Censor 'Scooby-Doo'? Words fail

[Occulus]

Censor 'Scooby-Doo'? Words fail

By Dan Moffett, Palm Beach Post Editorial Writer
Sunday, February 8, 2004


The Bush administration has decided that people with bad hearing have bad judgment, too, and need special guidance from the federal government.

So the U.S. Department of Education is declaring about 200 television programs inappropriate for closed-captioning and denying federal grant requests to make them accessible to the hearing-impaired.

The department made its decisions based on the recommendations of a five-member panel. Who the five members are, only the government seems to know, and it isn't saying. But the shows they censored suggest a perspective that is Talibanesque.

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[rucky]

1. Ruh-Roh!

[david_vincent]

2. Notice how hush-hush it all is?

If there's one thing this administration believes in,
it's secrecy.

[LeftCoast]

3. I don't know that this is censorship as much as cutting program budgets

I mean, can't those deaf people pay for that captioning themselves? :eyes:

</sarcasm>

[xxqqqzme]

4. my dad is deaf & a HUGE

baseball fan. He won't B 2 pleased about this. Oh well, he voted 4 this gang

[4morewars]

5. OK , that does it !!!!!!

NOW, i'm pissed !!!!

[Columbia]

6. Hmm

So just why does the Dept of Education have jurisdiction in closed-captioning TV programs anyway?

[UnAmericanJoe]

7. The real question

Is exactly what dialogue in Scooby Doo do they consider to be "inappropriate"?

My guess is it's all those "Zoinks" and "Groovies", being laid down by Shaggy...

[Nihil]

8. Actually it's Scooby himself ...

... the captions are reading too much like the transcript for the
SOTU speech ...

:-)

[UnAmericanJoe]

9. Plus

I never saw that dog choke on any of HIS scooby snacks.

[nannygoat]

10. Surely, you're aware that Scooby Doo has a dark side...

Scooby Doo: Turning Kids on to the Occult
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0602/scoobydoo.html

<snip>

As Hollywood prepares to release the new film, "Scooby Doo," we think it's important for Christians to
understand some of the hidden messages in the cartoon series that Landover Baptist Creation
Scientists and Youth Directors have spent the last 30 years of their lives uncovering. It goes without saying
that most Christians already know that the term, "Scooby Doo," was adopted by the homosexual
community in the late 1970's. "Scooby Doo" is Sodomite slang for "feces roll." There is no easy way of
saying this, but a "feces roll" is when a group of naked homosexual “men” get together in a public park, lay out a large plastic mat, poop all over it, and roll around in it until they have orgasms or are busted by the police. Some homosexuals save their feces in plastic bags and keep them in the refrigerator for weeks to prepare for such an event.

Lots more hilarity there...

[Vickers]

11. '"scooby snacks" which were ... a mixture of cocaine and heroin'

:crazy:

Nannygoat, that is one of the funniest articles I have ever read!!!

"If a dog is speaking, it's likely possessed and Leviticus 20:27 says we should kill it."

Priceless!

[tom_paine]

16. What, you never had a "Scooby-Snack?"

I'm sitting here RIGHT NOW enjoying a coke/heroin highball.

Yummmmm. Ranks, Raggy!

NOTE to OHS, DEA, and other assorted Bushevik Thugs (and you honest law enforcement officers,too): I am JOKING!

[markses]

12. That's a parody site

Right?

[Az]

13. Landoverbaptists a parody?

Dude, you are going to get the worlds best Christians pissed at you. Betty Bowers is without sin and can actually stone you to death. So watch what you say.

[jesus]

14. WWSD?

What Would Scooby Doo?

[kodi]

15. i guess the same goes for Popeye and Hillbilly Bears too.

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[Rose Siding]

17. It's just more "we got ours" compassion

What does Bush care if some people are left out? This is just one new example of govt that doesn't see that valuing the whole community is the surest route to advancing society. We allow it to happen!

snip>
It could be that people with bad hearing are new casualties of the Bush administration's budget priorities. Paying the Halliburton bills and sending a man to Mars will be costly, perhaps equally so. It could be that missing Bewitched and Law & Order is just one sacrifice the deaf will have to make to advance homeland security and fight terrorism.

[rocktivity]

18. Scooby Doo was named after a line from a Frank Sinatra song!

It was the creator's favorite. Can you guess which one?


rocknation

[camero]

19. So nice of Bush

To tell me what I'm allowed to watch. What a dumbass. I only watch sports on TV anyway. :eyes:

So us hearing impaired people need to be told what to watch. Shows that "compassionate conservative" philosophy to ya doesn't it.

[Astarho]

20. It's because of all those episodes with Dick Cheney

You know, at the end they pull off his disguise and reveal him. Like this:

SHAGGY: And Saddam Hussein is really-- Old Man Cheney!

FRED: Of course by scaring the world into invading Iraq his company Halliburton would clean up with oil and reconstruction contracts.

CHENEY: And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids!