* * * * *
                                        
                      “We're afraid of getting blown up.”
                                        
> “That's where we kind of agree with some of the people who've criticized
> our show,” Stone says. “Because it really is open season on Jesus. We can
> do whatever we want to Jesus, and we have. We've had him say bad words.
> We've had him shoot a gun. We've had him kill people. We can do whatever we
> want. But Mohammed, we couldn't just show a simple image.”
> 
> During the part of the show where Mohammed was to be depicted—benignly,
> Stone and Parker say—the show ran a black screen that read: “Comedy Central
> has refused to broadcast an image of Mohammed on their network.”
> 
> Other networks took a similar course, refusing to air images of Mohammed
> even when reporting on the Denmark cartoon riots—claiming they were
> refraining because they're religiously tolerant, the South Park creators
> say.
> 
> “No you're not,” Stone retorts. “You're afraid of getting blown up. That's
> what you're afraid of. Comedy Central copped to that, you know: ‘We're
> afraid of getting blown up.’”
> 

Via Instapundit [1], “ABC News: Secrets of ‘South Park’ [2]”

Another problem with writing entries after the fact [3], even with notes, is
forgetting about the notes. I had ment to blog this last week.

Sigh.

Anyway, I have respect for the creators of South Park [4]—they go after
everybody eventually, even if it means loosing a cast member [5] (and they
were aware that it was a possible outcome).

It also doesn't hurt that the show is uproariously funny.

And yes, they do have a point—criticise Islam and deal with death threats [6]
(even The Last Temptation of Christ [7] never garnered its author or
filmmakers a governmental and religiously sanctioned death threat (The
Satanic Verses) [8]).

[1] http://instapundit.com/archives/032754.php
[2] http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Entertainment/story?id=2479197&page
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/10/01.1
[4] http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/southpark/
[5] http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1525988/20060313/issac_hayes.jhtml?hea
[6] http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/09/french-professor-goes-into-
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses

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