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MORE FUN WITH DOBSON'S SPAMMERS
January 27, 2005 - 11:51pmET - PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA
H.L. MENKIN’s biographers always note that the great cynic used to enjoy jousting with the religious extremists of his day. But he usually had to type up a letter and waste a stamp on them.
While making no undue comparisons, I should note the ease with which I can do the same: a quick hit of the reply button, and they seem largely confounded that anybody has disagreed with them or that their leader, Dr. James Dobson, might have made a fool of himself.
This, if you haven’t read previous entries, is about the SpongeBob video controversy.
Dobson, of a group called “Focus On The Family,” told a largely congressional audience of his complaint about a video and accompanying teaching materials sent to 6,000 elementary schools by referring to its distributors as a “pro-homosexual” group. Dobson invoked SpongeBob SquarePants as the centerpiece of the video, raising the specter of the laughably infamous “Tinky-Winky” controversy of the ‘90s.
Before we first did the story on "Countdown," we contacted his group and asked for a comment and a clarification of the implication that SpongeBob was being used as part of a “pro-homosexual” effort. Dobson’s spokesperson made no effort to alter the impression, and made no complaint about our story as we outlined it to him.
Then, of course, the Krabby Patties hit the fan. . .
(More - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/ )