Chavez Bans Simpsons from Venezuelan TV

[Toro]

It just gets more surreal every day in Venezuela

Luxurious chest hair and little red trunks versus doughnuts and “D’oh!”. In the battle of the US television heavyweights, The Hoff has vanquished Homer.

Or at least in Venezuela, where The Simpsons has been ordered from television schedules by President Hugo Chavez after being deemed unsuitable for children. Controversial enough, but in an even more curious move its 11am timeslot has been handed to Baywatch, the show that launched a thousand adolescent dreams.

David Hasselhoff and his aerodynamic life-saving cohorts began their slow-motion jog across the nation’s screens on Friday morning, after a ruling that The Simpsons was in danger of breaching the Law of Social Responsibility in Radio and Television.

The National Telecommunications Commission said the show pushed “messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents”. So far the regulatory agency, which reports to the government, has failed to explain why the cartoon family from Springfield poses more of a threat to the minds of Venezuelan children than a lifeguard falling out of her swimsuit.

“It had to be taken off,” said Elba Guillen, a spokeswoman for Televen TV station (referring to The Simpsons). “The government considers it to be a series that isn’t appropriate for that time because it isn’t appropriate for children.”

The channel insists it received no complaints about the show, which has been portraying the lives of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie since 1989.

Perez Nahim, the manager of Televen, said: “We are hoping it will continue to have a good rating, because The Simpsons worked very well - so much so that it had the highest levels of viewership for that morning timetable in the history of the channel."

The Simpsons notched up its 19th series this year, and there have been more episodes of the Matt Groening show than any other animated series in American history. But Baywatch, the programme that launched Pamela Anderson, has an impressive global pedigree of its own. The Guinness Book of Records claims it is the most watched TV series in the world, with over 1.1 billion viewers

The show was rebranded as Baywatch Hawaii for its 11th and 12th series after Mitch Buchannan, played by Hasselhoff, moved to the Pacific Island.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3705251.ece

 

[Logic 7]

Chavez bans simpson from venezuelan tv, when in usa they....


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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network.

Discovery Channel Drops Plans To Air ‘Taxi To The Dark Side’ Because It Is Too ‘Controversial’»

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Patriot act..........



Wiretapping.........



and you think, it is surreall in venezuela.:roll:

 

[DurkaDurka]

Man, I missed you Logic 7. No one but you can turn a thread about "the simpsons being banned", into the patriot act, wiretapping etc.

 

[Logic 7]

Man, I missed you Logic 7. No one but you can turn a thread about "the simpsons being banned", into the patriot act, wiretapping etc.

Well, you cant argue that is a fact, why toro seems offended by the banning of the simpson in venezuela??, but not with patriot act, wiretapping ,documentary being banned on a daily basis,etcc in his own country?

 

[lone wolf]

Hmm.... 24 hours a day of Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best and Debbie Reynolds.... The idealists' dream: No jiggletitz or dysfunction.

Woof!

 

[#juan]

The Simpsons?

I don't know why that monument to bad taste was allowed in this country. There is hope for Chavez yet.

 

[I think not]

Chavez needs to broadcast some Canadian Content, it may fair better and actually hit the top 20 in Venezuela as opposed to Canada.

 

[lone wolf]

Beachcombers re-runs? Cool!

Woof!

 

[karrie]

Corner Gas? Perfect!

 

[Colpy]

Chavez is a joke.

Too bad he is not funny.

 

[darkbeaver]

Chavez is a joke.

Too bad he is not funny.

This from a staunch McCain supporting imperialist who has no discernable sense of humour.
This planet ain't big enough for both of us Colpy, and I ain't moving. Dawn parking lot behind Sobeys and bring two seconds so I don't have to carry you away.:lol:

 

[Lester]

Man, I missed you Logic 7. No one but you can turn a thread about "the simpsons being banned", into the patriot act, wiretapping etc.

My Neice is an emergency nurse she should get a good chuckle from this :lol:

 

[Logic 7]

The CIA established a secret military training camp for the Dalai Lama's resistance fighters at Camp Hale near Leadville, Colorado, in the US. The Tibetan guerrillas were trained and equipped by the CIA for guerrilla warfare and sabotage operations against the communist Chinese.

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[Colpy]

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Yet again, Global Research amazes!

 

[Zzarchov]

Ok, 1.) thats from Global Research, not a Credible Source to being with
2.) Its nothing but conspiracy theories and opinions stated as fact, notice no sourcing?

Learn some critical thinking skills, that whole article was specifically debunked here:

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[Scott Free]

Isn't the Simpsons the only show on television with a realistic portrayal of the American family?

Married with children is probably a close second but really, how could a shoe salesman afford such a large house?

 

[Zzarchov]

Well duh, a Sub-Prime Mortgage

 

[Just the Facts]

Considering that The Simpsons is a cartoon intended for adult audiences, it's not too suprising that it was found to be unsuitable for children.

 

[Scott Free]

Well duh, a Sub-Prime Mortgage

:lol:

 

[Logic 7]

Yet again, Global Research amazes!

You are not even smart enough to do your own search, before saying stupidity ,like each time you open your month.

World News Briefs; Dalai Lama Group Says It Got Money From C.I.A.

Published: October 2, 1998

The Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged today that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960's from the Central Intelligence Agency, but denied reports that the Tibetan leader benefited personally from an annual subsidy of $180,000.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFD61538F931A35753C1A96E958260

Western Government secret intervention into Tibet began before the 1959 CIA supported insurrection. British MI6 agent Sidney Wignall, in his recent autobiography, , reveals that he travelled to Tibet with John Harrop in 1955 posing as mountaineers. Captured by the Chinese authority, Wignell recalled that he was surprised to find two CIA agents were already under Chinese detention. Tibetan exiles trained in a CIA camp in Colorado clashed with Chinese forces in 1959 during the celebration of the Tibetan New Year, after which the 14th Dalai Lama, with CIA help, went into political exile in India. After 1959, the CIA trained Tibetan guerrillas and provided funds and weapons for the fight against China. However, the effort stopped when Richard Nixon decided to seek rapprochement with China in the early 1970s. Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, in The CIA's Secret War in Tibet , reveal how the CIA encouraged Tibet's revolt against China - and eventually came to control its fledgling resistance movement. The New York Times reported on October 2, 1998 that the Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the CIA, but denied reports that the Tibetan leader benefited personally from an annual subsidy of $180,000. The money allocated for the resistance movement was spent on training volunteers and paying for guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the Tibetan government-in-exile said

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region#cite_note-6