‘South Park’ Creators Skewer Own Network
By DAVID BAUDER
The Associated Press
Thursday, April 13, 2006; 6:14 PMNEW YORK — Banned by Comedy Central from showing an image of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the creators of “South Park” skewered their own network for hypocrisy in the cartoon’s most recent episode.
The comedy _ in an episode aired during Holy Week for Christians _ instead featured an image of Jesus Christ defecating on President Bush and the American flag.
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As is often the case with Parker and Stone, they built “South Park” around the incident. In Wednesday’s episode, the character Kyle is shown trying to persuade a Fox network executive to air an uncensored “Family Guy” even though it had an image of Muhammad.
“Either it’s all OK, or none of it is,” Kyle said. “Do the right thing.”
The executive decides to strike a blow for free speech and agrees to show it. But at the point where Muhammad is to be seen, the screen is filled with the message: “Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of Muhammad on their network.”
The article goes on quite a bit but as the quotes show, Parker & Stone not happy being senored (when normally they really aren’t) decided to show their displeaasure. The difference is that most Christians will look at it as over the top and unrelistic… therefore ignorable… for the most part. Where the Muslim community has show themselves to have riots and threaten to kill those who draw Muhhamed (opposite of their teaching), and Scientologists throw temper tantrums and threaten to sue.
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