Posted on 01/24/2006 9:39:09 AM PST by nmh
Because of your efforts, NBC cancels 'Book of Daniel'
Dear (just received this through e-mail),
NBC's anti-Christian program The Book of Daniel has been cancelled! Your efforts, combined with those of hundreds of thousands of other AFA Online supporters, had an impact.
NBC's decision to pull The Book of Daniel shows the power of the pocketbook. NBC didn't want to eat their economic losses. Had NBC not had to eat millions of dollars each time it aired, NBC would have kept The Book of Daniel on the air. Because of your efforts, the sponsors dropped the program. NBC then decided it didn't want to continue the fight.
Even an impassioned plea by Daniel's producer Jack Kenny could not match your participation. "Ordinarily, I would never ask anyone to do this, but the AFA and bullies like them are hard at work to try and prevent you from seeing these beautiful shows, and that is censorship—pure and simple. And that is both un-Christian and un-American," Kenny wrote. His attitude is typical in today’s society. Non-Christians telling Christians what is Christian.
People like Kenny don't want people like you to have a voice. They want to deny you the right to get involved. You are supposed to sit back and take the trash. And when you do speak up they call you names.
This shows us that we don't have to simply sit back and take the trash, but we can get involved and fight back with our pocketbooks. I want to thank the 678,394 individuals who sent emails to NBC and the thousands who called and emailed their local affiliates.
Thanks for caring enough to get involved!
Finally, if you think our work is deserving of support, would you please send a small donation to help us continue. Click here.
Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association
P.S. Please forward this e-mail message to your family and friends!
Beggars.
Talk about a real problem. Ledger could get an Oscar nod as best actress in "Bareback Mounting," PLUS an Oscar nod as best actor in "Casanova" (he actually was pretty funny in this one).
There was plenty of protest, but I think Daniel cancelled itself with a weak script, unappealing characters, lousy acting, and the general negative feeling that pervaded the show.
I'm shedding a tiny, tiny tear as I realize that I shall never have the chance to view Mr. Kenny's "beautiful show." What a treasure has been lost. Hark! What is that I hear? Could it be the sound of the world's smallest violin playing?
A slightly-censored SP does air in certain markets around the US on WB and UPN. Neither are major Nets (although this WB/CBS thing will make CW the No. 5 Net), but it is still over-the-air broadcast of SP.
Thankfully that trash the West Wing is being cancelled too.
Meanwhile, at Houston's local channel 2 (KPRC), they have cancelled the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon after 37 years. As a Republican, I am all for business. However, when they cancel something that helps so many (this telethon helps fund the ALS clinic at Methodist, not to mention research for 40 horrid neuromuscular diseases, camp for Jerry's kids, and the list goes on and on), because of their Katrina telethons earlier in the year and their crappy programs that keep getting cancelled, I'm a little bitter.
Cancellations have been fast and furious in the past few days. On ABC, "Emily's Reasons Why Not" was cancelled after only one episode. Also cancelled on ABC was "Jake in Progress."
TNT cancelled the drama "Wanted," while NBC has cancelled "West Wing" and "Will & Grace" following this season. It's also unlikely "Surface" will return next year.
"Malcolm in the Middle" and "That 70's Show" on FOX are done when the season ends.
LOL!!
"I seriously doubt it had anything to do with this group's boycott... the show just sucked. Dozens of shows are canceled every year for the same reason."
Sponsors are VERY sensitive to this stuff.
Believe it or not!
It's a mystery, isn't it? A combination of money and power in the hands of liberals who run the major studios, and the peer pressure around artistic people - writers, directors and producers - to veer left. Add the drugs and "glamour" that accompany wealthy showbiz venues, and you have the perfect storm. It blinds them to the importance of the even more money their advertisers could make with programming that would appeal to the mainstream - shows without the constant gross-outs and defamations of anything decent.
Then there is the matter of the large advertisers. Many of the largest are huge, consolidated food and housewares companies like PepsiCo and Proctor & Gamble. These two holding companies own literally thousands of brand-name products and fast-food chain stores, including global distribution in countries around the world. They advertise with the usual all-American symbols: families, moms and dads with children and pets, et cetera. Meanwhile, their management is under political pressure, because of the huge numbers of employees worldwide, to adopt the entire pro-homosexual agenda; so much so that Ohio-based Proctor & Gamble tried to intimidate employees during the last election to vote against conservatives. P&B and Ford Motor Company also were sponsors of the Gay Games, a huge Lust-In with oiled bodies and obscene public behavior.
If P&G were really honest, it would stuff your Sunday newspaper with coupon books full of the real images they are promoting - gay guys and lesbian moms rushing around the grocery with their adopted Asian infants, et cetera - instead of trading off the image of wholesome families that provide their financial success. It's only because homosexuals are only 3% of the population, not 10% as their propaganda insists, that P&G doesn't invest in putting their advertising images where their politics are. Ford tried appealing specifically to gays in advertising and was spanked - hard - by Americans concerned about the pro-homosexualist propaganda to which their children are exposed.
Sponsors are sensitive to ratings. That's all they care about.
The show sucked. The sponsors bailed. The show was canceled.
Maybe it did die a natural death, since it was bad - shows are often canceled after just two or three airings - the producers would blame it on Christians anyway to save face. But you are correct that too much chest-thumping over Christians' consumer power can backfire.
Many prayed for God to cancel The Book of Daniel?
Exactly.
Isn't Sutherland cast as the Republican to President Geena Davis in the upcoming barforama "Commander In Chief"?"Previews generating negative buzz. Apparently Davis can't carry an hour.
Supposedly, the show also lacks the 'uplifting' governmental win-win deal-brokering segments that carried "West Wing" to idol status among Libs.
I give it a single season, if only because of Disney's need to save face on this one."
LOL! Turn over the tables of the moneylenders, people!
True, amen! and brilliantly spoken - "Earl Schibe shows" - hilarious!
This reminds me of the story of when Pope John Paul II finally got permission to enter Poland during the Communist Era to speak. An enormous crowd gathered to hear him. Looking around and seeing how vast their numbers were, the people suddenly realized the falseness of totalitarian propaganda, and began to shout, "We want God! We want God!" It was a turning point in breaking the back of Communism in Poland.
LOL! The DC Chapter uses that song to taunt the anti-war Code Pinkos who demonstrate at Walter Reed when they start leaving - always before FR does -
Na na na nah,
na na na nah,
hey, hey, hey,
good-bye!
From watching the previews, I thought it would be cancelled because it looked like it sucked...
People have always known people who are gay. And they have always co-existed in stable communities. It's the in-your-face urban gays who are cramming the gory details down everyone's throats.
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