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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

[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

[Sonny M]

Yeah, I saw it, it was crude, but somewhat funny. If you don't like it, don't watch it and teach your kids the same.

This might not be the best example, but what if you don't watch it, your kids don't watch it, but the kids in your childs class do, and decide to re-enact the dialogue and the scene with your child at play time.

I'm pretty sure you would not be amused.

[rhema]

No one said its ok to have an abortion, but our society deemed that it's a personal decision years ago.

Sorry, the Supreme Court arrogated that decision unto itself in a laughable ruling that even liberal law scholars like John Hart Ely deride: John Hart Ely, former dean of Stanford Law School and a supporter of abortion rights, has written, Roe "is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be."

In Roe, the Court undid the laws of about 47 states, our nation's real "societies."

[mhking]

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?

No, I taught my children to make sound decisions.

Case-in-point: When "Power Rangers" first came out, my wife and I determined that it was not a program that we wanted our children to watch. We told them as much.

Two years later, when their cousins visited (who loved watching "Power Rangers"), the cousins wanted to watch that show. My children both told them that they weren't allowed to. Period.

Some parents are not as conscientious as my wife and I are. But the state should not be in the position of playing parent. Televisions have channel blocks now, thanks to the vaunted "V" chip; cable boxes can be progammed to avoid channels; finally, parents can take responsibility ([gasp!] Now there's a novel idea!) and say "No."

But it is not YOUR place to tell me what my child can and cannot watch. I am the parent of my children, and I will make that decision, thank you very much.

[StupidQuestions]

You are concerned about what other people's children watch? You want to regulate what other people teach their children as well so that your kids don't encounter bad thoughts in the school yard?

You can't regulate for all of us because of YOUR children.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

DID YOU CALL IT CENSORSHIP IN THE 1950s, 1960s 70s and 80s? Do you realize NO ONE called it censorship then? There was a different standard. It is NOT censorship if you still have the right to view this crap if you want--you can go get it at special stores. JUST BECAUSE IT ISNT MAINSTREAMED DOESNT MEAN IT IS CENSORSHIP. you and your ilk are not worth talking to. You have a hidden personal agenda. Come clean. Are you a porn freak? are you Howard Stern. Now really you all give me a headache -good riddance

[Hyacinth Bucket]

"Yes, I do know them. Do you? Their jobs depend on ratings, not on social manipulation."

Do you really know them? I really didn't want to bring this up but these businessmen we're talking about are either gays or someone with a "progressive" liberal lifestyle. If they are not into social engineering in addition to making money, why do so many shows on TV either have a gay character or have innuendos? Did people ask for these characters and lines to be included in the shows? I highly doubt it. This is called social engineering!

[mhking]

Maybe the kids are watching shows like this in their rooms.

That's purely a parenting issue. My children don't have TV's in their rooms. And as long as they are under my roof, they won't.

[kcar]

Everyone tries to socially engineer with every arguement they make, but the PROBLEM is that freedom thing again, the Constitution, not everyone even listens, and many who do don't care, and some who do don't like the angle.
Frankly I've never been in the Board meeting when they talked about anything other than P&L anc cash flow issues - maybe there's a special session where they say "Are the shoe-clerks gone? Good. Let's get down to business." (flipping on the Social Engineering Powerpoint slide).

[StupidQuestions]

Ah yes, the good old days! Three networks, little choice. No Fox, no Discovery, no History, no A&E, no etc. Ozzie and Harriet. I Love Lucy. Where have they gone?

"Time does not go backward or tarry with yesterday."

[Dave S]

Gee if you dont like the program, turn the channel. Watch something different. I have watched that show three times and I like it. I missed the beginning of the first episode thats being discussed but it sounds pretty funny to me.

Will let you in on a little secret. I dont think there is any program on Fox that is anything like Mr Rogers Neighborhood. Instead of bitching about the programming, why dont you watch the cartoon channel with your kids. If you are afraid your kids are going to watch it when you are not there, then dont leave the house or learn to use the parental controls and lock out the channel.

[stboz]

I hope I would be able to keep my blood pressure below critical mass. If one lives in complete isolation, there's bound to be a rude wake-up someday. You just have to deal with it.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

[Physicist]

OK, so we have:

1. Nazi Germany
2. Slavery
3. Internment camps
4. A risqué innuendo on TV

Hmmm...one of these looks out of place, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

For heaven's sake, though, don't read Chaucer or Rabelais. What you saw on TV wouldn't even touch what you might read in some of the world's enduring literature.

[upchuck]

This is called "programming to the lowest common denominator." And it seems to get lower each year.

It will do little, if any, good to protest to the FCC. They abandoned their charter of enforcing decency in TV programming years ago. Today, truly, anything goes.

I suggest, as have numerous posters before me, that you employ the Off button or change channels.

[StupidQuestions]

It is profits. One of the longest running Broadway shows involved a Gay couple. Sometimes it is funny. If it is not, it is gone. You think social engineering is discussed in board rooms?

I think money is. Ratings, profits, returns on investment, demographic trends and, syndication rights and profits. You really believe Jack Welch ran NBC with an eye toward social engineering? Trust me --- his eye was on G.E. stock prices and profits.

[ffusco]

Ok, I'll buy that.

The solution IMHO would be to have a more reponsible body politic- making abortion shameful is a good start.

[mhking]

Adolf Hitler would have just loved to have read some of these posts.

That's just plain silly.

[StupidQuestions]

You seem full of passionate intensity!

[Dave S]

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

learn to use parental controls. If you cant figure that out and your kid can, then the kids probably old enough to watch the show without becoming permanantly warped.