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You gotta love the crocodile tears from the creators–golly, we had no idea that our concept would/could be altered. Give me a break. Seems like writing and living values and two different things. honora

Amen

Are you sure that you want “state approved” religious messages? How would you feel if it those vegetables were spewing forth Islamic values? GregH

We already have that here. Before “‘state approved’ religious messages” that is, in the old days of television, Sunday morning was a mass of religious programming until noon. That was the era of ‘Davy and Goliath’. Christmas morning was pure church service until noon. The profane movies we now see on most channels ‘Xmas’ morning would be considered offensive back then.

Today, to enjoy a traditional Christmas I turn on the shopping channel, which presents images like Christmas trees, carolers, musicians and hosts reading books that may even include the ‘G’ word to tiny tots. The other channels intentionally I assume show the most profane – bloody vampire, extra sexed up, evils of the faith entertainment – I don’t know to insult Christians or to neutralize the religiosity.

The Bill of Rights protection of religious freedom was not to protect you from being exposed to religious expression, it was to preserve the right of a person to public religious expression.

Private religious expression, at home in a closet by yourself does not have to be protected because no one hears it but you. The purpose of the amnendment was to keep people from shutting you up in public i.e. the Inquisition, which is what this current movement is.

Television is a publically held bunch of bandwidth which is part of the public square. The schoolroom is a publically held institution the most parents are forced to send their kids by finance or circumstance. If the kids don’t attend the parent goes to jail yet – the child’s exposure is sanitized of the parents’ morality. The public square is for one kind of thought only. That is Inquistition – the purification of counter-thought.

We have islamic channels here, in arabic mostly so Americans cannot understand what is said. We don’t have Satanic channels, yet. Such a forum would not have been considered when our nation was founded because such beliefs were considered immoral, and even today, what we consider immoral is proscribed (Congressmen and pages for example).

Without a line in the sand, a fixed moral system like a religion however, what is moral today is dismantled and expanded to include all sin, as man-boy-love and bestiality are now promoted by some, and forgiven by too many.

The excuse on Veggie-T is a cop-out. As many kids may see the secular Veggies first, and decide the religious version must be perverted, since it had to be cleaned up in later versions – thus continuing the propaganda that religion is obscene.

The excuse of omission to avoid ‘advocating’ is wearing a little thin. Anyone who’s seen Desperate Housewives or Friends knows that NBC is by no means an advocate for Christianity. If anything, NBC is a champion of all things secular. Was there real…

Michelle Malkin has a report up at HotAir on how God’s been edited out of our favorite cartoon veggies. Mostly a poke at NBC, but apparently Big Idea is running out of big ideas too.Is it time for a write-in campain from all you Christian vegetarian…

Kevin

It probably won’t be many kids but some is better than none.

Michelle Malkin in her latest Hot Air Vent Muzzling the Veggie Tales reports on the very successful Christian themed children’s video series Veggie Tales being snapped up by NBC – with some unsurprising editings – namely ripping out any religious…

HotAir has the story. Is anyone surprised? What I don’t understand is how Big Ideas Productions went into this deal without hammering out those sort of HUGE details?? Did they get to excited about making it big time, that they forgot to check the……

My kids love VeggieTales. I love VeggieTales. So imagine my happiness when I learned that NBC started airing VeggieTales on Saturday mornings. I should have known it was too good to be true. The network edited out some reference to……

But this one I need to hit on. Why is it that the Christian religion is so bad, yet Islamofacism is so good? I do not get it. It just seems so basic to me. Maybe I am not smart enough to be nuanced enough to see the grey areas. All I see is black and white. Good and evil. But according to the dimmocrats, what I see as evil is actually good, and what I see as good is actually evil. And they are supposed to be smarter than me. I mean right? I am just one of the sheeple led by Rush Limbaugh to think and believe whatever he says. I cannot think on my own. I am a racist, homophobic, wifebeating, (Ya, I did marry, another sexist fem hateing facist idealog), and OMG,.I had children, so I hate a womans “right to choose” I am such a hater.

Ummm,. I did write more, but deleted it. I got way off topic. I am in a very sarcastic mood tonight, and took it a little too far.

He sold his artistic rights presumably not at the point of a gun. Classic case of wanting to have one’s cake and eat it too. He cashed the check so he needs to shut up.
honora you are 100% right, Vischer could have either stopped everything or made a BIG noise and drawn such attention to this that NBC would have backed down. That tactic worked well for Madonna, she got what she really wanted. Vischer apparently doesn’t want God on NBC as much as Madonna wants herself on a Crucifix. Somebody mail Vischer a copy of The Fountainhead book (or the VHS with Gary Cooper; sorry no DVD) so he can see how real men face down “we” thinkers who want to water down their work.

trainerdave on September 29, 2006 at 2:58 PM

You guys don’t read the supporting links, do you?

Vischer did not sell his rights — he lost them in bankruptcy proceedings, along with the company, Big Idea Productions, Inc. Classic Media owns the new company, Big Idea, Inc. Two different entities. Phil was retained in a small role, but has little say. Classic Media asked him to prepare some Veggie episodes for NBC, with the idea that they would fill an hour-long time slot. This would be in conjunction with Scholastic and Corus, evidently with the idea of making kids programing ‘worthwhile’ again. Neither NBC or Scholastic had any idea at the beginning what VeggieTales really was. Only after they were well into work on the new format did the partners realize who they had joined up with. It was then that the edits and removals were requested.

Read the background material before you criticize. It’s all here.

Biblical verses are on the chopping block…….

Some people just don’t get it.

And they never will no matter how often and how hard reality beats them over the head.

Michelle vents on the slicing and dicing of Veggie Tales.
An excerpt from the recent Big Idea newsletter….