Posted on 05/11/2007 3:30:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
I agree wholeheartedly. Sometimes they are absolutely hilarious, sometimes they are just too much for me. But just because someone else doesn’t like it doesn’t mean they should decide that I can’t listen to it. That’s problem I have with people demanding that someone be fired. These people obviously aren’t fans and don’t listen to the show, yet they think they can decide what I listen to.
If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it. I don’t listen to Air America on XM, but I don’t demand that XM remove them from their line-up.
Condi wasn’t attacked. Now was her character defamed.
I want to steal your car radio! Now point to the defamation in that sentence.
The more ridiculous you get. The funnier it gets.
LOL - because you know it's true. The free speech mantra stops at your front stoop, doesn't it? So, while you're excoriating Boortz for wanting these guys off the air for their repugnant, vile show (which you apparently enjoy), I'm just curious if you would be so supportive if some guy with a bullhorn stood outside your house and broadcast his rape fantasy and brought pain and suffering to your family.
If you don't know the answer to that, well...
Really! Again. What if it was your mother? Can you really sit there with a straight face and tell me if someone on XM radio described the same rape fantasy about your mother, you wouldn't consider that an attack on your mother's dignity and reputation?
Of course there's no defamation in that sentence. The subject is my car radio, not me. If these guys had a fantasy about stealing Condi's purse, that's not defamation, either. Casting her as someone worthy of being raped? That's defamation.
> OK, we are talking about free speech here.
Correct.
> What is the greater outrage — to demand someone be fired or to joke about a woman being raped?
Neither. We don’t live in a Puritanical world anymore. I sometimes wish we did, but we don’t. We are confronted with outrageous, tasteless behavior all the time. It’s part of living in a free society. My point is that while joking about raping a woman is inappropriate for church, it’s what you’d expect from a shock jock. If you don’t like it, don’t go there. Don’t fire O & A, just switch the station and make your views known to XM—although if you’re not an XM subscriber or O & A listener to begin with, it’s none of your business.
And it’s hilarious how you so badly misunderstand basic metahoric relationships.
A guy stalking me with a bullhorn harassing my mother is not akin to a homeless guy talking about wanting to rape a woman he’ll never get within a mile of.
Do me a favor. Go to a blog I don’t visit and talk about all the horrible things you want to do to my mother. I’ll sit here and wait for it to hurt my feelings.
You seriously don’t understand the definition of defamation. The Pope should give ya a shiner for such silliness.
Dopey and Apathy are terrible all right... a terrible bore. That’s why I don’t tune in to them. I’m not sure Neil intended this indictment of HR3302 to read like such a howling screed in favor of censorship. Yes, the column is trying to draw an ironic parallel to what the lefties will try to do to talk radio, but it’s rather poorly done and has confused most readers, it seems.
It really is a sign of the times. A woman's honor was once something that was worthy of defending. You can't even find moral outrage in the above hypothetical scenario because all you care about is your own "feelings", and not the assault on the dignity of your mother, my mother, anyone's mother - whoever it is. That's just sad.
If you say so, Bogey!
Because, what people say about public officials that I am not forced to listen to or come across has no bearing on me at all.
Yeah, lets give Opie and Anthony what for by giving them lots of free publicity.
Hmmm. . .seems to me he is just expressing an opinion, not dictating to you what you should listen to.
It is perfectly acceptable for someone to call for their firing. Free speech and all, ya know.
But it sure is the sign of a psychotic personality.
> What would your opinion be of free speech as your family honor is desecrated for the purpose of “entertainment”? Shrug your shoulders? Oh well? It’s their right?
There are laws governing harassment, libel and defamation, but I don’t think that’s what you’re talking about. I do admire Condi Rice greatly. She showed great strength facing up to the Dems on the Foreign Relations Committee who tried to bully her around in the confirmation hearings. Condi is so far above O & A that I would indeed expect her to shrug it off.
> I’m just curious if your idea of free speech only applies to people you don’t know...
To take a personal example, I live in Massachusetts and have become inured to the personal abuse showered upon me by people shocked to discover that a Republican is in their midst.
no offense, but I think you missed the boat on what he’s saying in this article. He’s not dictating what people should and shouldn’t listen to. He’s saying that with this bill, the libs will use these guys’ stupidity to lump ALL of talk radio (Air America not included) into one basket and ban it. It’s no secret that libs would gleefully sacrifice one of thier own to eliminate 2, 3, 10 of ours. Regardless of O&A’s political stand, left or right, they can, and judging by this bill most likely will, be used as a tool to ban free speech.
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