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Blogger Jay Inman e-mails his submission:

Damian Penny dubs the network: “Cowardly Central.”

From Patrick at Clarity & Resolve:

From reader Ray:

From almighty Allah Pundit:

Another from Allah Pundit–and the frontrunner, IMO:

From Dan Riehl:

Chicago Ray has another.

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Meanwhile, Shawn Wasson has a video clip of what may be the uncensored South Park episode (see update…probably bogus):

(A Volokh Conspiracy commenter thinks it may be fake.)

***750pm EDT Update: Brendan Loy has a persuasive analysis that the video is fake. And I’ve heard from one source who says he is a South Park animator that the clip is fake.***

More from Allah Pundit:

(Click on image for full-size detail.)

The top image is from the actual broadcast. Note how the line around the fish’s mouth is unbroken. Note too the rear part of the fish, how it’s foregrounded against the Family Guy’s flesh tone and toga.

Now look at the first fake image. See that bit of excess light coloring near the rear part of the fish? That’s a Photoshop artefact. The faker needed to show Mohammed carrying the helmet across the threshold, but there was no footage of that in the original broadcast; he had to make it from scratch. What he probably did was to take the top image, where the helmet is already in Family Guy’s hands, and then use the lasso tool in Photoshop to draw a line around it. Then he could copy it, shrink it, and transplant it to a prior frame for placement in Mohammed’s hands. The problem is, his line-drawing was sloppy: he inadvertently captured a bit of that background flesh tone and toga when using the lasso tool and then forgot to erase it before posting the video. If the clip were real, there would have been no reason for that bit of coloring to be there.

Now look at the second image. The line around the fish’s mouth is broken. Why would that be true in the uncensored clip (if it were real) and not the clip that was actually broadcast? Again, it’s probably because of sloppy Photoshopping: the faker had to create a new layer from the helmet in order to foreground it against Mohammed’s body. He probably zoomed in to do touch-ups to the new layer, to make sure the colors looked nice and even for plausibility’s sake, and an errant brush stroke broke the line around the mouth. Again, wouldn’t/shouldn’t have happened if the clip were real.

One more piece of evidence, this one a bit more tenuous but still worth noting. Compare Mohammed’s voice from the 2001 episode to the voice in the fake clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URtNqCDymrk&search=south%20park

Doesn’t sound the same to me. Of course, that’s hardly a smoking gun, but Trey Parker and Matt Stone voice most of their characters, so assuming one of them voiced Mohammed in ‘01, it should have sounded similar in the uncensored clip. It doesn’t to my ears, but YMMV.

And another thing — you can see Family Guy’s fingers at the back of the helmet in the real image. In the same image, at the bottom, you can’t see them anymore. Why? Because the faker didn’t include them in his lasso crop when he was creating the new layer for the helmet.

Think of it this way: if the fake clip were real, and the South Park staff had to airbrush Mohammed out of the scene after it was already created, would they really have gone to the trouble of drawing in FG’s fingers at the back of the helmet? After they had already decided not to draw them in the uncensored clip? Makes no sense.

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And this: MTV, owned by Comedy Central’s parent company Viacom, plans to broadcast a cartoon lampooning the pope and Vatican hierarchy. Hat tip: Newsbusters.

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Flashback…Our future is dhimmitude.

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