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Little People Want to Ban Word ‘Midget’
CNS News . COM ^
| 7/6/09
Posted on 07/06/2009 4:28:50 PM PDT by llevrok
New York - Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.
The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.
The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" that the group said was demeaning.
In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.
Calls to the FCC and "Celebrity Apprentice" host Donald Trump were not immediately answered Sunday. NBC Universal representatives didn't immediately respond to e-mail messages, and the telephone rang unanswered at their Los Angeles office
TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
KEYWORDS: bhofcc; hypersensitivity; midgets; prettysmallofem; slur
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:28:51 PM PDT
by
llevrok
To: llevrok
Are you kidding me? *Holds one hand at waist level* I've had it up to here with midgets!
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:31:03 PM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
(Sarah Palin is not unemployed; she's a 'conservative community organizer')
To: llevrok
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:31:13 PM PDT
by
devane617
(Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
To: llevrok
It will only take a short while.
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:31:28 PM PDT
by
clamper1797
(FUBO ... the Anti-Reagan)
To: llevrok
Curiously, midgets want to ban the term “little people”.
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:31:45 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Too sick for words!)
To: llevrok
The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:31:46 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: llevrok
The group Little People of America In another few years they'll find the phrase "little people" offensive and want it banned.
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:32:10 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: llevrok
I heard this this morning and wondered what they would prefer. How about "shrimp"?
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:32:51 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: llevrok
Yeah, and I want them to ban the word Whitey, but they probably won’t!
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:32:53 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: calex59
I want them to ban the word cracker on the boxes and start calling them “butter crisps.”
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:34:24 PM PDT
by
I Hate Obama
(Don't Blame Me I Voted For Paris Hilton)
To: llevrok
Now I have the Randy Newman song “Short People” stuck in my head!
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:34:39 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
To: Mr. Mojo
“Short people got no reason.....Grubby little hands grubby little feet.......Grubby little cars that go beep beep beep”
Great tune....Ban Randy Neuman
To: llevrok
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:35:29 PM PDT
by
djsherin
(Government is essentially the negation of liberty.)
To: llevrok
Little People Want to Ban Word ‘Midget’
When asked about their understanding of the First Amendment, they said very little. Little people indeed.
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:35:48 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: llevrok
Sounds like someone’s self-confidence is dwarfed by their insecurity.
To: llevrok
I would rather be called a Midget then little person. Why not vertically challenged? Either way, its who you are..there’s no nice way of putting it into words when a person has been born with a rare height and is sensitive about it. You’ll take offense no matter what they call you even if you are politically correct.
To: llevrok
Just when you thought things could not get any more absurd, another day dawns and it does.
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:36:55 PM PDT
by
rockabyebaby
(We are sooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
To: The Original Pissant
Well I see this thread has no shortage of puns ...
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:38:13 PM PDT
by
clamper1797
(FUBO ... the Anti-Reagan)
To: llevrok
To: rrrod
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posted on
07/06/2009 4:38:44 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Seaman Recruit Anoreth broke her foot. Prayers requested!)
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