WILLIAM SHATNER under fire by dictionary lovin’ extremists!
Shatner’s new $#*! My Dad Says (based on the popular Twitter account of the same name) attacked by extreme parental group.
Parents Television Council ( the same folks who went cuckoo over Gossip Girls OMG campaigns ) are livid about the CBS show’s name and are attempting to boycott the show by shaming advertisers not to spend money on the show that dare not speak its name.
"The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use; yet CBS decided to use the ‘s-word’ in the title of this show, putting its blatant contempt for children and families front and center," PTC prexy Tim Winter told The Hollywood Reporter.
"The question is why CBS feels the need to shove harsh profanity into the faces of Americans through the program’s title. Their reliance on symbols as a veil is feeble at best. Beyond a port-a-potty, a laxative or a roll of toilet paper, most corporations don’t want their customers to associate their products or services with excrement."
Yet, the star’s name is SHAT-ner, a common past -tense vulgarization of the non-rapier like s-word.
Look THAT up in your Funk & Wagnall’s.
