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2006-03-14 Home Front: Culture Wars
Isaac Hayes quits 'South Park' after spoof on Scientologists
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Posted by tipper 2006-03-14 00:31|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Must have gotten some pressure from the Scientology leadership, since I recall him not having a problem with the episode when it first aired.
Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-14 01:00|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-03-14 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 "To the barricades, Shaft fans! To the barricades! And a fatwa on Cheesy Poofs."
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-03-14 01:16||   2006-03-14 01:16|| Front Page Top

#3 If they didn't burn any SH down, it doesn't count.
Posted by Glomons Snairong5912 2006-03-14 01:44||   2006-03-14 01:44|| Front Page Top

#4 
He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.
So he's a moslem?
Posted by  Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut  2006-03-14 01:51|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-03-14 01:51|| Front Page Top

#5  beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored

Makes me wonder if Isaac ever actually watched the show.
Posted by SteveS 2006-03-14 01:52||   2006-03-14 01:52|| Front Page Top

#6 The Ads by Goooooogle in this space are all about Scientology. I cost them a few pennies.
Posted by gromky">gromky  2006-03-14 02:51|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/]  2006-03-14 02:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I couldn't stop laughing about how RIGHT that episode was about Scientology. You can make cases for religions being far-our there, but Scientology is one I half expect to announce a comet as "the mothership". You know what happens next.
Posted by Charles 2006-03-14 04:08||   2006-03-14 04:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Happy to lampoon everything and everyone else under the sun, but let the same light shine on his "sacred" (LOL) scientology and he gets his shorts in a bunch. If ever there was an equal-opportunity offender, SP was it.

Sorry, Isaac, you were once treated as cool, now treated as just another looney hypocrit fool. Saved from oblivion by the South Park team, now back you go... Don't let the paystubs hit ya in the ass...
Posted by Hupeting Slineng3538 2006-03-14 04:55||   2006-03-14 04:55|| Front Page Top

#9 this is SUCH a parallel to the cartoon thingie. . .
Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan  2006-03-14 06:51||   2006-03-14 06:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Anyone remember if Chef appeared in the episode about the "Holy Writ of Vatican Law"?

Oh well -- I used to respect Hayes.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-14 07:20|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-14 07:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, Isaac Hayes is such a dynamic force in television that I doubt the industry can survive his leaving. I submit it to you gentlemen, the television is dead!
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-03-14 08:33||   2006-03-14 08:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Among the four black clergy to be honored at Scientology's annual Ebony Awakening awards ceremony is Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam.
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13696

Surprised?
Posted by Visitor 2006-03-14 08:54||   2006-03-14 08:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Surprised?

No.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-14 08:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-14 08:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Isaac Haze
Posted by Captain America 2006-03-14 10:38||   2006-03-14 10:38|| Front Page Top

#15 Heh.. at least no-one's mentioned the episode with Mohammed in... OOOOPS!!
Posted by Howard UK 2006-03-14 10:41||   2006-03-14 10:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Narcanon, the Scientology-affiliated antidrug program, has been tied to some nasty things, like rattlesnakes stuffed into critics' mailboxes.

So no, the NOI link doesn't surprise me at all.
Posted by lotp 2006-03-14 12:56||   2006-03-14 12:56|| Front Page Top

#17 Such a lovely faith. Invented by a science fiction writer some time after he's published a short story about an science fiction writer who'd invented a religion for the money, L. Ron Hubbard ended up dieing three times -- twice for tax purposes, the third time for real. Yes indeed, that's the kind of faith that calls to me in my nights of doubt and despair.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-14 13:47||   2006-03-14 13:47|| Front Page Top

#18 ah ... but what does it SAY, tw?? LOL
Posted by lotp 2006-03-14 13:49||   2006-03-14 13:49|| Front Page Top

#19 L Ron started out a drug smuggler moving Mary Jane in the BEAT ERA from Mexico to SoCal.
Posted by 3dc 2006-03-14 13:53||   2006-03-14 13:53|| Front Page Top

#20 and rumors were (and they might be totally false) that his yacht that stayed in international waters moved heroin.
Posted by lotp 2006-03-14 13:55||   2006-03-14 13:55|| Front Page Top

#21 Yoohoo! Mr. F&ckwit. Yes, you, Mr. Hayes. Remember that little thingy called freedom of speech. You know, that niggling little constitutional amendment that let's you, me and everyone else make fun of whoever in he|| we want to? You know, just like you've spent so many years doing at South Park. I guess it's time you learned that:

SACRED COWS MAKE THE BEST HAMBURGERS

As to the Scientologists and Nation of Islam, just one buncha scam artistes cuddling up with another. Mutual admiration society, I'd say.
Posted by Zenster 2006-03-14 14:03||   2006-03-14 14:03|| Front Page Top

#22 Good. Let the world see their double standards. Bunch of crybabies.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-03-14 17:07||   2006-03-14 17:07|| Front Page Top

#23  Yes indeed, that's the kind of faith that calls to me in my nights of doubt and despair.
:>
Posted by 6 2006-03-14 18:35||   2006-03-14 18:35|| Front Page Top

#24 try to leave and they treat you like an apostate from Islam...
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-03-14 19:15||   2006-03-14 19:15|| Front Page Top

#25 and rumors were (and they might be totally false) that his yacht that stayed in international waters moved heroin.

Perhaps.

More intriguing to me: Would Zimbabwe be in better or worse shape had Cecil Rhodes accepted Hubbard's offer of assistance?
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-14 19:47|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-14 19:47|| Front Page Top

#26 Ah, Isaac, we thought we knew you. You had such fun with every other religion and sacred cow..

I propose that if you can't live with poking fun at the steriotypes that are encompassed in you beliefs, then you belong to a cult.

Healthy cultures and people with beliefs can stand a poking. Indeed, they produce comedians that specialise in just that. It keeps the thinking open to growth.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-14 20:26||   2006-03-14 20:26|| Front Page Top

#27 Darn, stereotypes and yours - to correct
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-14 20:31||   2006-03-14 20:31|| Front Page Top

#28 www.xenu.net

download the episode here.
Posted by Some Dude 2006-03-14 21:36||   2006-03-14 21:36|| Front Page Top

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