The chutzpah of Fox

By: American Decency Staff

After monitoring the latest episode of Fox Television’s “Family Guy”, the Yiddish term “chutzpah” immediately came to mind. Definition of chutzpah: unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity. The sarcastically named “Family Guy” is an attack upon families from the first minute to the last. The weekly animated show is rife with incredibly crude, sexual dialogue and depictions, profanities, references that legitimize pornography use, deviant sexual behavior, as well as regular attacks upon Christianity. Sunday evening’s episode contained all of the above. From references to “kinky porn” and allusions to S&M, to vulgar dialogue that is too explicit to repeat. However, the main theme of this latest episode was to make a mockery of the Christian faith. This episode featured a young male character from “Family Guy” fantasizing about meeting Jesus. He imagines Christ nude while bathing and the scene strongly suggests homosexual overtones between Jesus Christ and this boy. In addition, a church service is shown where Holy Scripture as the Word of God is mocked and the sacrament of communion and its significance are turned into a joke as the sacred representations of the body and blood of Christ are described as a snack treat. As the elements of communion are being distributed the minister/priest tells the recipients: “Eat up, you all. You’re good, church-going folk – you all deserve a little treat.” Also, throughout the episode Christians of course are portrayed as judgmental, extremist whackos. Numerous additional examples could be given from this one episode alone, but they shouldn’t be needed to demonstrate the vileness of this program from beginning to end. And here’s where the “chutzpah” comes in. The ending scene has the main character of the show lecturing viewers on “family values”. The character states: “If you’re watching a TV show and you decide to take your values from that, you’re an idiot. Maybe you should take responsibility for what values your kids are getting. Maybe you shouldn’t be letting your kids watch certain shows in the first place if you have such a big problem with them, instead of blaming the shows themselves.” Here is Fox who just used the public airwaves to attack morality and insult and ridicule what millions hold sacred all in the guise of “free speech”, yet those whose values have been assaulted are told to just “not watch”. That may be all fine and good if we each lived in a vacuum, but even if my family and yours are never exposed to content such as “Family Guy”, we are all impacted for we all swim in the cultural waters polluted by the likes of Fox. Fox’s rationale to the moral pollution they spew would be comparable to corporations polluting the air and water at will and without regulation or control and telling citizens: ‘Maybe you should take responsibility for the air and water your kids get. Maybe you should wear air masks and boil your own water if you have a problem with it instead of blaming corporations themselves’. Fox does not have impunity for the filth they air on public airwaves. What they do affects the public which then in turn affects my family and yours and the children in families who don’t have the parental guidance they need. It is those children who especially are in danger of “taking their values” from a TV show. Fox and their sponsors must be held accountable not just on behalf of my family, but for the sake of our culture and the generation growing up in this moral cesspool. Please contact Fox Television and the advertisers listed below. Sample letters are also included, but as always your own personal letter will be even more effective. Please stand with us in the defense of our faith and our values. Contact Fox: News Corporation – Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. K. Rupert Murdoch – Chairman and CEO Peter F. Chernin – President and COO 1211 Avenue of the Americas, Ste. 302 New York, NY 10036 Phone: 212-852-7111 Fax: 212-852-7145 Email: abutcher@newscorp.com (Andrew Butcher, Sr. Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Communications) Email: joe.earley@fox.com (Joseph Earley, Executive Vice President – Fox Broadcasting Company) *********************** Sample letter to Fox: Dear , I am outraged that Fox Television continues to use the public airwaves to attack and ridicule the faith and the values of millions, as you’ve done with the latest reprehensible episode of “Family Guy”. Not only do you mock Christianity – alluding to homosexual overtones between Christ and one of your show’s characters, as just one example of many – but you then have audacity to use the show’s dialogue to assert that those who don’t want their family’s values undermined should just “not watch”. However, what you broadcast on the public airwaves affects the public which then in turn affects my family and yours and the children in families who don’t have the parental guidance they need. I strongly urge you to do the responsible thing and reconsider the type of material you air on Fox Television – material that pollutes the cultural waters in which we all swim. I look forward to your response. Sincerely, ********* Contact the sponsors of “Family Guy”. The advertiser list below includes Burger King, Wendy’s, Subway, PepsiCo. “Family Guy” advertiser link: https://americandecency.org/main.php?f=updates_new/2007/April/4.29a.07 ********************* Sample advertiser letter: Dear , I am appalled to learn that your company is a sponsor of the vulgar and offensive show “Family Guy” on Fox Television. Your support of this program supports crude, sexually explicit material and the frequent, insulting ridicule of the Christian faith. Is this what you want your company’s name identified with? I urge you to withdraw your sponsorship of “Family Guy” as well as from shows of similar ilk. As long as you continue to lend your name and support to a program that blatantly leads to the coarsening of our culture, the undermining of values, and the ridiculing of my faith and the faith of millions, I will not support your company with my business. Please let me know of your decision regarding future sponsorship of “Family Guy”. Sincerely, ******************* ============================================================ Let’s encourage one another and strengthen one another to be more like our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. American Decency Association Bill Johnson, President P.O. Box 202 Fremont, MI 49412 PH: 231-924-4050 www.americandecency.org

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