Score another one for John Cole’s American Taliban!
NBC is in the spin control zone thanks to its stunt casting of Britney Spears on Will & Grace.
Earlier this week, NBC issued a press release touting Spears’ guest appearance on the sitcom. Per the Peacock’s PR department, Spears, in her first television outing since having a baby, would appear on the Apr. 13 episode playing a religious conservative TV personality who winds up cohosting a talk show with Jack (Sean Hayes). Spears’ character, the release said, would emcee a cooking segment called “Cruci-fixin’s.”
Faster than you could say, “Oops, they did it again,” NBC was facing another beef from the American Family Association.
The conservative Tupelo, Mississippi-based group, whose protests helped lead to the cancellation of the network’s The Book of Daniel, was ready to call for a boycott of NBC, saying the Spears-fronted episode “mocks the crucifixion of Christ” and “further denigrates Christianity” because the show airs the night before Good Friday. The AFA is urging its supporters to contact NBC affiliates and demand they not broadcast it.
“NBC is clearly mocking the Christian faith,” the group’s founder, Don Wildmon, says on the AFA Website. “They clearly have hostility toward the Christian faith, They absolutely will not treat Jews or Muslims in this manner, but I think they are smarting from the Book of Daniel defeat that they suffered, and this is their way to get even.”
Hey, it’s not crushing gay people under walls or beating women in the city square, but it’s a start.
You can’t build a repressive theocratic murderous national government overnight, you know.
[...] Jimmie at the Sundries Shack may be a one trick pony, but he is rambling on with a steady gait. He continues to dishonestly pretend that I somehow smeared all Christians as members of the “American Taliban,” in not one, not two, but three posts. The lowlights, if you will, from Jimmie: [...]
Questions: Just how long had you and John Cole been having sex? And in your opinion what exactly is it that caused this acrimonious break-up?
John Cole and I have had sex on many occasions, but does that mean we can no longer discuss the important issues of the day in a reasonable and non-confrontational manner?
Of course not!
Sarcasm is lost on the poor guy, it seems.