WP: Who Framed Buster Rabbit? The Fallout Continues

[DeepModem Mom]

Who Framed Buster Rabbit? The Fallout Continues

By Lisa de Moraes
Friday, February 18, 2005; Page C07


Letters continue to fly over "Postcards From Buster."

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has fired off a scathing one to Education Secretary Margaret Spellings addressing a letter she sent to the head of PBS last month in which she condemned an episode of the children's program because it showed actual children who live with their lesbian moms.

Meanwhile, Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Kathleen Cox says that, contrary to the word from PBS chief Pat Mitchell's camp this week, she did not talk with Mitchell about the "Buster" episode between the time Mitchell publicly stated her support of the episode and the time she announced PBS would not distribute it....

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Frank noted that no one, not even Spellings, has suggested that anything particularly intimate was shown in the episode, "so it is apparently simply the fact that two women love each other and live together that you find so shocking that it is not fit to be broadcast."

In conclusion, Frank said he was "sorry that young people all over this country who happen to be gay or lesbian have now learned that the person who has been picked by the President of the United States to help with their education has such a fundamentally negative view of their very existence."

And speaking of PBS and its amazing ability to function without a spine, the Public Broadcasting Service has decided to censor next Tuesday's "Frontline" documentary about the war in Iraq, removing 13 expletives uttered by soldiers over there risking their lives because it's afraid of the Federal Communications Commission....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33612-2005Feb17.html

[Swede]

1. Colonel Kurtz said it a long time ago.

" We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write fuck on their airplanes because it's obscene! " ( Colonel Kurtz )

[truthisfreedom]

2. "they hate us for our freedoms." gw bush.

[Anakin Skywalker]

3. Ironic, isn't it?

What freedom? The fundies of this country want CONTROL, not freedom.

[marew]

4. AMEN!!!! n/t

[jdj]

5. right, and like that spellings b*tch gives a damn.

this is precisely the message she wanted to send, and this is why the Gannons of the world are so important to us.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Does Rep. Frank read DU?

A number of his points in his letter were mentioned in other threads on this subject.

Anyway, if he's reading:
Way to go, Barney! Tell it like it is!