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Civil rights group files suit against TBS network to stop showing A Christmas Story
Published by Briggs at 7:45 am under Culture, Fun
Controversial civil rights group ISEF yesterday filed suit in federal court against Turner Broadcasting and its cable affiliate TBS to cease airing the movie A Christmas Story. For several years, TBS has showed the popular movie non-stop over a twenty-four hour period on Christmas day.
“It is shocking in this day and age, given all we know about the horrors of gun ownership, that TBS can irresponsibly inundate the public with these images,” said ISEF spokesperson Martin Baumlot. “This appalling movie is a fetishization of weaponry and an attempt to instill in children the false idea that guns can be used for other things besides murder.”
According to court documents, ISEF claims that the movie A Christmas Story is “nothing but one child’s irrational obsession with a gun. In the movie, he even imagines himself using the gun to kill several people. There is a disturbing image of bodies stacked like cordwood that is chilling in its graphic intensity.”
Well known film expert Dr H. Harrister from the Institute for the Very Clever, said that “While the ISEF’s claim has some basis—the film’s protagonist Ralphie does dispatch several bad guys—that scene is nothing more than humorous dramatization of youthful fantasy.” The scene is one in which noted criminal “Black Bart” attempts an invasion of Ralphie’s home.
When asked about ISEF’s assertion that the film “goes beyond the obsessive mania for gun possession, and enters the realm of sick perversion as we actually see Ralphie go to bed with the weapon, lovingly caressing it as he drifts off the sleep, fantasizing once more about the brutal murder of our winged friends, the duck”, Dr Harrister was unable to provide a response as he choked on his hot dog.
Dr Harrister did later provide email commentary. “The people at ISEF have clearly lost their minds.”
A spokesman for TBS refused comment while this matter is being litigated.
The group It’s Somebody Else’s Fault was founded in 1984 by a group of Upper West Side Manhattan residents intent on proving that anything bad that happens is somebody else’s fault. |
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Dave Starr
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A "civil rights" group?????
Wonder if there's any space available at the Institute For The Terminally Stupid? |
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| You're kidding right? January first is coming up...not April 1...aka Fool's Day... |
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torgohugo
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Maybe it had something to do with the age old theocratic battle between these guys.
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Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:20 pm |
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Ryan Eashoo
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This is a joke right?
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twotap schreef:
Civil rights group files suit against TBS network to stop showing A Christmas Story
Published by Briggs at 7:45 am under Culture, Fun
Controversial civil rights group ISEF yesterday filed suit in federal court against Turner Broadcasting and its cable affiliate TBS to cease airing the movie A Christmas Story. For several years, TBS has showed the popular movie non-stop over a twenty-four hour period on Christmas day.
“It is shocking in this day and age, given all we know about the horrors of gun ownership, that TBS can irresponsibly inundate the public with these images,” said ISEF spokesperson Martin Baumlot. “This appalling movie is a fetishization of weaponry and an attempt to instill in children the false idea that guns can be used for other things besides murder.”
According to court documents, ISEF claims that the movie A Christmas Story is “nothing but one child’s irrational obsession with a gun. In the movie, he even imagines himself using the gun to kill several people. There is a disturbing image of bodies stacked like cordwood that is chilling in its graphic intensity.”
Well known film expert Dr H. Harrister from the Institute for the Very Clever, said that “While the ISEF’s claim has some basis—the film’s protagonist Ralphie does dispatch several bad guys—that scene is nothing more than humorous dramatization of youthful fantasy.” The scene is one in which noted criminal “Black Bart” attempts an invasion of Ralphie’s home.
When asked about ISEF’s assertion that the film “goes beyond the obsessive mania for gun possession, and enters the realm of sick perversion as we actually see Ralphie go to bed with the weapon, lovingly caressing it as he drifts off the sleep, fantasizing once more about the brutal murder of our winged friends, the duck”, Dr Harrister was unable to provide a response as he choked on his hot dog.
Dr Harrister did later provide email commentary. “The people at ISEF have clearly lost their minds.”
A spokesman for TBS refused comment while this matter is being litigated.
The group It’s Somebody Else’s Fault was founded in 1984 by a group of Upper West Side Manhattan residents intent on proving that anything bad that happens is somebody else’s fault.
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Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:45 pm |
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Ryan Eashoo
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This is a joke right?
quote:
twotap schreef:
Civil rights group files suit against TBS network to stop showing A Christmas Story
Published by Briggs at 7:45 am under Culture, Fun
Controversial civil rights group ISEF yesterday filed suit in federal court against Turner Broadcasting and its cable affiliate TBS to cease airing the movie A Christmas Story. For several years, TBS has showed the popular movie non-stop over a twenty-four hour period on Christmas day.
“It is shocking in this day and age, given all we know about the horrors of gun ownership, that TBS can irresponsibly inundate the public with these images,” said ISEF spokesperson Martin Baumlot. “This appalling movie is a fetishization of weaponry and an attempt to instill in children the false idea that guns can be used for other things besides murder.”
According to court documents, ISEF claims that the movie A Christmas Story is “nothing but one child’s irrational obsession with a gun. In the movie, he even imagines himself using the gun to kill several people. There is a disturbing image of bodies stacked like cordwood that is chilling in its graphic intensity.”
Well known film expert Dr H. Harrister from the Institute for the Very Clever, said that “While the ISEF’s claim has some basis—the film’s protagonist Ralphie does dispatch several bad guys—that scene is nothing more than humorous dramatization of youthful fantasy.” The scene is one in which noted criminal “Black Bart” attempts an invasion of Ralphie’s home.
When asked about ISEF’s assertion that the film “goes beyond the obsessive mania for gun possession, and enters the realm of sick perversion as we actually see Ralphie go to bed with the weapon, lovingly caressing it as he drifts off the sleep, fantasizing once more about the brutal murder of our winged friends, the duck”, Dr Harrister was unable to provide a response as he choked on his hot dog.
Dr Harrister did later provide email commentary. “The people at ISEF have clearly lost their minds.”
A spokesman for TBS refused comment while this matter is being litigated.
The group It’s Somebody Else’s Fault was founded in 1984 by a group of Upper West Side Manhattan residents intent on proving that anything bad that happens is somebody else’s fault.
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andi03
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quote:
torgohugo schreef:
Maybe it had something to do with the age old theocratic battle between these guys.
Hmmmm....some of us odd liberal Christian types believe that Satan is simplistically a metaphor for human's innate negative deeds towards their fellow man....what does the old fat gray haired man stand for? Still figuring that one out.  |
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Ryan Eashoo
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Andi I guess they want to now take Santa out of Christmas, like they did Christ!
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You're kidding right? January first is coming up...not April 1...aka Fool's Day...
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:05 pm |
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quote:
andi03 schreef:
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torgohugo schreef:
Maybe it had something to do with the age old theocratic battle between these guys.
Hmmmm....some of us odd liberal Christian types believe that Satan is simplistically a metaphor for human's innate negative deeds towards their fellow man....what does the old fat gray haired man stand for? Still figuring that one out.
You believe Satan is a metaphor? You are a Christian? seriously...you need to go to my Church. |
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:34 pm |
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:35 pm |
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andi03
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***You believe Satan is a metaphor? You are a Christian? seriously...you need to go to my Church.***
Yippers that my belief, yippers I am a Christian. |
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:01 pm |
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torgohugo
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| And what kind of church is that SS? One that advocates shooting people who flee traffic stops? One that thinks cruel and unusual punishment is running out of ammunition? I like Andi’s accommodation of satan is a metaphor better. Easy decision. |
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Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:47 am |
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Ryan Eashoo
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Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:46 pm |
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Ryan Eashoo
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Metaphor for what? Satan is no metaphor for anything.. lol
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andi03 schreef:
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torgohugo schreef:
Maybe it had something to do with the age old theocratic battle between these guys.
Hmmmm....some of us odd liberal Christian types believe that Satan is simplistically a metaphor for human's innate negative deeds towards their fellow man....what does the old fat gray haired man stand for? Still figuring that one out.
You believe Satan is a metaphor? You are a Christian? seriously...you need to go to my Church.
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