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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

[DAnconia55]

It goes for anyone, no matter young, middle or old age, who have a RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM this crap

Where is the enumerated exactly? I must have missed it.
Hint: You don't have a right not to be offended.

[ffusco]

"you all are obviously lobbyists for the ACLU"


Oh no he's on to us!
Everyone scatter and meet at Hillary's house at the stroke of midnight- There we will sacrifice a small child.......

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

No, YOU get a DVD player and watch all the horse sex and homo porn and whatever you want. but don't drag the rest of this country and culture into your dirt by demanding the media lower itself (and the rest of us) to YOUR standards on public airwaves

[ContentiousObjector]

Fox News is nothing more that tabloid trash, just because you might agree with what they are saying doesn't make it any less trashy.

Murdoch has no political philosophy, he will put anything on television that he thinks will make money, he is the cultural equivalent of Osama Bin Laden

[LasVegasMac]

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.

FLASH: I am the parent. We have two TV's in this house. One for public viewing, in the living room. The other is in Mom and Dad's bedroom.

I can't speak to what other parents allow their children to watch. I won't speak to how other parents raise their children.

I am the ultimate V-Chip in this house.

LVM

[don-o]

Adolf Hitler would have just loved

Forum foul. Ancient received wisdom posits that one who mentions Hitler has de facto lost the argument.

I guess I admire folks who get their knickers in a knot over the crap on the boob tube. But, I wonder, and even worry about television's power, even over those who visit this place.

For survival, man needs food, clothing and shelter, For too many, television seems to replace one of those three.

[eddie willers]

No, YOU get a DVD player

They're less than a $99 now.

Come on Midas....loosen up the wallet.
Do it for the children.

[DAnconia55]

You have the right to look at and do what you want so long as you don't squash the rights of others

Ok, I want to watch horse porn. Stop trying to use government to squash my 'right' to do so.

Guess you don't really see what you're saying.

We have a right to be FREE FROM garbage.
No you do not. You have the right to turn off your TV, change the channel, not BUY a TV, or buy a TV that has parental controls built in (all digital cable and satellite systems do).

What you DON'T have a 'right' to do is to pass laws telling the rest of us what we can and can't watch.

[Dan from Michigan]

I never even heard of this show.

That said, let the market decide. Not a bunch of unelected bureaucratic JBT's.

[StupidQuestions]

I don't agree. Television viewing has not diminished. It has increased but now there are a hundred channels. The major network's prime time audience is falling because people are going to HBO and Discovery and Fox and a zillion other channels. But guess what? I just scanned the listings and do you know what is currently playing on the History Channel?

HISTORY The XY Factor : Sex in the 20th Century: The Politics of Pleasure (Doc) Sexual experimentation; herpes; AIDS; Viagra; Monica Lewinsky. TV14 CC

I going to watch it! :)

[kcar]

No I don't even like the ACLU. I do like the Constitution, and would fight for every fredom that I enjoy, including the freedom to be free of YOUR tastes. If you are asking the government to police the airwaves to enforce your definition of garbage, what is the difference between you and liberals that would wish to inhibit the "garbage" of talk-radio hosts from the right?
Your's is a regulatory disease. I just use the remote control.

[Hyacinth Bucket]

"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."

I agree. Some people just can't believe that there's plans for social engineering going on in these board rooms in addition to the business side of this.

Also, whenever someone says that they watch because the writing was good eventhough they know it's not good for them, I tell them the following:
It is all about the commercials. It is never about giving people excellent shows to watch. It is all about giving people something entertaining and maybe even shocking to watch so they'll stay tuned in between watching what they are selling.

The owners of these stations would put on shows to fill the time between commercials. The more a show appeals to the masses, the longer they'll stay tuned and the more commercials they'll see.

[Dan from Michigan]

Was PAX knocked off the air for an hour or something

Bwhaahahahahah. BTW - Good thing the PTC wasn't watching TNN the other night. Scarface was on, almost unedited(f-bombs and that type of language only).

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Good arguments, but I ask you, how is what THEY are doing not social engineering ? They are shaping and sculpting our culture--and the image we are known by around the world. How can this not be social engineering?? We need new engineers!

[eddie willers]

Stop making (horse) sense.

[DAnconia55]

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

Good point.

I've always said that TV is the one thing I'd uninvent if given the 'power' to do so.

It's a mind control device. And not for the reasons the sexual puritans think, either.

[Dan from Michigan]

TV has hardcore porn after 10. You don't want that to happen in your country

I believe the best way to stop that is through the market.

[Dan from Michigan]

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.

Unrelated. Abortion kills someone. TV doesn't.

[StupidQuestions]

It is not social engineering because it is reactive. Programmers run focus groups and big research projects all to find out what you want. Free TV isn't pushing the envelope. That is going on on the premium channels. It is going on in the theaters. But what succeeds in those venues eventually makes its way to the commercial channels because they are fighting for the same audience.

There is no group to which I'm willing to entrust a social engineering project. We do it as a people all by ourselves. We do it everytime a movie is a hit or bombs. We do it every time we turn the channel on our TV --- and that's the only way I want it. Anything else is censorship (although it can carry much fancier labels).

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

I like the constitution too. Especially the 9th Amendment that says Constitutional rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage the rights of others

YOU are regulating smut IN-- it didnt used to be there, buddy! And really everyone did just FINE! You can still go look at the dirty little pamphlets in your Daddy's bottom drawer, you can still go to x-rated theaters--GO AHEAD! Just dont bring it into the homes of those who dont want it--who dont even want the 5 SECONDS of it they would be forced to see before they got hold of the remote.

gotta leave- can't argue any more tonight