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Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" Censored by the local classic rock station...
105.9 FM ^ | 2/18/14 | sff

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?


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: censorship; culturewar; direstraits; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; lavendermafia; moneyfornothing; pc; radio; revisionisthistory; rock; savethestraits
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To: SoFloFreeper
My cable provider carries "Music Choice" channels. The '80s channel took the word faggot from the lyrics.

A while back, I read the song had been banned on Canadian radio stations.

121 posted on 02/18/2014 11:35:38 PM PST by Kazan
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To: SamAdams76
In fact, during Tipper Gore days, when she was furiously affixing warning labels to record albums that featured racy or offensive lyrical content, the sales of those recording would usually rocket.

Al and Tipper didn't give a sh!t and ultimately neither did many of the entertainers.

Al Gore Junior needed to get his name on the national stage for the 1988 presidential campaign. That's it.

Many of those same entertainers endorsed his 1992 VP candidacy as did MTV. They gave him even more support in 2000 including Frank Zappa's wife and kids.

122 posted on 02/19/2014 6:36:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Cowgirl of Justice; GeronL
“Is that Elton John? He’s an ol’ faggot, ain’t he?” ...and Elton John, still smiling, said, “You Southern boys will never change” and walked away.

Here's some x-rated (radio X) tape from a radio show of Elton John recording an ad for the Pink Pussycat Boutique. And he himself refers to some of the customers as faggots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOUEjhQFUFk

There is also a blooper from the second Indiana Jones movie where Barbra Streisand is whipping Harrison Ford for all of the bad movies he'd done. She doesn't put full force into the whip action so as not to really hurt him (almost limp wristed) and Brabra says "I feel like such a faggot doing it this way."

Their outrage is quite selective.

123 posted on 02/19/2014 6:44:47 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Here is a poor quality copy of the Barbra Streisand footage from Indiana Jones.

http://www.avclub.com/article/watch-barbra-streisand-whip-indiana-jones-61465

I saw it publicly screened (Director Gary Marshall brought a copy of the full blooper reel with him) in Boston in the 1980s.

I was unaware that it “surfaced on the internet” in 2011 or was “only rumored to exist” until then.


124 posted on 02/19/2014 8:31:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

I just listened to the song on Apple Music. Fortunately, the song is unedited there.


125 posted on 04/07/2023 2:38:35 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,016,040 Truth | 87,429,920 Twitter)
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