01/07/2006

Christian Radio Talk Show Host Asks Listeners to Join him in Picketing San Antonio, Texas NBC Affiliate Over 'The Book Of Daniel'

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- -- Christian radio talk show host Adam McManus, who broadcasts over AM 630, KSLR in San Antonio, Austin and Houston, is challenging his listeners to join him in a picket of the Alamo City NBC affiliate WOAI-TV 4 tonight, January 6th, at 8 p.m. central over the anti-Christian TV series "The Book of Daniel." The hour-long picket will occur in front of WOAI-TV4 at 1031 Navarro Street, San Antonio, Texas 78205. Plus, he will devote his 5 p.m. central hour today to promotion of the picket and taking calls. Media are welcome to cover the talk show in studio at 9601 McAllister Freeway, Suite 1200, 12th floor. A mult-box is available. Over the last four days, McManus has urged his 50,000 listeners to inundate WOAI-TV 4 with phone calls and e-mails objecting to "The Book of Daniel." (Listen live at http://www.kslr.com )

"Let's be honest. This is 'Desperate Housewives' dressed up in a clergyman's collar. And, in so doing, NBC has stabbed the church in the heart and twisted the blade with this bigoted program which demeans Jesus Christ and mocks Christians," said McManus. "Why is the church the last politically correct punching bag in America? I seriously doubt that the top network brass would ever lend their approval to a television show which belittled Mohammad, Allah or Muslims. The NBC double standard is alive and well." "The Book of Daniel" features a drug-addicted Episcopalian priest named Daniel Webster, his martini- swilling wife, their 23-year-old homosexual Republican son, a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer, and a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's daughter. At the office, Webster's lesbian secretary is sleeping with his sister-in-law. Just a typical day for a pastor's family.

Not surprisingly, the NBC series is written by Jack Kenny, a practicing homosexual who's more sympathetic to Buddhist reincarnation than to Jesus of Nazareth.

"No NBC affiliate, including WOAI-TV4, is obligated to air 'The Book of Daniel,'" said McManus. "To their credit, KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas and WTWO- TV in Terre Haute, Indiana, announced Wednesday they would pre-empt 'Daniel." Rick Rogala, the General Manager of KARK-TV, told McManus on his KSLR talk show on Thursday, January 5th at 5 p.m. that he decided to pull the bigoted show from the line-up because it not only violated local community standards but Rogala's own personal Christian convictions.

"The NBC brass are clearly out of step. With the blockbuster success of 'The Passion of the Christ' and 'The Chronicles of Narnia,' I would think that Hollywood would see the value in honoring Christianity, not mocking it. I predict that NBC's 'The Book of Daniel' will die a similar death as ABC's 'Nothing Sacred' which took similar potshots at people of faith," said McManus.