***Fox Movie Channel Cancels Charlie Chan to be Politically Correct***

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[The Wizard]

In what has to be the most yellow streak of broadcasting in years, the Fox movie channel has canceled the colection of Charlie Chan films because they were afraid a few folks might not understand that Stephin Fetchit was a ROLE played by an actor....

It a gutless move that ranks up there with the other great politically correct moves that show America has turned into a liberal pond of weakkneed corporations under extortion by the likes of jesse jackass and al sharpy sharpton, the Fox movie channel restored the films to perfection, advertised them for weeks, and pulled them because some blacks might be offended by the actions of a single character....

What the hell is America coming too when you can't show a black without a college education.

[The Wizard]

I suggest you cancel your Fox movie channel, to let them know we don't approve of political correctness in movies.

[Cold Heat]

For cryin out loud!

This is ridiculous!!!!

[Mercat]

I don't agree. I have Aristocats for my grandaughter and there's a terrible depiction of a siamese cat which I wish that they had deleted from the movie. It adds nothing to the plot. I put myself in the place of an asian three year old.

[rs79bm]

It was probably the communists over at Harvard and the NYT that caused a stir about it.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

What's your source on this?

[lawgirl]

O NO!!!!!!!I was SO looking forward to it!!!!!!! NOOO!!!!!!!

[Cold Heat]

I guess a sense of humor is rare these days. I wonder what dumb white guys think. Every movie seems to have one.

[B Knotts]

http://www.foxmoviechannel.com/contact.asp

[Bluntpoint]

[rs79bm]

I wonder what dumb white guys think. Every movie seems to have one.

Dumb and Dumber is a prime example. Can you imagine if that movie was about two blacks? The producer would have been shot and killed.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Fox showing Reality TV that features skateboarders dislocating their elbows, blowing out their knees, and bashing their heads is perfectly good and OK. But Charlie Chan is bad and wrong. Yeah, that makes sense (/sarcasm).

[Im Your Huckleberry]

PUH-LEEZE!

Yeah, the Siamese cat depicted in a "Aristocats" is such a racist stereotype that your granddaughter is gonna traumatize her, and leave a festering, racist bigot, eh?

How come only guilty whites are worried about racist stereotypes and making sure they don't offend anyone of another pigment?

Gimme a break. Fox's cowardly pulling of the movies is a joke. It's a kneejerk reaction to kneejerk radical liberals complaints and guilty-white-liberal hand-wringers...

Grow up. There's no right to be unoffended in this country, or in life, and you and everyone else ought to wake up to that. 99% of all comedy is based on cruelty or mockery at the expense of other's - at someone else being poked fun at, made fun of, being ridiculed. It's a part of human nature, and you and your all thin-skinned compadres need to get a thicker skin and grow the he!! up.

I don't think any orientals' heads exploded because of the Siamese cat depicted in "Aristocats" just like no black person is going to die because they see "Song of the South" - yet Disney is still holding this wonderful movie away from the public because of the Rev. Jesse Jacka@@ and his PUSH shriekers.

That's what I have to say to all of you, "Grow the he!! up."

[SC DOC]

I think it strange that a Swedish actor (Warner Oland) played the part of Charlie Chan.

[narby]

I didn't know Stepin Fetchit (sp?) was in Charlie Chan movies.

I remember him from the Will Rogers movie "Steamboat Round the Bend". A really good movie, for 1935. It was released after Rogers was killed in a plane crash with Willey Post in Alaska.

I happen to know something about the making of the movie. Rogers was way ahead of his time in the line of ad libing lines in movies. In 'Bend, Rogers had a great time in a private contest with Fetchit to think up funny lines to add to the movie. And Fetchit, I think, beat Will Rogers with the line (when Rogers had lassoed a guy off a dock from a moving steamboat and drug him through the water pretty dramatically) asked the almost drowned guy "could I get you somethin, maybe a glass of water?".

Funny stuff. Fetchit was paid well, and lived grand. I think with a private cheaufer (probably white) and limo.

[Bedford Forrest]

"al sharpy sharpton"

Wrong Name!!!! The correct appellation is, "Al 'Give That Fat Little Rodent Faced Race Hustler a Poke Chop' Sharpton". And we won't discuss the scumbag's role in the lynching of an orthodox Jew from Australia, as I recall. That would be politically infra dig.

[ladyinred]

Thanks for the link, I sent my response to this stupidity to Fox.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I guess that explains why you can't find reruns of "In Living Color" anywhere but Andy Griffith and Golden Girls can still be found.

[annyokie]

Case not solved, Number One Son.

[lawgirl]

OK. I just emailed them and encourage everyone to do the same-here's the page to do it with:

http://www.foxmoviechannel.com/contact.asp

[PhilDragoo]

Number One Son: What's it say, Pop?

Charlie Chan: It say, 'He who cancels good show likewise be cancelled.'