■ by ROBERT KNIGHT


THE EVIL SPAWN OF ‘VILECOM’


“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”—Jesus (Matthew 18:6 NKJV)


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ARNING: The following is not for kids, although this is about kids. Truth in advertising is


good. That’s why it’s time for Viacom, the communications giant chaired by Sumner Redstone, to change its name to “Vilecom.” All the major networks are awash in sex, profanity, violence, and attacks on religion. But for sheer creepiness, Viacom wins, hands down.


Let’s start with Nickelodeon, Viacom’s “kid-friendly” network. Nick’s website has a link to AddictingGames.com, as the Cul- ture and Media Institute reports. There, tykes find “Naughty Classroom,” “Naugh- ty Babysitter,” and 29 other “Naughty” titles. Also, “Booty Rider,” and “You Da Sperm!” One game, “Perry the Perv,” is about a peeping Tom.


Kids click on icons to strip women down. “Naughty Park,” for instance, says, “Those three naughty boys are at it again! Help them use bees, worms and puppies in sneaky ways to get a hot jogger undressed!” Nickelodeon even had the NickJr.com


site for preschoolers accessing these games, according to Josh Grolin of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, whose protest got the link removed. Vilecom also runs the homosexual LOGO cable network and Comedy Central, which puts profanities in fourth- graders’ mouths in “South Park” and is developing a blasphemous cartoon series, “JC,” depicting Jesus Christ—yes, the King of kings and Lord of lords—as a rebellious son of a “powerful but apathetic father.” Thanks, Vilecom.


of R. J. Berger, a disgusting series about a geeky high schooler with abnormally large genitalia who is pursued by hot chicks and married moms. This trash is aimed right at kids. Thanks, Vilecom. For those who say “lighten up,” con- sider some of the fallout of our pornified culture. “Gonorrhea, once in decline, has thoroughly rebounded, with more than 336,000 cases reported in 2008,” writes the Washington Times’ Cheryl Wetzstein. “It disproportionately affects young people and blacks. Untreated gonorrhea increases risk for HIV infection and can lead to infertility.”


Add to that 1.2 million abortions a year and 1.6 million out-of-wedlock


Or perhaps Vilecom’s Redstone might cease using his empire to corrupt kids. He would need a change of heart, or like the tin man, any heart. When asked if sex-saturated fare was partly to blame for social ills, he quipped, “Sexuality doesn’t bother me; does it bother you? I don’t consider that gross.”


Perhaps some close-ups of aborted children or the ravages of STDs, now epidemic among teens and twenty- somethings, might change that.


Robert Knight is senior writer and Wash- ington, D.C., correspondent for Coral Ridge Ministries and coauthor of Ten Truths About Socialism (www.dangersofsocialism.com).


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G. K. Chesterton observed that “sex is the materialist’s religion.” Vilecom is a loud presence in that unholy choir. If someone came into your home and showed your child this stuff under his raincoat, you’d have him arrested at the least. But Nickel- odeon and MTV hum right along, fueled by ads from Disney, Hamburger Helper, and other amoral advertisers. On June 7, 2010, the MTV Movie Awards were strewn with at least 100 pro- fane or obscene words of all types. After- ward, MTV premiered The Hard Times


births. Syphilis, once nearly eradicated, has made a huge comeback, joined by HIV/ AIDS, chlamydia, human papillomavirus, herpes, and more than 25 other sexually transmitted diseases. Condoms, always the suggested answer, are useless against some of these incurable diseases. Ever seen a Vilecom program point that out? “With 19 million newly reported STD cases each year, a tsunami of sexual disease is flooding our population,” Wetz- stein writes. “One would think there could be a few more headlines about it.”


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