NBC Abandons Plan to Attack Christians With Spears

[kweerwolf]

(OK ... this is definitely the headline most likely to cause a double-take. I'll give the fundies a "10" for style, but a "0" for content.)

Responding to pressure, NBC has decided to strike a particularly offensive segment from an upcoming episode of the sitcom, "Will and Grace," featuring a guest appearance by pop music star Britney Spears. The American Family Association (AFA) reports that the network cancelled plans to include a reference in the show's April 13 episode that would have offended Christians, both by its timing and its content.

According to AFA, a Tupelo, Mississippi-based pro-family group, NBC had previously announced its intention to air an episode the night before Good Friday, featuring pop music performer Britney Spears as a guest star. In her appearance, Spears was to portray a Christian conservative sidekick to homosexual character Jack McFarland (actor Sean Hayes), who has his own talk show on the fictional "Out TV" cable channel.

The Christian organization's research revealed that, in the planned episode, Jack's network was to be bought out by a Christian network, eventually leading to Spears' character appearing in a cooking segment called "Cruci-fixins."

AFA founder Don Wildmon says he believes the network's decision to mock the crucifixion of Christ with this title represented "an angry, knee-jerk reaction" to the pro-family group's role in spurring affiliate, consumer, and sponsor protest against the recently cancelled NBC show, "The Book of Daniel." Also, Wildmon contends, NBC's latest action exposes once again the network's "deep-seated anti-Christian bias."

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/afa/62006c.asp

[Wilber_Stool]

1. You really can't blame them

Fundies are their only audience. I don't even have NBC programed into my remote.

[Exiled in America]

6. Law and Order rules.

enough said.

[SushiFan]

2. Stupid NBC takes the criticism to heart and keeps on .......

bending over backwards to please these inbreed idiots, which causes the inbreeds to pull the strings again and again, to get NBC to censor its own programming more and more.


The idiots ain't so dumb, though, cuz they're playing NBC for a sucker as NBC won't spend the $$$ to do research demographics on these pig headed GOP bigots. NBC thinks these bozos speak for all Americans when the bozos and the rest of us know that they DON'T. Demoraphic research would bear this out.


Whoever is running NBC in the CEO's office is just as stupid as the family people. They make a good pair together, although NBC is always gonna be the loser there.


People of discernment need to boycott NBC (or write numerous letters of protest) and let NBC target those insane "christian" viewers ONLY. Once NBC starts losing ad revenue bigtime, they'll start ignoring the hatefilled morality of GOP "families".

[cboy4]

3. Let's all pool our money and buy television remote controls

for everybody in the south who own television sets, but apparently not remotes to turn off what they don't want to see.

I mean for crissakes, are all of the people complaining otherwise big Will & Grace fans? I mean, :wtf:

And no offense to anyone, but I hate Mississippi. What an awful, racist, bigoted state of people.

[davidinalameda]

4. NBC has denied even having the show's script written yet

AFA is taking credit for absolutely nothing that was of their doing

[xchrom]

5. afa gaining control of what we see.

even if teh script hadn't been ''done'' yet -- afa has put nbc on a leash.

and we get the end result.

[Exiled in America]

7. So when will we have a counter-afa activist group....one that...

...specifically protests when TV stations pull programming and surrender to censorship like happened here with the AFA?

I'm sick of being pushed around by them.

[Democrats_win]

8. None of this is true. The show hasn't been written yet sez local NBC

station. (The part about the fundies being upset over a rumor is true.)

[kevinbgoode]

9. Oh puh-leeze. . .this has to be a lie

The AFA has hated Will and Grace ever since it debuted on NBC. . .and their homophobic members don't watch the damned program, or at least would never admit in proper "christo-fascist" company that they ever do. I find it hard to believe that any bulls*it boycott started by the AFA about this program would mean one damned thing - why would the network give a crap about complaints from people who don't watch the show anyway?

[Kerrytravelers]

10. I just saw this: "Attack Christians With Spears"

And I thought... really?!?!

Then I smiled.


When they attack, can they save the nie Christians like myself and my paretns, but get the really bad ones like falwell and robertson and our pResident? :)

[ruggerson]

11. So how about "Savioury Stew" instead?

maybe that wouldn't fly either.