How low will Hollywood go? Even lower. Try mocking God. The Nov. 13 episode of the Fox cartoon "American Dad" featured the show's titular CIA agent's housewife dancing in the streets in Saudi Arabia in a black bra and panties, singing a song and shaking her breasts at the Arab men. "If you wanna drive a car, you better have a penis. So if you've got a vagina, vulva, a clitoris, and a labia ... stay the hell away from Saudi Arabia." With these explicit references to sexual organs, can we get any closer to baiting the FCC's Keystone Kops than a sentence like this?
But wait, it gets worse. When the teenage son Steve pleads for help in the desert, God descends from Heaven "in the form most pleasing" to the boy – voluptuous Angelina Jolie. After God in female form tells him to enjoy being a child, he asks: "Hey, can I see your boobs?" God replies: "All right. But be warned: A single glance at the rack of Infinite Wisdom could drive a man to madness." Steve responds that, "Oh. Now I have to see them." And God flashes him like a "Girls Gone Wild" spring-break video. The boy is blinded in the sacred glow and is transformed, white-haired, like Moses. He offers God's cure to all the problems of the Middle East but gets rejected when he claims God is a woman.
If the U.S. military showed this cartoon to Guantanamo detainees, it would be considered a world-class human rights offense. But since it's just on American television, God is merely another easy mark for envelope-pushing fun and profit.
Appearing on a panel to discuss Kaiser's findings on oversexed TV, Fox boss Tony Vinciquerra still blames parents for letting their children watch the sewage he puts out. Fox has spent "tens of millions of dollars" promoting lockout technology to parents, and "It's a five-minute exercise. It's not difficult and parents do need to take that responsibility." He claimed they debate the propriety of their TV offerings daily.
If that's so, the on-air content suggests that how-low-can-you-go crowd wins every time.
Brent Bozell
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