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POPSAnother Notch For Rightwing Shock Jocks.
A story like this, puzzles me as to why it's legal to spread hate over our airwaves. The rightwing shock jocks, have been doing this for years without remorse or fear of reparation. We all enjoy freedom of speech and would never want to do anything to jeopardize this right, a corner stone of democracy. But when it's used to spread xenophobia, doesn't that strike you as being criminal? It's illegal to shout FIRE in a crowded room, shouldn’t it also be against the law to shout THIS GROUP, RACE, or ETHNICITY IS EVIL. Yet that is exactly what the Limbaughs, Lou Dobbs' and other hate spreaders do when they use media tools to distribute their loathsome rhetoric. It happened in Tenn. when a crazed man went looking for Liberals to KILL because a radio jock said liberals were ruining America. When will the time come, to say enough hate, it's time for healing? As long as rumor brutes can sputter their revulsion behind the safety of a microphone, it will never end and some innocent will suffer.
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POPSObama on racism I guess he holds radio shock jocks to a higher standard than he does his pastor and mentor of two decades.
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POPSOpie & Anthony Suspended - So Much For Free Speech WHEN will people learn that on any form of airways they will not let you say what you want to. The fact that O&A got suspended on Satellite radio goes to show that it's not as uncensored as you'd think. I'm waiting for one of these shock jocks to figure out that they could podcast/ustream it and not have to worry about being censored.....YET....
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POPSOpie & Anthony apologize for rape jokes
Recently, Opie & Anthony had a guest on named "Homeless Charlie" who talked about having sex with Condoleeza Rice and punching her face. Not surprisingly, they've now apologized. The content of what they aired was really disgraceful, regardless of whom they were talking about. HOWEVER, one other thing that bothers me about these shows is that they are making fun of homeless people. They get this guy on their show to say all of this awful stuff, and let's face it--they're using him like a circus animal. Last year, I visited California and I heard a show on the radio where they would get these barely literature homeless men to read snippets of dialogue from movies, and then they had contestants who had to correctly answer what movie the dialogue was from. This is just shameful, but no one cares about that. We crack down on people who demean powerful women (we should do that, regardless of how powerful they are), but no one cares when they simultaneously demean homeless people.
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POPSWhere "Bitches, Ho and Niggas' came from It would appear that there is a double standard in public outcry concerning bad behavior. I guess an old white man using the term "nappy headed hos" raises the ire of the black population while their own spew forth even greater obscenities in the form of "RAP" each and every week as the top 10 Rap playlist would suggest. Course I guess this kind of behavior and speech is expected of such 'rappers' who profess to be portraying life as they know it. WELL folks black or white rich or poor if your culture is identified by such derogatory terms perhaps you should be protesting the degradation of your culture and demand change in that same culture. Why would you permit anyone to portray your culture by such language? You deserve better and you should demand those who portray your culture in such demeaning terms to cease and desist. We all have the freedom of speech to say whatever we feel we need to say but that does not mean that anyone has to listen.
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POPSCBS Radio Considers "Fag" just comedy "VJ", whose real name is Jeff Vandergrift, and "Elivs", Dan Lay the host of "The Doghouse" think it is comedy to call someone a "Fag" and are even supported in their intolerance and bigotry by their station Program Director, John Mainelli. This type of hate language is not acceptable in anyway. I guess these two went to the Ann Coulter school of broadcasting.
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