Do not Trust the “B” in ABC

Last night ABC aired the third episode of the offensively-titled show “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.”It continues to amaze me that feminists aren’t up in arms over such a highly demeaning and derogatory term used to describe women – both with this show’s title and also ABC’s “GCB.”

Last week we targeted Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden and Red Lobster) which has advertised on both of these shows.  Last night, Darden Restaurants did not sponsor “Don’t Trust the B— in Apt. 23.” However, 6 of the 13 national advertisers were repeat sponsors.  They include: PepsiCo (Doritos, Tropicana), Nokia, Allegra, Intel, and movie companies Warner Brothers and Paramount Studios.

 

Take Action! Click here to contact these and the other sponsors empowering this raunchy show.  New advertisers include:  Payless Shoes, Old Navy, and Outback Steakhouse.

 

After hearing from many of you through our “take action” links, our records indicate that in the first three episodes, 22 of the 38 national sponsors have only advertised one time – that comes out to 58% of advertisers did not return to sponsor “Don’t Trust the B—– in Apt. 23” after hearing from you!

Nahnatchka Khan, the show’s creator, stated in a recent interview that she first pitched the show to television executives a few years ago and was soundly rejected.  In her pitch to the network, she described the following segment which ended up becoming the opening scene of the premiere episode.

In the opening minute of the first episode, Chloe, the titled “B” of the show, is engaged in a sex act with her new roommate’s fiancé – on top of her roommate’s birthday cake.

When they initially pitched this idea to network executives,  Khan, and fellow creator David Hemingson, said:  I remember sitting across from the executives who were looking at us slack-jawed and stunned. They were like, “This is a network comedy?  What are you talking about?  You’re crazy!” They had that look of, “You’re aware this is a network, right?,” on their faces.

Now just a few years later ABC is proudly pushing a show that just a few short years ago was deemed too shocking for network TV – even by Hollywood’s standards.

What changed?  (Other than the proverbial frog in the cultural kettle getting increasingly hotter.) As Khan explained, “Paul Lee took over ABC and he was interested in bold, different and daring … and the whole development team over there was really behind it, and Paul Lee loved it …”

However, what ABC’s Paul Lee considers “bold” and “daring,” millions of Americans consider base and degrading.  If we stay silent and allow such filth to become the norm, what will another three years bring to network TV?

Take Action! Click here to contact the sponsors empowering this raunchy show.

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/do-not-trust-the-%e2%80%9cb%e2%80%9d-in-abc/#more-6622

Glee Celebrates the ‘T’

It was a very special disco-themed episode of “Glee” on Fox the other night. A new character named Wade from a different high school shared that he was born in the wrong body. He was black, but he said he felt he was born white and decided to go out on stage at Regionals painted over as a white man. Everyone adored and applauded him as he sang “Boogie Shoes” looking just like the lead singer of KC and the Sunshine Band.

If you actually watch “Glee” or just know Hollywood liberals, you know I’m kidding. Of course, he wasn’t a white kid trapped in a black body. Wade was an unfortunate boy “trapped” in a male body. It was “Transgender Is Cool” night. Everyone must adore and applaud. A new wall is down.

Of course, had Wade wanted to reject his blackness, Hollywood would suggest there’s something wrong with this boy. Why does he hate his own nature? What’s wrong with being black? And how does a boy know  he’s not black? But the sexual libertines are different for some reason. They don’t think it’s wrong to reject your gender. In fact, it’s a wonderful delusion to think you’re something else. Society just needs the enlightenment and the “courage” to applaud it.

Why do parents allow their children to watch this garbage? On “Glee,” Wade shows up declaring that he only had the confidence to come to school because “I pretended I was a different person, a person I dreamed of being — the real me.” The “real me” is named — I’m not making this up — “Unique.” Kurt, the effeminate homosexual teen, replies, “Unique sounds like a really great person. I hope one day you can build up enough courage to be him.” Wade rebutted: “Actually, Unique’s a her … because that’s what I feel like I am, inside.” Dude. Or is it Dudess”?

Wade’s told that “this is Ohio” and it’s not going to be accepted if he sings “Boogie Shoes” dressed up in a black dress and high heels. But “Unique” shows up to perform and is adored by the crowd. It’s a true Hollywood ending.

The Huffington Post recently published an article titled “Raising a Transgender Child: A Star is Born.” A mother named Julie Ross reported her 9-year-old son George declared, “he is a girl.”

Nine years old. The moment of “truth” came when the Boston Globe published an article on its front page about identical twin boys, “one of whom had identified as transgender and was now living fully as a girl.” Her son saw it and “It was at that moment that Jessie was born, moved in and has since made herself comfortable in my house.” Shortly thereafter, “Jessie” got pierced ears and announced “herself” at school by showing up at Pajama Day in pink polka-dot pajamas.

The Globe story was headlined “Led by the child who simply knew. The twin boys were identical in every way but one. Wyatt was a girl to the core, and now lives as one, with the help of a brave, loving family and a path-breaking doctor’s care.”

The Globe promoted the “Children’s Hospital Gender Management Services Clinic,” which employs hormone therapies to halt puberty in “transgender children, blocking the development of secondary sexual characteristics — a beard, say, or breasts — that can make the eventual transition to the other gender more difficult, painful, and costly.” The “girl” twin, Wyatt, now 14 and calling himself “Nicole,” said the next step is mutilation — “to undergo surgery to get a physical female body that matches up to my image of myself.”

It’s so Orwellian that libertines promote you should find “who you really are” by rejecting exactly “who you really are.”

At the Huffington Post, Ross reported that her son has received “total acceptance” in his imagined gender and she is “grateful that Jessie’s social transition, thus far, has been as seamless as we ever could have hoped for. She has that sparkle in her eye and a new confidence which is the envy of many an adult.”

Bill O’Reilly dared to strike a blow for traditionalism — and simple rational thought — on Fox News, not buying this “The Emperor Has Girl Clothes” attitude that’s demanded of everyone. He said “Glee” could cause imitators: “They might go out and experiment with this stuff.” For this obvious point, he was roundly booed.

Judge Jeannine Pirro replied incredulously to O’Reilly, “You’re not saying it’s contagious.” It’s not a medical metaphor. It’s the usual Hollywood metaphor. They demand no one show someone glamorously smoking a cigarette because it promotes an unhealthy lifestyle. But it’s truly a progressive moment of “truth” to show someone universally applauded for glamorously rejecting his or her own gender.

What’s left out, with a fear of a viewpoint becoming “contagious”? Anyone who disagrees.

Brent Bozell

Founder and President of the Media Research Center, Brent Bozell runs the largest media watchdog organization in America. TOWNHALL DAILY: Be the first to read Brent Bozell’s column. Sign up today and receive Townhall.com daily lineup delivered each morning to your inbox.

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Bull’s-eye

“…Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” Colossians 2:3

Here’s some bad news: left to ourselves, we’re not very good shots when it comes to living. We are, at the core, sinful, which explains why we lead such “ready-fire-aim” kind of lives. We are a lot like the village idiot who prided himself on being a great shot. After he shot his arrow at the side of the barn, he would then paint a bull’s-eye target around the arrow, painting the arrow into the center of the bull’s-eye.

But the bull’s-eye of life is not an I-want-my-life-to-be-like-this-thank-you barn-side painting. The bull’s-eye for life as it’s meant to be is already painted by the good and righteous ways of God. And since we are not inherently righteous, but rather fallen and frail, missing the target is a regular event.

In Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, the character named Cassius gets it right when he explains:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Most of us excuse our miscues, or mistakes, by assigning them to fate and random bumps from the circumstances of life: “It’s not our fault. We’re victims. It’s in our stars.” But God’s take on our lives is that the fault does lie in us! Not that we are underlings as Cassius points out, but that we are born sinful, fallen, frail, and broken. By our very nature we’re wrong-headed. I have come to realize that my first instincts in a given situation are probably wrong. Granted, they don’t seem wrong. It seems right to get even; to stash away as much money as I can; to make sure that I am recognized and affirmed; to seek pleasure for myself; to live life to the full on my own terms; to do everything to dodge suffering and then resent it when suffering does invade my life; to try to be as strong as I can, because only the strong survive; and to yell at people who yell at me. But here is the warning: God says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death” (Proverbs 14:12)! And we are reminded in Isaiah that God’s ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8).

So let’s fess up! We need help. Because we are bent in the wrong direction, we are in desperate need of God’s wisdom to live right-headedly. And, where is that wisdom found?

In Jesus!

Paul makes this clear when he writes that he desires that our hearts be encouraged so that we “may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that [we] may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:2-3).

Jesus knows the way. He has the wisdom to see life the way it should be lived. But beware! His wisdom will not seem right to you. He says to turn the other cheek, to die so that you can live, to give that you might gain, to forgive the same offense 490 times, to love your enemy, and to find meaning and productivity in suffering. Sound upside down to you? Sure it does. But it sounds that way, not because Jesus is upside down, but because we are.

The bull’s-eye of life is Jesus! Seek His wisdom and turn your “ready-fire-aim” life into blue- ribbon target shooting!

YOUR JOURNEY…

• When was the last time you stopped to evaluate whether or not your response was the response that Jesus would prompt you to do?
• Today, assume that your instincts to given situations will probably be wrong. Aim your heart to His wisdom by searching the Scripture, seeking the counsel of a godly friend, or praying that God would give you the wisdom He promised in James 1. Don’t fire until He aims your life in the right direction.
• What areas of your life tend to misfire on a regular basis? Start seeking God’s wisdom in one of those areas, and ask for His power to hit the target of His righteousness.
• http://getmorestrength.org/daily/bulls-eye/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GetMoreStrength+%28Strength+For+The+Journey%29

What Do You Want?

What Do You Want?.