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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

[inquest]

We threw our TV away years ago.

Sounds like a good plan to me. IANAL(ibertarian), but in this case I'd be perfectly willing to go all the way and say we should completely deregulate and de-censor television and allow the most perverted junk imaginable during all hours of the day. Then people might actually stop allowing their kids to watch the d___d thing, and then things might actually start to improve in this country.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

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

Oh yeah? you think it is that simple do you?

[StupidQuestions]

Do you really believe 'the most perverted junk possible' would draw an audience that is attractive to sponsors? They want stable people with jobs, money and families to spend their money on. You are under-estimating the audience (as hard as that may be to do).

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

If they don't get the numbers, they are out of work

And sadly there will be plenty of dumb people in this country who will buy into it, and do their part to prove that the intelligence of the American people should never be overestimated

[inquest]

Is that what they really want? An Expensive TV that they bought that they can't turn on?

I see rising IQ scores from that point onward. They might even use the spare parts to teach their kids about electronics.

[webber]

I knew your were pro-INFANTICIDE. And probably most everyone else who don't think their should be a moral std for TV.

[ffusco]

So you feel it is your right to network TV all the time at no cost to you? I think all dating/reality shows are garbage. I think sports on TV with guys spitting and scratching is offensive- especially to a couch potato like me. I think the Miss America pageant is too racy - wher does it stop? We all watch reruns of Gilligan's Island.

I don't think a hooker talking about horse semen is smut- definately in bad taste- hardly pornography.
But standards do change and I blame CABLE.

[JoeSixPack1]

Chill out and get things into prospective. Don't worship your TV. Write a letter, boycott the show. Control yourself.

Your Hitler analogy is ignorant.

[webber]

I see. So you go with your children everywhere they go to make sure YOU can snatch them away in case the home or place that they happen to be is showing something you don't want them to watch. RIGHT? Give me a break.

[StupidQuestions]

I know it is that simple. The creative people don't decide program schedules. Business people do. These are businesses not social engineering firms. They are run like businesses by accountants who don't give a damn about the program's content --- just its appeal to sponsors and the bottom line.

That is how it works. That is how it should work. Anything else ... ANYTHING ELSE ... is social engineering by someone on some level. If you want something off the air, don't watch it and get other people not to watch. If it has no audience, it will go away. If it has an audience with moeny ready to spend on sponsors' products, it will stay.

[DAnconia55]

No it's commendable for webber to bring this to our attention. In the UK free network (not cable/satelite) TV has hardcore porn after 10. You don't want that to happen in your country

I don't?

[DAnconia55]

"Queer as folk"?

Never seen it, but I call it Queer Ass Folk.

'tis a better title, IMO.

[ffusco]

I never said I was pro-abortion. I do my part to prevent it. I use birth control all the time, and I would marry any girl if push came to shove. Go ahead and judge me if you need to. It says more about you than it does me.

There is a standard of decency on TV- trouble is it doesn't match your standard.

[kcar]

Free (racy) TV is like ignoring the holocaust?! Now I am truly aghast. To think I was so naively blinded by the effects of arrayed configurations of mammary glands and splincter muscles. Such a subtle poison. By all means - remove this trash, revoke the Constitution, shave our heads, tell us what to read and say and think. Nobody will say we over-reacted, or play polo with our skulls later.

[inquest]

Do you really believe 'the most perverted junk possible' would draw an audience that is attractive to sponsors?

It would draw a segment of an audience, and with deregulation, such fare would be interspersed with the more "decent" shows whose viewers sponsors try to attract. This contamination would turn off the more normal crowd from TV altogether.

[DAnconia55]

Turning your tv off may work for you,but what about the kids who watch programs like this without their parents knowledge? Maybe the kids are watching shows like this in their rooms.

Well genius, if you hadn't have given them the TV in the room in the first place....

Why not just admit you need a Federal Department of Parenting, and be done with it?

[eddie willers]

Buy a DVD player and then YOU can control the programming on your TV set.

Just don't try to control mine

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Regulating others tastes is a waste of valuable lifespan

Who is regulating others' tastes? I am asking for better programming and better taste in what goes over the public airwaves. I can ask for regulation in the media, and that does not mean I am regulating other viewers tastes...get it? good night. you all are obviously lobbyists for the ACLU

[ffusco]

Francisco, you scamp!

[StupidQuestions]

There are intelligent Americans and there are stupid Americans. But a TV program doesn't have to get a majority of viewers. Eight percent of all viewers will keep a network show alive. And, even failing that rating, if the demographics are good, the show can still survive.

The West Wing doesn't win its time period --- but its 'demos' are terrific and it stays alive for another year. It is business. It's about money.