FCC’s Powell disappointed in ‘MNF’ – Nov 17, 2004: “‘I wonder if Walt Disney would be proud'”

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Well lets just list some other things that ol’ Walt should be proud of:

Wife Swap
The Bachelor
Extreme Makeover
and holy shit the George Lopez Show.

Now lets talk about Mirimax…

On second thought, lets not. Face it, Powell, Walt is long gone and Disney knows it. Did Walt want Congress to keep extending copyright protections for dear Mickey? How is that fair to the rest of the country that has their copyrights expire? Or the plan to sell “disposable” DVD’s? (coming soon to a landfill near you). Certainly Walt approves of the various suppliers that Disney contracts with in order to make a huge profit on it’s clothing and toys!

Even Monday Night Football is hardly “family” entertainment if you know anything about the personal lives of the players and coaches.

No, Walt has not been a concern of Disney in a long time.

Our country is in a place where a precision protest by a minute number of people is enough to create huge waves that result in fines and changes. Have we always been so thin skinned? Have we always believed in our “right” to not see or hear something that we don’t agree with? And did the founding fathers foresee Nicolette Sheridan’s (rather pretty) backside when they came up with all that ‘freedom of speech’ rhetoric?

(okay, try and count how many times you hear the “what would Walt think” line in the media the next few days, without any kind of context)