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Hypocrite Isaac Hayes Quits South Park Over Scientology Spoof, And Comedy Central Caves To Cruise?

Posted by Randy on March 17, 2006 01:19 PM

I don't have an ounce of respect for Isaac Hayes after he pulled the most hypocritical move imaginable. Hayes, the man behind the voice of "Chef" on Comedy Central's hit show South Park, quit because the show mocked Scientology a cult (faith?) he's a part of. His comments however intend to make it seem like he's just protesting South Park mocking religions in general.

"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said.

"Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."

The problem is the show has spent years mocking Judaism and Christianity on a regular basis, and it was just one show mocking scientology that sent Hayes running for the door. There is no question of whether he's a hyprocrite here or not. I don't think he could make any argument to defend himself. What a loser. He made bank of episodes mocking all the other religions, but the second it mocks his insane and recently invented cult, he throws a fit?

"South Park" co-creator Matt Stone responded sharply in an interview with The Associated Press Monday, saying, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology... He has no problem — and he's cashed plenty of checks — with our show making fun of Christians."
Stone told The AP he and co-creator Trey Parker "never heard a peep out of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology. He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin."

Exactly, I'm glad to see these guys come out and slam Hayes for this BS.

Now, that was the story out a couple days ago, but there's been a new development. We learn today that Comedy Central pulled the scientology episode from it's scheduled rerunning this Wednesday. Weak. Just plain weak. Rumor has it that Tom Cruise threatened not to promote Mission Impossible 3 if they didn't pull the episode:

The skirmish continued this week, when Comedy CentralComedy Central abruptly pulled a repeat of that episode that was scheduled to air Wednesday evening. Showing instead was another memorable segseg which featured Hayes's character, called "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls."

Blog reports pegged the mysterious episode switch to objections raised by Cruise, who, the reports stated, threatened to not promote "Mission: Impossible 3," the summer tentpole for ViacomViacom-owned Paramount.

A spokesman for Cruise denied that Cruise had ever made such a threat. "He never said any such thing about 'Mission: Impossible 3," the spokesman said.

Even if the pulling wasn't a result of threats from Cruise, it's still weak bowing to the nutty Hollywood cult. Why haven't they pulled all the episodes mocking religions that are actually historically based and have much larger communities? More liberal double standards.

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pretty immature act on his part. If a jew can laugh at Cartman, Isaac should be able to suck it up for 20 minutes.

Posted by: Valke | March 17, 2006 03:14 PM

Hey Randy,I just wanted to throw my .02 cents in on this.I for one can never tire of making fun of scientology® and everything in the south park epsiode 'come out of the closet' was something I have known for quite some time but I was glad to see it made it into the public arena to be mocked.Comedy Centrals pulling the episode and not all the others that mock religion and whatnot is not politically charged (hence the liberal double standard)but just about money plain and simple.Comedy Central didn't do this out of compassion for Cruise or Scientology®.Also how can a 'religion' trademark its name?If anyone hasnt seen the episode and wishes to heres the link to watch:
http://www.scientomogy.info/south-park.htm

Posted by: Rob | March 18, 2006 12:00 AM

Of course when I talk about the liberal double standard, I'm not saying that Comedy Central is endorsing Scientology in any way... What I'm saying is that there have been many more complaints over the years from other real religious groups. Scientology doesn't hold a bunch of power with the American public or anything... so why cave to them? The country is overwhelmingly Christian, why not cave to Christian groups? I just have a hard time believing it's about money, because how many scientologists are going to stop watching now? How many scientologists are their anyway? There are certainly plenty of episodes that were offensive to Jews and Christians that you'd think they would be concerned over those large audiences boycotting the show... but I don't see how this move by comedy central stands to keep them from losing any money? Unless it is somehow about Cruise/MI3... In which case Comedy Central still needs to be ridiculed for their weakness... I mean come on... the show has gone way over the line on virtually any issue imaginable, and they pull a show that mocks a silly Hollywood cult!? This is ridiculous.

Posted by: Randy | March 18, 2006 09:11 AM

Randy,the episode got pulled because Cruise said he would not plug Mission Impossible 3 if itwasn't.Comedy Central is owned by Viacom which in turn owns Comedy Central.

Posted by: Rob | March 19, 2006 02:36 AM

oops that last sentence was very redundant.Sorry

Posted by: Rob | March 19, 2006 02:38 AM

Yeah, I tend to believe it was the Cruise threat that made them pull it vs. their official excuse... Either way, how insane is scientology? I just sort of ignored them prior to watching the episode, but after seeing that they actually believe all of that I'm just shocked that there are actually people that follow it.... There aren't words to describe how stupid the whole thing is

Posted by: Randy | March 19, 2006 03:41 AM

Looks like Isaac Hayes may not have quit after all.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188463,00.html

Posted by: RW | March 20, 2006 02:03 PM

RW,

I smell an excuse... Hayes realizes that everyone was going to hate him for being such a hypocrite...

Hayes did not suffer paralysis, but the mild stroke may have affected his speech and his memory. He’s been having home therapy since it happened.

That certainly begs the question of who issued the statement that Hayes was quitting "South Park" now because it mocked Scientology four months ago. If it wasn’t Hayes, then who would have done such a thing?

Sounds like a cop out to me...

Posted by: Randy | March 20, 2006 03:13 PM

Of course Hayes didn't quit himself.Someone quit for him.During the first few sessions of 'auditing' The Scientologist auditing you is very,very,very preoccupied with your past sexual humiliations from.I imagine if he would've trucked on they would have held this over his head and threatened to make it public.I read somewhere that Travolta had some sort of falling out with Scientology but they held that over his head to make him submissive and get back in the rank and files.

Posted by: Rob | March 21, 2006 09:28 AM

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