History Quotes / MediaWatchDog

->''"Fuck you very much, the FCC,\\
Fuck you very much for fining me. \\
Five thousand bucks a 'fuck',\\
So I'm really out of luck. \\
That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me"''
-->--'''Eric Idle''', "[[ClusterFBomb The FCC Song]]"

->''"''"The top rope hurricanrana looks like a devastating finishing maneuver, but it doesn't hurt at all--if you ''know the trick to it''"'' just [[ImStandingRightHere demean the formidable athletic talents of wrestlers]], not to mention [[ViewersAreMorons the intelligence of the fans]]. And how many kids are going to be trying these potentially dangerous moves now that they ''"[[FridgeHorror know the trick to it]]?"'' Not until the very end of the show did NBC put a disclaimer telling you not to try the moves at home."''

->''"In all seriousness, if you saw it, you know how ridiculous it was...lines like ''"The top rope hurricanrana looks like a devastating finishing maneuver, but it doesn't hurt at all--if you ''know the trick to it''"'' just [[ImStandingRightHere demean the formidable athletic talents of wrestlers]], not to mention [[ViewersAreMorons the intelligence of the fans]]. And how many kids are going to be trying these potentially dangerous moves now that they ''"[[FridgeHorror know the trick to it]]?"'' Not until the very end of the show did NBC put a disclaimer telling you not to try the moves at home."''

->''"Mary Elizabeth “Tipper” Gore (née Aitcheson) is the former second lady of the United States, and the estranged wife of UsefulNotes/AlGore...The group was instigated after Tipper observed her daughter listening to “Darling Nikki” by {{Music/Prince}} (lyrics about masturbation), and, in an inference process worthy of David Noebel, decided that rock & roll caused teen suicide, murder, Satanism, drug and alcohol use, and worse. Evidential base? [[ChewbaccaDefense Yeah, right.]] The group became known for their ''“PARENTAL ADVISORY - EXPLICIT LYRICS”'' sticker (quickly known as the “Tipper sticker”)."''

->''"Now that I know all of the secrets of wrestling, I can never watch again. How can I watch [[Main/ReyMysterioJr Rey Mysterio]] perform a suicide corkscrew plancha, knowing full well that it's fake, and that there is a simple trick to it that ANYONE could do? How can I believe that heels are really evil, when I know the old ladies they're shoving in the audience are actually plants that work for the wrestling promoter? Now that the veil of deception has been torn from my eyes I'm through with wrestling forever, and will only spend my time watching REAL athletic competitions such as Harlem Globetrotter games.\\\
In all seriousness, if you saw it, you know how ridiculous it was...lines like ''"The top rope hurricanrana looks like a devastating finishing maneuver, but it doesn't hurt at all...if you know the trick to it"'' just [[ImStandingRightHere demean the formidable athletic talents of wrestlers]], not to mention [[ViewersAreMorons the intelligence of the fans]]. And how many kids are going to be trying these potentially dangerous moves now that they ''"[[FridgeHorror know the trick to it]]?"'' Not until the very end of the show did NBC put a disclaimer telling you not to try the moves at home."''

->''"Although the fight was lost, I for one want to salute the anonymous patron for fighting the good fight and lobbying for this book to be banned. I am a father, and like many fathers I live in mortal fear of my children attacking me. There’s already [[WellDoneSonGuy an unspoken tension]] between us. I’m getting older and weaker, they’re getting bigger and stronger. I don’t need lunatics like Creator/DrSeuss exacerbating that tension with lines such as [='=]''[[FauxHorrific We like to hop. We like to hop on top of Pop.]]''[='=]"''

->''"In the iconic episode three cliffhanger, the Doctor is caught by the Master’s servant, who pushes his head underwater to drown him, a scene David Maloney ends with a chilling freeze frame on Tom Baker’s submerged face.\\\
This scene aroused the ire of Mary Whitehouse, a prominent figure in Britain known for a lengthy series of moral crusades against various things that offended her vast capacity for prudishness. Whitehouse had long been a critic of ''Doctor Who'', particularly in the Hinchcliffe era, regularly warning that it would corrupt the minds of Britain’s youth as though that wasn’t the point of the exercise. For the most part her complaints were transparently idiotic -- her objection to the cliffhanger in The Deadly Assassin was that children would believe that [[InsaneTrollLogic the Doctor’s head was being held underwater for an entire week]], a suggestion that ascribes an almost comical level of televisual illiteracy onto children. But she was always good for [[YouCanPanicNow a few exuberant and tabloid-friendly quotes]] like her famously description of ''Doctor Who'' as ''“[[MurderSimulators teatime brutality for tots]],”'' and had enough supporters to be influential in spite of her obvious deficiencies of reason. For the most part, however, the {{Creator/BBC}} was inclined to ignore her critiques. But for whatever reason, her attack on The Deadly Assassin struck a nerve at the BBC, who decided that Hinchcliffe should be removed as producer of ''Doctor Who''."''
-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2015/02/a-mild-curiosity-in-junkyard-silence-in.html Dr. Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin}} "The Deadly Assassin"]]

->''"June 7, 2010: During the main event of ''{{Wrestling/RAW}}'' between Wrestling/CMPunk and Wrestling/JohnCena, all the rookies who had been on ''[[{{Wrestling/WWENXT}} NXT]]'' Season One jump Punk and Cena together as a unit, all wearing black armbands with a yellow N on them...During the attack, Wrestling/DanielBryan strangled ring announcer Justin Roberts with his own necktie...Daniel Bryan was legit released from the WWE the next day for his use of the tie, because people thought it was [[TooSoon too similar]] to how Wrestling/ChrisBenoit murdered his family. This caused the Internet to go into a complete and utter meltdown. The story in kayfabe was that Daniel Bryan felt remorse for his action and thus Nexus kicked him out of the group. This predictably placed Bryan in extremely high demand on the indie scene and was widely mocked by pretty much every other promotion out there. His first post-WWE indie appearance, for CHIKARA, saw the crowd greet him by hurling ties instead of streamers, to his great amusement."''
-->--'''''Taimapedia''''' on Necktiegate

->''"Oh yes, much like the {{Chick Tract}}s warned us, ''D&D'' was my enticing entry point to a world of decadent sin and '''[[RevengeOfTheNerds NEEEEEEEERD]]'''ery...Which might make it more ironic that the first group to get me into the tumbling die was a group of Evangelical kids. Sure, they may have tweaked the rules so that [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic magic was actually just psionics]] (because apparently an omniscient ruler of the Universe with a hate-on for anything even hinting of the dark vile forces of magick is also apparently easily fooled by a simple search and replace… no no see, my fictional character is [[MagicAIsMagicA setting things on fire with their brain]], not random fictional magical powers, so we’re all good)"''

->''"I assume Wright’s blog post was written over the course of several days, as he would have needed time to swoon over the horrific perversion of women holding hands...Keep in mind, this is a show that not only had explicit male/female smooching, but has also shown a woman being suffocated to death via airbending, the imprisonment and torture of Korra, the suicide of a season one villain, and plenty of other instances of brutal violence. But this is what Wright feels he must “[[SkewedPriorities protect]]” the children from."''

->''"I have been reading Prescott again and in a changing world it is good to know that the Good Grey Goose of the ''Times'' is unchanged. He still gives marks to novels not for style nor insight nor wisdom nor art, but for 'morality.' Are these nice people? Is this a nice author? Adultery, premarital intercourse, aberration, are wicked things nice people don’t do and if an author does not firmly put them down and opt for marriage and fidelity the offending work must go. Prescott’s favorite pejorative adjective is 'dull.' ''{{Literature/Lolita}}'', he declared with more than usual horror, was 'dull, dull, dull!' Now ''Lolita'' was many things, but it was never dull. It was also literature, a category [[KnowNothingKnowItAll peculiarly mystifying]] to Prescott... To the average American the word 'morality' means sex, period. [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity If you don’t cheat on your wife, you’re moral.]]"''

->''"So it was time for me to get a script assignment and I started to do 'Blood and Fire,' because I wanted to do something so far removed from funny. I wanted to show I could do something horrifying. Here is something about this disease that is so awful that we are not allowed to rescue anyone from that other ship, but we don’t find out until after our away team has already beamed over...the story wasn’t about AIDS as much as it was about [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the fear of AIDS]]. People had stopped donating blood because they were so afraid of AIDS. So I wanted to do a story that involved blood donorship and the whole story was structured that we would need blood donors from the ''Enterprise'' to show that the crewmembers were not afraid of donating blood. I even wanted us to put a card at the end of the episode saying [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle you can donate blood, contact your local Red Cross]]...I go off to a ''Star Trek'' cruise and come back to find there has been a clusterfuck. Rick Berman writes that we can’t do this episode and how we are on at 4PM in some markets and mommies are going to write letters."''

->''"I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, 'violent' point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice."''

->''"It's my job to protect you, the viewer, [[IRejectYourReality from reality.]]"''
-->--'''Network Censor''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

-->--'''[[http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1998111m.htm DDT]]''' on ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', 11.09.98

->''"[[SoBadItsGood This is a classic.]] Two Fundamentalists get their panties in a bunch over mystical themes in cartoons and toys... It also makes me kind of jealous, seeing as how frickin' lame and depressing the toys we [[TheSeventies 70s latchkey types]] had to suffer with were. I don't know what's going on in Cartoonland these days (my kids are all too old for this stuff now, alas) but I have a feeling that [[PoliticalCorrectnessGonaMad political correctness]] and general malaise has probably accomplished what religious hysteria could not and ruined a lot of the fun for kids."''

->''"Uou are disgusting, limp, soulless sacks of filth. You have earned the contempt and hatred of all decent human beings forever, and we will do all we can to smash the filthy phallic idol of sodomy you bow and serve and worship. Contempt, because you struck from behind, cravenly; and hatred, because you serve a cloud of morally-retarded mental smog called Political Correctness, which is another word for hating everything good and bright and decent and sane in life."''

->Mary Whitehouse has taken umbrage, no surprise there.

->''Fuck you very much, the FCC,\\

That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me''

->The majority of people are very reasonable I’ve found. But you know what, they don’t write letters when something offends them on TV, because reasonable people know '''''IT’S JUST FUCKIN’ TELEVISION!''''' Not only that, reasonable people have a life. They’re not sittin’ in some trailer with some fuckin’ crayon in their hand, some chicken scrawl goin’, ''"I saw a guy talk about Jesus on the tube! I ain’t gone tune in no more!"'' And also, reasonable people know ultimately they’re just fuckin’ ''jokes.'' [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence Are you so afraid of a guy tellin’ jokes?]]

->Hello, I'm Miss Sensorshep, Head of Censorship! You see, the working theory is that most people are stupid, and therefore incapable of figuring out what's being covered up and bleeped, and therefore cannot be harmed by their evils!

->Oh, the {{NFL}}, where [[JanetJackson flashing a harmless lady nipple]] is an unforgivable sin, but abusing dogs and women isn’t.

->When living Series/CrankYankers puppet Music/NickiMinaj released the video for her song 'Only' last Friday, a video that looks sort of like ''[[Theatre/TheProducers Springtime for Hitler]]'' crossed with ''HomestarRunner'', she probably didn’t anticipate that it would cause any where near as many pearls to be clutched than her ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' late-night phone sex ad video for 'Anaconda' did. After all, 'Only' doesn’t feature a single butt! Okay fine, there was one ass (Music/ChrisBrown).

->Mary Elizabeth “Tipper” Gore (née Aitcheson) is the former second lady of the United States, and the estranged wife of UsefulNotes/AlGore...The group was instigated after Tipper observed her daughter listening to “Darling Nikki” by {{Music/Prince}} (lyrics about masturbation), and, in an inference process worthy of David Noebel, decided that rock & roll caused teen suicide, murder, Satanism, drug and alcohol use, and worse. Evidential base? [[ChewbaccaDefense Yeah, right.]] The group became known for their ''“PARENTAL ADVISORY - EXPLICIT LYRICS”'' sticker (quickly known as the “Tipper sticker”).

->[[Wrestling/JunkyardDog JYD]] caught Wrestling/RandySavage’s steel chair and proceeded to smash his own head into it eight times. If this were today’s WWE, Junkyard Dog would have been fined for each of those chair shots.

->Although the fight was lost, I for one want to salute the anonymous patron for fighting the good fight and lobbying for this book to be banned. I am a father, and like many fathers I live in mortal fear of my children attacking me. There’s already [[WellDoneSonGuy an unspoken tension]] between us. I’m getting older and weaker, they’re getting bigger and stronger. I don’t need lunatics like Creator/DrSeuss exacerbating that tension with lines such as [='=]''[[FauxHorrific We like to hop. We like to hop on top of Pop.]]''[='=]
-->-- '''The Screamsheet''' [[http://screamsheet.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/ban-dr-seuss/ in response]] to a Toronto petition to ban ''Hop on Pop'' from public libraries

->In the iconic episode three cliffhanger, the Doctor is caught by the Master’s servant, who pushes his head underwater to drown him, a scene David Maloney ends with a chilling freeze frame on Tom Baker’s submerged face.\\\
This scene aroused the ire of Mary Whitehouse, a prominent figure in Britain known for a lengthy series of moral crusades against various things that offended her vast capacity for prudishness. Whitehouse had long been a critic of ''Doctor Who'', particularly in the Hinchcliffe era, regularly warning that it would corrupt the minds of Britain’s youth as though that wasn’t the point of the exercise. For the most part her complaints were transparently idiotic -- her objection to the cliffhanger in The Deadly Assassin was that children would believe that [[InsaneTrollLogic the Doctor’s head was being held underwater for an entire week]], a suggestion that ascribes an almost comical level of televisual illiteracy onto children. But she was always good for [[YouCanPanicNow a few exuberant and tabloid-friendly quotes]] like her famously description of ''Doctor Who'' as ''“[[MurderSimulators teatime brutality for tots]],”'' and had enough supporters to be influential in spite of her obvious deficiencies of reason. For the most part, however, the {{Creator/BBC}} was inclined to ignore her critiques. But for whatever reason, her attack on The Deadly Assassin struck a nerve at the BBC, who decided that Hinchcliffe should be removed as producer of ''Doctor Who''.

->June 7, 2010: During the main event of ''{{Wrestling/RAW}}'' between Wrestling/CMPunk and Wrestling/JohnCena, all the rookies who had been on ''[[{{Wrestling/WWENXT}} NXT]]'' Season One jump Punk and Cena together as a unit, all wearing black armbands with a yellow N on them...During the attack, Wrestling/DanielBryan strangled ring announcer Justin Roberts with his own necktie...Daniel Bryan was legit released from the WWE the next day for his use of the tie, because people thought it was [[TooSoon too similar]] to how Wrestling/ChrisBenoit murdered his family. This caused the Internet to go into a complete and utter meltdown. The story in kayfabe was that Daniel Bryan felt remorse for his action and thus Nexus kicked him out of the group. This predictably placed Bryan in extremely high demand on the indie scene and was widely mocked by pretty much every other promotion out there. His first post-WWE indie appearance, for CHIKARA, saw the crowd greet him by hurling ties instead of streamers, to his great amusement.

->You’ve got to love how much controversy surrounded this book at the time with the Doctor (Shudder! Gasp!) taking magic mushrooms to contact the Blue. I was 13 at the time this book was released and I have to say after reading it I was a regular user and always high as a kite trying to contact mind controlling aliens. Christ! Give children some bloody respect! The Doctor has since murdered people (''The Burning'') and married and set up shop in a whorehouse (both in ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'') but nobody got in a tizzy about that.

->[[SoBadItsGood This is a classic.]] Two Fundamentalists get their panties in a bunch over mystical themes in cartoons and toys... It also makes me kind of jealous, seeing as how frickin' lame and depressing the toys we [[TheSeventies 70s latchkey types]] had to suffer with were. I don't know what's going on in Cartoonland these days (my kids are all too old for this stuff now, alas) but I have a feeling that political correctness and general malaise has probably accomplished what religious hysteria could not and ruined a lot of the fun for kids.

->Oh yes, much like the {{Chick Tract}}s warned us, ''D&D'' was my enticing entry point to a world of decadent sin and '''[[RevengeOfTheNerds NEEEEEEEERD]]'''ery...Which might make it more ironic that the first group to get me into the tumbling die was a group of Evangelical kids. Sure, they may have tweaked the rules so that [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic magic was actually just psionics]] (because apparently an omniscient ruler of the Universe with a hate-on for anything even hinting of the dark vile forces of magick is also apparently easily fooled by a simple search and replace… no no see, my fictional character is [[MagicAIsMagicA setting things on fire with their brain]], not random fictional magical powers, so we’re all good)

->The Motion Picture Association of America is less than pleased about a new poster for directors RobertRodriguez and Creator/FrankMiller’s new ''Sin City'' film adaptation, ''A Dame to Kill For''. The poster depicts the title character, Ava Lord, played by actress Creator/EvaGreen, wearing a sheer gown that doesn’t really cover all that much. Specifially, the MPAA complained about the 'curve of under breast and dark nipple/areola circle visible through sheer gown.'\\
Reading a Frank Miller comic would probably [[YourHeadAsplode make the MPAA’s collective head explode.]]

->We start out with a parental discretion warning. I've whined about this before. The last time they did this was when Lionel [[SuicideIsPainless put a gun to his head and contemplated suicide because he was going to die in pain]]. Because, you know, that's not something someone might do or something a kid might have to one day confront on their own. Something that parents might WANT to have brought before their kids, given the high rate of suicide in teenagers. Y'know.

->Boy, am I glad they cut that last shot out of the theatrical version. I hate it when my slasher movies [[ShapedLikeItself contain slashings in them]]. Just as I hate comedies that don't cut out the funny parts.

->It's my job to protect you, the viewer, [[IRejectYourReality from reality.]]

->To hold a pen is to be at war.

->There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

->Harry's world says that drinking dead animal blood gives power, a satanic human sacrifice and Harry's powerful blood brings new life, demon possession is not spiritually dangerous, and that passing through fire, contacting the dead, and conversing with ghosts, others in the spirit world, and more, is normal and acceptable.

->Through this material, today's youth can be stimulated to sexual activities for which he has no legitimate outlet. He is even [[HeteronormativeCrusader enticed to enter the world of Homosexuals, Lesbians, Sadists, Masochists, and other sex deviants.]] The psychiatric terms for these ''unnatural'' sex acts are unknown to most ''decent'' adults in our country. But through these solicitous materials, these abnormalities are corrupting the minds and the hearts of our children. Perversion for profit!

->I have been reading Prescott again and in a changing world it is good to know that the Good Grey Goose of the ''Times'' is unchanged. He still gives marks to novels not for style nor insight nor wisdom nor art, but for 'morality.' Are these nice people? Is this a nice author? Adultery, premarital intercourse, aberration, are wicked things nice people don’t do and if an author does not firmly put them down and opt for marriage and fidelity the offending work must go. Prescott’s favorite pejorative adjective is 'dull.' ''{{Literature/Lolita}}'', he declared with more than usual horror, was 'dull, dull, dull!' Now ''Lolita'' was many things, but it was never dull. It was also literature, a category [[KnowNothingKnowItAll peculiarly mystifying]] to Prescott... To the average American the word 'morality' means sex, period. [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity If you don’t cheat on your wife, you’re moral.]]

->Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and [[MilesGloriosus attacked a hot fudge sundae.]]

->When we elected UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and the conservatives decided that they would decide not just what their children would read but what all children would read, it went crazy. My feeling in the beginning was wait, this is America: we don't have censorship, we have, you know, freedom to read, freedom to write, freedom of the press, we don't do this, we don't ban books. But then they did.

->There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

->So it was time for me to get a script assignment and I started to do 'Blood and Fire,' because I wanted to do something so far removed from funny. I wanted to show I could do something horrifying. Here is something about this disease that is so awful that we are not allowed to rescue anyone from that other ship, but we don’t find out until after our away team has already beamed over...the story wasn’t about AIDS as much as it was about [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the fear of AIDS]]. People had stopped donating blood because they were so afraid of AIDS. So I wanted to do a story that involved blood donorship and the whole story was structured that we would need blood donors from the ''Enterprise'' to show that the crewmembers were not afraid of donating blood. I even wanted us to put a card at the end of the episode saying [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle you can donate blood, contact your local Red Cross]]...I go off to a ''Star Trek'' cruise and come back to find there has been a clusterfuck. Rick Berman writes that we can’t do this episode and how we are on at 4PM in some markets and mommies are going to write letters.

->People threaten my life and tell me what a cow I am....There’s a lot of people I love on {{Twitter}}, but unfortunately you can’t read those without reading deranged neocons telling you [[TheFundamentalist you should be buried under a pile of rocks.]]

->Guess what, for all the [[FanDumb fans]] who [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks complain]] that the US {{Toku}} shows have no balls... well, it’s not that we don’t want to; there are standards and practices that we have to abide by for network television. So it’s just not legal to show these things in a kid show in the US and that’s not negotiable. Trust me, we tried and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar we did manage to push some stuff through]], you’ll see, but [[InfantImmortality guns held at kids' heads]] and [[NeverSayDie people dying]]? No can do.

->Press conference yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to {{Film/Carrington}}[='=]s tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits... No wonder people think [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland don't have sex in England.]]

->I grew up watching cowboy movies, loved doing that ["pew pew" gesture] with my fingers, 'Bang, bang, you're dead!' I didn't end up a killer.

->Tell you what: ''Kiss my ass!'' How do you like that?

->If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe Music/DavidBowie is an astronaut.

->I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, 'violent' point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice.

->Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

->The FCC, an appointed body, not elected, answerable '''only''' to the President, decided all on its own that radio and TV were the only two parts of American media not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. I'd like to repeat that because it sounds '''vaguely important'''. The FCC, an appointed body, not elected, answerable '''only''' to the President, decided ''all on its own'' that radio and TV were the only two parts of American media not protected by the free speech Amendment of the Constitution.

->The Hinchcliffe era got instant marquee value by casting the unbelievably charming and charismatic theatre actor Creator/TomBaker as The Doctor and winning over a sceptical audience almost immediately...Although it didn't always completely work, the Hinchcliffe era was incredibly bold, confidant and forward-thinking and remains the most popular of the Classic Series eras.\\
Sadly, [[TooGoodToLast it was not to last]]: Phillip Hinchcliffe's steadfast refusal to shy away from the more [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids overtly adult horror]] aspects of the genre he was playing with a roused the ire of media watchdog, moral guardian and professional buzzkill Mary Whitehouse, who claimed Hinchliffe's version of Doctor Who was 'poisoning the youth', dubbing it '[[MurderSimulators teatime brutality for tots]]'. Rather than stand up for its staff and ideals, the BBC, in one of its more reprehensible moves, turned Hinchcliffe into [[ScapegoatCreator a sacrificial lamb]] and fired him after three years to appease Whitehouse. "''
-->--'''''[[http://soda-pop-art.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-introduction-to-classic-doctor-who.html Soda Pop Art]]''''', "An Introduction t Classic ''Series/DoctorWho''"

->Larson started his career as an anti-rock evangelist in the 1960s, writing plenty of books on the topic (including ''Rock & Roll: The Devil's Diversion'' and ''Hippies, Hindus, and Rock & Roll''; writing such numbers of books quickly is apparently rather easy when you don’t have to worry about fact checking or any measure of alignment between claim and reality). The musical campaigns continued into the 1980s with incoherent, raging rants against Music/MotleyCrue, the Music/DeadKennedys, and Music/FleetwoodMac. An important element of his campaigns was his own experience as a rock band member prior to being saved, though he tends to exaggerate the commercial success of his band (a kind of Pat Boone copy that [[SmallNameBigEgo played at high schools and local venues]])...His daughter, Brynne, has taken up the family business through Teen Girl Exorcism Squad (“[[http://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-girl-exorcism-squad-arizona-girls-claim-cast/story?id=16074541#.T5zQ88Wju0j Three Arizona Girls Claim to Cast Out Demons]]” -- the interview in the link is heartily recommended). They’re currently berating and abusing mentally ill people in the name of Jesus, and trying to get a [[RealityTV reality-TV]] show as well. Here is a report on their tour of England, where they ranted about ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books and sexually transmitted demons.
-->--''[[http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/01/862-bob-larson.html Encyclopedia of American Loons]]'' on ''Talk-Back With Bob Larson''

->''[=Jesus-is-savior.com=]'' is a nutty Creator/JackChick-style (probably nuttier, if you can imagine such a thing) fundamentalist Christian website...''[='=][[TheOprahWinfreySHow Oprah]] is the Most Dangerous Woman in the World![='=]'' because she is a New Ager. The most dangerous soul-destroying television show ever is apparently ''Series/HeeHaw.''
-->--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki'''''

->Larson started his career as an anti-rock evangelist in the 1960s, writing plenty of books on the topic (including ''Rock & Roll: The Devil's Diversion'' and ''Hippies, Hindus, and Rock & Roll''; writing such numbers of books quickly is apparently rather easy when you don’t have to worry about fact checking or any measure of alignment between claim and reality). The musical campaigns continued into the 1980s with incoherent, raging rants against Music/MotleyCrue, the Music/DeadKennedys, and Music/FleetwoodMac. An important element of his campaigns was his own experience as a rock band member prior to being saved, though he tends to exaggerate the commercial success of his band (a kind of Pat Boone copy that [[SmallNameBigEgo played at high schools and local venues]])...In 2008 Larson’s failure to recognize that ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is not a documentary shot in real time even landed him his own reality TV show on the Creator/SciFiChannel: ''The Real Exorcist.''

->The PTC aims to ensure that nothing entertaining, such as ''Family Guy'', will be shown on television so that parents can safely use the television as a way of raising their kids without having to pay that much attention (they actually have a real beef with ''Family Guy'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', ''[[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow Cleveland Show]]'', ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', ''Simpsons'', and so on, which are consistently deemed to be the ”worst TV shows of the week”). PTC’s main strategy is to get their fans to [[VocalMinority flood the FCC with complaints]], sometimes adorned with Bible verses...Here’s his take on ''{{Series/Glee}}'', which basically complaints that people who bully homosexuals [[MisaimedFandom are not depicted as heroes]]. And here is his declaration that Music/LadyGaga and ConanOBrien the two biggest ”losers” of 2011 for their “eagerness to shred traditional values.”\\\
In private life Bozell is an ardent Catholic who has denounced ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' as ”viciously anti-catholic”. But then again, that is pretty much his description of [[ChewbaccaDefense anything he doesn’t immediately fancy.]]
-->--''[[http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/04/514-l-brent-bozell-iii.html Encyclopedia of American Loons]]'' on L. Brent Bozell III

In private life Bozell is an ardent Catholic who has denounced ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' as ”viciously anti-catholic”. But then again, that is pretty much his description of anything he doesn’t immediately fancy.

->The PTC aims to ensure that nothing entertaining, such as ''Family Guy'', will be shown on television so that parents can safely use the television as a way of raising their kids without having to pay that much attention (they actually have a real beef with ''Family Guy'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', ''[[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow Cleveland Show]]'', ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', ''Simpsons'', and so on, which are consistently deemed to be the ”worst TV shows of the week”). PTC’s main strategy is to get their fans to flood the FCC with complaints, sometimes adorned with Bible verses...Here’s his take on ''{{Series/Glee}}'', which basically complaints that people who bully homosexuals [[MisaimedFandom are not depicted as heroes]]. And here is his declaration that Music/LadyGaga and ConanOBrien the two biggest ”losers” of 2011 for their “eagerness to shred traditional values.”\\\

->Now it is hard to keep these groups apart, but any organization with “Family” in their name is guaranteed to be, shall we say, over the top. AFA’s mission is to make homosexuality illegal, along with abortion, and possibly even women's voting rights. They have rather effective strategies, in particular targeting companies that have made statements or policies in favour of gay rights, advertised in gay publications or advertised during a commercial break in a TV show which they find objectionable. They call for members to bombard these companies with complaints, or boycott their products... Totally insane, vile and zealous, theocrat and Godbot, hatemonger and crackpot, loon, moron, dumbass, crank. You pick, they all fit. [[KarmaHoudini Yet he still seems to enjoy quite some influence.]] I can’t quite find words.
-->--'''''The Encyclopedia of American Loons''''' [[http://www.americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/01/130-bryan-fischer.html on]] Bryan Fischer

-->--''[[http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/39923.html Sadly. No!]]''

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-> ''They will clean up all your talking in a manner such as this:\\
They will make you take a "tinkle" when you wanna take a piss,\\
And they'll make you call fellatio a "[[UnusualEuphemism trouser-friendly kiss]]"!\\
It's the plain situation\\
There's no negotiation\\
With the fellas at the freakin' FCC!''
-->-- '''''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NDPT0Ph5rA "The Freakin' FCC"]]

->It's my job to protect you, the viewer, [[IRejectYourReality from reality.]]
-->--'''Network Censor''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

->Mary Whitehouse has taken umbrage, no surprise there.
-->-- '''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''', "Election Night Special"

->Hello, I'm Miss Sensorshep, Head of Censorship! You see, the working theory is that most people are stupid, and therefore incapable of figuring out what's being covered up and bleeped, and therefore cannot be harmed by their evils!
-->-- ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2003-10-12 filler comic]]

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->To hold a pen is to be at war.
-->-- '''{{Creator/Voltaire}}'''

->There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
-->-- '''Creator/OscarWilde'''

->Harry's world says that drinking dead animal blood gives power, a satanic human sacrifice and Harry's powerful blood brings new life, demon possession is not spiritually dangerous, and that passing through fire, contacting the dead, and conversing with ghosts, others in the spirit world, and more, is normal and acceptable.
-->--''Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged''

->Through this material, today's youth can be stimulated to sexual activities for which he has no legitimate outlet. He is even [[HeteronormativeCrusader enticed to enter the world of Homosexuals, Lesbians, Sadists, Masochists, and other sex deviants.]] The psychiatric terms for these ''unnatural'' sex acts are unknown to most ''decent'' adults in our country. But through these solicitous materials, these abnormalities are corrupting the minds and the hearts of our children. Perversion for profit!
-->-- '''George Putnam''', arguing for censorship in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxEh-F_Cf8 Perversion for Profit (1965)]]

->I have been reading Prescott again and in a changing world it is good to know that the Good Grey Goose of the ''Times'' is unchanged. He still gives marks to novels not for style nor insight nor wisdom nor art, but for 'morality.' Are these nice people? Is this a nice author? Adultery, premarital intercourse, aberration, are wicked things nice people don’t do and if an author does not firmly put them down and opt for marriage and fidelity the offending work must go. Prescott’s favorite pejorative adjective is 'dull.' ''{{Literature/Lolita}}'', he declared with more than usual horror, was 'dull, dull, dull!' Now ''Lolita'' was many things, but it was never dull. It was also literature, a category [[KnowNothingKnowItAll peculiarly mystifying]] to Prescott... To the average American the word 'morality' means sex, period. [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity If you don’t cheat on your wife, you’re moral.]]
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''' [[http://www.esquire.com/features/gore-vidal-archive/comment-0761 on]] ''New York Times'' critic Orville Prescott

->Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and [[MilesGloriosus attacked a hot fudge sundae.]]
-->-- '''Kurt Vonnegut''' (attributed)

->When we elected UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and the conservatives decided that they would decide not just what their children would read but what all children would read, it went crazy. My feeling in the beginning was wait, this is America: we don't have censorship, we have, you know, freedom to read, freedom to write, freedom of the press, we don't do this, we don't ban books. But then they did.
-->--'''Judy Blume''', author

->There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
-->-- '''Dick Cavett'''

->So it was time for me to get a script assignment and I started to do 'Blood and Fire,' because I wanted to do something so far removed from funny. I wanted to show I could do something horrifying. Here is something about this disease that is so awful that we are not allowed to rescue anyone from that other ship, but we don’t find out until after our away team has already beamed over...the story wasn’t about AIDS as much as it was about [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the fear of AIDS]]. People had stopped donating blood because they were so afraid of AIDS. So I wanted to do a story that involved blood donorship and the whole story was structured that we would need blood donors from the ''Enterprise'' to show that the crewmembers were not afraid of donating blood. I even wanted us to put a card at the end of the episode saying [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle you can donate blood, contact your local Red Cross]]...I go off to a ''Star Trek'' cruise and come back to find there has been a clusterfuck. Rick Berman writes that we can’t do this episode and how we are on at 4PM in some markets and mommies are going to write letters.
-->--'''[[http://trekmovie.com/2014/09/12/exclusive-david-gerrold-talks-frankly-about-tng-conflicts-with-roddenberry-berman-jj-trek-more/ David Gerrold]]''', script editor for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''

->People threaten my life and tell me what a cow I am....There’s a lot of people I love on {{Twitter}}, but unfortunately you can’t read those without reading deranged neocons telling you [[TheFundamentalist you should be buried under a pile of rocks.]]
-->--'''Lena Dunham''', executive producer of ''{{Series/Girls}}'', on quitting Twitter

->Guess what, for all the [[FanDumb fans]] who [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks complain]] that the US {{Toku}} shows have no balls... well, it’s not that we don’t want to; there are standards and practices that we have to abide by for network television. So it’s just not legal to show these things in a kid show in the US and that’s not negotiable. Trust me, we tried and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar we did manage to push some stuff through]], you’ll see, but [[InfantImmortality guns held at kids' heads]] and [[NeverSayDie people dying]]? No can do.
-->--'''Steven Wang''', Executive Producer of ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight''

->Press conference yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to {{Film/Carrington}}[='=]s tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits... No wonder people think [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland don't have sex in England.]]
-->-- '''Creator/EmmaThompson''', ''Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film ''

->I grew up watching cowboy movies, loved doing that ["pew pew" gesture] with my fingers, 'Bang, bang, you're dead!' I didn't end up a killer.
-->--'''Creator/LiamNeeson'''

->Tell you what: ''Kiss my ass!'' How do you like that?
-->--'''Music/FrankZappa''', replying to being called an "idiot" because of his opposition to censorship, ''Crossfire'' debate (1986)

->If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe Music/DavidBowie is an astronaut.
-->-- '''Music/IceT'''

->I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, 'violent' point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice.
-->--'''Music/MarilynManson''' [[BackhandedApology extends an olive branch]]

->Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'''

->The FCC, an appointed body, not elected, answerable '''only''' to the President, decided all on its own that radio and TV were the only two parts of American media not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. I'd like to repeat that because it sounds '''vaguely important'''. The FCC, an appointed body, not elected, answerable '''only''' to the President, decided ''all on its own'' that radio and TV were the only two parts of American media not protected by the free speech Amendment of the Constitution.
-->--'''Creator/GeorgeCarlin'''

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-->--'''''RationalWiki'''''

->Boy, am I glad they cut that last shot out of the theatrical version. I hate it when my slasher movies [[ShapedLikeItself contain slashings in them]]. Just as I hate comedies that don't cut out the funny parts.
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''', ''Film/FridayThe13th1980''

-> If you're watching a TV show, and you decide to take your values from that, you're an idiot. Maybe you should take responsibility for what values your kids are getting. Maybe you shouldn't be letting your kids watch certain shows in the first place if you have such a big problem with them, instead of blaming the shows themselves. ([[BreakingTheFourthWall looks directly at the audience]]) [[TakeThat Yeah]].
-->-- '''Peter Griffin''', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.

-> If you're watching a TV show, and you decide to take your values from that, you're an idiot. Maybe you should take responsibility for what values your kids are getting. Maybe you shouldn't be letting your kids watch certain shows in the first place if you have such a big problem with them, instead of blaming the shows themselves. (BreakingTheFourthWall looks directly at the audience]]) [[TakeThat Yeah]].