OMG I totally agree with this article. It's unconscionable that Nickelodeon would allow a CONVICED FELLON to stay on their ballot. All they're doing is EXACTLY what this article suggests, they are telling kids that it's okay to beat the holy hell out of a woman as long as your a celebrity and can afford to get out of the conviction!!!!!!!!!!

As to the – person – who responded with such vulgar language. Apparently you have never been around anyone who has been abused and there are totally ignorant of what it's like. You are entitled to your opinion, sir, but my suggestion to you would be to grow up and stop being so selfish. Get out there and work with battered women before you speak on this subject again.

See what it's like to be a battered woman yourself, figuratively speaking of course. Be at work one night when your best friend calls you to come and get her b/c her husband has just beaten her and the police are on their way and she needs a place to stay for a few days. Listen to the terror in your mother's voice as she calls you to “please hurry up and get her” b/c her sorry son-of-a-bitch husband is on the rampage again and then watch as all of these woman, including yourself, make the excuse that either you love him or he loves you and watch it happen over and over and over again until finally something breaks and the one you love is finally free and whole and safe.

Take your head out of your bum before you speak on this matter again!!!

> To: SNICK_Tribute_Page@yahoogroups.com
> From: tmc_6882part2@...
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:54:24 +0000
> Subject: [SNICK_Tribute_Page] Left-Wing Kids' Network Nickelodeon Honors Chick-Beating
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> http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2009/03/left-wing_kids.html#comments
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> http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2009/03/left-wing_kids.html#comments
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> By Debbie Schlussel
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> You have to give Nickelodeon--the vapid network aimed at kids--credit for incredible chutzpah.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> After all, it's "democracy." Don't you get it? The kids have a right to choose, no matter how bad the candidate.
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> 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:
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> "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:
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> "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?
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> ***
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> It ain't exactly rocket science.
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> The Kids' Choice Awards show airs on Nickelodeon on March 28th.
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> Posted by Debbie at March 11, 2009 11:20 AM