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    keep michael vick from makeing money for his animal cruelty tell these sponsors to kill this program

    This was posted on Facebook today--please read it and let these companies know how you feel about it.


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    February 2, 2010

    Dear Friends,

    Please e-mail the sponsors of the Michael Vick Reality Show and express your opposition to their financial support of the program. As a result of their advertising, Vick is profiting from a lucrative reality television contract. This show is beyond the pale of depravity and must be cancelled. Please also stop buying these companies' products immediately and tell your friends and family to do the same. Of all the shows on television, these corporation$ made a deci$ion to $upport Michael Vick.

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    Buick
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    From Paris with Love - PLEASE DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE.

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    The Crazies - PLEASE DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE.

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    If Vick hadn't killed dogs, he would never have this show. He's making money off his killing spree. He recently said the reason for the show is to clear his family name. He also said that he will not speak about dog fighting anymore after the show. When Vick said he was going to dedicate his life to speaking out against dog fighting, apparently he meant he would do it twice per month for a year until people forgot about it and it was safe for him to be rich and famous again and profit from his crimes. He did a masterful job of using the HSUS to help him re-enter society. He was never sincere. He still thinks he's a victim as evidenced by his arrogant and callous remarks after being nominated for the Ed Block Courage Award:

    "I've overcome a lot, more than probably one single individual can handle or bear," Vick said. "You ask certain people to walk through my shoes, they probably couldn't do. Probably 95 percent of the people in this world because nobody had to endure what I've been through, situations I've been put in..."

    People say "everyone deserves a second chance...it's time to move on" and "everyone makes mistakes". Vick did not make a mistake; it was a conscious and calculated decision that he knew was wrong. He is diabolical, transparent, and evil. There is no cure for evil. He doesn't deserve a second chance for his heinous and unspeakable crimes against animals. Those of us who speak for animals will not "move on" as Vick is emblematic of a larger problem in a society that shows disregard for the welfare of animals and believes lenient sentences and fines equate to justice. They do not.

    If people want to idolize this sadistic killer, cheer for him from the stands and wear his jersey, they can do it. We draw the line with a reality show that allows him to profit from his felonies. Let us send a clear message -- if you brutalize helpless animals, you will not be accepted back into society and return to fame and wealth without opposition. Our silence allows the opposite message to be sent. Complacency breeds acceptance. Acceptance leads to continued violence against animals. We do not have to accept things as they are and we will not. The First Amendment grants us the right to oppose and we will exercise that right. Hate mail from Vick supporters only inspires us to fight harder and speak louder.

    Please help us send a message to the shameless sponsors of this show that we will boycott their products until they end their support of the program. You can click "Share" on this note and post it to your profile page to spread the word. Thank you.

    On behalf of the dogs Michael Vick fought, kicked, shot, hanged, electrocuted, drowned, and tortured,

    Andrew Kirschner






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    What program is it? What channel is it on?

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    they ve been airing it on tv all day about him

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    What program is it? What channel is it on?
    seems they want to put him on a reality show and sponser him in the lead or something ,,,,,,,,,, OH SOOOOOOOO WRONG TO PROMOTE HIM IN ANY WAY OR FORM,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, anyone who could do what he and friends did to an animal,,,,,,,,, is sick and just a few months of jail time doesnt cure this sickness............
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    I don't know when its coming on but they said on the news it'll be on BET.

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    Monday, February 1,2010
    'The Michael Vick Project'
    By McClatchy-Tribune News Service


    LOS ANGELES — Michael Vick, the ex-Atlanta Falcon, convicted felon, formerly dog-abusing Humane Society volunteer spokesman and current Philadelphia Eagle, is the subject of a 10-part series that begins Tuesday night on BET, "The Michael Vick Project."

    The word "project" in the title indicates that we are meant to take this seriously (its meaningless use in "The Rachel Zoe Project" notwithstanding). It suggests hard work and the possibility of transformation. That the subject of the series is also one of its producers is worth noting but also par for the course in the new reality we call "reality."

    The game plan is laid out clearly in the opening narration: "Against all odds, one man escaped and uplifted a family. But his humble beginnings led to a very tragic ending. But from darkness he saw the light. Blessed with a second chance, he must once again rise above to heal his family, his community, his legacy." (Heal his legacy?) It is a redemption story, couched in religious terms: "I'm Michael Vick," Vick says over the opening credits. "My fall from grace was tragic, but it was all my fault, and I'm on a mission to get everything back. Not the money and the fame, but to restore my family's good name."

    You can decide for yourself whether this process is already, for all intents and purposes, complete. That Vick's Philadelphia teammates recently voted him the Ed Block Courage Award, for players who "exemplify commitment to the principles of sportsmanship and courage," seems to indicate that it is, as does a BET online poll in which 85 percent of those responding agreed that the quarterback had already done enough to "repair his image." It also indicates that the likely audience for this show is already on the star's side.

    Indeed, there are plenty of people in this world who would not regard Vick's adventures in dog fighting as anything to apologize for in the first place — nothing to go to prison for, anyway, as he did. Many humans are insensitive to the sensitivity of other species. (For that matter, many humans are unconscious of the humanity of whole classes of other humans.) And though Vick admits here that his treatment of his dogs was "inhumane and barbaric," the bloody specifics of his operation are avoided, including the fact that his partners — and Vick himself at times — would kill dogs who did not perform well, shooting them, hanging them, drowning them.

    I am with the dogs in this but admit that wealthy, feckless, gifted athletes are people too; I wouldn't deny Vick his second chance or question the sincerity of his remorse. We see a few photos of him as a child, to remind us that he was born innocent, and are shown that he came from a hard place that left its mark on him, so that even as he was signing the biggest deal in NFL history, he was still operating under the influence of old bad companions, or at least old bad ideas. And yet, walking around the now-empty house on the property where he kept his kennel and lodged his friends, he sometimes seems more nostalgic than contrite.

    We get a brief glimpse of a pre-lapsarian Vick deformed by money and fame, but the man we see interviewed here is pleasant, neutrally dressed and well-spoken — straightforward if not yet shown as remarkably curious as to the deeper meanings of his story or the darker crannies of his psyche. And because — apart from a couple of worked-up animal-rights activists, shown in sound-bite clips at demonstrations and easy to dismiss — there is no one on-screen who is not supportive of him, the show becomes more about what Vick has suffered himself, or at any rate the pain they all shared, than it is about the pain he has caused

    Even in bankruptcy, the quarterback remains a valuable commodity; for many, his redemption will be strictly a matter of his playing football well. And if he doesn't, well, at least he won't be shot, drowned or hanged for it.

    'The Michael Vick Project'
    Where: BET
    When: 10 p.m. EST Tuesday
    Rating: TV-14 (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 14)



    http://www.boulderweekly.com/article...k-project.html


    'Project' a different view of Michael Vick
    By Ellen Gray Philadelphia Daily News Daily News TV Critic

    FANS OF National Geographic Channel's "Dogtown" have been able to follow the rehabilitation of some of the abused dogs rescued from Michael Vick's Bad Newz Kennels for a while now.

    Starting tomorrow, Vick's own rehabilitation takes center stage as BET unveils "The Michael Vick Project," a series in which the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback, who's now with the Eagles, attempts to "restore my family's good name" by demonstrating that disgrace - and the prison time he served for his involvement in dogfighting - have left him a changed man.

    I'm guessing there won't be a lot of overlap in viewership for those two shows, but it looks as if BET sees Vick as something of a victim himself. "What had happened to Mike is endemic of what's happened to many young black men today," BET Networks programming president Loretha Jones told reporters last month, "and it's our hope that this project will give viewers a glimpse of both the price that he's paid and how he's trying to move forward as a human being and not just another sports figure."

    Asked if she anticipated any backlash from viewers, Jones acknowledged that some people may not feel Vick's deserving of his own show. "There is absolutely no excuse for the crime that he committed. We make none. Michael makes none. He served his time," she said. "And if we were to say, after having served his time and come out and now desiring to be a responsible individual, he does not deserve a second chance, it really makes us wonder about what we're saying to other African-American men.

    "When I look at statistics that tell us that a young African-American man has a greater chance of going to jail than going college, are we saying to those families, not just those guys, but their families, that they're going to be written off after they serve their time after making a mistake? We don't believe that as a network. We don't think society believes that. So consequently, we think this show is very important to show how someone gets a chance to rebuild."

    Vick's rebuilding effort may not, of course, resemble the journeys of ex-convicts who don't play professional football (or score their own cable shows). But tomorrow's episode, which takes us back to the Newport News, Va., neighborhood where Vick recalls growing up "hearing gunshots at night . . . to the point where the gunshots didn't even wake me up," seems to argue that he's the product of an upbringing where dogfighting was taken for granted.

    He first encountered it when he was about 7, and "it kind of excited me, and I gravitated to it," as he and his friends began fighting their dogs "at an early age."

    As he and others recount his triumphs at Virginia Tech, his drafting into the NFL and the acquisition - for $34,000 - of 15 acres for the facility that led to his downfall, it's clear that even as Vick confesses to having done things that were "inhumane and barbaric," his greatest regret's reserved for what that's cost himself and his family.

    Vick's not the only new face on the "reality" TV scene:

    * Starting tonight at 10, Bravo, which may have lost "Project Runway" but seems determined to stay in the fashion business, brings us "Kell on Earth," a series starring New York publicist Kelly Cutrone, who, along with Robyn Berkley, her partner in a firm called People's Revolution, is in the business of producing fashion shows.

    Based on the one episode I've seen, "Kell" follows a familiar-for-Bravo pattern, showcasing a high-energy perfectionist who alternates between abusing and babying her subordinates - do Bravo stars get paid by the bleep? - while rubbing elbows with minor celebrities.

    The biggie tonight?

    Ashley Dupre, the high-priced call girl in the Eliot Spitzer scandal, a buddy of Cutrone's, who at some point got the publicist in hot water for squeezing Dupre into the first row of a show.

    But, hey, everyone wants the front, even Cutrone's 7-year-old daughter, Ava, who lives with her mom in the same building that houses the business and is astute enough to argue that if she's expected to dress up, she shouldn't be relegated to the third row.

    * No one puts figure skater Johnny Weir in the third row, either, but the Sundance Channel, which decided to put him in an eight-part series before it knew for sure he'd be in the Winter Olympics, is no doubt relieved the Chester County-born star of "Be Good Johnny Weir" (10:30 tonight) actually made the team.

    Because while Weir was born for this oddball genre - I don't know when I've seen a "reality" celeb with his level of showmanship - it might've been a downer to spend two months watching Weir pursue an Olympic medal, knowing from the start it wasn't going to happen.

    Then again, tonight's episode, the series' third, has Weir briefly facing actual reality as he contemplates an end to his career and considers his options with more honesty than I expect to hear from any athlete profiled on NBC this month. *

    Send e-mail to graye@phillynews.com.

    http://www.philly.com/dailynews/feat...hael_Vick.html


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    i think this says it all ...........

    the show becomes more about what Vick has suffered himself, or at any rate the pain they all shared, than it is about the pain he has caused

    Even in bankruptcy, the quarterback remains a valuable commodity; for many, his redemption will be strictly a matter of his playing football well. And if he doesn't, well, at least he won't be shot, drowned or hanged for it.

    if consumers stopped funding these kind of things and boycotted their programs, maybe more of these commodity athletes would think before acting in such a mannor ,,,,,,, too many think they can do no wrong and their actions wount get punished ,,,,,,,,,, i know he had a hard life but that doesnt make it right for him to abuse and torture animals to amuse himself and his croneys............
    this just teaches the younger generations to copy their sickness.......
    we see it every time you look at the news,,,,,,,,, they get younger everyday torturing and abusing animals and people around them.
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    I NEVER bought into the "it's cultural" as an excuse for the behavior. Give me a break ! Wrong is wrong is wrong and I have rescued animals being "trained" for dog fights - it is SICK and anyone who particpates has no compassion or empathy in their soul.
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    He is a sick, sick individual. I can't way what I really want to or I will be banned from this forum.
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    I emailed the companies that I use and told them I won't buy from them.
    Doubt it'll do any good, but I refuse to support a company that supports his show.
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    I got a response back from Nivea...

    Thank you for contacting us about "The Michael Vick Reality Project" on BET. We respect viewers' choices in programming and regret any offense that may have been taken by the airing of our advertising during this show.

    NIVEA purchases blocks of advertising with BET and provides general guidelines regarding programming content. We did not request that our advertising run during "The Michael Vick Reality Project" and have since learned that the ad ran during the show without our knowledge. Like you, we have concluded that it is not appropriate for our products to be advertised on this program and have instructed our advertising agency buyers that no purchases be made against this program in the future.

    The opinions of our consumers are very important to us in how we develop and market our products. Thank you again for taking the time to share your concerns.


    Cordially,

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