NBC's Studio 60 Lost a Viewer Last Night

Another mission accomplished by Hollywood's condescending elites; the shameful and untruthful stereotyping of Christian Americans.

Having heard the rave reviews and the buzz on the street, I decided to invest an hour of my precious leisure time to sit down and watch the premiere of NBC's Studio 60 featuring an all star cast of some of television's brightest and talented actors.
It started out fast and polished. Right out of the box, a cynical and burned out producer (played by Judd Hirsch) of a Saturday Night Live-esque type show interrupted a live skit with an unscripted tear about how bad television writing and comedic creativity had become.

Not bad so far, I thought. Then it turned a bit unpleasant.

Studio 60's own writers drive their point home by concluding the producer's rant with this gratuitous little gem: "The two things that make them scared gutless are the FCC and every psycho religious cult that gets positively horny at the very mention of a boycott."

My friends, as uncomfortable as that statement was, I decide to take it with a grain of salt and continue to see how the drama would unfold.

The story fast-forwards into a full-blown meltdown and the newly hired executive (played by Amanda Peet) is forced to move quickly to save the show. So how does she resolve the situation? She convinces the network boss to re-hire the two biggest talents in television that he himself was forced to fire back when Studio 60 was enjoying unprecedented success. He is ultimately convinced the duo (played by Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford), although irreverent and high maintenance, can indeed infuse the show with credibility and much needed "class".

After the two accept the offer to save the show after an initial reluctance, we then find out Perry's character has broken up with his girlfriend because she had the audacity to sing spiritual hymns on "The 700 Club." Worse yet, Perry's character tells the girlfriend his main problem with her is "You put on a dress and sang for a bigot" (the producers of Studio 60 don't hide who they are referring to; Pat Robertson is mentioned by name later in the show). When she replies that she went on the show because of the faith embraced by the audience of the show inspires her, he snaps back "Throw in the Halloween costumes and you got yourself a Klan rally."


The girlfriend then expresses regret, and states if she could do it all over again she would not have gone on the show. Predictably, by the end of the show, Amanda Peet's character showers Matthew Perry's character with adulation for his brilliance in writing next week's opening skit "Crazy Christians".

Turns out all the rave about clever and ground-breaking writing was your typical Hollywood clichéd anti-Christian screed - a continuum of cheap shots taken at the expense of honest and decent Americans who pray, work and teach their children there is a Creator who gives meaning and purpose to life.

As a Christian, I refuse to be spit on; smugly told by a crass writer with an obvious agenda that folks from the 700 club are a costume short of a Klan rally. It's despicable. NBC executives and the producers of Studio 60 should be ashamed for trying to pass off hatred and contemptible anti-Christian garbage as "creative genius".

Daniel Garza is President of Hispanic and PODER Group

Chavez denies reported U.S. allegations of Islamic terrorist activity in Venezuela - Americas - International Herald Tribune

Chavez denies reported U.S. allegations of Islamic terrorist activity in Venezuela - Americas - International Herald Tribune: "
CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday denied accusations attributed to a U.S. military officer that a popular tourist destination off Venezuela's coast has become a refuge for Islamic terrorists.

Chavez referred in a televised speech to a recent article in the Colombian magazine Revista Poder, which quoted Gen. Bantz J. Craddock of the U.S. Southern Command as saying there were indications of 'extremist contacts' on Margarita Island, a popular beach getaway northeast of Caracas.

Chavez denied such terrorist activity and called the comments part of a U.S. plan 'to justify any type of aggression against our country.'

Calling Craddock an 'imperialist general,' Chavez said, 'it's a lie that in Margarita there are Arab terrorists and that Margarita and Venezuela are a nest of Arab terrorism.'

Craddock, like other Washington officials, has previously referred to Chavez's government as a 'destabilizing' force in the region and criticized Venezuela's recent arms purchases.

Chavez, a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and sharp U.S. critic, accuses Washington of harboring plans to undermine his government, which U.S. officials deny.

CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday denied accusations attributed to a U.S. military officer that a popular tourist destination off Venezuela's coast has become a refuge for Islamic terrorists.

Chavez referred in a televised speech to a recent article in the Colombian magazine Revista Poder, which quoted Gen. Bantz J. Craddock of the U.S. Southern Command as saying there were indications of 'extremist contacts' on Margarita Island, a popular"