[SeekAndFind]

WHile they're at it, they have to be consistent -- what about gangsta rap ?

Are guys like Eminem going to be banned in Canada as well?

[Rinnwald]

‘I got an objection from the editor of a gay newspaper in London - he actually said it was 'below the belt.'

[Groucho voice] And that guy should know.

[dragonblustar]

They can change the lyrics and say,”money for nothing and your dicks for free.”

[ConservativeStatement]

I was told that a recent rebroadcast of the 1970s game show “Match Game” blocked out a reference about gays. Charles Nelson Reilly wouldn’t be happy about the censorship.

[Oberon]

The funny thing is, the line has to be taken in context to be fully understood. The song is performed in character, in the character of a working man doing a blue-collar job. The whole point is "Hey, we have to work for a living... look what those musicians get to do for their money!"

The word "faggot" is exactly what your average construction crew would use, in a discussion of rock music while performing a "...custom kitchen delivery."

Not to mention that song itself vindicates the "faggot" in question... say what you like about him, that little "faggot" is a millionaire. So who's the fool... the "faggot" with the earring and the makeup, or the guy schlepping refrigerators and color TVs all day?

[Moose Burger]

Nice. The left’s central tenet, “Get your money for nothin’ get your chicks for free”, under PC Police attack.

[VanDeKoik]

Are they kidding?!

My wife and I(children of the 80s) still laugh ourselves silly at that line. For as much as I hear the gay people I know use it, I doubt they care either. Heck, if you dont really know the words to the song, you would never have known it was there.

[raccoonradio]

Station in Edmonton was to play it for one full hour to support free speech (unedited)

[dead]

The council concluded that 'f****t'. when used to describe a homosexual man, is a word 'that, even if entirely or marginally acceptable in earlier days, is no longer so.'

They're such dopes. They don't even realize Knopfler was mocking the person spouting those words.

Short people got no reason to live.

[Ciexyz]

What about the rock opera Tommy where Uncle Ernie is portrayed as a gay child molester’

[Steely Tom]

They’re going to Bowderlize Mark Twain too, I heard.

[thefactor]

Clearly, this hate speech is in response to the right’s vitriol.

[Kozak]

And in further news from the “Ministry of Truth” the classic American Novel “Huck Finn” has just been published in a new PC version where they replaced the word n****r with slave, 127 years after it’s publication

[j-damn]

This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Every time I hear this song I figure it might be the last.

[Reo]

Here’s a link to maybe the best performance ever of M-F-N at a benefit concert back in the 90’s. Mark Knopfler with Sting as 2nd vocal, Clapton as 2nd guitar, Phil Collins on drums, a full symphony orchestra, a full choir, and the inimitable Ray Cooper on the tabourine. Click here,dial up the volume and enjoy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1lNMBsNEw8&feature=related

[Tax-chick]

There’s a line in a Taylor Swift song that goes, “So go and tell your friends that I’m obsessive and crazy; that’s fine, I’ll tell mine that you’re gay!” One rarely hears this version on the radio. There’s a substitute line that’s more “sensitive.”

[dfwgator]

"Watch me! It's so simple! Give me the playback! Watch me, faggots! ..."

[stansblugrassgrl]

Oh thanks. Now this song will be in my head all day

I want my, I want my, I want my MTV

[DeaconRed]

MONEY FOR NOTHING AND CHICKS FOR FREE.
Zero wants that for all of us. . . . . . .

[TXnMA]

Same old thing in the (slow) news yesterday. In this one, at first, I thought that the last starred-out letter was "i". Now, I would find that to be offensive.

"Faggot" is a perfectly good word (like "gay") that has been mis-appropriated by the queers as an euphemism.

As an editor, I would say,

"STET!!"

[rdb3]

I LOVED THAT SONG!