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Posted by mw on 03/12/06 16:11
"Bernie Woodham" <birnhamwood@insightbb.com> wrote in message news:RNPQf.20809$oL.15401@attbi_s71...
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> "unclejr" <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote in message
> news:1142118102.693187.34320@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> Sigh...
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>> <http://www.laughingplace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=1073>
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>> -Junior
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> Here is the full question/answer quote as posted on www.songofthesouth.net:
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> "My name is Howard Cromer. I live in Cypress, I'm a Disney shareholder. I'm
> actually delivering a message from my son, 10. He wants to know in recent
> years, in the midst of all your re-releases of your videos, why you haven't
> released Song of the South on your Disney Classics?" [Applause] "And, he
> wonders why. Frank Wells told me many years ago that it would be coming out.
> Well obviously Frank Wells isn't around anymore, so we still wonder why. And
> by the way, Mr. Iger, he thinks it was a very good choice when they made you
> CEO of Disney." [Applause]
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> Iger: "Thank you very much. You may change your mind when I answer your
> question, though. Um... we've discussed this a lot. We believe it's actually
> an opportunity from a financial perspective to put Song of the South out. I
> screened it fairly recently because I hadn't seen it since I was a child,
> and I have to tell you after I watched it, even considering the context that
> it was made, I had some concerns about it because of what it depicted. And
> thought it's quite possible that people wouldn't consider it in the context
> that it was made, and there were some... [long pause] depictions that I
> mentioned earlier in the film that I think would be bothersome to a lot of
> people. And so, owing to the sensitivity that exists in our culture,
> balancing it with the desire to, uh, maybe increase our earnings a bit, but
> never putting that in front of what we thought were our ethics and our
> integrity, we made the decision not to re-release it. Not a decision that is
> made forever, I imagine this is gonna continue to come up, but for now we
> simply don't have plans to bring it back because of the sensitivities that I
> mentioned. Sorry."
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It is called "political correctness" and it is the far left's answer to censorship. It has done more damage to our culture and to this nation than Sen. McCarthy did back in the day. Oh no, we can't handle SOUNG OF THE SOUTH, but Black Entertainment Television can air the tv show LIL KIM: COUNTDOWN TO LOCKDOWN, and the hip-hop communtiy can continue to pimpify our culture. But SONG OF THE SOUTH? No way!
Thank God, we were able to get KING KONG out on a special ed. DVD before the wiser heads at Turner had a chance to cut out all the scenes of the Skull Island natives.
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