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Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 10/6/2011 5:43 pm
  • Will this model be the Right’s latest “victim” of the “homosexual agenda”?
  • Pat Robertson is under fire for calling Mitt Romney an “excellent Christian.”
  • Speaking of Romney, is he ever going to distance himself from Bryan Fischer in light of Fischer’s anti-Mormon comments? Probably not, and here’s why.

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 9/28/2011 5:39 pm
  • Following in Rick Perry's footsteps, Michele Bachmann went to Liberty University today to speak to the students at convocation.

  • Newt Gingrich will be joining the "Tea Party Cyber Tour tele-townhall" tomorrow night.

  • FRC is kicking off its "Faith, Family and Freedom Money Bomb."

  • The Parents Television Council declares that it is winning its battle against the NBC television show "The Playboy Club."

  • Looks like California will soon be getting its own "Personhood"-type of campaign in the form of the California Human Rights Amendment.

Religious Right Launches Citizens Against Religious Bigotry To Target Comedy Central

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 6/2/2010 11:57 am

A few weeks ago, Comedy Central announced that it had a new program in development called "JC" that is about Jesus Christ who moves to New York to "escape his father's enormous shadow."

In response, a collection of Religious Right leaders have banded together to form Citizens Against Religious Bigotry and urge advertisers not to support the program: 

Citizens Against Religious Bigotry will unveil a campaign Thursday to protest Comedy Central’s new animated show about Jesus Christ called “JC.” The coalition of Jewish and Christian leaders are urging advertisers to boycott the show, based on Comedy Central programs, such as South Park, which have mocked or disparaged Christ and other religious leaders.

“After we reveal the vile and offensive nature of Comedy Central’s previous characterizations of Jesus Christ and God the Father, we expect these advertisers to agree wholeheartedly to end their advertising on Comedy Central and discontinue their support for unabashed, anti-Christian discrimination,” said Brent Bozell, president of Media Research Center and founding member of Citizens Against Religious Bigotry.

Bowell said his group will publicize advertisers who agree to boycott the Comedy Central show and those who refuse.

Bozell will be joined at a Thursday press conference to protest the show by Tony Perkins, Family Research Council president; Michael Medved, syndicated talk radio host; Bill Donohue, Catholic League president; Tim Winter, Parents Television Council president; and Rabbi Daniel Lapin, The American Alliance of Jews and Christians president.

The group is sending a letter to potential advertisers, giving them two weeks to report on whether they will agree to boycott the program, warning that failure to respond will mean they support religious bigotry: 

As a sponsor, you have the power to act upon your corporate values and send a clear message to Viacom and its channels that this type of blasphemous programming has no place in our homes. It cannot be an effective use of sponsorship dollars to underwrite content that is certain to offend and alienate viewers. And of course, the damage to our children is virtually immeasurable. No sponsor could possibly say they would be proud to be associated with such insensitive material.

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We are reaching out to you and other leading television sponsors, and we ask you now to agree with us and respond. We must hear from you in the next two weeks, so time is of the essence. On June 17 our coalition of like-minded organizations will hold a national press conference where we will identify which sponsors have responded to this effort and have agreed not to sponsor Comedy Central.

If you fail to respond to this letter before that time we will assume that your company is open to sponsoring the kind of religious bigotry on display by Comedy Central. We look forward to hearing from you directly.

Television Watchdog Doesn’t Like What’s On TV

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 8/7/2008 12:35 pm

The Parents Television Council, the right-wing television watchdog group founded by Brent Bozell, is dedicated to “documenting the dramatic increase in sex, violence and profanity in entertainment.”  With that as its mission, it was not much of a surprise when they released a new report saying that they don’t like what they see:

Today’s prime-time television programming is not merely indifferent to the institution of marriage and the stabilizing role it plays in our society, it seems to be actively seeking to undermine marriage by consistently painting it in a negative light. Nowhere is this more readily apparent than in the treatment of sex on television. Sex in the context of marriage is either non-existent on prime-time broadcast television, or is depicted as a burdensome rather than as an expression of love and commitment. By contrast, extra-marital or adulterous sexual relationships are depicted with greater frequency and overwhelmingly, as a positive experience. Across the broadcast networks, verbal references to non-marital sex outnumbered references to sex in the context of marriage by nearly 3 to 1; and scenes depicting or implying sex between non-married partners outnumbered scenes depicting or implying sex between married partners by a ratio of nearly 4 to 1.

How exactly does the PTC quantify such things, you ask?  Good question:

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Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Thursday 10/06/2011, 5:43pm
Will this model be the Right’s latest “victim” of the “homosexual agenda”? Parents Television Council declares victory over The Playboy Club. Scott Brown is keeping it classy. Pat Robertson is under fire for calling Mitt Romney an “excellent Christian.” Speaking of Romney, is he ever going to distance himself from Bryan Fischer in light of Fischer’s anti-Mormon comments? Probably not, and here’s why. MORE >
Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 09/28/2011, 5:39pm
Following in Rick Perry's footsteps, Michele Bachmann went to Liberty University today to speak to the students at convocation. Newt Gingrich will be joining the "Tea Party Cyber Tour tele-townhall" tomorrow night. FRC is kicking off its "Faith, Family and Freedom Money Bomb." The Parents Television Council declares that it is winning its battle against the NBC television show "The Playboy Club." Looks like California will soon be getting its own "Personhood"-type of campaign in the form of the California Human Rights... MORE >
Religious Right Launches Citizens Against Religious Bigotry To Target Comedy Central
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 06/02/2010, 11:57am
A few weeks ago, Comedy Central announced that it had a new program in development called "JC" that is about Jesus Christ who moves to New York to "escape his father's enormous shadow." In response, a collection of Religious Right leaders have banded together to form Citizens Against Religious Bigotry and urge advertisers not to support the program:  Citizens Against Religious Bigotry will unveil a campaign Thursday to protest Comedy Central’s new animated show about Jesus Christ called “JC.” The coalition of Jewish and Christian leaders are urging... MORE >
Television Watchdog Doesn’t Like What’s On TV
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 08/07/2008, 12:35pm
The Parents Television Council, the right-wing television watchdog group founded by Brent Bozell, is dedicated to “documenting the dramatic increase in sex, violence and profanity in entertainment.”  With that as its mission, it was not much of a surprise when they released a new report saying that they don’t like what they see: Today’s prime-time television programming is not merely indifferent to the institution of marriage and the stabilizing role it plays in our society, it seems to be actively seeking to undermine marriage by consistently painting it... MORE >