South Park has done it again… no, this is a good thing
If I need to find some good neoconservative (if you’ll excuse the term, which I normally hate) discourse, you really need to look no further than the work of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. If you can get past the language and crudity, it really is a breath of fresh air when it comes to common sense. For those who missed tonight’s episode, which was part 2 of 2, it tells the story of how Family Guy showed Mohammed in an episode despite terrorist threats and the exploits of some of South Park’s characters trying to get the episode on or off the air, depending on the character.
The brilliant part of the episode was that Comedy Central actually refused to show an image of Mohammad standing around holding a football helmet. Yet a couple of minutes later they were fine with showing Jesus crapping on George W. Bush (depicted on the terrorists’ “revenge” video). The juxtaposition is astounding. Why would Comedy Central refuse to show Mohammad? One would think the obvious reason would be because it would be offensive to some Muslims. So why show Jesus in that way? Do they believe Christians would not be offended by that? Of course not. So what I really would like to know is the reasoning Comedy Central had behind their decision. Do they think it’s more appropriate to show Jesus doing a reprehensible act than Mohammad doing nothing? Or are they just assuming Christians are more well adjusted and will not hold massive riots? That’s an honest question. Hopefully they’ll release some sort of statement to explain their decision if they haven’t already.
Michelle Malkin posted fairly thoroughly on this topic last week if you’d like to read more.
UPDATE: More from Michelle Malkin. Also, courtesy of docweasel, you can see the episodes of South Park in question here.
Archived in: Pop Culture, Religion, War on TerrorApril 12, 2006 at 10:53 pm | Trackback
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Um…maybe it’s because they wouldn’t fear Christians descending on their studio with molotov cocktails to demonstrate their sensitivity toward blasphemy.
You can d/l all the episodes of SouthPark here:
http://www.southparkx.net/epis.....rt-ii?vo=6
if you happen to miss this week’s.
South Park……
From New England Republican:
Mohammad was on South Park… sort of….
The brilliant part of the episode was that Comedy Central actually refused to show an image of Mohammad standing around holding a football helmet. Yet a couple of minutes la…
Um…maybe it’s because they wouldn’t fear Christians descending on their studio with molotov cocktails to demonstrate their sensitivity toward blasphemy.
We could fix that ya know… Anyone for a cocktail party?
Word is out now that CC caved and did censor the Mohammed image, it wasn’t part of the gag. Looking back it isn’t a big surprise that they caved, after all they were intimidated into removing an episode by the Scientologists. A guy with a knife (the better to saw off your head, my dear) or a bomb has got to be scarier than Tom Cruise.
I hadn’t even watched SP before, so I tuned in last night to see what all the hype was about. That stuff is hysterical!
South Park vs. Cartoon Jihad/2…
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Censurati nella seconda puntata dell’episodio di South Park dedicato alle Cartoon Wars islamiche, Trey Parker e Matt Stone attaccano il network Comedy Central (da Michelle Malkin, qualche propo….
Comedy Central’s position, which is the rest of Hollywood’s position, can be summed up as ABC: Anything But Christianity.