Speedy Gonzales Censored in U.S.   Author:  15228  Category:(Discussion) Created:(4/1/2002 8:27:00 PM) This post has been Viewed (651 times) You might have heard that the thought police have censored the cartoon rodent Speedy Gonzales. Now you will laugh, laugh, laugh when you find out where Speedy is a huge hit. First, some background. The censors at Cartoon Network are the ones who deemed Senor Gonzalez too offensive for P.C.-crazed America to handle. The network nabbed rights to the old Warner Brothers cartoons in 1999 and refuses to show them here or let anyone else show them. "Speedy's association with a coterie of drunken Mexican mice who lounge around the village, and his lazy cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, portrays Mexicans in a bad light, the network believes,". "We're not about pushing the boundary," said Cartoon Network flack Laurie Goldberg. "We're not HBO. We have a diverse audience, and we have an impressionable audience." And here's the kicker: Speedy is a huge hit south of the border, where he's broadcast by the hypocritical Cartoon Network Latin America. Apparently someone forgot to tell the Mexicans they should whine and moan about a cartoon. You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or interesting stories for the world to read and respond to Click here Scroll all the way down to read replies. Show all stories by   Author:  15228 ( Click here ) Spring is coming