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Gay slur in lyrics disqualifies Dire Straits hit from Canadian radio play (Unbelievable!)
The Globe and Mail ^ | 01-14-11 | Ottawa — The Canadian Press

Posted on 01/13/2011 9:30:34 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: correctness; direstraits; duplicate; homonazism; homosexualagenda; homostalinism; homotyranny; political; politicalcorrectness; thoughtpolice
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To: mkleesma

Perhaps Mark Knopfler and the band were doing a bit of role playing. They imagined themselves as the average joe looking at rock celebs and imagining themselves saying things like
“the little faggot got his own jet airplane” and then saying
“I should have learned to play a guitar”

In a famous Randy Newman song, he wasn’t making fun of
“short people”, he was making fun of bigots and fools:

RANDY: Short people ain’t got no reason to live...

BACKING CHORUS: Short people are just the same as you or I

RANDY: The fools such as I

There it is—Randy is making fun of bigots, he’s “playing a character” and in that last line his “character” is admitting he is a fool.


81 posted on 01/13/2011 11:19:00 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: mkleesma
So, I guess they'll also be banning "Robin Hood, Men in Tights"...

Robin Hood: You are entering the territory of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
Rabbi Tuckman: Faygeles?
[clears their throats, trying to act macho]
Robin Hood: No, no. We're straight. Just... merry.
Rabbi Tuckman: As I. And who are you, with the exceptionally long feather in your hat?
Robin Hood: I am Robin of Locksley.

82 posted on 01/13/2011 11:24:27 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: OCCASparky

The lyrics for A Well Respected Man contain “And he likes his fags the best”, referring to cigarettes. Ray Davies had a little fun with that line during some concerts in the US. And in one song intro, he talked about an effeminate sounding cop who went up to him and asked “excuse me...is your name Ray Davies?”
Davies, he continues, said ‘yeh, what’s yours’. “L-O-L-A, Lola...”


83 posted on 01/13/2011 11:24:27 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: lionheart 247365

On their live album, they sing (if I recall correctly) “the little mother’s got his own jet airplane, that mother-trucker he’s a millionaire!”


84 posted on 01/13/2011 11:24:52 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: COBOL2Java
So, I guess they'll also be banning "Robin Hood, Men in Tights"...

How about Blazing Saddles?

Now Watch Me FAGGOTS

85 posted on 01/13/2011 11:31:34 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: mkleesma

we were listening to it on the radio recently, and that part had been deleted...


86 posted on 01/13/2011 11:35:34 AM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: Vaquero

I just watched “The Producers” on TCM last Sunday. Made in 1968, it was openly making fun of homo stereotypes of those days. I don’t imagine such a film could be made today. The TCM commentator afterward said the studio (Goldwyn?) would not allow it to be released when it was first finished. He said it was “in bad taste”!Over time it got in circulation anyway and became very popular, especially on TV.


87 posted on 01/13/2011 11:42:29 AM PST by 19th LA Inf
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To: 19th LA Inf
I just watched “The Producers” on TCM last Sunday. Made in 1968, it was openly making fun of homo stereotypes of those days. I don’t imagine such a film could be made today

In the new version of "The Producers" the guy who played Hitler was gay. A lot more gay undertones in the update than in the original.

88 posted on 01/13/2011 11:45:01 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: 19th LA Inf
Lousy Fruit....

that was one line...

btw they use the same dialog in the recent broadway musical and subsequent movie...

89 posted on 01/13/2011 12:46:01 PM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: OCCASparky

“the verse in question refers to George Michael, who in fact IS gay”

I think George Michael was still in the closet at that time, but I don’t think anyone back then thought he preferred women.

Oddly enough, my mother LOVED Wham!.


90 posted on 01/13/2011 1:02:54 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Regulation without representation is tyranny.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Yeah, George Michael’s “coming out” was about as big a shock as Liberace, Clay Aiken, and Freddy Mercury.


91 posted on 01/13/2011 1:26:46 PM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-eyed killer of the deep.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
I think George Michael was still in the closet at that time, but I don’t think anyone back then thought he preferred women.

Everybody knew he was a poofter after they saw the "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" video.

92 posted on 01/13/2011 1:30:46 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: circlecity
I wonder if they are aware the man singing those lyrics is, in fact, gay.

I wonder if his wife and two ex-wives are aware of that "fact"!

93 posted on 01/13/2011 1:42:51 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: mkleesma

Faggot faggot faggot faggot


94 posted on 01/13/2011 1:43:13 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Fear can hold you prisoner.Hope can set you free.(Shawshank Redemption))
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To: circlecity

Sorry...missed your earlier reply.


95 posted on 01/13/2011 1:45:16 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: mkleesma
That ain't workin.

Damn. Even MTV played that song unedited (before it became GayTV).

96 posted on 01/13/2011 1:49:00 PM PST by Darren McCarty (We should lead ourselves instead of looking for leaders)
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To: Riflema

John Lennon is dead.The smelly hippies need to get over it!


97 posted on 01/13/2011 1:49:25 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Fear can hold you prisoner.Hope can set you free.(Shawshank Redemption))
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To: circlecity
I wonder if they are aware the man singing those lyrics is, in fact, gay.

Mark Knopfler isn't gay.

98 posted on 01/13/2011 1:57:42 PM PST by Darren McCarty (We should lead ourselves instead of looking for leaders)
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To: OCCASparky
IIRC, the verse in question refers to George Michael, who in fact IS gay, so in a sense, they're banning a song for telling the truth?

That's probably right.

I think the official explanation of the song was that of a working class New Yorker at an appliance store who watches MTV and describes what he sees. Knopfler overheard some of it and wrote a song about it. He wanted to use the real language they used.

99 posted on 01/13/2011 2:05:26 PM PST by Darren McCarty (We should lead ourselves instead of looking for leaders)
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To: RichInOC

And of course the PC police got to The Cure’s “Killing An Arab” decades ago.


100 posted on 01/13/2011 2:38:32 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Regulation without representation is tyranny.)
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