Arts One Man’s Treasure is Another Man’s Torture
As someone who loves South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut a great deal, I’ve always been slightly confused by the subplot involving the homosexual relationship between Satan and Saddam Hussein. To me, the selection of Saddam for Satan’s lover always smacked of some last-minute replacement after studio heads nixed the idea of the Devil getting it on with Hitler. But now the choice of Saddam finally makes sense, as Yahoo! News reports that the actual Saddam has been made to repeatedly watch the movie in which his paper-puppet likeness sings, dances, and buttfucks Satan.
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said US Marines guarding the former dictator during his trial for genocide were making him watch the movie “repeatedly”. “I have it on pretty good information from the Marines on detail in Iraq that they showed him the movie last year. That’s really adding insult to injury. I bet that made him really happy,” Stone said.
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After the civil war, when the Sunnis free Saddam and reinstate him as their leader, we'll see what a good idea this was.