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Friday, April 14, 2006

"South Park" Censored

Yahoo! News: "In an interview with the Associated Press, William Donohue of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights attacked Parker and Stone, but not Comedy Central, for the Jesus bit making air. Of the show's creators, Donohue said, '[They're] like little whores...They'll sit there and they'll whine and they'll take their shot at Jesus.'

South Park has been winning friends of late with its religious-themed episodes. Last year, Comedy Central ran, but later declined to rerun the episode 'Bloody Mary' after Donohue's group took umbrage with a menstruating statue of the Virgin Mary. Last month,
Isaac Hayes turned in his Chef's hat, saying the show's satire had gone too far. His departure was seen as a belated response to 'Trapped in the Closet,' a 2005 episode that focused on Scientology, Hayes' religion. Comedy Central pulled a rerun of that episode, too.

An avowed equal opportunity offender, South Park previously depicted Mohammed to little public outcry. In that case, timing might have been everything. The episode, 'Super Best Friends,' debuted in July 2001, or two months before the arrival of the post-9-11 world."

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