[gridlock]

This was the subject of Michelle Malkin's "Hot Air" segment today.

[Moose4]

They're going to replace the end line with "Remember, kids. Allah made you special, and Mohammed wants you to kill Jews and kaffirs very very much." That'll get by NBC's censors.

}:-)4

[airborne]

How is this not copyright infringement?

[billorites]

Dedicated bachelor Larry and his long-time companion Bob.

[Always Right]

"Our goal is to reach as broad an audience as possible with these positive messages while being careful not to advocate any one religious point of view," she said.

If you really wanted to reach as broad of an audience as possible, then why are your TV shows and news programs so liberally tilted? Why can't you have ONE show with a religious tilt that represents the viewpoint of 90% of the population. Just crazy.

[UNGN]

Is this the same network that had Earl's brother smelling stripper boobies at 7:15 central?

Just checking.

[AD from SpringBay]

They sold out to the man - can't serve two masters and all that. They've chosen...

[BibChr]

Add me to the list of critics. VT's are pretty lightweight and moralistic as it is (contrast the EXCELLENT radio series "Adventures in Odyssey"). This is like watering down... water.

"...partly because I knew a lot of fans would feel like it was a sellout or it was done for money"

There's the root. Dead-wrong hierarchy of concerns.

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG
Pyromaniacs

[Psalm 73]

"....blasting NBC, which airs "VeggieTales," for editing...."

I don't think my daughter (age 5) has EVER watched network television - occaisionaly Public Television (my tax $$ anyway), and video tapes and DVDs.
They should just get the Veggie Tales on tape/DVD - not edited for Left Coast PC.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Of course this thread will swell with posts of outrage, but if one were to simply think logically about it for a moment, this is actually a good chance to still evangelize. How many kids will watch these sanitized shows, get hooked on the characters, and their parents will then go out and buy Veggie Tale videos/DVD's (which contain the full unedited messages?) I can understand the disappointed reaction to NBC's whitewashing, but bottom line, an edited version on TV will still lead to far more kids/families exposed to the full message than if it weren't broadcast in any form. Think of the NBC's watered-down version as a commercial for the rest of the series.

But obviously, for some of the usual suspects here it is a lot more fun to scream than to actually think.

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

My favorite Veggie Tales is Shadrach Mesach and Abendigo. About King Neb and his chocolate bunny factory. All bad bunnies go to the furnance. You know the Bible story.

[Aquinasfan]

The show was edited to comply with the network's broadcast standards, said NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks.

"Now, if Bob and Larry want to get married and adopt children, we will celebrate that," Rebecca continued. "We just don't want to advance one religion over another."

[longtermmemmory]

The MSM is treating Christianity as hard core pornography.

[Xenalyte]

"If NBC is so concerned about that four-letter-word God,

Um, Brent, unless you're spelling it differently from the rest of the world, "God" only has three letters in it.

[bmwcyle]

There was no sex to leave in the story. They were just to clean for the evil NBC.

[HostileTerritory]

You know, when I was a kid I loved "Davey and Goliath" but I didn't get the religious outreach at all. I thought it was a bit strange that they went to church a lot and read the Bible, because there were very few Protestants in my town, but it never occurred to me to be like them.

I thought it was cool that the Methodists were putting on a cartoon. I had no idea what the Methodists were.

[Bear_Slayer]

When I worked in computer security I met a young man responsible for the network security of Vegitales website.

According to him the owners would not put a firewall on the network. They would much rather trust people to do the right thing.

The security administrator confessed that he put one in anyway and lied to the owners. He figured it was easier to apologize after the fact.

If true, the owners once again demonstrate that they are nimwits.

[opus86]

"VeggieTales" creator Phil Vischer, who was responsible for readying episodes for network broadcast, said he didn't know until just weeks before the shows were to begin airing that nonhistorical references to God and the Bible would have to be removed.

You're kidding, right? How would he NOT know this? I could've told him this would happen.

[Antoninus]

More proof that the Smoke of Satan rules at NBC. They are tolerant of everything--except God.

[hoosierboy]

Do they have a spinach charachter with diarrhea?

[unlearner]

"If NBC is so concerned about that four-letter-word God, then they shouldn't have taken 'Veggie Tales',"

NBC has no problem using the name of God or Jesus...


as long as it is used in vain, as a curse or blasphemy.

I guess NBC now has an official policy of being anti Christian. And we are supposed to accept that they have to do this because they MUST comply with their own policy. That is a non answer answer coming from their PR dept.

There is no excuse for this bigotry. Only a tiny minority of people will find Veggie Tales offensive - a lot less than are offended by the networks constant bombardment and assault of our senses with trash. That is one reason I watch very little TV.

Hypocrites. These are the same ones who scream bloody murder over the least hint of censorship if it is about complaints over their abuse of the names of God and Jesus.