Whoops, they done it again: You’da thunk NBC would have learned its lesson after “The Book of Daniel.” If you recall, the American Family Association brought so much pressure to bear on the network that NBC pulled the show after three episodes with no outside advertisers.
According to AdAge, the AFA, led by Donald “Wildman” Wildmon and his merry band of Bible thumpers, is on NBC’s case for an episode of “Will & Grace” where Britney Spears portrays a conservative Christian talk-show host who does a cooking segment called “Cruci-fixins.”
Sounds damned funny to me, but the AFA ain’t laughing:
“They would not be making fun of Mohammed or Buddha,” said Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the AFA, which is based in Tupelo, Miss. “It’s almost sacrilegious. I wonder who is at the helm of NBC that they are not getting the message. NBC doesn’t seem concerned that they are tanking because they are offending their viewers and running them off.”
AdAge noted that the AFA is taking on a hugely popular program in its final season, not a mid-season startup, and that, given the show’s content (it portrays GAY people — gasp!), few of the AFA’s true-believing constituency even watch the goddamned program.
Did you hear the one about the Zen Buddhist who went to a hot dog vendor and said, “Make me one with everything?” Reminds me of the Islamic stand-up comedian who opened his show, “Good evening gentlemen, and go home, ladies.” There, I did it.
Since the existence of god, gods, goddesses, devil, saints, furies, titans, easter bunnies or santas (among who knows what other dwellers of the “spirit world beyond” remains a matter of unproven conjecture, I can not for the life, or death, of me understand why anyone of “good faith” would find in an unwatched “show” to be worth the ire, the acromony, the viperous vitriol and heartburn necessary to attack a “fantasy show” in the most unreal world of television.
Could it be that this fakir of the righteous right is as much a faker as the actors who actually “play the parts” on TV? or is this just another asinine publicity stunt to get “those free will offerings” rolling in to prove how faithful the fithfull righteous rednecks really are?
Paradox on top of oxymoron, on top of morons? Does that fit or what?