Indiana NBC Affiliate Rejects 'Book of Daniel'

newsmax.com ^ | Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006 3:35 p.m. EST

[jaydubya2]

"I thought we were in favor of free speech. I guess that applies only to people we agree with."

Noboby is denying them of their right to free speech. We are voicing our right to free speech by objecting to it and refusing to endorse it.

[originalbuckeye]

They are welcome to put it on TV. They are just cutting out a very high percentage of the viewing audience. How come the networks and the OM news shows never talk about the lack of freedom of speech for conservatives? Even FOX (accused of being a conservative cable news network)gives more air time to the lefties just to show that they are 'fair and balanced'.

[Roux]

Just goes to show you how out of touch NBC is.

[Okies love Dubya 2]

My husband and I enjoyed it so much (just don't have the funds to buy it ourselves)...I just told my mom about it the other day, since my stepdad is a huge WWII movie fan, I thought he might like it (and his birthday is in less than two weeks!)

[NELSON111]

I thought we were in favor of free speech. I guess that applies only to people we agree with.

Oh good gravy. Free speech deals with the GOVERNMENT saying you can't say something. As free Americans...people have a right to say "Hey NBC...don't show it or else." It's not censorship unless the government does it. If you say people can't protest against NBC...then you are denying THEIR freedom of speech.

Anyone has the right to tell anyone they don't want to see something on TV...except the government. That's the constitution. If you can find it in the constitution that I don't have a right to tell NBC "Don't show this or that..."and that THAT is called censorship or limiting freedom of speech...well...I'll be waiting.

So what you are saying is if we disagree with someone...we shouldn't say anything...then we lose our free speech.

[Right Wing Assault]

The program’s main characters include Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest; his alcoholic wife; his son, a 23-year-old homosexual Republican; his daughter, a 16-year-old drug dealer; a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's daughter; his lesbian secretary who is sleeping with his sister-in-law; and a very unconventional white-robed, bearded Jesus who talks to the priest.

I bet the writer is ticked that Catholic priests can't marry.

Also, couldn't he come up with a more diverse family?

[InvisibleChurch]

good for you. thankx

[Blzbba]

"Keep practicing, Jack. Maybe you'll get it right in the end."


Something tells me that's exactly where he wants to "get it".

[Semper Paratus]

Care to list a couple of dozen?

Try here:

http://www.pineforge.com/healeystudy4/shaheen.pdf

[CIB-173RDABN]

I thought we were in favor of free speech. I guess that applies only to people we agree with.

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Free speech is a two way road. They speak, we answer.

What could be freeer?

[Madeleine Ward]

Um,

I don't see anybody introducing a law to prevent this movie from being shown.

I don't see anyone filing a lawsuit to prevent this movie from being shown, unlike the libs did to Sinclair and to the little movie theaters.

I see a business deciding not to air a program on their station. I see businesses declining to spend advertising money to sponsor a show they don't think their target audience will be watching. I see private citizens telling their local stations that they won't be watching the show.

[MarineBrat]

Keep practicing, Jack. Maybe you'll get it right in the end.

Oh brother! :)

[I Like Lincoln]

If the show is truly as bad as it looks we don't need professional lobbyists protecting us from seeing it. No one will watch and it will go away, as per free market theory.

[fjsva]

The program’s main characters include Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest; his alcoholic wife; his son, a 23-year-old homosexual Republican; his daughter, a 16-year-old drug dealer; a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's daughter; his lesbian secretary who is sleeping with his sister-in-law; and a very unconventional white-robed, bearded Jesus who talks to the priest. "

Never heard of the show, is that really the lineup? Reads like something from the Onion.

[radiohead]

Hey, that TFAL is good stuff.

LOL. I noticed that too and thought the same thing. I love my TFAL.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Is Mr Wildmon aware of this invention...?

[Lady Heron]

LOL!

[FormerLib]

That was a lot of reading just to see that they didn't list a single television show from the time period that you listed (of course, it was just dreadfully boring reading that I might have missed one or two).

So, the answer to my question: Care to list a couple of dozen? should have been, "No, I can't. My post was mostly fabrication."

Thank you for playing.

[A Texan]

I personally think people should see a show before criticizing it, but I have seen the same or similar descriptions of this show on numerous entertainment websites. If they have the right to show it then people have the right to complain that they feel it is not a positive representation of their beliefs. NBC makes the final decision on if this show stays or goes, and that will be based on its profitability.

The way I look at it is, if some a-hole is going around verbally bashing my sister, should I just let it happen, or should I find out what the hell is going on and then beat the snot out of them. I chose plan B, you don't have to sit back in life and let people tear apart what you believe in or let them mock your beliefs.

The simple question is would this show have been green-lighted if it was anything other then a Christian Family? I think you know the answer to that question.

[L98Fiero]

"If the show is truly as bad as it looks we don't need professional lobbyists protecting us from seeing it."

Maybe I'm a tad more aggressive than you, but there come a point at which I have to say, "ENOUGH!" As another poster stated, this show is a prop-up. They know it will not make money. For once, it isn't about money, this time. This is a deliberate "up yours" from secularist homo-fixated liberals to middle America. There is nothing wrong with letting the network know they suck, in no uncertain terms.