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Wow a traditional Judeo-Christian value episode on CBS. Basically it has Gemma and Dave, looking for another parenting couple, to have their children do things like going to the pool or amusement park, while the parents drink wine. Well they hook up with this up and coming famous LA couple on social media and are so excited that they are coming over for wine. The LA couple shows up and Gemma and Dave are thrilled until the LA couples little girl, is a hellion around Gemma's house and then Gemma is even more insulted when the wife of the typical...

QUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | MEETUP | C-LOG | ISSUES townhall.comPrinter-friendly versionABC vs. the tastemastersBrent Bozell (back to web version) | Send July 8, 2005Have you ever seen political correctness eat itself? In its latest lame attempt to package a "reality" show, ABC asked a group of neighbors to choose the new owner of a big house available on their block. The hook: In the process, these rich, white, conservative bigots would learn tolerance, acceptance, understanding and the error of their nasty ways. But irony of ironies, political-correctness lobbies stopped the show before it could preach...

"Welcome to the Neighborhood" followed three families in a comfortable cul-de-sac near Austin, Texas, given the chance to choose who moves in when a neighbor moves out of a 3,300-square-foot home on their block. Each family is white, conservative and initially interested in neighbors like them. Instead, they have a rainbow coalition of choices: a black family; a Hispanic family; an Asian family; two gay white men who've adopted a black boy; a couple covered in tattoos and piercings; a couple who met at the woman's initiation as a witch; and a white family where mom is a stripper. After...

LOS ANGELES -- There will be no "welcome wagon" for the reality series "Welcome to the Neighborhood." It was going to start July 10, but its network, ABC, has pulled it off the schedule. The series pushed hot buttons of racism and homophobia as families picked a new neighbor. The series' producers had said the show was supposed to promote a healthy and open debate about prejudice and people's fear of differences. But various groups said they were afraid the show could just create prejudice.

ABC Pulls 'Neighborhood' Reality Series By LYNN ELBER The Associated Press Wednesday, June 29, 2005; 9:40 PM LOS ANGELES -- "Welcome to the Neighborhood," an ABC reality series that pushes hot buttons of racism and anti-homosexuality, was pulled by the network before its debut. ... In a statement Wednesday, ABC acknowledged the delicate nature of the series in which families asked to pick a new neighbor are made to expose and overcome their biases. ... The six-episode show, which was to debut July 10, follows three families in Austin, Texas, who are given the chance to choose a new neighbor...

ABC's politically loaded "Welcome To The Neighborhood" has been cancelled before even a single episode could air, according to the Drudge Report and Washington Post. Set to debut July 10, it's been entirely removed from ABC's site, as if it never existed! The ill-conceived reality show, previously covered in-depth at the Radio Equalizer, put three white families in a position to select their new neighbor.

ABC's attempt at the ultimate in political correctness for a new reality show, has instead hilariously backfired, with furious lefty groups busy denouncing it. Conservatives and Christians will have just as much to worry about,