Posted on 05/30/2002 8:15:25 AM PDT by marshmallow
(Seriously, how could an Italian possibly be named "Joy"? And that voice! Ahhhhh...that voice! I dated that voice in college, and she wasn't no way Italian.)
I agree. Using the name of Jesus in a statement that also includes swearing is something I would prefer not to hear.
ABC hatin on Jesus, nothing to see here....move along.
True, but in an odd sort of way, I find this almost comforting. Think about it. If you were Satan, and you wanted to turn people away from the one true God, what would you do? You would allow, and even encourage, mention of all the false gods...Allah, Buddah, whatever. You would even allow people to say "God" as long as they said something vague, warm and fuzzy like "God bless America." But you would make it a big taboo to mention "Jesus" or "Christ." Even on shows like "Touched By An Angel," they say "God" all the time, but NEVER "Jesus." Christmas has become "winter holiday." And remember when George W. Bush said that the philosopher who had influenced him the most was Jesus, and how people were all upset and outraged about that? I believe Bush could have said "God" and it would have been all right. It's only the names "Jesus" and "Christ" that are banned and get people all upset.
The fact that "Jesus" and "Christ" are the only names that cannot be mentioned is proof, IMO, that He really IS the only way!
Like you, I'm sure - I know a few Italian broads from the city, and they all sound like Cher from "Moonstruck" - just more stereotypical.
??? My comment was little more than a comment on our times, where I noted that the name of Jesus was "bleeped" as obscenities were once removed, and the obscenity left for the public to hear. Man consistently labels Good as Evil, and Evil as Good, yet we are supposed to believe that man is not fallen, or will somehow "evolve" into something other than what he already is. Extreme doubt obtains as to that happening, outside Divine intervention...
the infowarrior
Although we think any language censorship, when bloody violence is left uncut, is quite silly, it seems that Comedy Central is concerned only with not offending homosexuals, instead of protecting its audience from indecency.
Mentioning Jesus verboten at ABC? On Tuesday’s The View, Joy Behar recalled how on a show the week before, she had exclaimed about her diet plan coming to an end: "Yes, and thank you, thank you, Jesus, is all I have to say! Goodbye to that damn scale and this whole diet. I'm sick of it!" But for the West Coast feed of that show, ABC bleeped out the name “Jesus.” Though it was created by and on some days features Barbara Walters, The View is not an ABC News program but one produced by ABC’s entertainment division. The day time talk show, produced fresh each day in New York City so it can address topical issues, is hosted by Meredith Vieira with Joy Behar, Star Jones and Lisa Ling.The MRC’s Jessica Anderson tracked down Behar’s original comment which ABC later decided to bleep. The exchange in question on the May 23 show:
Meredith Vieira: "So yesterday, yesterday if you saw this show, you know it was the last day of the weigh-in, the scale is gone." Joy Behar: "Yes, and thank you, thank you, Jesus, is all I have to say! Goodbye to that damn scale and this whole diet. I'm sick of it!"
Fast forward to the May 28 show. Behar complained:
"You know, the other day, as a point of order here, the other day when we were on last week, I used the phrase 'thank you Jesus' because my diet was over and we got, I was, it was bumped out of the, what do you call it?" Star Jones: "They beeped it." [yes, she said “beeped” not “bleeped”] Behar elaborated: "For the West coast, they took it out. They would not allow me to say 'thank you Jesus.' I think that's wrong. I mean, and [The View Executive Producer] Bill Geddie got about, you know, hundreds of letters saying -- about a hundred actually, right?"But the name of a religious figure apparently instills fear with some at ABC.Geddie, sitting in the front row of the audience: "About a hundred.”
Behar: "A hundred, which represents thousands of people."
Geddie: "Well, they bleeped the word 'Jesus.'"
Behar: "Because they bleeped the word 'Jesus.'"
Geddie: "So it's 'thank you bleep.'"
Lisa Ling: "Well, is that using the name of–"
Jones: "I've said 'Jesus' so many times."
Behar joked: "Yeah, that's right. How come the black girl can say it and the white girl can't? I protest!"
Jones suggested an odd explanation: "Actually, I think it actually has more to do with the fact that I've expressed my faith on television."
Behar: "Well, geez, so what? I'm a Catholic!"
Jones: "Not to suggest that you are not Christian, but I think it was to suggest that since I have professed my faith on television–"
Behar: "No, no, no, no."
Vieira: "But you don't have to profess your faith!"
Jones: "In theory, I don't know. I think it was stupid to beep that. They let us say all kinds of things on TV, but they beep Jesus? That makes no sense!"
Behar: "I don't understand that, and just for the record I was baptized, I had holy communion and I've been confirmed, I got married in the Catholic church."
Vieira: "If anybody can say 'Jesus,' you can."
Behar: "Jesus and I are pals, okay? Get with the program!"The View’s Web page: View’s Web page
For pictures of the cast: pictures of the cast
For a bio of Joy Behar: bio of Joy Behar
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