Kellogg's Take A Stand For Free Speech

I don't often get the chance, or the time, to watch Jon Stewart's The Daily Show--I get most of my Daily Show  from stories online--so I missed this one, but Catholic League president Bill Donohue didn't, and he is enraged. 
Sidenote: he never seems enraged about priests raping children, though.

I digress. 
Apparently on the April 16th episode of  The Daily Show there was something called a "vagina manger", a picture of a, seemingly, naked woman with her legs spread with a nativity scene ornament in between.

Donohue went berserk and began threatening boycotts and marches against any and all sponsors of The Daily Show because of their wholly inappropriate use of that picture and blibetty blah blay blue STFU.

And then Donohue was pleased to announce that Delta Airlines had caved and condemned the show for using the picture, but Donohue says he is still waiting :::tick tick tick::: for others to respond in kind.

And he hopes they don't respond like Kellogg's, who issued this statement to Donohue and the Catholic League's demands they pull their ads from The Daily Show:

“We understand that our customers come from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, lifestyles, and cultures and we respect their individual decisions to choose the television programs that they deem acceptable for themselves and their families. Consumers speak most loudly when they vote with their remote control and change the channel or turn off the TV if a program does not fit their personal criteria.”

Suh-nap.

Donohue writes that "Kellogg’s is telling Christians to shove it" when, in fact, they are simply saying, if you don't like something you see on TV, change the effing channel, and let the people who find The Daily Show humorous continue to watch it....as we are allowed to do.

If you wish to thank Kellogg's for standing up to Bill Donohue's Catholic League--and again, where's his outrage over priests raping boys--you can do so by:

Calling their Corporate and Media Affairs office at (269) 961-3799

Write to the President and CEO, 

John Bryant 

One Kellogg Square 

Battle Creek, MI 49012. 

E-mail Natalie Fairbanks:Natalie.Fairbanks@kellogg.com

Or, even better, head on out to your local grocery and buy a big box of cereal.

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It would be funny........if it wasn't ::::sigh:::: true.

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Thanks Jon

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Thanks John

Well said, as always.

Listen closely, especially at around 3:55.

Good, strong, valid point.

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Stewart v Vermont

I often wonder about the struggle for gay rights. Actually, I hate the term gay rights; howsabout calling it gay equality, because that's really what it's about. Equality. We have all these folks, including myself, blustering and filibustering on both sides of the issue. It's right. It's immoral. It's fair. It's a perversion. Sometimes it takes a clown, or in this instance, a comedian, to take the whole idea of equality and turn it into a punchline. Albeit a punchline filled with common sense and understanding.

Jon Stewart performed at the University of Vermont last weekend. That's right, Vermont, in the midst of its own war for and against gay equality. Still, with a sharp tongue and a punchline, Jon Stewart was able to make sense of it all, and maybe that's a good thing. Get the people to laugh, and maybe, just maybe, they'll start to think....and rethink.

"I can understand being against gay marriage — if they decided to make it mandatory. This isn’t a cultural divide: They’re wrong.”

Stewart even tackled the so-called gay agenda, a term that most anti-gay groups like to use as nauseum.

"Here’s the gay agenda: [t]hey’d like to get married ... and fight in the military and march in the St. Patrick’s Day parade.”

And, of course, he could not let those who use the Bible to vote against equality off the hook so easily. To those folks who use the Book of Leviticus in their arguments, Stewart suggests that we should begin to adhere to the book’s taboo on eating shellfish.

“Why aren’t we shutting down the Red Lobsters?”

But seriously folks, in his standup routine, in which he took aim at a variety of topics, not just gay equality, Stewart was able to get people thinking. Make them laugh at the joke, and then they might think about the joke, and how, really, it isn't so funny after all, because, in the end, all we really want to do is get married, serve in the military and march in a St Patrick's Day parade.

Is that too much to ask?

from the Burlington Free Press

Gotta Love Jon Stewart

I love it that Stewart asked Huckabee when he chose NOT to be gay and Huckabee skips over that one. See, Mike, if I can choose gay, then you can choose straight. So when did you do that?

I loved it when Stewart said he'd take a loving gay couple raising a child over Britney and K-Fed any day. Children need nurturing, love, support, and education, that they can get from a gay couple, a straight couple, or a single parent, who has to work twice as hard. You are not a better parent because you're in a straight marriage, Mike. You're a better parent because you love your kids, you take care of your kids, you educate your kids, you protect your kids.

I also love it when Huckabee mutters that old chestnut about marriage being the same for over 5,000 years. Not. Stewart lists all the changes that have been made to marriage, and all Huckabee can come up with is that no one really wants polygamy. Polygamy, Mike? That's the only thing you heard from Stewart's list?

I love it when he talks about one-man/one-woman raising the next generation, or 'replacements' as he calls children. Does he feel that couples who choose not to have children, or cannot for one reason or another not reproduce, are somehow less than "The Replacement Makers"?

You listen to these two talk and it's so clear that the comedian, the funny guy, the jokester, has so much more common sense than the Bible-thumping politico, who is probably preparing for his next run at the White House.

Really Mike? Word games?

cue the theme from Deliverance.