Dead Kennedys the label, though East Bay Ray asserts that he recommended against signing with Polydor. Polydor decided not to sign the band after they learned that Dead Kennedys' next single was to be entitled "Too Drunk to Fuck". When "Too Drunk to Fuck" came out in May 1981, the song caused much controversy in the UK as the BBC feared the single would reach the Top 30; this would require a mention of the song on "Top of the Pops". It was never played although it was called "'Too Drunk' by the Kennedys" by presenter Tony Blackburn. After Peligro joined the
The Kennedys (miniseries) website stopkennedysmears.com was registered by filmmaker Robert Greenwald as part of the critical response to "The Kennedys". On February 24, 2010 Dave Itzkoff of "The New York Times" reported that historian David Talbot, whose recent book had been used as source material for the miniseries, had joined those preemptively criticizing "The Kennedys". Ted Sorensen (1928-2010), former presidential aide and speech writer for 35th President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, served 1961-1963), described the script as a "character assassination". At the time of all of this criticism, the miniseries had not yet even been cast. In an interview published in "The Los