Christianity is constantly bashed by television, and someone should make a show about the Prophet Muhammad working at a Dairy Queen in Texas, conservative radio host Larry Elder said Monday.
During an appearance on
Newsmax TV's "Newsmax Prime," Elder was asked by host J.D. Hayworth to comment on a new TV show that some say glorifies the Devil.
"I'm one of those who believes that Fox is probably ecstatic about all of this," Elder said of the show "Lucifer," scheduled to premiere next year. "There's no publicity like free publicity and now people are going to watch this show who otherwise would never have watched it.
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"Christianity has been trashed by television for a long period of time. They're going to continue doing it. All you're doing is drawing more attention. I want to see somebody produce a show with the cashews to do a show about the Prophet Muhammad coming back and running a dairy queen in Garland, Texas."
Elder and another guest on the show, radio host Ari Rabin-Havt — a former adviser to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid — both agreed
the outcry over "Lucifer" from groups that advocate for strong family values will most likely help the show's ratings.
"The American Family Association has been engaging in these campaigns for years," Rabin-Havt said. "They're typically not successful. They typically promote these shows to the nth degree and it'll probably make the show more successful, frankly."
Said Elder: "This is much ado about nothing. It'll come and it'll go. I understand that people are very sincere. I'm not saying they aren't sincere, who are protesting, but we'll survive this as a society after 'Lucifer' is gone."
"Lucifer" is loosely based on "The Sandman" comics. According to the Fox website for the show,
the series depicts the Devil living in Los Angeles.
"Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, the original fallen angel, Lucifer Morningstar has abandoned his throne and retired to L.A., where he owns Lux, an upscale nightclub," the website reads.
One Million Moms, a group tied to the American Family Association, denounced the show and has started a petition asking for Fox to purge it from its 2016 lineup.
A panel on Newsmax TV's "The Hard Line" also debated whether "Lucifer" has a place on television.
When asked about the controversial program, attorney and author Elura Nanos said it's up to parents not to allow their children to watch shows they don't approve of — as opposed to an outside group calling for a show to be taken off the air.
"If you don't like something, don't watch it," Nanos told host Ed Berliner. "If you think it's inappropriate, don't let your kids watch it."
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Betsy McCaughey, PhD, a former lieutenant governor of New York, took a similar stance on "Lucifer." She said the choice Fox made to add to the show to its lineup was a "business decision."
"Leaving aside the content entirely, because it's irrelevant, on the one hand I'm a strong believer, an absolutist believer, in the First Amendment so if this were government television, no one should be able to keep it off the air," McCaughey said.
"On the other hand, Fox is going to make a business decision. Fox wants to keep its audience happy. If enough people find this show disgusting, they'll take it off the air or their advertisers will force them to take it off the air. It's a business decision for them."
Nanos said she watched the show's trailer and concluded, "it looks like a fun take on it."
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