Emmy Award winner Kathy Griffin's acceptance speech will be censored by E! and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. This is because Ms. Griffin had the temerity to state that "...Jesus had nothing to do with this award." Well, and apparently some other more off-color remarks, some of which are reported to have involved making the baby Jesus cry, but we'll never get to know. Bill Donohue, grand high poobah of the Catholic League -- sort of an Anti-Defamation Leagure for people who haven't really been oppressed or exterminated by other ethnicities or sectarians -- tells us that Ms. Griffin's remarks, which are certainly blasphemous, are "obscene."
Really? Blasphemy is obscenity? That's... that's... dammit, that's un-American!
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