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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
in the 90s, Q95 Bob And Tom syndicated show made jokes daily about gays. One of the favorites was "Buttman, and his boy Swallow" Not any more. And they too, now censor that word from the song
21 posted on 02/18/2014 1:10:48 PM PST by digger48
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To: SoFloFreeper

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?


22 posted on 02/18/2014 1:11:00 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’ve heard it with that entire verse edited out.


23 posted on 02/18/2014 1:11:22 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Wyatt's Torch

they were referring to ‘sir’ Elton John


24 posted on 02/18/2014 1:11:25 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Starboard

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.


25 posted on 02/18/2014 1:12:15 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Soooo sensitive.


26 posted on 02/18/2014 1:12:20 PM PST by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I liked the song, and thought the video was great. The band got even better when they added Paul Franklin on pedal steel!


27 posted on 02/18/2014 1:13:00 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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


28 posted on 02/18/2014 1:13:03 PM PST by chopperman
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Your name suits you.


29 posted on 02/18/2014 1:13:48 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: SoFloFreeper

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).


30 posted on 02/18/2014 1:13:57 PM PST by bearkat
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To: SoFloFreeper
The unedited verison is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDDswGsJ60

Download it with Freemake Video Downloader, which will also convert it to mp3.

31 posted on 02/18/2014 1:14:38 PM PST by Spirochete (Does the FedGov have the attributes of a legitimate government?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So, the DJ is a faggot. Who knew?


32 posted on 02/18/2014 1:14:56 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: SoFloFreeper

Is “banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee” still in the mix?


33 posted on 02/18/2014 1:15:57 PM PST by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: SoFloFreeper

As far as I know “that little faggot” was elected President,...twice!


34 posted on 02/18/2014 1:16:02 PM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Must be the word, ‘little’.


35 posted on 02/18/2014 1:16:53 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I heard an interview back several years ago on one of the "Behind the Music" type shows. The guy from Dire Straights the wrote the song said that he got the entire idea for it when he walked into an appliance store and started chatting with one of the employees. There was a rock video on the TV in the background with one of the long haired metal bands on and the employee turned toward it and said "Look at that little Queenie with the earrings and the mink coat!" one of the other employees chimed in, "Yeah, but I bet that little Queenie flys around in a jet-plane and is a millionaire."

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".

36 posted on 02/18/2014 1:19:26 PM PST by apillar
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To: liege

I remember hearing that the Rolling Stones single greatest tune was racist too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8eYmzdH4


37 posted on 02/18/2014 1:19:46 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

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.


38 posted on 02/18/2014 1:20:46 PM PST by Starboard
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
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.

You're right...We should call the queer perverts something like culturally diversified or just gender bender...

39 posted on 02/18/2014 1:21:06 PM PST by Iscool (Ya mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

They’ve been leaving this out for years around me.


40 posted on 02/18/2014 1:22:12 PM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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