Flag burning, gay marriage, pay raise (for Congress only), all vital topics of national security that have been taken up recently.
What might be the next one? A FRICKIN PG MOVIE!!!
At least, that's what Roy Blunt and Marsha Blackburn are pissed off about right now and, according to CNN, apparently all of Congress given the headline "Christian film's PG rating troubles Congress"
House Majority Whip Roy Blunt and other lawmakers are demanding explanations after hearing complaints that the movie "Facing the Giants" was rated PG instead of G due to religious content.
Never mind that the religious part was a result of a miscommunication with the people who actually made the film.
CNN has the
story.
Roy Blunt's obtuseness and outrageous prudishness can be found in this quote:
"This incident raises the disquieting possibility that the MPAA considers exposure to Christian themes more dangerous for children than exposure to gratuitous sex and violence," Blunt said in a letter to MPAA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dan Glickman.
Yes. He wrote this in response to a
PG rating. OH NO!!! PG = sex and violence!!!
Even more ridiculous...he's complaining about a movie that was rated up one notch from the tamest type of movie you'll ever see to something that you'd find on Nickelodeon when his continuing point for being upset is that he feels too much is being let slide into lower ratings!
Blunt also brought up a recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health that found that the MPAA standards on sex and violence in movies have been getting weaker.
"Mr. Blunt does continue to have questions about the process by which 'Facing the Giants' was rated and what that says about ratings creep in general," spokeswoman Burson Taylor said Friday.
You might be asking why I think this will be taken up by the House? Marsha Blackburn's quote in the article.
"I'm not satisfied," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who attended the meeting with Blunt. "We probably will want to revisit this ratings process to have some commonality in the standards that exist for movies, videos and video games."
Because, as with Janet Jackson, the nation's most pressing issue is minimum wage, the national debt, solving our problems in Iraq, rebuilding New Orleans, global warming, Iran, North Korea, rebuilding our shattered image, torture, reliance on foreign oil, usurption of Congressional powers by the Executive, destruction of the Judiciary, illegal spying on Americans the possibility of an exposed female nipple!
Well, to Mr. Blunt, Ms. Blackburn, and all the other censoring prudes in the U.S. Congress...you should go rent a classic movie starring Peter O'Toole (you enjoyed him in Lawrence of Arabia) and Helen Mirren (you didn't enjoy her in Calendar Girls) called Caligula. I think you'll find that you'll learn quite a bit about what it was to be Roman, and to enjoy the favor of a Roman Emperor. I don't want to give too much away, but I hear the movie is pretty much a big, extravagant party (wink wink)!