Posted on 02/18/2014 1:00:59 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
105.9 FM is the local classic rock station in south Florida.....just a few minutes ago, I was bored with everything else on the radio and hit that station...just in time to hear the beginning of the hit "Money for Nothing"...
Imagine my surprise when the lyric got to: "That little faggot with the earring and the mink coat, Yeah, buddy, thats his own hair. That little faggot got his own jet airplane. That little faggot is a millionaire!"
Funny lines....but the dreaded "slur" was clipped out! Absurd.
Anyway, since I RARELY listen to music radio, I was wondering if this song has been suffering from the politically correct hacks for a long time? Or is it just a phenomenon of the rabidly liberal Miami media?
ummm there’s a whole lot worse stuff on the radio you ought to be more worried about your boy picking up than the word “faggot”.
Besides “faggot” also has other meanings. Faggots were small kindling sticks and faggot gatherers were people who went arond collecting these sticks to sell to others for kindling. Prior to that faggot was a term ascribed to the elderly.
you could maybe sit down and talk to your boy about the term, proactively, too, in case - God forbid - he ever hears it tossed around somewhere, not just on the radio.
So what do you do if and when you boy reads “Huckleberry Finn” and comes across a certain racial slur?
“It’s a crude slur and should be edited out. I don’t want my kid calling another boy a “faggot” because he learned it on the radio.”
It’s intended to be a crude slur. Faggotry is crude and it wants to have sex with your boy. He needs to be taught faggots are crude and deserve scorn.
Stations have been editing that word out since the song came out. Just like they’ve been editing the lyrics to “Jet Airliner” by the Steve Miller Band, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by the CDB, and other groups. It’s annoying but it’s not unprecedented.
Let's ban the words faggot, gay, homo, slut, Jesus, God, bitch, John, and GOP PARTY ANIMAL....
Wouldn't that be a hoot!!!
Stations have been editing that word out since the song came out. Just like they’ve been editing the lyrics to “Jet Airliner” by the Steve Miller Band, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by the CDB, and other groups. It’s annoying but it’s not unprecedented.
I still like that song
I was watching the news with my parents one evening and there was a feature on a minister of some church who tried to start a campaign to censor parts of the Bible that talked about sex and violence, but of course all he did was become an object of ridicule-my parents certainly thought it was funny.
And I don't like it at all.....
The word, speech, thought.. police are coming.....!!
First time I’ve ever heard them censor the word ‘faggot’ for that song was just a few months ago listening to 104.1 in Orlando. Ironically, they call themselves REAL RADIO.
He recounts that:
I had Lumumba doing the rhumba to the tune of the Blue Tango;
I had the abominable snowman bringing in Fidel Castro;
I had President Ike up at the mic singing Are You Lonesome Tonight?
I had the UN lost in the snow out west
And Khrushchev squealing, You Talk Too Much,
And there was Brenda Lee running track for State,
And there was Kennedy giving a station break,
And the guys down at Canaveral shoveling snow...
The original version retains the line about Lumumba doing the rhumba, but I also have another version which omits that line. That version most likely came out after Congo-Léopoldville's leftist former premier Patrice Lumumba was murdered in January, 1961, not long after the original version was released.
What a coinkydink !
That's precisely what the gaystapo faggots said before launching this particular book lyrics burning episode !
Exactly, and thank you.
Coprophilic sexual deviants abusing one another's filthy anal area is repellent and disease-producing. It's time we did kids a favor and started teaching them that, instead of playing the left's game of whitewashing perversion with benign misnomers.
Chinchy Old Scrooge--Phil Moore & the Phil Moore Four (1953)
Pack Up Your Troubles--Oscar Seagle with the Columbia Stellar Quartette (1917)
Oh yeah, a local college station at Seton Hall does a couple hours of punk music a week. Aside from the obvious harsh language, the Sex Pistols song God Save the Queen has “God” silenced...
I don't remember them playing the song, though.
To be honest it was not the best concert I've been to.
It was more lasers and special effects than music.
And if he played the song as written, it wouldn't have been a big deal anyway.
1992 was not that far removed from 1985.
It IS a "big deal" in 2014, unfortunately.
I'm surprised about how many liberal "artists" don't defend their work, no matter how politically incorrect it may seem to modern ears.
Lou Reed is dead, but I wonder if he'd re-write "Take a Walk on the Wild Side".
He might get a pass, because I think he was bi-sexual.
And the colored girls sing...
LOL!
Don’t know about the song, but I laugh every time I watch “A Few Good Men” and Jack Nicholson’s taunt about Tom Cruise standing in “your faggoty white uniform” comes out as “your girly white uniform”.....
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