‘The Simpsons’, Islamophobia and CAIR: The Price of Freedom
by Mark TapsonThis past January, London’s Daily Star tabloid announced urgently that an upcoming episode – “the most controversial episode ever”! – of The Simpsons on the Sky1 network “pokes fun at Islam” and “is certain to enrage Muslim fanatics.” As anyone who morbidly follows this sort of thing (as I do) knows, enraging Muslim fanatics is hardly an accomplishment of Halley’s Comet-like rarity. It doesn’t take much: books, cartoons, teddy bears named Mohammad, posters of puppies, piggy banks, a Burger King ice cream swirl and the Nike logo (both of which apparently too closely resembled the Arabic script for “Allah”), are just a few of the recent Western offenses that have sparked their frothing outrage worldwide.
Yet despite the Daily Star’s perversely hopeful tone, there was no violent reaction in the UK from said fanatics, nor was there one in the United States after the episode originally aired here last Thanksgiving weekend (in a grimly ironic twist, the same weekend as the devastating mass murder and mayhem committed in Mumbai by a band of – wait for it – Muslim fanatics, or as the culturally sensitive media preferred to call them at the time, “gunmen”). So why no Muslim fury over The Simpsons?
In the episode “Mypods and Broomsticks,” Homer Simpson believes a local Muslim couple are terrorists planning to blow up the Springfield Mall. It turns out, unsurprisingly, to be a misunderstanding; no plot is being hatched after all. As a spokesman for London’s Sky1 reassuringly sums up, “At the end of the show, all the issues are resolved and Homer realizes the error of his ways.” In other words, Homer was wrong to suspect Muslims – despite seeing them unload dynamite in their garage, despite hearing them discuss blowing up buildings, despite finding the schematics of the targeted local mall on their computer, and despite the fact that, in the real world, Muslim fanatics do have an impressive track record of blowing up innocent civilians.
The moral of the toon: coming forward to protect your community from a possible terrorist attack by Muslims, even with an abundance of probable cause, marks you as a buffoonish bigot. So, contrary to the Daily Star’s claim, the episode did not poke fun at Islam, but at Homer. Simpsons creator Matt Groening explained to Sky1: “Cartoons deal in stereotypes. We try to be sensitive.” Well, sensitive to the murderous rage of Islamists, anyway, since the episode ridicules the stereotyping of Muslims as terrorists, while stereotyping Homer as an Islamophobic, paranoid, ignorant American.
Thus CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, ever-ready with a quick denunciation of any criticism of Islam or any association of it with terrorism, instead whipped out a statement approving of the episode’s plotline and congratulating the show’s creators “for tackling the disturbing phenomenon of Islamophobia.” If I were CAIR, I’d be much more concerned about tackling the disturbing phenomenon of violent jihad committed by fanatics who have supposedly hijacked my religion (then again, CAIR is currently tackling revelations that it is a Muslim Brotherhood front group committed to replacing American democracy with Sharia and theocracy). What if Homer Simpson had been right, and the Muslim couple intended to murder and maim hundreds at the local mall? I guess CAIR would rather that he keep quiet and stifle his Islamophobia than act on reasonable suspicion, report the possible bombing to the authorities, and save countless lives.
Najibullah Zazi
Admittedly, those are cartoon characters in the service of comedy writers whose aim is to give the topic a light treatment; but they nonetheless reinforce the default PC position that only stupid bigots draw a connection between Islam and terrorism. In the real world, meanwhile, Osama bin Laden and his ilk are busy making that connection themselves, and political correctness won’t save you from them.
“Mark, this is all very fascinating,” I hear you say,“but doesn’t Obama’s election mean that America is now safer and more ‘well-liked’?” (A concept I previously bashed here) “Won’t our Islamist enemies respond more peacefully and diplomatically to his flaccid ‘open hand’ policy and his many cringe-worthy expressions of pro-Islam sycophancy?” First of all, no less an authority than bin Laden himself has made it clear that he considers Obama no different from his predecessor. Second, since Obama has taken office, over 40 American-born Muslims or converts have been arrested for plotting terrorist attacks here and abroad, including Najibullah Zazi, a Denver-based Muslim who apparently is connected to al Qaeda and at the center of what could have been a catastrophic terrorist plot; Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, for attempting to car-bomb a Dallas office tower; and Muslim convert Michael C. Finton, who planned to blow up a federal building in Springfield (Illinois, not the one in The Simpsons). Even as I write this, Tarek Mehanna and cohorts, apparently desirous “to participate in Islamist holy war,” were arrested in Massachusetts for plotting to attack a mall in the U.S. Are all Muslims terrorists? Of course not; indeed, the fundamentalists have no qualms about targeting Muslims who aren’t onboard with the notion of embracing Sharia and a worldwide Caliphate. But make no mistake, there are untold numbers of Islamists here in America, and many of them want to kill you.
What can you do about it? Join a great activist organization like Brigitte Gabriel’s ACT! for America, buy The Citizen Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways for Every American to Fight Terrorism by my friend Michael Mandaville and put his action items to work, or simply keep your eyes open and trust your instincts. The LAPD recently rolled out a community awareness program called iWATCH, a neighborhood watch service designed to nip terrorist plots in the bud by providing citizens with a hotline to report suspicious activity. Seems a little long in coming - nearly ten years after an alert customs officer arrested Ahmed Ressam at the Canadian border and foiled the “millennium LAX plot” in late December, 1999 - but better late than never. Skeptical, pseudonymous police officer “Jack Dunphy,” pointing out that iWATCH bluntly warns against ethnic profiling, believes the program will be hamstrung by political correctness. He may be right; time will tell. In any case, if only programs of this sort were promoted as frequently on television as Obama’s volunteerism propaganda (which includes nothing about combating Islamic terrorism), Americans would become more conscious of a local role they can play in the war-formerly-known-as-the-war-on-terror.
“The price of freedom,” said Thomas Jefferson, “is eternal vigilance.” Not willful blindness, not political correctness, not naive complacency, but vigilance. While the current administration has its hands full demonizing its critics, winning the praise of dictators worldwide, and embracing anti-American radicals and Sharia supporters, radical Islam continues to wage war against us on our own soil. It’s up to each one of us ordinary Americans, us Citizen Soldiers, to throw off the yoke of political correctness, disregard trumped-up accusations of Islamophobia or racism, and help law enforcement protect our communities and our country from the enemy among us.
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those wackky muslim terrorists,, love the Simpsons.. who knew?
If Muslims were the problem you fear, you would have something to fear about. Not "attempted" this and "accused" that all concocted by government bureaucrats trying to justify their existence and exorbitant salaries. Sometimes they go so far as to set off bombs themselves or we get "our allies" to do it. Also serves to dehumanize you at the airport and get you conditioned to be subservient to government – no real conservative is fooled by this neocon farce.
False flag terrorists caught red handed – http://www.sott.net/articles/show/138504-Suicide-...
Not all Muslims are terrorist but, most terrorist are Muslim.
Homer is dolt! If you want to really upset the plans of terrorists, sic the South Park kids on them!
I once hear from an old man "You can't offend me. I have to choose to be offended."
It seems Cair has taken a page from The Rainbow Coalition and discovered the financial windfall of offense.
The Simpsons is way past it's peak. It used to be a must see, now, not so much.
Geez It's been 20 years, and maybe it's time to end it as gracefully as possible. Or we can all go see Marge in an upcoming episode of Playboy.
It's sad really. I think the feature film ruined the series.
Groening's cartoon, The Simpsons, has gone the way of every LEFTY LIBTARD in the world of entertainment. I watched it for a number of years but the POLITICS began seeping in and eventually have flooded Groening's medium. It's a bore anymore. It's pure LEFTIST bull crap. I find myself only occasionally flipping past and stopping for 4 or 5 minutes with the new season to only have validated what everyone knows. Now South Park…we can only hope it remains with a reasonable and far less biased social commentary.
The only commentary one must honestly say has come from Groening in the last 7 years is that he is a closet homosexual, girls are better than boys, traditional white men (except him of course) are the problem with this world, he got picked on in school and through cartoons has tried to exorcise his juvenile demons by targeting any one he imagined was his bully, Al Gore is bizarre but Groening is still even more bizarre in joining the Cult of Global Warming (I believe the church is now called "Climate Change) and he hates what is Christian (he'll claim of course he hates phony Christianity but have you ever seen him treat God, Jesus or any person of Christian faith with any degree of restrain or reason? While it might be a cartoon it is also a social commentary that by definition has a set of rules for fairness, even in its absurdities).
you're not allowed to say that!!
ISLAMOPHOBE!!
RACIST!!
Thought Criminal!!
but it doesn't mean you are wrong
Am I the only person that has never…and by never I mean not ever seen an episode of the Simpsons?
As for Islamofacist terrorism…I have seen several episodes of that and am not too crazy about the idea of it continuing….kill or be killed, we're gonna have to fight as dirty as they do to win. The POTUS we have will never do that…so get ready for more episodes of that wacky terrorism show until we get a POTUS that will kick some ass.
I guess that's why they are offended by ice cream and the famous Nike swoop… :/
I don't know but probably, I remember as a kid we (my brother and I) would try and sneak to watch it…. it was a cartoon after all…
No news here, unfortunately–"The Simpsons" has devolved into one more PC left-wing mouthpiece over the last ten years or so. I remember rolling my eyes in disgust at this episode…which I forgot about it until I read this.
The "Mypods and Broomsticks" episode discussed above is by no means the only left-wing diatribe by "The Simpsons". A Halloween episode from a few years ago compared US troops in Iraq with the Martian invaders from "War of the Worlds", while last year's Simpsons Halloween episode featured Homer–this time as the straight man, not the buffoon–attempting to vote for Obama, only to have his vote registered for John McCain. Homer cried out that this sort of thing was only "supposed to happen in Ohio", a reference to the Democratic Party lie that George W. Bush somehow "stole" the 2004 election.
There are plenty more examples of liberal propaganda from "The Simpsons", which is sad for a show I really liked once upon a time.
Well isn’t that special! All settled now, since Barry’s ascended to the throne the Islamic-Goons love us now. Love us to death – - turn your back on crazy people at your own peril.
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It just really amazes me the difference between Christians and Muslims…… It seems to me that Muslims get in an uproar everytime they are "picked on" or are precieved to be "picked on"…. where as Christians have been picked on for quite some time now and though there are some really bad "jokes" about Christians relatively few get into an uproar about it…
In my opinion, if Muslims are worried about being percieved as suicide bombers and out to kill every person that does not believe in the way of Allah, then it is THEY that need to work from the inside out…. Will it take a while, yes, you can look at Christian history for that answer…. How long did it take them shed the whole Inquisition and Salem Witch Trial state of mind?
You are not alone.
For what it's worth,
No, you're not the only one to have never seen an episode. Ifor one haven't, and have no intentions of doing so in the future.
We have a POTUS??
I thought the current occupant of the WH is nothing more than a figurehead, or a hand puppet at best.
I have been very disappointed in The Simpsons for years now. I was a huge fan of the show but every episode edged closer and closer to a left wing ideology.
To me, the creators of the show are just run of the mill cowards. They are too afraid of offending the muslims so they pick on everyone else except them. Oh and Obama is obviously off limits too. I wonder how long before they do an Obama tribute show??
Just weak, really weak….
Your character is from the classic era of the Simpsons.
I didn't say that the current occupant of the WH was POTUS, he's just the pretty face.
I'm afraid of what they'd do to the character now.
Like I said, the creators are just weak, I hate to say it but time to pull the plug when your favorite show that used to make fun of everything now has put 2 big topics off-limits and both topics NEED ridicule…
I grew up with The Simpsons and they used to be a Sunday night institution in my house. Now they've just become more slapsticky, and I have not watched an episode in 2-3 years.
I'll never forget when I was 9, Bill Clinton and Lisa had this exchange:
Lisa: Thank you, Mr. President.
Clinton: No, thank you, Lisa, for teaching kids everywhere a valuable lesson: If things don't go your way, just
keep complaining until your dreams come true.
Marge: That's a pretty lousy lesson.
Clinton: Hey, I'm a pretty lousy president.
Those days are long gone.
I just want to walk up to Groening and say "You've changed man, It used to be about the funny."
The Simpsons has always been a left of center show but for the most part the writers were able to avoid being preachy and outright overt about their biases. As has been pointed out, in the last few years it has degenerated into just another mouthpiece for left-wing propaganda and consequently more preachy than humourous. At least the kids in South Park still find all views and people fair game.
I want to ask him where his balls went. Used to be that if someone said a topic was off limits in the political or religeous arena, Groening and his crew would immediately get to lampooning them.
Now they are just another boring left wing wuss-fest….
Loooooong gone.
I remember an episode where Homer was watching the news and his solitary complaint through gritted teeth was "lousy liberals….."
Never see that again….
The Simpsons is just an animated version of All in the Family and other "socially-conscious" television shows.
Homer is not so outspoken as Archie Bunker, but you can bet that no cliche is left unuttered, even if uttered unintelligibly. To producers and directors such as these, there are no evil Islamic terrorists, every black man is kindly and intelligent, just waiting for a chance to educate the poor, misguided white man, and you'll never see a prostitute who doesn't have a heart of pure, spun gold.
It's a localized mindset which, due to the power of media, has become a national mindset. It's hard to resist what you see, hear and read, every day, every which way.
he does it still but when doing some cliche charicature of a rightwinger
like the lousy liberal is talking about saving the planet and Homer is roasting a panda over a tire fire or something.
Christians can be offended, but they don't get their turbans in a bun and want to blow things up for one very important reason: Christians have Christ and know where they're going. Muslims don't have Christ and have no idea where they're going, on earth or in the afterlife.
You have the right to be offended. If you don't like it, go back to your oppresively-hot, fly-infested, misogynistic, self-buggering hell-holes and take your bloody jihadist mutant offspring with you. Piss off!
Exactly.
My biggest question is, is nothing the left does funny or just plain stupid?? Do these writers not see the humor in Al "I'm going to save the planet" Gore and his gluttonous energy consumption?? I could go on and on, you get the point….
face, yes
pretty?
So The SImpson have "jumped the shark," as they say. Sigh. Oh well. As Tapson wrote here: "political correctness won’t save you.". Thanks for another great piece, Mark!
let it out man!
I would even say that PC will destroy you eventually.
The Simpsons are an example of that
There was a feature film?
well whooda thunk it?
So sad. Watching the Boomers in entertainment go out with this kind of nihilistic whimper depresses me. I remember the Boomer directors and writers who made movies like Back to the Future that filled me with such excitement about life's possib…iilties. "You're future isn't written yet. No one's is! So make it a good one!" Doc Brown advised us. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Aliens, even Jurrassic Park– confident, positive movies. Now they content themselves with cynical insults of Middle America, passing their time metaphorically placing the blame for every ill foreign and domestic on our stupidity and religiosity and gun ownership. As far as I am concerned, at this point, this is to the pain. We are going to leave these cowardly narcissistic fucktards wallowing in freakish misery forever. They're going to be like the angry old German uncle who defiantly pops a Nazi salute in some German home movie to the family's embarrassment. Nobody's going to make me change! We were right all along! Well, that's every fucking hippy's future. I hope they live a long time.
There are two major differences between Christians and Muslims in this respect:
1. Christianity is seen as the religion of the West. Islam is seen as a religion of the other. Therefore, bashing Christianity is acceptable and progressive, but bashing Islam is showing disrespect to other cultures. You might as well be bashing Buddists or Native Americans.
2. If you really annoy Christians, they might issue a tepid protest and maybe even a half-hearted boycott that will just give you more publicity. If you really annoy Muslims, they might blow up your place of business and kill you and your family. Most of these "brave" artists aren't all that brave when there is really something at stake.
They've been unwatchable for a longggg time
What, there wasn't even a quirky Simpsons aside where he says hello in passing to two security guards at the nuke plant, Ackbar and Mahmoot?
Did they even mention the nuke plant?
" I'm Stewie Griffin, and stay the hell outta Quahog!" You want to talk about left, Family Guy is it. I watch that show faithfully just to get the agenda and talking points of the hard-left (and some guilty chuckles). Hopefully some crew will come along and really piss off the Muslim radicals to the point that they take to the streets and kill more of their own, such as they did for the Mohammy comics. It's in our nature to offend, let's not hold back. As a Christian I take hits everyday by the left and their Hollywood allies. I have a sense of humor. Muslims, it seems, do not. Tweek 'em I say. Consequence be damned, it makes for great television.
The cadence of your statement –
"… there are no evil Islamic terrorists, every black man is kindly and intelligent, just waiting for a chance to educate the poor, misguided white man, and you'll never see a prostitute who doesn't have a heart of pure, spun gold."
-reminds me of "… the Big Rock Candy Mountains, where the cops have woodedn legs, the bulldogs all have rubber teeth, and the hens lay hard-boiled eggs."
Of course, both observations are true. Fantasyland exists outside of Disneyland. It is in the mind of some of the lefties, and they demand that everyone share their delusions. Or else … they may get their Islamics after you. Wait. They may be undistinguished victims of a repressive and suppressive ideology.
I have not watched the Simpsons regularly in over ten years. The show used to be funny but not it has become just offensive and obsurd. In some of the episodes I did catch recently, Groening seems to be just repeating gags he used in the first 10 years but simply dressed them up to make them more current.
Nobody's going to make me change! We were right all along! Well, that's every fucking hippy's future.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Excellent!
I spent the better part of three days trying make that point to a little American liberal, they are SO gullible.
Hmmm….didn't the Muslims wig out over an episode depicting Mohammed (p*ss be upon him)?
I think you are ever so right…..
mmm, tasty panda *kissed* with tire smoke…..that thar's some good eatin'!
and I'm a hopeless right winger.
virtually EVERYTHING the loony left does is funny and stupid!
and our lesson? leave the nice Muslims alone, they mean no harm… unless of course the signal for global Jihad is given, then ALL BETS ARE OFF!
They did that in a 24 themed show that, as it turned out, the Muslims were not the terrorists. It was… the British.
I'm sick and tired of the deliberate use of "-phobia" as a pejorative. When used in a non-medical context, "-phobia" indicates fear, dislike, disapproval. CAIR is confused…normal, intelligent people are rightly islamofacistphobic….and if someone is, in their words, islamophobic, as long as we all play nice together, so what? Why do extremists/nutcases/liberals (excuse my redundancy) demand that we all like (or dislike) in lockstep?
Isn't everybody sick of this yet? Can we have just 1 decent show that doesn't resort to childish political pandering??
C'mon Groening!! Knock it off and give us back our Simpsons already.
What's with the muslims??? Why are they so touchy?? They seem like total pussies to me if a picture of a dog in a police hat upsets their fragile little mental states….. And is there any other punishment besides death in that backwards-assed "culture"?
Groening and McFarlane have a real opportunity to show some backbone and start lampooning Islam like they hammer everything else. C'mon you two pansies, do you have the stones to be honest in your profession? Or are you both so full of your political selves that you have a wide yellow stripe down your spines??
It's comedy gold!! Why is everyone just leaving it on the table?!?!?!
Wrap it in some baby seal skin and smother it in BBQ sauce, now you're talkin….
I remember an old song by Dennis Leary (I don't know about now but at one time he was about as un PC as it gets) called "I'm an A$$h0le"
it had a line in it about using baby seal eyes as headlights.
Of course Mr. Burns sang "See my vest" one of the best simpson parody songs. ever.
"He can't be a man becuase he doesn't smoke the same cigarrettes as me"
if you don't like what i do you are either a. not cool or b. evil. There is no room for any interests bayond what i have establishd as the cool ones.
We need to confirm our individuality by asking tbe people who listen to the same music, wear the same styles and are members of the same clubs as I am.
A phobia by definition is an irrational fear, fearing Islam is not irrational.
Love that song.
My favorite is the musical version of Plantet of the Apes with Troy McClure.
"I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z….." Pure genius….
Vainamoinen, Hank_Scorpio and others – Keep in mind that much of the Muslim outrage we see is not spontaneous but is fabricated, intentionally designed to take advantage of the PC, multicultural sensibility of the West. Hence the constant refrain of "Islamophobia!" from groups like CAIR; they know that our kneejerk reaction is guilt and apology: "So sorry, we didn't mean to offend you, we respect your religion and your culture, it won't happen again," etc., etc. They know that we will bend over backwards to avoid offense and that eventually ANY criticism of Islam will be not only culturally unacceptable, but ILLEGAL.
Oh yeah I notice it more, that's why I hardly watch new episodes now. They have always pushed the environmental theme quite strongly, courtesy of Lisa the hardcore left wing annoying little kid.
The worst one was about illegal immigrants, it was on at work so I couldn't change the channel. It really disgusted me how they were trying to ram their politics down my throat and I spent the whole time pointing out how full of crap the episode was.
Part 1
I don't think there is any doubt that Groening has gone from being a subversive comic strip writer in his early years to being the hollywood left liberal. Maybe it's the air in Hollywood or the seduction of people constantly telling you how great you are but you can see this happening to the new talent that comes to town. They are discovered and come to Hollywood to shake things up, to make changes, to make people think but after a few years they seem to be overwhelmed by the adulation and soon thereafter begin to parrot the typical left rants and backing the usual suspect causes. Too bad really. Maybe show is getting too tired.
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If you look at the early years (before the first cancellation) of Family Guy it was mostly apolitical. Seth McFarland did level some political jabs at Clinton but they were based on Clinton's actions rather then ideology. After it was brought back (and he got American Dad on the air) the show became progressively (over a few seasons) more anti conservative. While I understand that Seth has always been to the left he only allowed this type of politics into the show after he became successful which leads me to believe that as the Hollywood crowd began to increasingly stroke him the more he changed his show to support the liberal/left. Kind of Pavlov conditioning with cocktail parties and bottled water instead of dog biscuits.
Groening and McFarlane have a real opportunity to show some backbone
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Which of course will never be taken seeing neither has a backbone for such opportunities. They are little LEFTY LIBTARD BITCHES and nothing else.
I never would have thought that Lisa the know-it-all 8 year old child would have been the messenger the writers want to promote. She is sanctimonious and is usualyy proven wrong or she abandons her principals (the way the show was at one time). Home the dolt was proven to actually be wiser than he seems and was truly a good guy even though he kkind of dumb and vulgar. It was a good way to see that peopleare are more than they seem at first.
That is gone now and Lisa is always right and Homer is always wrong and stupid and republican. He is the least evil republican but still…
hell Fox network has gotten more and more left ward. McFarland, kill off King of the hill. The Wanda Sykes Show?!? Gar. Bage.
Great piece Mark. not willfull blindness indeed….
Thanks Tammy!
*grins* I think that was the head in the sand episode, with South Park defending Family guy from censorship.
the one with the Snuke!
"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." …Patrick Henry
don't expect the arab/muslim community to help clean up their clutter! i find it depressingly ironic that the overwhelming majority of arab/muslims can easily charge the west with islamophobia when they have ZERO tolerance for anyone else's faith or culture. YOU CAME HERE! it is NEVER the other way around. even that they fail to see; but maybe they understand that perfectly to well. this isn't about freedom or making a better life for themselves, this is nothing more than their invasion. until they HELP weed out the fanatics, boycott arab/muslim businesses and give them a better reason to go home; they won't though because that's not why they are here.
thank God for SP and Manbearpig!
I stopped being a fan of The Simpsons when, several years ago, a good friend was waiteressing (sp?) at a place in Boulder, CO and Simpsons creator Matt Gre….how do you spell his last name?…came in with his wife for dinner. My friend knew who it was and did the serving, treated him very well, and thought she did a good job. After eating, he paid by credit card, signed the receipt, and left. There was NO tip! She couldn't believe it. She ended up keeping the signed receipt (you really don't need it) and gave it to me for an autograph souvenir.
Thing was, it had his credit card number on it and, although pissed by his lack of gratitude to my friend, I fought off the urge to use it for nefarious means. Eventually I tore it up and threw it away. A guy who makes a lot of money can't leave a tip for good service? Haven't watched the Simpsons since.
I haven't seen South Park in a long time, maybe I should catch up….
Right on brother!
Don't forget kiddies…be on the look out for Man-Bear-Pig! We are getting reports – leaked to MSNBC – that Man-Bear-Pig could be conspiring with Non-White-Anglo-Saxon Center Right Home-Grown American Nonviolent Terrorists to derail the Soros "Hate America" Agenda.
Can we have just 1 decent show that doesn't resort to childish political pandering?
Thinking…
House? no…
Law & Order? Good Lord no…
24? hit or miss…
I know! Sports! You can't get political with sports programming. I'll just watch football on NBC with…um…Keith Olbermann commentating.
There's your answer.
I didn't know the "F" bomb could be dropped here. Freedom of Speech with expletives. Right on, Andrew!
Illegal. It would be laughable if it weren't so true. What mental illness allows for the indifference shown to children killed in one region by rocket fire and then the rabid outrage when children are killed because they are used as shields for the terrorizing perpetrators in another?
Hi Buckwheat. No, I think that Fox is simply profit oriented. They are running a business and if the show doesn't have legs it won't stay on the air. King of the Hill couldn't maintain the ratings so it was cancelled. If Wanda Sykes doesn't make the numbers Fox will blow her out the door. I think it's a great policy. If Fox kept money losers on the air just because of the ideology then they would become what we accuse the other Networks of being, that is shills for left wingers.
Dave Rooney
……derail the Soros "Hate America" Agenda. –I'll vote for that!
Farbar
Her 'tip' was the privilege of waiting on 'Him" don't ya know!
Elitists!!
There are only two kinds of Muslims: terrorists and cowards. OK, there is some overlap.
You know, I watch football on Sunday nights anyway. I won't left that leftwing nutbag Olbermann chase me away from football. But I do change the channel the second they go to studio….
So well said and on the mark, Mark.
The president has offended me repeatedly and hasn't apologized once.
Thanks, ginger! Yes, the president has done a lot of apologizing FOR us Americans but not TO us.
of course
but thry also have time to fill. the decisisons on what goes into those slots are getting leftward. Almost all of entertainment is. Hence sites like this.
I'm usually pretty good at picking the shows that will fail, and I see Sykes as not being around too long. BUt I didn't think the Clevand show would last this long.
Interestingly Most of the shows I like are on FOX, but some of their stuff is crap, and I have just about given up on "Animation Domination"
It could just be my naivete or dogged refusal to be offended, but I'm patiently awaiting the return of Burn Notice and In Plain Sight on USA. If memory serves, so far both of those shows have been pretty apolitical. Michael Weston hasn't taken on any Muslim Extremists yet and Mary Shannon hasn't had to protect any. But there also hasn't really been a reason for them to introduce Islam into the show.
Groening and Mcfarland are your typical Hollywood pussies……..Christians don't cut off heads, blow up buildings and hide behind women and children while performing gross acts of violence. So they can stick their "cutting edge" and "unapologetic attitudes" where the sun don't shine. They cowar and submit to islam just like a couple of prison punks.
Ah, then you missed Butters taking his bottom beyotch and group of ho's into the Denver ACORN office to apply for home and business loans, as well as the dead celebrities season opener.
You're not alone. I've never seen an empisode either. Nor have I ever seen an episode of "Sex in the City", "Steinfeld", "Friends" .
So far as Islamic terroristm, we're pretty safe right now. Why would they bother blowing up (censored) and take the chance of infuriating the American people when the USA has a POTUS who is basically giving them everything they want?
You got it! It's AVANT GARDE to diss Jews and Christians because the worst they'll do is pout. Diss a Muslim wacko and he's liable to cut off your head.
Ahh yes, Burn Notice is on my list too. Gotta love Bruce Campbell and a hot girlfriend that shoots first and never asks questions….
I would love to see them write an episode or 2 dealing with muslim terrorists. Weston had to have pissed them off at some point in his career….
No freakin way!!!
Ok, must watch SP……
Growl, you're right about our POTUS handing over anything they want, which perfectly satisfies the Muslim Brotherhood types who are seeking cultural domination, but we're still no safer. The al Qaeda types, who are actually at odds with the Brotherhood about tactics, still prefer to wreak havoc through violence and terror – hence all the arrests and plots I mentioned in the piece.
Excellent post. Big Hollywood needs to hire you. Keep posting.
Mark, I gravitate back and forth about this. On the one hand, I think Al Qaeda for all their claims of of independence take orders from the Mullahs and Iran–their one hope for a nuke. The POTUS is distancing America from Israel, something Iran wants desperately, and cutting ties with Germany, France and Britain (all former colonial powers ergo nearly as sullied in is mind as slave owning America) while kissing up to Turkey (rapidly going Islamic), Egypt, bowing to the Saudis, closing Gitmo, pulling out of Iraq (as promised) and soon Afghanistan (I'll bet). They'd be downright dumb to do something that would force the American people to rise up with or without him.
On the other, I think there are so many loose canons out there that one of these doofuses might get lucky as you point out. Great article by the way.
The Left has been very smart infiltrating first the bureaucracy, then the media, education and entertainment, those areas that we the people don't get to vote on except with our feet and wallets.
and all it takes is most of them.
Islam is terror. The very word means "submit". Not peace. Radical muslims are merely the ruling class in Islam, the rest are slaves to them, living in fear. For if they leave? What? ….DEATH.
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