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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) couldn’t sleep on Sunday night. Louisiana State University had just lost a nail-biter college football game, but Johnson was more troubled by something he saw in between plays: an ad for a new FX cartoon show starring actor Danny DeVito as Satan.
When the commercial for FX’s Little Demon came on during the football broadcast, Johnson recounted later in a Facebook post, he scrambled to stop his 11-year-old child from seeing it.
“I’m just so disturbed by it,” Johnson said later on a talk radio show, recounting his encounter with an ad he worried had helped to put the fate of millions of souls at stake. “I’m wondering: how many kids are exposed to that?“