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September 20, 2006

Fox Seeks Christian Cash and Loyalty

"The company that brought TV viewers racy and irreverent programs such as 'Nip/Tuck,' 'Temptation Island' and 'The Simpsons' has found religion." So begins this story about Fox Entertainment's new "FoxFaith" film production and distribution division. Having seen the green from "The Passion of the Christ," they've decided that while they're busy raking it in from the sinners, they might just as well be raking it in from the saints, too.

And how better to wed the Christian world to the right wing than to link Fox to Religion?

Fox might seem an unlikely studio to pioneer a religious label, given its history as a purveyor of salacious TV programming. Yet people in the Christian community say the company has gained credibility as the voice for conservative America through its Fox News Channel.

Just as labeling our irreverent drug-using, heavy-drinking, womanizing President a "born again Christian" automatically turned off the brains of many in America's Christian community, so linking Fox to religion will ensure that the religious right fully, mindlessly accepts whatever clap-trap and propaganda Fox News dishes up. What a shame.

Posted by Becky at September 20, 2006 11:23 AM