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April 14, 2006
Comedy Central Dhimmitude Meets South Park Blasphemy
South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker wanted to do an episode that would editorialize on the contrived controversy Islamic extremists whipped up over the inoffensive if infamous Danish cartoons. Unfortunately the weasels at Comedy Central don't have the belly for controversy, unless by controversy you mean spitting on the values of normal Americans — a practice that obviously does not take much nerve in today's media culture. Stone and Parker were told that no images of Mohammad would be allowed, clearly because some Muslims might choose to take offense.
So the South Park episode will instead feature, according to Fox News, "an image of Jesus Christ defecating on President Bush and the American flag."
The episode will run during Holy Week.
Despite taking bad taste and disrespectfulness to new extremes, Stone and Parker do get their point across. Anything goes so long as it only insults Christians, Republicans, and America. As of September 11, nothing goes if Muslims might not like it.
But William Donohue of the Catholic League would be more impressed by the South Park pair's devotion to free speech if they resigned on principle for being censored. According to Donohue:
The ultimate hypocrite is not Comedy Central — that's their decision not to show the image of Muhammad or not — it's Parker and Stone. Like little whores, they'll sit there and grab the bucks. They'll sit there and they'll whine and they'll take their shot at Jesus. That's their stock in trade.
Hat tip: Varla
Posted by Van Helsing at April 14, 2006 2:21 PM
Comments
Comedy Central wont do the Mohammad episode because, unlike Catholics, Christians, Jews, ect, Islamists will seek to harm or kill Comedy Central personnel in revenge.
Comedy Central has gone downhill since Battlebots was cancelled.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at April 14, 2006 2:50 PM
I guess I'm going to have to quit watching South Park...oh wait, I already did that years ago.
Posted by: Uchuck the Tuchuk at April 14, 2006 4:40 PM
Michelle malkin discussed this in today's New York Post at http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/62417.htm
Posted by: Anonymous at April 14, 2006 6:24 PM
"an image of Jesus Christ defecating on..."
What on Earth do you call an act like that?
THE ARISTOCRATS!
Sorry, I couldn't resist. I just watched the DVD last night.
Posted by: phil at April 15, 2006 7:48 AM
Gah! I'll never get away from that thing...
Posted by: Archonix at April 15, 2006 9:47 AM
Damn it! I KNEW Comedy Central would do this. Guess that means I won't get to watch Harvey Birdman anymore.
Bastards.
Posted by: HollywodNeoCon at April 15, 2006 11:37 AM
Hey Van Helsing, William Donahue is just an angry old man upset that the world has passed him by. He is one of those particulary virulent christian pundits that make me want to vote for Barbara Boxer because of his views on free speech.
Posted by: associatecontributor1 at April 15, 2006 2:49 PM
As distasteful as the scene you describe was, it was nowhere near as offensive as the taxpayer funded "art" on which that scene was based.
The show made it's point and perhaps, just perhaps, the message might have gotten through to moonbats who were waiting for their daily dose of information on the Daily Show.
Posted by: Mike's America at April 17, 2006 10:14 AM
As disgusting as their caricature of Jesus may be, any attempt on the part of the government, civil action groups or the broadcasting company to censor their material will be as futile as it was to do so with rock music in the 1980s because of the First Amendment. Whether you agree with it or not, they have the right to express themselves any way they wish as long as it's legal.
The ultimate goal of television corporations is, like any other business, to make money. Comedy Central continues to broadcast South Park because it appeals to a wide variety of people and subsequently generates high ratings. This translates into a significant amount of revenue. Of course, in order to continue appealing to their consumers, the producers are, in a way, forced to make the content more vulgar. That's what their viewers want and expect. Inevitably, new television shows (in economic terms, "substitutes") will draw away some of their audience, reduce their ratings (profitability) and force them to move on if they don't run out of ideas first. Of course, they've managed to differentiate their product so well that this will not likely happen anytime soon.
Whatever the case may be, your best course of action is to simply turn the mind-numbing boob tube off and go play catch with your son or read a book.
Posted by: Ethan V. Jones at April 19, 2006 2:20 AM
