Wednesday, October 17, 2012



ABC Censors Obama Communist Joke‏

Must not joke about the messenger of hope

The ABC television network has removed jokes about President Obama and former President Clinton from an upcoming episode of  “Last Man Standing,” according to the show’s star – Tim Allen.   Allen told The New York Post that the Disney-owned network yanked a number of political jokes from an episode that is scheduled to air just before the presidential election.

Allen’s character, a conservative, is trying to persuade his daughter to vote for Mitt Romney.

The ABC standards department ordered the show to remove one joke that had Allen’s character called Obama “a communist.”

“I love communist jokes,” Allen told the Post. “The right sees everything as a communist.”

“We also had this line about the Clintons where I say, ‘They’re like shingles; just when you think they are gone, they pop back up,’” he added.

That line was deleted, too.

“ABC won’t allow certain buttons to be touched,” wrote Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the MRC. “It’s almost funny that the censors would be so lax on sex and violence, but will clamp down like Bonnie Bluehair on Obama jokes. Is this their only Thou Shalt Not?”

Source

The whole episode is rather Soviet.  The banned bit was apparently meant to ridicule conservatives but the total lack of humor at  ABC management meant that they were too dim to see that.  The Soviets were humorless too.  They banned P.G. Wodehouse even though his comic novels could well be seen as excellent propaganda against a class system.  Wodehouse always portrayed the aristocrat as dim and the worker as smart.


7 comments:

Anonymous said...

More proof that the Left's sense of humor, like their alleged tolerance, is only visible when it's about something they dislike or disagree with. But when it's aimed at one of their own, they have neither humor nor tolerance.

Bird of Paradise said...

ABC the AWFUL BROADCASTING COMPNAY

Anonymous said...

Political believes that can't tolerate any critism are always weak, their followers shallow, and there leaders corrupt. This has been proven time and memorium.

Go Away Bird said...

Q.HOW MANY COMMUNISTS DOSE IT TAKE TO SCREW INA LIGHTBULB? A.NONE THEIR USED TO THE DARK

Anonymous said...

I agree with ABC on this one. We don't need comedians poking fun at President Obama (peace be upon him) because his status as a joke stands on its own.

Anonymous said...

Re-elect The President.

Flu-Bird said...

Annon 11:42 & 12:48 GET A LIFE OBAMA STINKS AND SO DOSE COMMUNISM