I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
The scene above showed up last night during The Simpsons’ intro sequence: With ‘South Park’ creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone receiving death threats from the radical Revolution Muslim regarding their depiction of Muhammad, their comedy brethren have shown their support. Last week, Jon Stewart came to their defense, and last night, ‘The Simpsons’ (sort […]
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That’s the message you’ll see if you try to view the latest episode of South Park online. The New York Times explains why: An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim […]
South Park’s 200th episode has gotten the attention of some radical Islamists: The radical Islamic Web site Revolutionmuslim.com is going after the creators of the TV cartoon series “South Park” after an episode last week included an image of the Prophet Mohammed in disguise. Revolutionmuslim.com, based in New York, was the subject of a CNN […]
From this week’s South Park: The sad thing is, they’d be more apt to get things right using this method. Full episode here. H/T: Jason Pye
First it was Hugo Chavez going after The Simpsons. Now, we learn that there’s no room in Vladimir Putin’s Russia for satire: MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Russia want to ban the award-winning satirical U.S. cartoon South Park, calling the series “extremist” after receiving viewer complaints, a spokeswoman said on Monday. South Park, a cartoon […]
On the same day that Paramount announced it was severing ties with Tom Cruise: Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures unit is ending its 14-year relationship with Tom Cruise’s film production company because of the actor’s offscreen behavior, the company’s chairman said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Sumner Redstone, Viacom chairman, said the behavior […]
You’ve got to hand to these guys, they’ve got guts: H/T: Andrew Sullivan
Though Comedy Central announced earlier this week that the Scientology episode that was pulled earlier this year would return to normal rerun rotation, its clear that the controversy about what actually happened won’t go away: Matt Stone and Trey Parker are still angry that Comedy Central in May yanked a repeat of the “Trapped in […]
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