Posted on 06/06/2002 9:00:55 AM PDT by Peacerose
Strangeness is nothing new at ABC, but since when is the name of Jesus a dirty word? Bare butts are okay, foul language of all types is tolerated, but let a talk show host say, "Thank you, Jesus," and its time for the censors to step in!
On May 23, this exchange occurred on The View, a daytime talk show:
Nothing too shocking there, but it was too much for the censor: The word "Jesus" was bleeped out for the West Coast feed.
The next week, during the May 28 show, as the co-hosts discussed the bleeping, Behar said, "Well, geez, so what? I'm a Catholic!" . . . "Jesus and I are pals, okay? Get with the program!"
That's right, ABC! Get with the program! What kind of disturbed reasoning process is behind decisions like this? If a Muslim woman thanked Allah on a talk show, would that be bleeped, too? I suspect that it would not -- in the interests of diversity, you understand. And plenty of tolerance is afforded to the "realism" of taking the Lord's name in vain. How is it possible to decide that thanking Jesus is ugly and profane?
Whatever warped policy is at work here must be reviewed. ABC owes the public an explanation and an apology. Join me in demanding answers from these people. The contact information is below.
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Meredith Vieira: "So yesterday, yesterday if you say 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!"
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That's an easy one, Peacerose; in fact, the answer's as easy as A-B-C.
For God's sake they're Godless Liberal-Socialists running that sewer; &, as well as the others for that matter!
The mere word "God," obviously is analogous to the effect a cross has on a vampire.
Funny thing, too.
Wanna bet these Liberal-Socialist Lamestream ghouls will still expect -- no, make that demand -- getting Christmas AND Easter *off* from their duties at the 3 Godless network-sewers??
~Yea...
...& ABC's "Ellen" (DeGenerate) was just a hunky-dory, prime time family *entertainment* show, eh?
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Of course, each network and cable station should have free reign to show and say whatever they want. Just as each person is able to change the channel whenever they want. Ditto, for print, radio, the Internet, billboards, smoke signals and carrier pigeons.
If people have neglected their character development to the point of not being able to change the channel they certainly have no business petitioning the government to force a network to change their programming.
In general, all the old-time status-quo media are losing readers/viewers with each passing quarter. Let them continue shooting themselves in both feet until they don't have a leg to stand on.
This is not a worthy manner to use the name of the Lord, it really dishoners Him.
It would have been better not to bring the name of Jesus into it at all.
I can't understand why people are upset over this.
It's not like they bleeped out a verse or a prayer.
Or, if you do watch these Godless stations, make a list of the advertisers they show and make it a point to never buy anything they sell. Get your friends to do the same. If they wont, get new friends.
These are small acts of principle, but ones we are duty bound to perform.
Search4Truth
Thanks for bringing that up. I saw that too, and told my wife about it. Of course, that was on NBC, a different network.
If I had been in charge at NBC, I would not have let that pass. It was wrong. With that said, I feel obliged to add that it was the most powerful use of the word imaginable. The character (Anthony Edwards' "Dr. Greene"), a relatively young man, was dying, his bodily systems shutting down, one by one, and he couldn't even get out of bed without falling.
That show had been going to hell for a couple of years -- ever since George Clooney left it -- and I had stopped watching. Knowing that that episode would be the farewell for Greene/Edwards, I made an exception for it. The producers managed to suck it up for one last episode, which I think was one of the three or four most powerful they ever made. The only others that spring to mind, are the George Clooney-drowning-boy-in-the-aqueduct episode; the Route 66 episode that had the Clooney and Edwards characters drive out to the Southwest, following the death of Clooney's father (who had been played by Jimmy Farentino) in a car crash; and the show in which Edwards' father (played by the great John Cullum) finally succumbed to cancer.
I saw Joy Behar about ten years ago on Broadway in a Borscht Belt comedy review, Catskills on Broadway; I always thought she was Jewish.
After that episode, I checked the New York papers for mention of it by the TV critics, and found nothing. It wasn't even looking because of the word. I suspect that the local TV critics, who tend to be on the pc/artsy-fartsy side, refused to look at ER anymore, unless it did something obscenely pc, re lesbianism or "racism."
I'll throw out three different possible explanations why no one mentioned the word, each of which may apply to different media types or groups.
1. TV has gotten away with so much, in the way of foul language and sexual explicitness, that it was anti-climactic.
2. Some media writers didn't mention it, because they want to see more of the same, and fear that drawing attention to it will lead to a return of standards by an embarrassed NBC.
3. It created no buzz among youngsters and 20-somethings, because they usually watch cable, where they hear that sort of langauge all the time.
It should be required reading for all.
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