South Park depicts Trump in bed with Satan: NAJ screen shot
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The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Roll over Beethoven. Tell Tchaikovsky the news.
Roll over Ed Murrow. Tell Walter Cronkite the news. CBS News is about to turn into Fox News Two.
Murrow and Cronkite are rolling over in their graves.
Chuck Berry knew he was part of a revolution in music in the 20th century when in 1956 he wrote and recorded “Roll Over Beethoven,” and he was right. The song would go on to be covered and turned into a hit by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, the Electric Light Orchestra and other bands.
Who will write and sing the new hit song of the 21st century? Bruce Springsteen? Taylor Swift? Miley Cyrus?
Because the world is changing again, fast, as we watch America’s once trusted institutions fall one after another.
Goodbye Stephen Colbert at CBS. Is Rachel Maddow at MSNBC next? Or is she already gone? I don’t watch cable news.
It only took a couple of days after Paramount, the mothership company of CBS, announced the firing of Colbert and a $16 million bribe paid to settle a “60 Minutes” lawsuit with Trump before the Trump FCC announced approval of a deal to allow the merger of Paramount with Skydance for $8.4 billion. It is owned by David Ellison, the son of a close ally of Trump, along with Larry Ellison, a tech billionaire and second richest man in the world next to Elon Musk.
“Americans no longer trust the legacy national news media to report fully, accurately and fairly,” said Trump’s appointee as FCC chair Brendan Carr in a statement announcing the FCC’s approval. He claimed the agency’s review of the proposed merger was not connected to the CBS civil lawsuit. Right.
“It is time for a change,” he said. “That is why I welcome Skydance’s commitment to make significant changes at the once storied CBS broadcast network.”
The merger came after Skydance and its investment partner, RedBird Capital, assured the FCC of their commitment to “unbiased journalism” that represents “diverse” viewpoints. But that commitment to diversity appears to mean fake news, conservative viewpoints, favorable to Republicans and Trump.
According to Carr, Skydance “has made written commitments” promising its news network will address “conservative grievances” and stop all efforts to promote “diversity, equity and inclusion.”
How do you promote diversity while gutting diversity? Only in a George Orwell world, where he once said: ““In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
He also wrote: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world,” he wrote. “Lies will pass into history.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
Skydance claimed it would appoint an ombudsman to evaluate complaints of “editorial bias” or other concerns about CBS in an effort to promote “transparency” and “increased accountability,” but accountability seems to be accountability to the new dictator king, Donald Trump.
The sole Democrat on the three-person FCC committee, Anna Gomez, called the merger a “deal” that was “linked” to Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump. She also decried the decision as a move that would “erode press freedom” by “imposing never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment.”
In response to news of the merger on Thursday, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has called for an investigation into Paramount’s relationship with Trump over the Skydance deal, wrote in a social media post: “Sure looks like they paid Donald Trump … for this merger. Bribery is illegal no matter who is president.”
South Park Shows Trump in Bed With Satan
In a related bit of news about Paramount, the animated cartoon show “South Park” just announced a deal with Paramount for $1.5 billion and is about to launch a new season 27 with an episode that jokes about Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount, the cancellation of Colbert’s show and depicts Trump in bed with Satan.
The premiere episode, “Sermon on the Mount,” also refers to Trump’s attacks on Canada and “wokeness.”
Trump is depicted as an actual photo on an animated body, while most other characters are rendered in cartoonish drawings. There’s an extended scene in the premiere featuring a hyper-realistic, deepfake video of Trump walking in a desert completely naked, with repeated suggestions about Trump’s “small” genitalia and his small hands.
According to reporters who have seen it, the episode shows recurring character Jesus in South Park schools in a parody of “60 Minutes,” a satire of Paramount’s recent legal imbroglio with Trump. The two hosts refer nervously to “the president, who is a great man” and who “is probably watching.”
When parents protest to Trump that they don’t want Jesus in schools, Trump threatens to sue them for $5 billion, and Jesus begs them to settle with the president.
“I didn’t want to come back and be in the school, but I had to because it was part of a lawsuit and the agreement with Paramount,” Jesus says through gritted teeth.
“You guys saw what happened to CBS? Well, guess who owns CBS? Paramount. You really want to end up like Colbert? You guys got to stop being stupid … He also has the power to sue and take bribes and he can do anything to anyone. It’s the fucking president, dude … South Park is over.”
The townspeople eventually agree to pay Trump a much smaller $3.5 million, but also must create “pro-Trump messaging.”
South Park Digital Studios and Park County, which are run by South Park’s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, announced the licensing deal with Paramount+ and Global calling for 50 new episodes on Comedy Central over five years, to exclusively stream on Paramount+ worldwide. According to the deal, the entire South Park library will also be made available on Paramount+ in the U.S.
Dylan Byers, a senior correspondent at the media organization Puck, wrote on social media after the episode’s release: “Hard to think of anything more defiant in media & entertainment recently than Trey Parker & Matt Stone going scorched earth on Paramount in a South Park season premiere on the heels of netting a $1.5 billion deal with the very same company.”
This deal also comes after recent contentious disputes involving Paramount. Early this month Parker and Stone criticized the merger for postponing the season 27 premiere, saying: “This merger is a shitshow and it’s fucking up South Park. We are at the studio working on new episodes, and we hope the fans get to see them somehow.”
Three days after Colbert branded the deal “a big fat bribe” on CBS “Late Night,” Paramount and CBS announced it was cancelled the show.
The South Park premiere alludes constantly to the events, with Cartman learning that his favorite radio show on NPR – where “liberals bitch and whine about stuff” – has been cancelled by Trump.
“The government can’t cancel the show. I mean, what show are they going to cancel next?” he says.
Trump’s character is also asked directly by Satan about the “Epstein list,” referring to the unreleased files held by the U.S. government relating to the convicted pedophile pimp Jeffrey Epstein, who was best friends with Trump for 15 years. A political firestorm has erupted since the Trump administration’s recent decision not to release any more documents, and House Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House for late summer recess rather than allow votes by committees to release the files.
In the episode, Satan asks Trump directly if he’s on the Epstein list.
“It’s weird that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax,” Satan says.
In a statement to Variety, a White House spokesperson, Taylor Rogers, lambasted the political “left” and criticized the cartoon show for its lack of “authentic or original content.”
“This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history,” he said. “And no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak.”
Well, we will see about that.
Roll Over Beethoven Lyrics
Well, I’m a write a little letter
I’m gonna mail it to my local DJ
Yeah, it’s a jumping little record
I want my jockey to play
Roll over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again today
You know my temperature’s rising
The jukebox blowing a fuse
My heart’s beating rhythm
And my soul keep a-singing the blues
Roll over Beethoven
Tell Tchaikovsky the news
Well, if you feel and like it
Go get your lover, reel and rock it
Roll it over then move on up just
A trifle further and reel and rock with one another
Roll over Beethoven
Tell Tchaikovsky the news
Well, early in the morning I’m giving you my warning
Don’t you step on my new shiny shoes
Hey diddle diddle, I’m a play my fiddle
Ain’t got nothing to lose
Roll over Beethoven
Everybody, repeat after me
Roll over Beethoven
Roll over Beethoven
Roll over Beethoven
Roll over Beethoven
Roll over Beethoven
Tell Tchaikovsky the news
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