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03-23-2012, 02:55 PM
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whoever came up with the word "straw man" should be shot.
we're not in Kansas anymore.
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03-23-2012, 02:59 PM
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03-23-2012, 03:11 PM
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I have no problem with people who call a womens basketball team nappy headed ho's being fired from his or her EMPLOYER for saying those words.
I do have a problem with a city counsel wasting taxpayers time and money with a resolution that goes against the consitution anyway. shock jock radio hosts should really concern themselves with political correctness. nobody cares to be entertained anyway.
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03-23-2012, 03:22 PM
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Thank goodness that's not what happened here! And while YMMV, if your entertainment relies on "shock" and offense and hurt to other people, then good for you, your entertainment sucks and is incredibly uncreative, IMO. But what do I know, I'm just too sensitive and liberal to understand the sheer joy and entertainment in tearing other people down. Sounds like a ton of fun I'm missing out on. And more importantly, because this is what you're hung up on, my entire premise is not that Maher, Limbaugh, Stern, or any other run of the mill jackass who relies on hurting other people to succeed should be off the air. It's great that they're on the air. Free Speech: that's what it's for! But when Maher gets defensive and plays the victim when called out for calling Sarah Palin a "c***," and Limbaugh for his words, and however many other great examples there are of these people complaining about their free speech, everyone gets up in arms defending them for their right to it. And I'm right there with you, because I also believe in their right to say whatever they want -- but PLEASE let's stop confusing criticism of a person's use of their right to free speech and an urging that they avoid harmful words to an attempt to deny their right of free speech.
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03-23-2012, 03:29 PM
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people like maher and rush certainly deserve to be criticized by there listeners, non listeners or peers for some of the worthless shi.t they spew.
I'm just saying, it's completely unnecessary and wasteful for a city councel to use taxpayer dime and time to come up with this resolution.
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03-23-2012, 03:31 PM
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03-23-2012, 03:34 PM
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03-23-2012, 03:38 PM
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just want to reiterate i also don't see this as censorship, but i am with lori that it's a waste of time by the council.
loss of viewers/listeners is the only censorship these 'shock' jocks have to worry about. i don't listen to any of them or watch them on t.v. i find them useless. i'd also imagine that the city councils attempt only resulted in increased listeners for the show.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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03-23-2012, 03:39 PM
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It's just so phony. Make the offended take a lie detector test and execute them on spot if they really aren't offended and just some vindictive cowardly douche who want to ruin people's lives by feigning offense to WORDS.
And the ones who are truly offended then they are immediately sterilized. Problem solved
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