Posted on 04/15/2007 5:28:23 AM PDT by Nextrush
It details these "Fairness Doctrine Days" and is deserving of a movie, although I don't envision Clooney doing it.
I'm now listening to an audio stream of Imus from 1972 (1st anniversary in New York) with lots of controversial comment including one guy telling Imus that prostitution should be legal. Chuck McCord was doing the news back then, too. And he has a lispy gay phony newscaster.
Of course, many of us have become leery of First Amendment protection, due to the trashers (Piss Christ, etc - ad nauseum)
So Johnson was behind the fairness doctrine and getting churches under the IRS.
It actually dates back to the Truman-FDR days but as you can see the liberals used it to effectively attack enemies who criticized them in the 60’s and 70’s.
And the Nixon Administration (Paris Peace Talks, Treaty) didn’t like McIntire because he wanted to win the Vietnam War, hence the FCC shutting him down over the “Fairness Dcotrine.”
Liberal Democrats and some GOP enablers too. The same problem in this country today.
Imus got was coming to him, just like Whoopi was expelled from Slim Fast when she made Jackass comments about the President. Money talks! And when masses of customers are fed up with certain diatribes, it is their Constitutional Right to respond.
Imus is just another example of what happens to white people who make the mistake of offending the black folks.
Imus was a liberal and definitely has nothing against black people. In fact i am sure heb would lean over backwards to be helpful to most black organisations.
Howard Cosell who was another white man that was tossed aside because of blacks being offended was a great fan of black sports figures. He helped make Cassious Clay a personality, helped hiom become famous and always pushed black sports figures as being great. Yet they tossed all Howards good works aside and attacked him for a small offhand remark.
Imus was making what he thought was a joke,.But he made it about the wrong race. had he made it about whites ,polish , irish most any other race or sect he would have gotten away.
No he stepped in the dog doo that is black offense.
So he’s gone and we wonder who will be next.
One thing is certain the ones who need to be taken to task for this Al & Jesse wont be bothered. They will go on race baiting and not only allowed to get away with it , they will be praised for it.
No doubt, but its the “what’s next” that bothers me and you better be afraid of that if you value your freedom of speech.
This can lead to speech codes imposed by the corporate people to censor radio. Codes that equal the power of the Fairness Doctrine.
And if Sharpton’s line about what’s “acceptable” in broadcasting were to become official government policy (imagine it extended to the internet) then freedom for all of us is lost.
Imus used common street vernacular. So common that a white guy in his 70’s was familiar with it. Problem is, he was not licensed by blacks to use “their words” and paid a hefty price.
What kind of Freedom of Speech is it to call a Basketball team , nappy headed hos? If you say it, then you are accountable for it.
The same Freedom of Speech that protects a crucifix in a jar of urine as art.
Yes..... or the Freedom of Speech or Expression of a Dung Laden Madonna in an Art museum.
That radio station had someone read a poem about a dog urinating on Martin Luther King’s grave.
Imagine that today.
Literal nooses would be in the streets for that.
I’d never make that comment myself, but you better understand its just a straw man like that poem that liberals used in their campaign to impose the “Fairness Doctrine” in the 1970’s.
The real goal, silence political enemies.
And Shartpon is using this bad comment to intimidate and ultimately silence those who disagree with him. (including radio talk hosts)
Or the Freedom of Speech, that gives John Kerry the right to belittle our troops
I don’t care for Al Sharpton, he is stuck in the sixities, and if Al Sharpton starts calling White Folks deragatory terms on his radio show, then it will be his time to go.
“What is next” is the true fear. And by your name I can tell what you think. I am in total agreement. If they go after Rush then we must rise up. He has twenty million dedicated listeners. And for the advertisers that’s a whole lot of people to offend by pulling your ad’s!
I agree with what you said, about Imus just doing what he does all the time on his radio show. But he stepped on someones toes, and he got busted.
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