The Parents Television Council Hates The English

Mirren’s Emmy Crack Draws FCC Complaint

The Parents Television Council called on federal regulators Thursday to fine NBC for “vulgar and obscene” comments by two actresses during Sunday’s broadcast of the Primetime Emmy Awards.

Walking up to the stage to accept a best actress Emmy for HBO’s “Elizabeth I,” Helen Mirren commented on her relief that she didn’t go “ass over tit” as she came up the stairs. A few minutes later, Calista Flockhart repeated the phrase before presenting another award.

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“It is utterly irresponsible and atrocious for NBC to air this vulgar language — when millions of children were in the viewing audience,” Parents Television Council President L. Brent Bozell said in a written statement.

Reminding the PTC the only reason words like “tit” and “ass” are “indecent” is because they keep telling us words like “tit” and “ass” are indecent is pointless, so I’ll focus on what’s truly indecent: Why are children watching the Emmys at all?

There’s absolutely no value in watching the Emmys. They are cotton candy. Complaining about finding a hard piece of unspun sugar (a “tit”, if you will) in the middle of the sweet goodness is untenable; why eat it in the first place?

The only justifiable interest for watching the Emmys is the prurience of pure entertainment, the very interest the PTC claims to ever-so-vigilantly fights against. Shame on them.