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Saturday, 30 September 2006
Television hits bottom, digs deeper

Brent Bozell III is righteously--and rightly--inflamed over tele-sleaze and wants to see it go away.  (Consider converting to Islam, Brent--it may get you the right audience.)  He knows his TV history, including the long-running, mega-popular, 70s series "Little House on the Prairie," based on the Laura Ingalls Wilder books much loved by First Lady Laura Bush.   Michael Landon may have been the heart-throb star of the show, but Bozell had a soft spot for Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls,  "'Half-Pint,' as she was lovingly called by Pa Ingalls."   Since that time, though, Ms. Gilbert's career has taken a bizarre turn.  Bozell explains:

Perhaps this is a classic example of how pathetically low our society's morals have fallen in 25 years: Melissa Gilbert just guest-starred on the FX cable network's grotesque show "Nip/Tuck." Are you ready for this? As a woman needing to have a nipple replaced ... because her dog bit it off ... during sex.

[...]

It was somehow not enough to have a little light fun of sex with a cow (ABC's "Boston Legal"), or sex with a horse (on Fox's "Keen Eddie") or even violating a parrot with a finger (on the aptly named UPN show "Shasta McNasty").

If you can stomach reading about the show, Bozell has more analysis of "Nip/Tuck" here
Posted on 09/30/2006 8:37 AM by Robert Bove
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30 Sep 2006
Send an emailRebecca Bynum
eeeeyooo! that is truly disgusting! horrible.

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