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[apocalypsos]

'Ryan' Viewers Complain to FCC -- Groups affiliated with the American Family Assn., a conservative Christian group that monitors the airwaves, pledged Thursday to flood the FCC with complaints about the language and violence in Steven Spielberg's film.

However, from what they told their membership, this is what the AFA had a problem with:

We believe Saving Private Ryan accurately depicted what happens during fierce battles between two armies. The graphic depictions of atrocious injuries, mental stress, profane language, and brutality are likely common occurrences in war.

But ABC crossed the line by airing at least 20 "f" words and 12 "s" words during prime time viewing hours!

Because nobody curses during wartime. *headwall*

Oh, fuck this shit. It's perfectly okay to show some guy getting his arm blown off, but whatever you do, no bad words! *sigh* I hate people this morning.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit. Every time I say a bad word ... well, I was going to say that God kills a kitten, but I'm pretty sure God's got more important things to worry about.

(Think I cursed enough? ;))

Comments

[lots42.livejournal.com]

97 year old WW2 vet Arnie Johnson says 'American Family Values is right, consarn it! When my best buddy Jacob Creeviy too two bullets through the leg he turned to me and said 'Arnie old buddy, I do believe those nasty fools done shot me through the leg!'. And then Jacob picked up a machine gun and blew off three Nazi heads! Why, I didn't get their blood off my uniform for days!'.

[levi.livejournal.com]

I thought masturbating made God kill kittens.

[hamadryad.livejournal.com]

Isn't this all exactly the point South Park was making with "Bigger, Longer and Uncut?"

Why don't people GET it?

I was listning to a George Carlin concert from back when Rev. Wildmon was in action and Carlin was going off about the SAME. DAMNED. THING. Plus that whole "There are two knobs on the TV...one of them turns it OFF and the other one CHANGES THE CHANNEL." And this was, what, 20+ years ago?

Stupid people just keep on breeding and won't STOP.

[fyrdrakken]

Stupid people are outbreeding the smart ones. Also, thanks to our current economy the number of families that can afford to have one stay-at-home parent is way low, so they want the rest of the country to babysit for them.

I like this one better.

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Every time you say a bad word, God reaches down and whapps George W upside the head.

Go on, cuss.

Re: I like this one better.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

He does? Fucking shit, that's goddamn brilliant!

[akacat]

The graphic depictions of atrocious injuries, mental stress, profane language, and brutality are likely common occurrences in war.

So what, fuck and shit(*) aren't proper profane language? Quick, someone get these people a dictionary!

* - I'm guessing what the 'f' and 's' words are, as I've never seen the movie. Because I consider 'atrocious injuries' to be a lot more profane than a few silly words. And I know where my TV remote is!

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

How about every time you swear, one of those AFA people have a stroke. hehehehe

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

We must be better than they.

Every time you swear, one of them wakes the fuck up and realizes they can turn off the tv or change the channel.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

Possibly they have forgoten where they put their remotes or cannot figure out those universal remotes?

[seferin.livejournal.com]

"Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws--always for the other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of the trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: 'Please pass this so I won't be able to do something I know I should stop.' Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see their neighbors doing. Stop them 'for their own good'--not because the speaker claimed to be harmed by it."

Manuel Davis O'Kelley
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I've heard spooky, allegedly true stories where grown men give their pastors their computer passwords so they can't look at porno on the family computer.

Yeah, I know, there's a couple logic flaws in there somewhere.

[fyrdrakken]

Ah, your icon gives me a deep love -- and grief for the mug I used to have with that very slogan and image on it, which my mother carelessly broke.

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

Our local AFA Head fucknut upon being told that our ABC affiliate caved and would be showing "Four Weddings and a Funeral", replied, "Isn't that a gay movie?".

Genius. Sheer genius.

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

....

Well, I assume 'gay' is also a profane word.


Plus, everytime you say it, God kills a heterosexual kitten.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of when Challenger crashed and some station declined to show Armageddom because it involved the destruction of a shuttle.

So what do they show instead?

Aliens 3.

Which also involves the destruction of a shuttle.

Dogbert would have something witty to say now.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

*pokes you*
*dies laughing*

[fyrdrakken]

Reminds me of a Spider Robinson quote about there being something really wrong with a country that found the sight of a naked breast more obscene than the sight of a naked gun. Different symptom of the same problem.

Killing kittens

[badficwriter.livejournal.com]

I just watched an old Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom dreams that he's died and lining up in front of a cat St. Peter in Heaven. St. Petercat calls some names before Tom goes up:

"Flopsy, Mopsy, and Kit?"

A soggy tied bag comes hopping up. Three adorable, big-headed kittens stick their heads out and mew happily.

Can you *believe* they put that in a kid's cartoon? Granted, I had no idea when I was a kid what they were really portraying--I was just 'kittens! cute!'--but it's horrifying as an adult.

And it's *still* cute as hell.

[siegeofangels.livejournal.com]

Sars over at Tomato Nation wrote an essay (http://www.tomatonation.com/bleep.shtml) to that extent today.