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By Debbie Schlussel

You have to give Nickelodeon--the vapid network aimed at kids--credit for
incredible chutzpah.

For years, the cable channel, has featured specials hosted by Linda Ellerbee,
lecturing your kids on everything from being nice and "tolerant" of Muslims
after 9/11 to why nuclear weapons and the Iraq war are bad. Oh, and then there's
the promotion of teen baby mama Jamie-Lynn Spears by the network.

But after years of moralizing, Nickelodeon itself is filled with hypocrisy.
Network execs say they will leave singer Chris Brown, who's been charged with
beating girlfriend/singer, Robin "Rihanna" Fenty, on the ballot for the 2009
Kids' Choice Awards. No biggie that Brown has been charged with two felonies for
the assault on Rihanna.

After all, it's "democracy." Don't you get it? The kids have a right to choose,
no matter how bad the candidate.

Yup, these idiots that run Nickelodeon think their stupid Kids' Choice Awards is
some sort of hallowed American Presidential election, where no-one can take
someone off the ballot for chick-beating. Hellooooo . . . .? There's a reason
you have to be 18, i.e., an adult, to vote in elections in America. This is a
stupid kids awards show, where winners get slimed, for G-d's sake. It's not
immune from interference by responsible adults. The problem is trying to find
one at the MTV Networks offices (MTV Networks owns and runs Nickelodeon).
Instead the network released the statement that they can't interfere in the
balloting process:

"The kids who vote will ultimately decide who wins in the category," Nickelodeon
said in a statement Tuesday.
So, to sum up Nickelodeon's "morals" and worldview:

Brainwashing your kids with left-wing politics and indoctrination . . . Awesome!
Telling your kids that beating women up isn't okay . . . um, it's not right for
us to judge.

This is what happens when you tell kids they can't judge (unless it's
conservatives and conservative values they're condemning). You raise a nation of
kids who will tolerate even the intolerable, like beating women up "just 'cuz."

Oh, and guess who's coming to Brown's defense? Why, it's none other than
admitted Muslim polygamist singer Akon, whose songs are simply vile (when
they're not cleaned up for Top 40 radio) and himself has a record of violence,
including beating up a fan at a concert.

"I wouldn't take anybody's personal issues or problems," Akon told the
Associated Press. "I won't hold them accountable for that when it comes to
work."
Yup, look the other way on wanton, gratuitous violence. And tell kids to do the
same. Excellent. Well, I guess--since this idiot Rihanna took him back--we
should reinforce that message to America's kids. Right?

***

This isn't new for Nick. In 2003, when NBA star Kobe Bryant was then under the
gun and had been charged with raping a woman in Colorado, the network refused to
take him off the ballot from that year's Kids' Choice awards ballot. I was on
MSNBC's "Scarborough Country," debating this with actress Kathryn Joosten of
ABC's "Desperate Housewives," who insisted that he should remain on the ballot
and that he was innocent until proven guilty. In Chris Brown's case, we've seen
the pics of Rihanna's face. Clearly, he beat her.

I still believe, even though Bryant managed to beat the allegations and get them
dropped, that you don't keep accused criminals on ballots of kids' awards shows.

It ain't exactly rocket science.

The Kids' Choice Awards show airs on Nickelodeon on March 28th.

Posted by Debbie at March 11, 2009 11:20 AM