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?
Been happening for a while. On a similar note, one one of the other boards I frequent, an absolute spaz out occurred when a poster said “That’s gay. People were clutching pearls like there was no tomorow.
Exactly ONE person commented on that same thread when one of the spaz crew went off with a “Slanty eyed Jap” comment.
Isn’t selective outrage wonderful?
I’ve heard it with that entire verse edited out.
they were referring to ‘sir’ Elton John
I have seen those....some black lesbian actress is in them. I understand the sentiment. I hate hearing Jesus’ and God’s name used as a curse word.
Of course, the media will NEVER stop mocking Christ’s name.
Soooo sensitive.
I liked the song, and thought the video was great. The band got even better when they added Paul Franklin on pedal steel!
They also quit playing ‘Hot and Nasty’ by Black Oak Arkansas and ‘Apeman’ by the Kinks.
Those songs are Classic Rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf4c7hlLNi4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEep67akIn4
Your name suits you.
Nothing new at all.
Back in the 70’s the lyrics to Grease were edited on the radio as well as Madonna’s songs in the 80’s. That is why I always listened to the album (that would be CD now).
Download it with Freemake Video Downloader, which will also convert it to mp3.
So, the DJ is a faggot. Who knew?
Is “banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee” still in the mix?
As far as I know “that little faggot” was elected President,...twice!
Must be the word, ‘little’.
They guy that wrote the song actually changed "Queenie" to "Faggot" because in Australia and the UK "Queenie" was consider a more offensive term for a homosexual than "Faggot" which didn't have quite the connotations it did in the United States and referred more to an enfeminent man than necessarily a homosexual (sort of like we might say "sissy" or "girly-boy".
I remember hearing that the Rolling Stones single greatest tune was racist too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8eYmzdH4
You’re going to eventually have a long and running list of crude and banned words to police. There are tons of them and new terms come up all the time. Attempting to sanitize speech is a never ending and futile job.
You're right...We should call the queer perverts something like culturally diversified or just gender bender...
They’ve been leaving this out for years around me.
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