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13:45 - Correction
http://www.variety.com/VR1117939918.html
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Trey and Matt for Super-Ultra-Mega-President.
"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!"
The duo signed the statement "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu."
This is in response to Comedy Central's backing down from re-airing the "Trapped in the Closet" Scientology episode because Tom Cruise threatened to withhold MI:3 advertising, as detailed in this Variety article, which is the Link of the Day judging by how many people have sent it to me and how many places I've seen it.
Aside from Scientologists, I can't help but wonder if there's a person in the country who doesn't see this whole thing as an unalloyed victory for Trey and Matt. They've come out of this smelling like roses, and their targets/plaintiffs just look pathetic and petty and insane. Not to mention that the episode in question turns out to have more topical than it was originally intended to be. "Trapped in the Closet" was their equivalent of the Jyllands-Posten cartoons—a dare to the fanatics of the world to prove they're mature enough to take a joke... and lo and behold, they're not.
Too bad Comedy Central has taken on the role of the appeasing EU. If we won't stand up to Scientologists, we certainly won't stand up to the Islamists when they come a-knocking.
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Brian Tiemann
