Fear-Driven Sensitivity
Michelle Malkin has a really good column out on the cowardly decision by Comedy Central not to allow South Park to show a cartoon image of Mohammed. It does not present a pretty picture of the network at all. Nor is there any way to really cast this other than as a bad case of fear-driven sensitivity. Which illustrates one important thing. You see, Comedy Central is owned by Viacom which also owns CBS. Now, the folks at CBS had no problem running "news" reports based on blatant forgeries in an attempt to influence the last presidential election. Viacom has no problems running anything that offends Christians, they're proud of themselves about that:
And when Catholics complained recently about an episode mocking the Virgin Mary, Comedy Central proudly stated: "As satirists, we believe that it is our First Amendment right to poke fun at any and all people, groups, organizations and religions and we will continue to defend that right."
Nice words. Completely hollow and meaningless, but gee, they sure sound great, don't they?
