TV Guide Fails to Redeem Itself
Spongebob is F. U. N.
You may or may not have read some of the articles claiming that Dr. James Dobson (of Focus on the Family) said that SpongeBob SquarePants was a gay character. Dobson never said anything of the sort, of course. As if the usual media slander wasn't enough, even TV Guide jumped in on the game and attacked Dobson. Not only was he jeered in the Cheers & Jeers section, but the listing stands out, thanks to a large picture of SpongeBob punctuating the entry.
I posted quite a bit about this in a post back in February. You can read all my thoughts about the issue.
Based on references in the Letters section, letters pointing to TV Guide articles and comments lag behind a few weeks. The week that referenced that particular issue of TV Guide has long sinced passed, and no letters or comments regarding their mistake were published in any form. (Just in case they were published and I missed them, I would like to point something out. Each week, I generally browse through all of the color pages at the front. If, by chance, something was published outside of these pages, it's my opinion that they weren't published at all.)
Since my letter to TV Guide was not published, I would like to publish it here. Trust me when I tell you that my original letter was much longer, but based on lengths of letters printed in TV Guide, I shortened it up so it would be friendly to the format.
Jeers to your uninformed jeer of Dr. Dobson. His qualm was not with the video of almost 100 popular cartoon characters (including SpongeBob) dancing to "We Are Family." Dobson said that the video is harmless on its own. He was alerting parents to this video's misuse of these cartoon characters to promote a homosexual agenda to children.
One must wonder if my letter was just drowned out by the (likely) thousands of other letters TV Guide gets on a regular basis. I assume that the editors of Letters tries to get a representative sample, and only a handful of TV Guide readers bothered to write in regarding this blatant untruth. Or, perhaps TV Guide is simply unwilling to admit that they took an embarassing walk down Dan Rather Lane.
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April 5th, 2005 at 05:37
So the jeer they gave him wasn't for being anti-gay and encouraging homophobic violence? The organization putting out the video is promoting tolerance and fighting against homophobic violence.
April 5th, 2005 at 08:43
Feel free to read the original jeer in my original post, linked near the beginning of this article.
I've never heard of Dobson encouraging homophobic violence, and though Dobson may be anti-gay, he's not anti-gay-people. The organization's material was less about fighting against homophobic violence, and more about homosexual acceptance. Though you may not see it, there's a difference.