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[AfterLife]

I am a new poster here at Political Crossfire, but not new to political forums. I visited here years ago and read for a few weeks before leaving to participate in another forum that also has quite a lot of activity.

One of the reasons for not staying was that I thought the moderators here at the time were a tad too biased for my tastes. Another reason was that certain posters depended too much upon copying and pasting complete articles as their entire argument or the use of multiple graphics and images as “talking points”.

Recently a friend on that “other” forum gave me a link to a thread here that we had discussed previously there and thought I might enjoy seeing the responses here.

The question came up then…

How many posters here participate in other Political Forums?

There is no need to name the forums or post links, which would be in bad form, but I am interested in answers.

I do notice some telling similarities between certain posters here and those at my political forum of choice, so I guess my curiosity was piqued.

[Free Thinkr]

I do. I know Robodoon does, because he posts at the same forum I do.

[thefranzkafkafront]

Im yet to see any other forums as active as this, and frankly i can't be bothered with inactive forums.


I like Phpbb as well.

[grim]

AfterLife wrote: One of the reasons for not staying was that I thought the moderators here at the time were a tad too biased for my tastes. Another reason was that certain posters depended too much upon copying and pasting complete articles as their entire argument or the use of multiple graphics and images as “talking points”.


Talking points? You're that Cruise scientologist fella aren't you?


Quote: Tom Cruise vs. 'South Park'?
Parker and Stone: 'Million-year war for Earth has just begun'

Tuesday, March 21, 2006




LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Actor Tom Cruise threatened to boycott promotion of his upcoming Paramount Pictures film unless a sister cable TV network pulled a "South Park" rerun lampooning the Church of Scientology, industry sources said on Friday.

Representatives for Paramount and Cruise, a prominent Scientologist, denied he made any such threats or had anything to do with the Comedy Central network canceling plans to air a repeat of the "South Park" episode titled "Trapped in the Closet," on Wednesday.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of the crudely animated cartoon hit, issued a quirky statement, filled with references to Scientology and the science-fiction writings of church founder L. Ron Hubbard, suggesting Scientology was behind the scheduling change.

"So, Scientology, you have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun," the pair wrote.

"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!!!"

Instead of the Tom Cruise episode, the network aired reruns of two "South Park" episodes featuring the character Chef, voiced by veteran soul singer Isaac Hayes, also a Scientologist, who quit the show earlier this week.

Comedy Central, which like Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc., declined comment on the rerun switch, other than to say: "In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give Chef an appropriate tribute by airing two episodes he is most known for."

Two industry sources familiar with the situation told Reuters Comedy Central pulled the "Trapped in the Closet" episode from its "South Park" rerun rotation after Cruise threatened to cease promotion of his upcoming Paramount film, "Mission: Impossible III."

Cruise spokesman Paul Bloch said neither the actor nor his representatives "had anything to do" with the scheduling of "South Park" reruns and that Cruise had never said to anyone he would refuse to promote his film. Paramount spokeswoman Janet Hill denied any knowledge of such a threat.

"South Park," heading into its 10th season next week as one of Comedy Central's biggest hits, centers on the antics of four foul-mouthed fourth-graders in a small Colorado town.

Outlandish religious satire has been a mainstay of the show since its debut in 1997, poking fun at Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Buddhists and Muslims. One early episode featured a martial-arts duel between Jesus and Santa Claus over the true meaning of Christmas.

While Hayes cited the show's ridicule of religion generally as his reason for leaving the series, Stone said in a statement on Monday the soul singer was specifically upset about the "Trapped in the Closet" episode, which first aired last fall.

In it, the character named Stan scores so high on a Scientology test that church followers think he is the next L. Ron Hubbard. Cruise is depicted locking himself in Stan's closet and then refusing repeated requests by various characters to "come out of the closet," including John Travolta, who eventually joins Cruise in the closet.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/20/leisure.southpark.reut/

[AfterLife]

Thanks for burying this thread in a section nobody reads.

[John Galt]

AfterLife wrote: Thanks for burying this thread in a section nobody reads.

Does this thread deal with politics or government?

No.

This thread deals with this forum (whether or not this forum is political in nature is immaterial here) and it's membership and if they frequent other debate forums. And so, this is the most appropriate part of Political Crossfire to place your poll, if there is one at all.

[AfterLife]

Well perhaps you should peruse the P & G forum more carefully as I've seen many threads not dealing with either subject.

I was curious about the possibility and I asked in the most popular forum here.

Thanks for nothing.

[spearsy23]

Free Thinkr wrote: I do. I know Robodoon does, because he posts at the same forum I do.

Robodoon is everywhere, i'm beginning to think he's actually a sane CIA or FBI agent that is trying to guage the lunacy of other posters by baiting them into conspiracies. As soon as he finds out who believes in the conspiracies, BAM these people are never heard from again.

[TheGirlNextDoor]

AfterLife wrote: Well perhaps you should peruse the P & G forum more carefully as I've seen many threads not dealing with either subject.

I was curious about the possibility and I asked in the most popular forum here.

Thanks for nothing.

You're welcome.



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