Zan wrote:cittadeeno23 wrote:I was just making a joke about censorship. But it does seem more and more things are being censored these days. And this political correctness Bullshit is out of control and ridiculous.
Ah - I thought that might have been what you were alluding to. Unfortunately, PCness isn't really *censorship* per se. Well, at least not in the way in which Dennis was portraying it. The censorship Denny was boycotting was the kind that say, Ed Sullivan was promoting. Ei: The Rolling Stones having the change their lyrics from "let's spend the night together" to "let's spend some time together," and Jim Morrison not being allowed to say "we couldn't get much HIGHER" when he appeared. This was to protect US, the American public, from the evils of the world like profanity and that horribly disgusting sex stuff. The word "gay" being removed, as Stabbim so beautifully pointed out, is likely just a clitch in the system, but if it was bleeped out, it would likely to protect the minority groups from being insulted, hence, political correctness. Not the same thing at all.
I agree that in both situations, certain phraseology(sp?) is being barred, but for very different reasons. Let's face it, we are light years further from the robotic world Denny warned us about back in the eighties. They can say "ass," "duschebag," "bitch," and "penis" on prime time television, for god's sake. Not to mention that giving Dennis credit for being some sort of soothsayer even reaches beyond my realm of imagination. lol
As far as the "nappy headed ho" ordeal/fiasco, the MEDIA itself made that much worse than it ever should have gotten, giving it way too much national attention. Can anyone say "wag the dog?" Does anyone know that the same day all of that was going on, an embassy was bombed in Iraq? Not many do because everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE was so concerned with this idiot shock jock and whether or not he deserved to be fired from his cush celebrity job.
If you ask me, censorship isn't the problem, it's a complete lack of common sense.
Here is a good example:
http://www.jibjab.com/originals/what_we_call_the_news
Imus was, as we say in Nashville, "Dixie Chicked"; that is, a story was made where there really was none, and for reasons probably having nothing to do with the story itself. In his case, hey, he's a shock jock, he says shit like that all the time, like any of them. Big deal. Move on or don't listen to him. In the case of the Dixie Chicks, Natalie made her comments (which most people who got upset about can't even BEGIN to repeat correctly . . . they are upset about something that they can't even quote, LOL) at a time when Americans were frustrated about their own inability to do anything about the impending war, and thus became a lightning rod for a backlash that should never have happened. People were simply transferring their anger and frustration onto her, which was stupid. The comments were made in England, our strongest ally in that war; it's not like she went to Iraq and said it. It was all bullshit, but then as you aptly pointed out, the news media is largely worthless in America. If you want to know what's going on here, you have to read the news from other parts of the world where it is not so slanted toward our own propaganda. Freedom of the press is mostly bullshit in modern day America.
Sterling
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:51 pm
