Saving Private Ryan.... Remember when some ABC affiliates

[WCGreen]

wouldn't show that movie because it was too traumatic in a time of war....

Remember....

Before the 2004 election...

My local affiliate wouldn't show it....

WEWS-TV in Cleveland....

What's up with ABC...

[BobRossi]

1. Think it was the language.

It was right after "boobgate".

[WCGreen]

2. I thought it was the bloody opening...

And that it would bring home the war in Iraq like nothing else could...

You can bleep language....

[onenote]

7. exactly right -- it was the language

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Were they trying to save us from the horror?

Or were they trying to keep us from thinking of it, and getting angry about the illegal war happening in Iraq?

Makes me wonder.........

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. I believe the latter possibility the more likely.

Watching that beach storming, it's hard. Hard also not to think then of our children in Iraq.

That movie was too real for the masses to see before an election, thinks the corporate elite.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I strongly concur, my dear Opposite Reaction!

Nothing like keeping the masses in the dark.......just like mushrooms...

[lpbk2713]

6. Peggy!

How did you manage to escape from the lounge?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Shhhhh..........

You'll blow my cover!

I do venture out from time to time, to see what my friends are up to in these other forums.......

:silly:

[lpbk2713]

9. I won't tell a soul.

[CarlVK]

10. No, they wuoldn't show it because of the bad words.

Which is extremely lame.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Enjoy yourself in our crazy, addictive little village!