Gay slur in lyrics disqualifies Dire Straits hit from Canadian radio play (Unbelievable!)

The Globe and Mail ^ | 01-14-11 | Ottawa — The Canadian Press

[mkleesma]

The 1980s song Money for Nothing by the British rock band Dire Straits has been deemed unacceptable for play on Canadian radio.

In a ruling released Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says the song contravenes the human rights clauses of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code. A listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John's complained last year that the song includes the word “faggot” in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I thought they were gay...

[Lockbar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsnA0ix9hZU&feature=related

This is un-cut and contains “faggots”.

Kind of funny. That was state of the art computer animation back in 1983.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Dude!

Mark Knopfler is, in fact, not gay.

[pogo101]

This is like accusing actor Carrol “Archie Bunker” O’Connor of being a bigot because he character is a bigot.

The lyrics were intended as voicing what a working-class slob might say. You think moving men in 1986 Britain didn’t use language like that? Knopfler wasn’t APPROVING such language.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

And is rap disqualified because it calls people the “n word” the “b word” and “hos”?

[Ol' Sparky]

(See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup

Yeah buddy that's his own hair

That little faggot got his own jet airplane

That little faggot he's a millionaire)

[Rinnwald]

“Banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee” Also a racist and discriminatory phrase. But undetected... as of yet.

You, sir, have nailed the true sapiens rights abuse of the song. Chimpanzees are extremely erudite, sensitive, self-aware beings, as expressed by them wholly staffing the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.

[biggerten]

Pack up your troubles in your own kit bag
and smile, smile smile.
While you’ve a lucifer to light your fag,
smile, boys, that’s the style!
What’s the use of worryin’?
It never was worthwhile!
So, pack up your troubles in your own kit bag
and smile, smile smile.

[Yaelle]

I am offended by the "Chicks for Free" part!

[jaydubya2]

Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
They’re not afraid now
Disco bar in germany
Les boys are glad to be
Upon parade now

Les boys got leather straps
Les boys got ss caps
But they got no gun now
Get dressed up get a little risque
Got to do a little s & m these days
It’s all in fun now

Les boys come on again
For the high class whores
And the businessmen
Who drive in their mercedes benz
To a disco bar in old munchen

They get the jokes that the d.j. makes
They get nervous and they make mistakes
They’re bad for business
Some tourist take a photograph
Les boys don’t get one laugh
He says they’re useless

Late at night when they’re gone away
Les boys dream of jean genet
High heel shoes and a black beret
And the posters on the wall that say
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay

[RichInOC]

Next thing you know, they’ll ban “Sultans of Swing” because it’s considered insulting to you-know-who. And let’s not even think about “Rock the Casbah” by The Clash.

[wxgesr]

But the chicks are free!!

[Psycho_Bunny]

So....are orchestras in Canada going to have to fire the fagotti players?

[littleharbour]

It wasn’t the Radio station. It was the Gestapo government regulators. We are the poster child for “Nanny State”.

[sportutegrl]

I wonder if they also ban rap music with The 'N' Word!

[Vaquero]

It wasn’t the Radio station. It was the Gestapo government regulators. We are the poster child for “Nanny State”.

you need a TEA PARTY!!!!(don't worry...we wont tell the queen.)

[littleharbour]

Mark Knopfler may be gay, but he’s not a homosexual. I hate the way even we conservatives permit the lib-left to hi-jack the English language.

[circlecity]

"Mark Knopfler is, in fact, not gay."

Are you sure? I though he came out back in the 90's. A quick google search didn't answer the question one way or the other. If he's not - my apologies to Mr. Knopfler.

[dfwgator]

Mark Knopfler has been married three times.
While he was living in Leeds he married Kathy White, his long-time girlfriend from school days. They separated before Knopfler moved to London to join Brewers Droop.[8]
Knopfler married for the second time in November 1983, to Lourdes Salomone, and became a father to twin sons, Benji and Joseph in 1987,[15] both of whom he has said are talented musically, and aspiring musicians. Knopfler’s marriage to Salomone ended in 1993.[16]
Knopfler’s third marriage is to actress Kitty Aldridge,[23] and has given him two daughters Isabella (born 1998) and Katya Ruby Rose (born 2003).[24] The family currently lives in Chelsea.

[littleharbour]

“you need a TEA PARTY!!!!(don’t worry...we wont tell the queen.) “

LOL. Reminds me of the scene in Mary Poppins when Mr. Banks is about to be fired by his bank by his boss, Mr. Dawes:

Mr. Dawes: In 1773, an official of this bank, unwisely loaned a large sum of money, to finance a shipment of tea to the American colonies. Do you know what happened?

Mr. Banks: Yes, sir. Yes, I think I do. Uh, uh, as the ship lay in Boston harbor, uh, a party of the colonists dressed as Red Indians, uh, boarded the vessel, behaved very rudely, and, and threw all the tea overboard. This made the tea unsuitable for drinking, even for Americans.

Mr. Dawes: Precisely. The loan was defaulted. Panic ensued within these walls. There was a run on the bank!

Oh no! In the unlikely event that the CRTC reads Free Republic, I’ve now ensured the banning of Mary Poppins!!