Posted on 12/02/2005 6:49:06 PM PST by 50sDad
OK, I am offended now.
NBC is flogging "3 Wishes" as a family show, an alternate to "Extreme Home Makeover". In it, they find 3 families with some kind of horrible problem or tragedy, and fulfill a wish of some kind. Tonight, for a sad little cancerous girl, they redressed a home in California as if it were a winter wonderland with lights and snow, just like the Midwest Christmases her mom had. They also helped a young boy fly in a fighter jet, and helped a paralised firefighter.
In the midst of this family fare, I was slapped in the face by the Blue State pinheads. They premiered a commercial for an upcoming series called "The Book of Daniel". Prepare to be offended...
Daniel is a married priest. His daughter (sister?) is sleeping with her dead husband's former secretary. His son is gay, and we learn about this at the family's dinnertable. This is followed by a series of quick-cuts from outrage to outrage, done "humorously" as in "look at all the wacky problems this priest has!" The commercial ends with Daniel sitting and talking with Christ: Danial says "Aren't you supposed to comfort people?" Christ says with a smirk, "Where did you read that?"
OK, this is purposely placed AFTER a segment about Christmas in a show peddled as family fare. This was a intentional slap in the face at Christmas time to Christians in the audiance.
This is disgusting....Forgive them father, they know not what they do...sums it up nicely.
Dan
NBC PICKS UP 'THE BOOK OF DANIEL,' NEW DRAMA SERIES STARRING AIDAN QUINN, FOR MID-SEASON 2005-06 Released by NBCBURBANK - July 15, 2005 - NBC has picked up the new drama series "The Book of Daniel," starring Aidan Quinn ("Legends of the Fall") as a conflicted reverend and family man, for mid-season 2005-06, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President, NBC Entertainment.
"This challenging new series is our first announced drama for mid-season as we continue to seek different, out-of-the-box projects," said Reilly. "'The Book of Daniel' is bold and surprising storytelling told by a great cast led by Aidan Quinn."
Life is strange in "The Book of Daniel," but it's especially skewed for Reverend Daniel Webster (Quinn, "An Early Frost," "Legends of the Fall") - a man of faith in this off-center world where nothing is sacred. He has a loving, but challenged relationship with his family, a stressful relationship with the church hierarchy, led by Bishop Beatrice Congreve (Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn, "Alive Doesn't Live Here Anymore"), as well as a nagging relationship with prescription pills. But he has a friend to help him with his multitude of issues -- a contemporary Jesus (Garret Dillahunt, "Deadwood") who only appears to the reverend.
The series also stars Susanna Thompson ("Now and Again") as the reverend's wife, Judith, and Christian Campbell ("Trick"), Alison Pill ("Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen") and Ivan Shaw ("All My Children") as the couple's troublesome three children. Creator Jack Kenny ("Titus") and Flody Suarez ("8 Simple Rules") are the executive producers of "The Book of Daniel," from Sony Pictures Television and the NBC Universal Television Studio.
The last time I turned the set downstairs (TVs belong in basements/rec rooms, not living rooms, IMHO) on to watch anything other than a video was... ummm... well, to be honest I don't recall. 2002? 2001? I don't miss it one bit.
Especially I don't miss the ads. And lousy programming.
You gotta be kidding me. No, wait, of course you're not. This is Hollyweird.
But they had to get rid of Touched by an Angel...sigh...
I believe they have cancelled the Three Wishes. What we have now is the left-over. Too bad, as the show is good, and had a quite good ratings too. Perhaps it's just very expensive to run.
But, get this, the camera cut away after he laid the kid across his lap for the swat, because, gosh, we can't show a teenager being spanked on the ass by a father. However, we sure can show how that dad was wrong to "beat the crap out of" his dumbass teenager, go admit he was wrong and promise that it would never happen again.
So, in order for all of those guilt-ridden anti-spankers to feel good about themselves, we are shown the kid punching his father in the face. Ain't liberalism grand? It's like a non-stop guilt-complex, seeking to retribute their mean, knuckle-dragging fathers for having hurt their self-esteem.
Parent spanking teenager who broke dad's golf club: Bad, can't be shown.
Kid (w/hurt feelings, boo-hoo) punching dad in face: Good, and funny! Let's watch!
If we had an Evangelical Democratic president would there be so much of this on TV and in Movies?
" ... won't realize they are in the minority today. Anybody else mad about this?"
Ditto. Do I detect the heavy hand of Norman Lear? Or Clintons' friends, Linda Bloodworth and her hubbie, Whozis Thomas?- the very same people who enlightened us with Murphy Brown and Demented Women?
Gawd, I'm sooooo tired of these Cultural Marxists. (Got
that from a GREAT post, last night, here). I think they're preaching to the choir, and that choir is shrinking.
"It's like a non-stop guilt-complex, seeking to retribute their mean, knuckle-dragging fathers for having hurt their self-esteem."
You're on to something. Look at the feminazies. How can you not!?! They're IN YOUR FA-A-A-ACE!!! And then there's the Sensitive New Age Male ... Yah, you're on to something.
With the exception of certain sports programs, television is a vast wasteland. Turn it off before it rots your brain.
And I'll bet they will use this show as an example of how Hollywood is doing religious-themed shows to attract the Passion audience. (barf)
Sports and sometimes "immediate" visually-oriented news (such as the morning of 9/11/2001). Agreed.
Oh. Forgot election returns, though living in the Peoples' Soviet of Washington, Seattle CCP, in The EvergreeD State, even that is now less interesting. You'll only get some idea how close your side got before the corrupt elections department (how corrupt? by law they're all Teamsters Union members) finds a way to steal the election by finding all sorts of new ballots post-first-count, losing others, indelibly remarking others, and other sorts of corruption that way overshows Chicago and Philadelphia and other such pikers.
Seattle has "corrupt" down to a science. So much so even the media is suppressed.
A little off topic, but I notice that a lot of these "makeover" shows are nothing more than re-packaged, updated versions of that old 50s "game show" (and I use the term VERY loosely) "Queen for a Day". The "winner" (queen) was the woman that the audience determined was the most pathetic.
Back to the rant topic, I no longer watch much of the dreck produced by Hollyweird and the Left Coast wacko community. They can never, ever, ever approach the charm, seetness and spirituality of the TV specials that ran in the 60s. Charlie Brown, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, etc., all had a charm and sweetness that the hatred and cynicism of today's Hollyweird can't duplicate. Were they to re-make "It's a Wonderful Life", they would somehow manage to have it star the Grinch and his nasty, mean, spoiled, Hollyweird, gay, goth children.
Their sickness is played out on TV screens and movie theatres all over America. I don't participate in about 99.8% of the crap they produce. Too many better things to do in life.
It is disgusting. Hope it fails.
Exactly!
Yeah, it's like they don't even try to solve people's problems anymore, but they'll give them a truckload of new stuff (courtesy of their sponsors) and make them look pretty (courtesy of other sponsors) instead.
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