Goodbye, Benny Hill

. . . may have to do with the increasing influence of the gay lobby in America (or, as one radio talk show host has referred to them, the "pink hand"), as well as the implications of openly gay executives in positions of power vis-a-vis the culture war that has been declared against Middle America. That's because the head of BBC America, Garth Ancier, is openly gay, as spelled out in an article:
http://www.afterelton.com/archive/elton/people/2007/1/hollywoodmen.html
He is also regarded as a virtual pet of groups like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against "Defamation" (GLAAD - there's a joke for a name, as they have no problem defaming the Boy Scouts, Christian conservatives, normal heterosexuals or anybody who stands up for traditional family values, such as Dr. Laura Schlessinger), and for programming decisions designed to pander to that lobby (when someone says that a TV program is "gay-friendly," they usually mean that it's homocentric - or to but it more bluntly, anti-family). Why else, for example, did the TV series version of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" have an openly lesbian character, other than to please the gay lobby? (In a related matter, one of the shows Ancier put on BBC America to replace Mr. Hill reportedly had a bisexual character - in short, it's all gay, gay, gay for Ancier and his ilk.)

And why do I bring up the gay lobby in regard to the issue of Benny Hill? Because they, like the lesbian feminists who in Britain carried out a smear job against Hill in the '80's and used loaded, highly charged code words, all to sway public opinion against the comedian in his own country, loathe the show to the "nth" degree and believe that therefore, you the public have no right to see it. While Hill did lose his way big time in the early 1980's, turning huge chunks of each of his shows into a de facto "Playboy" magazine of the air with a disproportionate emphasis on T&A (and staged in a rather prurient manner) - as opposed to his earlier works which spotlighted his penchant for satire, TV and film parodies, his impersonations and his slice-of-life poems - this cabal believes that early '80's period completely nullifies and cancels out his entire career and doing to his show, his name and his reputation what had been done to political dissidents in the ex-Soviet Union.

I quote this from a message board from somebody who visited London:

"I can tell you that the few friends I hung out with in London earlier this year, most of which despised Benny Hill, were also mostly gay men. In that case, if you're a gay man or perhaps a lesbian woman, I can understand why you wouldn't like Benny Hill. His humor was very more geared towards the heterosexual members of the audience, while he very often poked fun at gay men(or poofs). Likewise his shows were 97% girl watching or girl grabbing or girl fondling, groping, the list goes on. So for most hetero's he was funny as hell, but for gay folks he's not only unfunny, he's offensive, insulting, etc."

In short, the gay lobby objects to anything pertaining to heterosexual behavior and heterosexual mores, or which presents such behavior in a positive manner. And the feminists' agenda is anti-male at its core, as witness (in more recent examples) the witch-hunt against the Duke lacrosse players last year, or their use of Alec Baldwin's phone message to his daughter to further drive fathers out of the lives of their children.

I quote this from a message board from somebody who visited London:

"I can tell you that the few friends I hung out with in London earlier this year, most of which despised Benny Hill, were also mostly gay men. In that case, if you're a gay man or perhaps a lesbian woman, I can understand why you wouldn't like Benny Hill. His humor was very more geared towards the heterosexual members of the audience, while he very often poked fun at gay men(or poofs). Likewise his shows were 97% girl watching or girl grabbing or girl fondling, groping, the list goes on. So for most hetero's he was funny as hell, but for gay folks he's not only unfunny, he's offensive, insulting, etc."

In short, the gay lobby objects to anything pertaining to heterosexual behavior and heterosexual mores, or which presents such behavior in a positive manner. And the feminists' agenda is anti-male at its core, as witness (in more recent examples) the witch-hunt against the Duke lacrosse players last year, or their use of Alec Baldwin's phone message to his daughter to further drive fathers out of the lives of their children.

(and sorry for the duplicate post) . . .

And it is instructive that Ancier's staff couldn't care less about the popularity of Hill's show, they were going to take it off anyway. And by this "reflecting contemporary Britain" - what does that mean, anyway? Men who are feminized, homosexualized, "de-balled" wimps, and women who are bossy, domineering, Hillary Clinton / Nancy Pelosi / Dianne Feinstein / Barbara Boxer clones who look like post-op transvestites and seek to "get it over" on the men? But again, the P.C. elites in Britain are likewise working to remove former British prime minister Winston Churchill from the curriculum. Which brings to mind the words from George Orwell's "1984," about forcibly cutting off the people's ties to the past.

B.T.W., it's also instructive that the same people who find Hill "unforgivably offensive" have no quarrels with shows like "Monty Python's Flying Circus" which premiered the same year Hill moved to Thames Television, in 1969 - as they were far more aggressive in "pushing the envelope," got into numerous "censorship" battles with the BBC, and overall set out to step on people's toes. When I pointed out that "Python" was deemed "increasingly offensive" by certain groups in the early 1970's, to the hate-Benny crowd during a visit of my own to London many years ago, they responded, "Well, they meant to offend" - as if that let them off the hook as opposed to Benny. In short, hypocritical double-standards, along with everything else.

(sorry if some of these are posted twice)

And it is instructive that Ancier's staff couldn't care less about the popularity of Hill's show, they were going to take it off anyway. And by this "reflecting contemporary Britain" - what does that mean, anyway? Men who are feminized, homosexualized, "de-balled" wimps, and women who are bossy, domineering, Hillary Clinton / Nancy Pelosi / Dianne Feinstein / Barbara Boxer clones who look like post-op transvestites and seek to "get it over" on the men? But again, the P.C. elites in Britain are likewise working to remove former British prime minister Winston Churchill from the curriculum. Which brings to mind the words from George Orwell's "1984," about forcibly cutting off the people's ties to the past.

B.T.W., it's also instructive that the same people who find Hill "unforgivably offensive" have no quarrels with shows like "Monty Python's Flying Circus" which premiered the same year Hill moved to Thames Television, in 1969 - as they were far more aggressive in "pushing the envelope," got into numerous "censorship" battles with the BBC, and overall set out to step on people's toes. When I pointed out that "Python" was deemed "increasingly offensive" by certain groups in the early 1970's, to the hate-Benny crowd during a visit of my own to London many years ago, they responded, "Well, they meant to offend" - as if that let them off the hook as opposed to Benny. In short, hypocritical double-standards, along with everything else.