Let the Hypocrisy Begin!

As expected, Mel Gibson's production company has begun shopping around The Passion of the Christ to the broadcast TV networks. Many people, self included, are wondering how exactly that would work. In the post-Super Bowl tit incident world, how on Earth could the FCC justify allowing one of the broadcast networks to show a film that is so violent even it's creator says to keep the kids away? Right wingers are already out in force, claiming that the flick "may be violent, but it is also one of the most beautiful, powerful and instructive movies ever made," in the words of Brent Bozell of the Parents Television Council. So, in other words, anything is OK as long as it promotes Christian dogma.

The power and instructive nature of the film doesn't enter into it, folks. Unless, of course, the right is willing to call off the FCC and allow people do decide for themselves what is too violent or sexual or whatever to watch on TV. What a concept!