Burnt Orange Report

Funny how they won't show it in Austin but it's playing right as I write this here in Waco in widescreen HDTV. Now Waco is the real buckle on the bible belt compared to Austin.

But really now, why the hell do any of you really care what movie they play? This isn't the same as Sinclair trying to swing the election. This is just another example of why the networks are dying out. I have DirecTV, NetFlix and Tivo. I watch what I want, when I want. I really couldn't care less what some network station manager decides to play.

Yeah not a big deal. It would take me all of ten minutes to go pick up the movie at the Blockbuster 6 blocks away - it's just an example of idiotic political correctness that pisses me off a bit.

More than political correctness, it is political unpredicatability. The stations will not air it because they have no idea whether the FCC will go wingnut and fine them. One thing business abhors is unpredicatibility.

THIS IS PROOF THAT RIGHT WING NUTS ARE ANTI-BUSINESS. Let this be a lesson - "moral purists" are bad for the economy by scaring businesses from making economic decisions.

Why does it matter? Creeping fear. Creeping government control over the media. That's why it matters. I had other things to do, so I wouldn't have watched, but I called anyway.

Especially since they decided to replace it with Lethal Weapon (X). I mean, really, their excuse is that it would have violence and bad language before 7 pm. So they start their movie an hour later, with an equally violent movie. What a crock.

Let me reiterate: Creeping fear. A chunk of the US has suddenly woken up and realized that the Religious Right/Christianists are a long way toward radically changing our country. But not everyone gets it yet.

This is one more case, and it's time that we start fighting every one of these. It sucks, and I've been trying to ignore it for a long time. I can't any longer.

We got "Hoosiers" here in Phoenix instead of "Saving Private Ryan." It's hard to imagine that in Arizona, albeit one of those red states, the need to avoid bad words and blood could trump a tribute to veterans. That definitely screams out "Wingnut!" to me.

I thought one of the main planks of the Republican platform was "getting governemnt out of people's lives". Oh wait, I forgot to read the exception clause I guess!

You would think the film they were trying to ban was Saving Ryan's Privates.

Airing "Saving Private Ryan" may show how ghastly war is, and I guess a lot of people are content to be armchair generals. My grandfather was in the D-Day invasion. It was pretty grotesque, as most wars are.