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ABC Faces Reality, Pulls Welcome Mat on 'Neighborhood,' today's TV Column by Lisa de Moraes:

ABC has pulled "Welcome to the Neighborhood" after it was suggested to the network that a reality series in which three couples consider race and religion to help decide which contestant family gets to become their neighbor violates the federal Fair Housing Act.

In this social experiment, which was scheduled to debut July 10, seven families competed to win a 3,300-square-foot, four-bedroom, 2 1/2 -bath house on a cul-de-sac near Austin.

They were a religious, African American family; a Wiccan family; a Latino family; an Asian family; a picture-perfect white family (except mom is a stripper); a young white family headed by staunch Republicans, only mom and dad are covered in tattoos; and a white gay couple with an adopted African American infant.

The couples who determine their fates, housing-wise, are white, Christian, Republican and close-minded....

UPDATE: Via Michelle Malkin,  Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer  reviews  reaction to the show and asks:

Did conservative groups get a chance to watch review copies of the program, or was that an exclusive GLAAD perk? That might answer my previous question as to why the lefties seemed to be weeks ahead of us.