year-old live-in grandaughter exposed to this crap.

[Smokin' Joe]

"A risque innuendo?"

Where I am from, an act performed by anyone other than a veterinarian, (especially a prostitute) extracting semen from a horse, is referred to as bestiality.

Many folks here refer to not letting your kids watch this stuff. Fine. But were you exposed to the amount of smut on TV as a child that children are today? Did it hurt you to NOT be exposed to this?

People on this site commonly rant about unwed mothers, absentee fathers, and the social burden thereof, but aren't willing to be inconvenienced in their prurience to lessen some of the emphasis in the media on casual, irresponisble, or even deviate sex.

It isn't a question of turning it off, it has become a question of just how much crap we can have in our culture before you can't step anywhere without stepping in it.

When my 3 year old hears F*CK on PBS, it really is time to reevaluate just what kind of culture we want, and where we want it to go.

As we desensitize our culture to these perversions, what waits in the wings as the next marketable thrill? Snuff flicks?

[Wilhelm Tell]

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

The minute I heard of that show, I had a new name for it: "Queer As* Folk" (As* sounds a lot like As).

I have pretty much given up on TV. I usually don't watch more than two hours a week. I don't have cable or satellite, and when TV goes digital I will not replace my 20 year old analog TV -- that will be the end of it. There isn't much besides increasingly lurid sit-coms and these stupid "reality shows" anyways.

I have mixed feelings about getting the government more involved in regulating what is on TV. The root of the problem is cultural. America has been so dumbed-down and coarsened that horrible TV is inevitable. Anything intelligent that actually has values doesn't stand a chance. I'm still upset that FOX cancelled "Firefly," which was the most original thing in years and instead FOX and the other networks copied each other's "reality shows" ad nauseum. The fact is that when enough people accept mediocrity, mediocrity is exactly what they will get and nothing else! Rather than having interesting characters or plots, the writers can just take the mediocre way out and choose vulgarity for its shock value. Vulgarity is sure to bring in the ratings while producing something thoughtful and challenging is risky. But once you bring in the government, what is to stop them from demanding that every show have, say, 10% homosexual content?

[Lazamataz]

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!!!

And it's about time the Horse Sexer Upper People got decent treatment on television. It is time to come out of the closet and loudly proclaim, "We have sex with horses and we are PROUD!".

[Physicist]

Where I am from, an act performed by anyone other than a veterinarian, (especially a prostitute) extracting semen from a horse, is referred to as bestiality.

When they show such a thing on TV, be sure to drop me a line. Hinting about it is risqué innuendo.

But were you exposed to the amount of smut on TV as a child that children are today? Did it hurt you to NOT be exposed to this?

Frankly, I was exposed to much worse smut from the mouths of my friends and their secret stashes of girlie mags. And every afternoon, Captain Scarlet would get hosed down with a machine gun, and Tobor the 8th Man would smoke his power cigarettes. None of it did me a whit of harm: I'm scrupulously faithful to my wife, I don't smoke, and I don't shoot people.

You and Tipper need to realize that human beings are not the puppets of whatever they see on TV. Human psychology is not summed up by "monkey see, monkey do".

As we desensitize our culture to these perversions, what waits in the wings as the next marketable thrill? Snuff flicks?

Yeah, when they start killing people on TV, we'll all say that it stemmed from a joke about bestiality on Fox.

[Fitzcarraldo]

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

It's a good idea to contact the sponsors. Otherwise, getting rid of the thing, or disconnecting the cable and the antenna are advisable, which I did seven years ago.

[Physicist]

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.

And to think that it only took Christendom a thousand years of the most grinding human misery and ignorance to bring it about.

[honeygrl]

"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. "

They had this idea that the school wouldn't send me to see a movie they wouldn't deem age appropriate. Like many here have the idea that the government would know whats best in what is appropriate for TV.

[happygrl]

No more grinding than most existances on earth.

Or are you holding a grudge ?

[honeygrl]

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

Is that written somewhere in the rules? AND Dave S did ping you when he mentioned your name. My only mention of your name was quoting his post.

[happygrl]

They had this idea that the school wouldn't send me to see a movie they wouldn't deem age appropriate.

It is evident that your parents abdicated their responsibilities in more than this instance. I have children, who at a much younger age than sixteen, knew that human suffering and humiliation was nothing to laugh at.

[Physicist]

No more grinding than most existances on earth.

Actually, it's hard to find worse.

Or are you holding a grudge ?

No grudge here; I didn't have to live through them. I'm just astounded to see someone point to the comprehensive tragedy of the Dark Ages as somehow redounding to the credit of her religion.

[headsonpikes]

"...you merely throw accusations at me. Try formulating an intelligent argument."

I hardly think the onus is on me to provide arguments why the government should not be the moral watchman of a nation. You should provide an argument why people are incapable of self-government.

You made assertions- I made counter-assertions; that's all that's required.

AFAIAC, this argument was decided with blood in the English Civil War - I won't be arguing it again.

If one of this world's child-molesting, taxpayer's money-stealing, lying lawyer b*stard politician wants to tell me how to live my life, he'll be taking a large risk. ;^)

I don't take sh*t from fascists, anymore...it's one of the privileges of membership in the human race. These disgusting moralizing pukes who claim to want to keep spciety clean are the filthiest swine I have ever had the appalling misfortune to meet.

I hope the next generatiom of Americans drives these socialist preachers into the sea.



You laid out no evidence;

[happygrl]

And to think that it only took Christendom a thousand years of the most grinding human misery and ignorance to bring it about.

And the good thing is that they did; it didn't come from 5000 years of Chinese culture, nor 3500 years of Indus valley culture, nor various Central or South American cultures. It came from those "1000 years of grinding human misery" centered in Europe.

[headsonpikes]

"You laid out no evidence;" Fragment of discontinued rant. ;^)

[happygrl]

Sorry you live in Canada where they get inside your brain against your will. I didn't realize that or I would have been kinder to you.

[Physicist]

And the good thing is that they did; it didn't come from 5000 years of Chinese culture, nor 3500 years of Indus valley culture, nor various Central or South American cultures.

And the reason those cultures didn't produce a free society is because they had too much sexual license and not enough state censorship, right? (We'll ignore the free society of classical Athens arose out of a licentious atmosphere of open homosexuality and politically powerful prostitutes, as being inconvenient to your argument. We'll also ignore the fact that nobody has a clue as to what sort of society existed in the Indus Valley; if we ever decipher their writings someday we might figure it out.)

[happygrl]

What ever are you talking about ?

Answer my point: why didn' those cultures produce the political culture we have today which has given us Constitutional government and human rights ?

[ricpic]

"We have sex with horses and we are PROUD!"

Shouldn't that be: We have sex with horses and we are PAINED?!

[garbanzo]

The short answer is what you said about many factors and trends.

The longer and much glossed over answer is entropy - that large complex systems simply wear down over time with no specific "lesson" to be learned from their failure.