NBC Spin Control: We Take Back That "Cruci-fixins" Joke Plot

[CindyGia]

**Check this out! Well, we as Catholic Christians, and all Christians stopped them dead in their tracks! And to think we did it without blowing up buildings and killing people!

newsbusters.org/node/3911**

 

[CindyGia]

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Is this the wrong forum?

I wanted everyone to check this out. Well, we as Catholic Christians, and all Christians alike stopped them in their tracks! And to think we did it (Edited as offensive)

hmph! **

newsbusters.org/node/3911

 

[CindyGia]

** I wanted everyone to see this!

Well, we as Catholic Christians and all Christians stopped them in their tracks!

And to think we did it without having to blow up buildings or kill people!

See this:**

newsbusters.org/node/3911

 

[Scout]

Well, according to NBC, that episode hasn’t even been written yet. I find that extremely difficult to believe. First, why would a celibrity agree to do a show when they haven’t seen a script for it yet. Second, most people know it takes two to three months to complete an episode, minimum, from writing to re-writes to more re-writes, to actually taping the show-which itself usually takes a week to complete. Then there’s post-production, which usually takes at least a couple of weeks as well.

Is NBC trying to tell us that they don’t have a show written for an air date less than two months away?

I’m glad they aren’t doing the show the way it was originally presented to the public, but I don’t buy for a second that they haven’t written that episode yet. NBC is just trying to save face without actually having to apologize.

Scout :tiphat:

 

[Lance]

I sometimes think they float this type of garbage just to see what the reaction will be. If Christians reacted violently that would be front page news and just what they were hoping for. You don’t see much about the Church burnings in Alabama but if 9 mosques had been burned world wide that would be front page news.

 

[juno24]

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Is this the wrong forum?

I wanted everyone to check this out. Well, we as Catholic Christians, and all Christians alike stopped them in their tracks! And to think we did it (Edited as offensive)

hmph!

newsbusters.org/node/3911

I can’t open the link (my antivirus tells me there is a trojan plus loads of adware attached to it), so could you post some of what NBC is saying?

 

[Scout]

I posted this in the duplicate thread, so I thought I’d place it here, as well.

Well, according to NBC, that episode hasn’t even been written yet. I find that extremely difficult to believe. First, why would a celibrity agree to do a show when they haven’t seen a script for it yet. Second, most people know it takes two to three months to complete an episode, minimum, from writing to re-writes to more re-writes, to actually taping the show-which itself usually takes a week to complete. Then there’s post-production, which usually takes at least a couple of weeks as well.

Is NBC trying to tell us that they don’t have a show written for an air date less than two months away?

I’m glad they aren’t doing the show the way it was originally presented to the public, but I don’t buy for a second that they haven’t written that episode yet. NBC is just trying to save face without actually having to apologize.

Scout :tiphat:

 

[CindyGia]

juno24:

I can’t open the link (my antivirus tells me there is a trojan plus loads of adware attached to it), so could you post some of what NBC is saying?

Ok, here you go…there are “comments” attached at the bottom of the article…

**NBC Spin Control: We Take Back That “Cruci-fixins” Joke Plot
Posted by Tim Graham on February 5, 2006 - 12:52.
Thanks to my Yahoo-loving wife, I’ve learned that NBC is backtracking big-time on the Britney Spears “Cruci-fixins” plot we noted last week. E! Online News reports:

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.

…For its part, NBC bristled at allegations it was intentionally trying to poke fun at Christians, issuing a statement chalking up the dispute to unnamed trigger-happy publicist.

“Some erroneous information was mistakenly included in a press release describing an upcoming episode of Will & Grace, which, in fact, has yet to be written,” the network said in a statement, which was disseminated to its affiliates. “The reference to ‘Cruci-fixins’ will not be in the show and the storyline will not contain a Christian characterization at all. We value our viewers and sincerely regret if this misinformation has offended them.”

Spears’ reps were unavailable for comment on the controversy.

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bigtimer Says:
February 5, 2006 - 15:33
The misinformation must of been the correct information in the first place or NBC would not have made an so-called informal statement keeping the real informed people in this country about the so-called mistaken info…eh?

A lie will travel around the world before the truth is out of bed.

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hater Says:
February 5, 2006 - 16:12
You christians are some wacky people…you need to lighten up…GOD invented humor and gays for a reason…so we could all laugh together.,…holding hands … (Edited as offensive)**

you can’t be serious…do i smell theocracy??? oh i hope so…

(Edited as offensive)

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JoeAguilar Says:
February 5, 2006 - 20:29
So objecting to blatant ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY equals a “theoracy” in hater’s world. Nice.

Interesting how only leftists reserve to themselves the right to be “outraged” whenever they feel “offended,” but let Christians object to the blatant mocking of the crucifixion of Jesus, and all of a sudden they “have no sense of humour.”

(Edited as offensive)

If only leftists and their mouthpieces in the MSM had one TENTH of the “reverence” they have for Islam towards Christianity. Apparently, the only socially “acceptable” form of bigotry among the left is bigotry against Christians.

I guess that’s an example of the “progressivism” of the left nowadays.

• Yet there is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success, and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy. - President George W. Bush

 

[Michael_Francis]

Duplicate threads merged and moved here.

 

[WanderAimlessly]

juno24:

I can’t open the link (my antivirus tells me there is a trojan plus loads of adware attached to it), so could you post some of what NBC is saying?

I think that was the site that almost completely trashed my computer.

PF

 

[juno24]

CindyGia:

Ok, here you go…there are “comments” attached at the bottom of the article…

Thanks, CindyGIA. I, too, find it hard to believe they had a big-name guest star lined up, an air date set, and no script.
At least maybe now Hollywood will begin to realize just how much of their audience has stopped tolerating such offensive content and will stop writing to the lowest common denominator. We can hope…

 

[juno24]

WanderAimlessly:

I think that was the site that almost completely trashed my computer.

PF

I love my antivirus software (Avast4home)-- it catches EVERYTHING!

 

[Edwin1961]

NBC withdrawing their ‘silly joke’ is a joke to begin with. If they want us to believe it was not intentional to air this program, then they are the ones with egg on their face.

I get the impression that this is NBC’s plan to test the waters about an upcoming episode by leaking ‘the intention’ of what it was about.

I believe NBC is scrambling to make news since their rating haven’t been the greatest lately. (Well their programing and their programing choices proves this).

And about ‘not having the episode even written yet’, maybe NBC wanted to air the show Live to save on production and filming time.

Overall, NBC is scraping the bottom of the barrel and just finding that their fingers are hurting from all that scraping.

 

[WanderAimlessly]

Edwin1961:

NBC withdrawing their ‘silly joke’ is a joke to begin with. If they want us to believe it was not intentional to air this program, then they are the ones with egg on their face.

I get the impression that this is NBC’s plan to test the waters about an upcoming episode by leaking ‘the intention’ of what it was about.

I believe NBC is scrambling to make news since their rating haven’t been the greatest lately. (Well their programing and their programing choices proves this).

And about ‘not having the episode even written yet’, maybe NBC wanted to air the show Live to save on production and filming time.

Overall, NBC is scraping the bottom of the barrel and just finding that their fingers are hurting from all that scraping.

Either that or they were baiting us into making a fuss just to justify programming at a later date. With the spin they are putting on it, they can now say that we always overreact to rumors.

PF