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Condemned Columnist, Steakhouse Slurs (FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK!!!)
Fox News ^ | January 19, 2004 | Scott Norvell

Posted on 01/19/2004 7:27:56 AM PST by txradioguy

Condemned Columnist, Steakhouse Slurs

Monday, January 19, 2004

By Scott Norvell

A British television commentator who used the phrases "suicide bombers, limb-amputators and women repressors" in reference to Arabs is becoming a cause-celebre for free speech after being suspended from his job at the BBC because of the comments, reports ITV.

In a column published Jan. 4 in London’s Sunday Express, Robert Kilroy-Silk also lashed out at Arab extremists who murdered 3,000 civilians on Sept. 11 and "danced in the hot, dusty streets" afterward.

The BBC immediately suspended him from his daily BBC-TV chat show following complaints from Muslim groups.

Kilroy-Silk apologized for any offense taken, but Britain’s Commission for Racial Equality nevertheless said it would refer the article to police in case it incited race hate and violated public order laws.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Kilroy-Silk asserted his right to speak his mind.

"If I am not allowed to say that there are Arab states that are evil, despotic and treat women abominably, if I am not allowed to say that, which I know to be a fact, then what can I say?" he said.

Steakhouse Slur

A lone activist is leading a crusade to change the name of a 55-year-old steakhouse near Philadelphia because she says it is demeaning to Asians, reports the News Gleaner.

Chink's Steaks, a local landmark in Wissinoming, Pa., is under attack from Susannah Park, of West Philadelphia, who says that regardless of its origins the name is a slur and must be changed.

The owner of Chink’s, Joseph Groh, is baffled. He says the name was passed down to him by the founder Samuel "Chink" Sherman, who died in 1997.

"Why now?" Groh wondered. "We have been here for 50 years."

Disallowed Criticism

Columnist and TV pundit Robert Novak is being excoriated as a racist for suggesting that voting irregularities occurred on a South Dakota reservation during the 2002 midterm elections, reports Native Times. Speaking on CNN’s "Crossfire," Novak said there were some "serious voting irregularities" that helped U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson win a close election in 2002 against challenger John Thune.

"In 2002, Thune would have been elected to the state's other Senate seat, but the election was stolen by stuffing ballot boxes on the Indian reservations," Novak said.

A statement from Sen. Tom Daschle’s office called the comments "unfair, offensive, and malicious."

"Mr. Novak's comments about the Natives in South Dakota were unbelievably crude and derogatory. It is hard to believe that a racist statement -- such as ‘the election was stolen by stuffing ballot boxes on the Indian reservations’ would be made at all, much less by a journalist," said South Dakota Democratic Party Chairwoman Judy Olson Duhamel. She called on Novak and CNN to apologize.

Dining Dilemma

A British police official’s warning that officers should shy away from eating street food at a Sikh festival in London because "their hygiene standards are not as high as ours" was deemed racist and insensitive, reports the Guardian.

The officer reportedly warned her colleagues not to eat food prepared by temples involved in the Guru Nanak procession in west London because an officer had previously eaten there and fallen ill. The officer who gave the warning is now under investigation for making "inappropriate comments."

Suresh Grover of something called The Monitoring Group said the comment smacks of racism.

"This is very serious because issues of religious identity and respect for religion are crucial," he said.

So Much for Sensitivity

A California high school student who penned an article for his school paper calling for a crackdown on illegal immigration says he has constantly been harassed ever since and the faculty there ignore his pleas, reports the Washington Times.

Tim Bueler, founder of the Rancho Cotate High School’s new Conservative Club, says he has been called a racist and a Nazi for his views. Some teachers have started a public campaign to have his club disbanded and stood by while Hispanic students threatened and harassed him.

"The teacher told him, 'When you say things like that, you've got to expect that things like this are going to happen,’" said Tim’s father, Dennis Bueler.

One teacher called his group "a bunch of bigots" and another called on students to "take a stand against the neoconservative wing-nuts who call themselves Americans."

Sleeping Dog or History's Tapestry?

Race-baiters are in a twit over publication of a new version of the classic "The Story of Little Black Sambo" and a positive review of it in one publication, saying the book is hurtful and has no redeeming social value, reports The Associated Press.

The prestigious Kirkus Reviews selected the re-release as one of its editors’ picks for 2003, saying "The most controversial children's picture book in history is richly resurrected with truly sumptuous illustrations in a gorgeous oversized format." Kirkus said the illustrator "replaces the stereotypical" and champions "a handsome, tawny-skinned Sambo."

But Richard Yarborough, associate professor of English and faculty research associate with the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, questioned the need for the remake.

"Why try to salvage it? What do we gain by trying to refashion and salvage that text?" Yarborough asked.

The story was written in 1899 by the wife of a Scottish medical officer stationed in India. It tells the tale of a "little black" boy who outwits a group of tigers bent on devouring him.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bbc; hypersensitivity; kilroy; pc; slur
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This PC Lunacy will only stop when everyone is scared to say anything to someone for fear of offending them. But then they will probably seek legislation to punish someone if they give you a "hard look".
1 posted on 01/19/2004 7:27:56 AM PST by txradioguy
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To: txradioguy
Here is that 'chill wind' Mr. Sarandon was so worried about.
2 posted on 01/19/2004 7:32:28 AM PST by blanknoone
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To: txradioguy
He actually said those things in Britain? He's lucky that the Home Secretary hasn't ordered him locked up, incommunicado, in that "free" nation.
3 posted on 01/19/2004 7:33:53 AM PST by Seruzawa (sure cure for depression - turn off the news and throw away your newspaper.)
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To: txradioguy
Is the BBC taking time off from murdering witnesses again
to oppress those who tell the truth?


book 'em, Dano.


4 posted on 01/19/2004 7:33:54 AM PST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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To: txradioguy
A British television commentator who used the phrases "suicide bombers, limb-amputators and women repressors" in reference to Arabs is becoming a cause-celebre for free speech after being suspended from his job at the BBC because of the comments, reports ITV.

Facts are stubborn things. Don't shoot the messenger.

5 posted on 01/19/2004 7:34:44 AM PST by tdadams
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One teacher called his group "a bunch of bigots" and another called on students to "take a stand against the neoconservative wing-nuts who call themselves Americans."

I love it when leftists reveal their Fascist cores!

6 posted on 01/19/2004 7:36:55 AM PST by FormerLib (We'll fight the good fight until the very end!)
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The BBC immediately suspended him from his daily BBC-TV chat show following complaints from Muslim groups.

Because we know that Muslim groups rule Britannia.

Next we will hear about somebody losing his job because homosexuals dislike his preference for heterosexual sex!

7 posted on 01/19/2004 7:38:25 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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To: FormerLib
The best way to maks your true "self" is to accuse others of what you yourself really are.
8 posted on 01/19/2004 7:44:05 AM PST by txradioguy (This Tagline Sponsored By An Army Of One)
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To: txradioguy
The Suicide-Bomber-Limb-Amputator-Women-Repressor Lobby is getting worse all the time.

-Dan
9 posted on 01/19/2004 7:46:59 AM PST by Flux Capacitor (FOUR MORE IN '04!!!)
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Ah yes. Heaven forbid any journalist should tell the truth about bloody jihadis or any other darling group of the media.

Speaking of bloody jihadis, Susannah Park is a perfect example of the American hizbah. The Taliban would be proud until they blew her brains out for speaking without permission. "Regardless of it's origins, the name is a slur"?? Vut me a break. If the left didn't constantly insist that we're all racist, we'd all probably forget to BE racist and just get along fine.

There WERE voting irregularities on the SD reservation. The woman was CAUGHT. Novak's right and the left is lying as usual.

FOFLOL...ok, so if he encouraged his men to eat at those Sikh food stalls and they all got food poisoning, he could have demanded a medal for sensitivty??

The kid in CA: we all know about that and 99% of us support him. Wish there was more we could do to stop the progressive fascists tormenting him.

Speaking of fascists....so the progressives are gonna ban more books. Big surprise.

10 posted on 01/19/2004 7:47:40 AM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: Flux Capacitor
YOu know...as soon as I clicked that link I started getting a burning itchy rash. It only happens to me when anyone or anything from C.A.I.R. gets near me. Shoulda know that was the case this time! LOL!
11 posted on 01/19/2004 7:50:39 AM PST by txradioguy (This Tagline Sponsored By An Army Of One)
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To: txradioguy
The truth is the enemy of liberalism...for it reveals the lie that it is.
12 posted on 01/19/2004 7:52:59 AM PST by cwb (®)
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"FOFLOL...ok, so if he encouraged his men to eat at those Sikh food stalls and they all got food poisoning, he could have demanded a medal for sensitivty??"


Every soldier I know of over here in Baghdad carries Purel hand sanitizer and uses it almost immediately after we shake hands with ANY Iraqi. Their sanitation habits here are....ummm....less than desireable.
13 posted on 01/19/2004 7:57:26 AM PST by txradioguy (This Tagline Sponsored By An Army Of One)
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"Their sanitation habits here are....ummm....less than desireable."

Yep. Terribly insensitive of them to take steps to protect themselves, though. What would Hillary! say?

14 posted on 01/19/2004 8:08:16 AM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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"What would Hillary! say?"


She'd say that "It's yet another tragic failure of this administration that we haven't taught the Iraqi people to stop using their hand to wipe their @ss and start using toilet paper."

/sarcasm
15 posted on 01/19/2004 8:13:47 AM PST by txradioguy (This Tagline Sponsored By An Army Of One)
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complaints from Muslim groups

Muslims will have to live with their religiously inspired suicide attack and bombing history much as Catholics for the inquisition and Japanese for atrocities in world War II.

Humans make mistakes; and the value, wisdom and morality in speaking truth about history is -- at best -- the prevention of future horrendous mistakes.

16 posted on 01/19/2004 8:16:53 AM PST by thinktwice (A culture that muzzles reason and truth will not be well remembered.)
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A statement from Sen. Tom Daschle’s office called the comments "unfair, offensive, and malicious."

Not to mention, completely true!

17 posted on 01/19/2004 8:20:40 AM PST by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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ROFLOL! Oh man, that pretty much made my Monday, and that's sayin' something!
18 posted on 01/19/2004 8:22:47 AM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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I'm surprised he didn't include how "disappointing" the remarks were and how he was shocked!...SHOCKED! that someone would make these allegations and end it by blaming it all on Rush Limbaugh.
19 posted on 01/19/2004 8:29:39 AM PST by txradioguy (This Tagline Sponsored By An Army Of One)
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To: txradioguy; Temple Owl; Tribune7

A lone activist is leading a crusade to change the name of a 55-year-old steakhouse near Philadelphia because she says it is demeaning to Asians, reports the News Gleaner.

Chink's Steaks, a local landmark in Wissinoming, Pa., is under attack from Susannah Park, of West Philadelphia, who says that regardless of its origins the name is a slur and must be changed.

HAHAHA!!!  Goofball, you've probably doubled business at Chink's ever since you started your stupid campaign!  Here's an idea, if it offends you so much, stay in West Philadelphia and out of Wissinoming.  That's a better idea than my original which was to re name it "Slope's"

Owl_Eagle

" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"


20 posted on 01/19/2004 8:30:27 AM PST by End Times Sentinel ("So what are you going to do, vote for a Democrat? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"- Karl Rove.)
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