{"id":5126,"date":"2010-05-06T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2010-05-06T12:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T16:09:21","slug":"comedy-central-returns-to-its-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5126\/comedy-central-returns-to-its-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy Central Returns to Its Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to celebrate the Iranian President\u2019s visit to America than for Comedy Central to announce plans to develop a <a href=\"http:\/\/livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com\/2010\/05\/comedy-central-developing-jesus-christ-cartoon-series.html \" target=\"_blank\">half-hour show about Jesus Christ<\/a> \u201cwanting to escape the shadow of his \u2018powerful but apathetic father\u2019 and live a regular life in New York City\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>As CFIF Senior Fellow Troy Senik <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/591-the-long-silent-surrender-to-radical-islam\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out last week<\/a>, this is the same network that heavily censored a \u201cSouth Park\u201d episode lampooning the Prophet Mohammed for fear of offending radical jihadists.\u00a0 When asked whether there was a double standard in making fun of the founder of Christianity, the network\u2019s head of original programming says, \u201cIn general, comedy in purist form always makes some people uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good to see Comedy Central getting back to its roots: attacking the pillars of Western civilization while making a buck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to celebrate the Iranian President\u2019s visit to America than for Comedy Central to announce plans to develop a half-hour show about Jesus Christ \u201cwanting to escape the shadow of his \u2018powerful but apathetic father\u2019 and live a regular life in New York City\u201d? As CFIF Senior Fellow Troy Senik pointed out last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1232,130,1233],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-comedy-central","tag-iran","tag-south-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}