I'm serious. What about creating our own family values group, with the goal of kicking off TV any sport that broadcasts fights live. This would include hockey, basketball, football and baseball, among others. We could start with the NBA's little scuffle the other night. Clearly this kind of real and real-time violence is not the kind of thing innocent basketball viewers should be seeing on their television. And it's not like the NBA and other sports leagues can claim they didn't expect the fight. Come on. Is this the first fight to break out in sports? I think no.
The NBA could have had a 10 second delay with orders NEVER to broadcast a fight. They didn't. Instead they chose to broadcast a real fight to unsuspecting Christian children across America (forget about those Jewish kids, I understand their children drink our blood).
So, my not so modest proposal is for us to take on every complaint we can find and make the FCC investigate it. Perhaps overwhelming the FCC with complaints, and threatening the Red States' own TV shows, will finally bring this religious jihad home for millions of Americans.
In spite of the modest proposal reference, I'm quite serious. Let's do this.
ACTION
So here's what we do.
1. Check your local listings and find out what channel and time the Pacers vs. Pistons game played in your area last Friday night, November 19, and also find out the call sign of station (i.e., WNBC) or whatever).
2. Use this Web form, or send an email to request that the Federal Communications Commission levy sanctions against the NBA and your local station for broadcasting inappropriate subject matter on nationwide television.
A sample letter:
Dear Chairman Powell:
I wish to file a complaint against the NBA and my local TV affiliate that broadcast last the Friday November 19, 2004 Pacers vs. Pistons basketball game on live TV.
I wish to stress to you in the most severe terms, my incredible outrage at this kind of broadcast that incites the more unstable in society to use violence as an option in settling disputes. This incident is FAR more dangerous to society than a bare breast at the super bowel and deserves even more attention than that given Janet Jackson. Lives ARE lost due to violence, and the NBA and my local affiliate should not be broadcasting LIVE violence on television, especially when it is fully aware of the propensity for fights to break out during its games. Why no ten second delay? Why no standard orders to the cameramen to NOT film fights when they happen? No, the NBA and my local affiliate wantonly broadcast real violence real-time on my TV in order to titillate its viewers. That is obscene and unChristian.
I hereby request your office to conduct an investigation and to levy appropriate fines against the NBA and the Television stations that broadcast this incitement to violence. Please advise me of your intentions regarding this complaint.
Sincerely,
