Disney takes a BIG step

I just heard this on the news today: Michael Eisner is stepping down as the CEO of Disney!!!!!! Come September 30th, he will step down and Robert Iger (President of Disney) will take over as CEO. This is going to be awesome for Disney and hopefully it'll bring 'em out of the slow down spiral they've been in....

- Newgroove (aka cartoon enthusiast)

 

perhaps if it didn't cost $2000 for a family to go to Disneyland then I would consider that a start.

 

meh, most memorable time in disney = the waiting lines.

 

eisner is still going to be on the board of dirtectors...They should really try to get back a deal with pixar....they made some good movies....

 

Hopefully they will finally release to the US "the song of the south". I findit odd that it was okay to release this in Japan and the UK, but not here...

 

not disney's fault, blame jesse jackson.
if people in this country weren't completely overly sensitive and litigous about anything and everything then it would have been released here also.

 

agreed.................

 

definitely looking forward to all this.... both the change in power and "the song of the south"

 

From what I understand it is actually Sidney Poitier who is on the board who is knocking it down. They just relaesed some very off color old war cartoons with slanty eyed Japanese and incredibly awful characterzations of the same, with a disclaimer.

Why they couldn't do this with SOTS I have no idea.

 

Political correctness is erasing quite a bit of our past. Ted Turner, who now owns the Warner Bros. cartoons, decided a while back that all the WWII era cartoons that portrayed Japanese badly will stay locked in the vaults, along with a selection of newer ones that were deemed not politically correct enough. The Bugs Bunny cartoon where an ugly female witch, magically changed to a sexy female rabbit to con Bugs, when discovered by Bugs at the end of the clip and Bugs comments that "There's a little bit in all of them" and walks off arm-in-arm with the witch/bunny chick won't be seen anymore either. That one was done in the 60s. More importantly, any quotes or statements from founding fathers, ex presidents, references to laws or Supreme Court decisions that reference God or are positive about religion, and that's a huge percentage of our written history has been removed from our schools, including at least one school district which has banned the Declaration of Independence, which references God. Recreate the world in their own image by erasing the past and lying about it.

I've got a dub of an old VHS copy of SOTS. Quaint and old fashioned, but there's absolutely nothing offensive in it. Needless to say I'm NOT PC.

 

GT great post!

I agree that the world has gone to the extreme in cases where if one person is offended you had better be as well or else you are intolerant.

I miss the old cartoons, and wish they would just let people decide for themselves what was wrong or right with them and let them air. This revisionist history has got to stop somewhere.