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Posted by Derek Janssen on 03/12/06 17:17
mw wrote:
> "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...
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>>>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]
>>
>>
>>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!
Not to mention, it also dates back to the proverbial Disgruntled Employee:
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/article.php?id=1741
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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