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Posted on 02/25/2004 4:37:39 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance
Howard Stern was at his best when he was at WNBC and battling the management stooges there. Maybe this'll change him for the better.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:23:57 PM PST
by
Schattie
(-censored-)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
When he fired Jackie Jokemund, it was over Johnny...OVER!!!
He relied on lazy interns to do his "writing" and all they could come up with was more and more disgusting unfunny garbage. He had this coming, he goes to therapy four times a week, he should have seen it coming, or was it the therapy that screwed Hman?
182
posted on
02/25/2004 6:25:05 PM PST
by
Benrand
To: Mark Felton; Robert_Paulson2
Censorship along established lines - i.e. rules is a mark of civilization. The problem is that the FCC has no standards. All radio and television broadcasters - to borrow a phrase from Animal House - are always on double secret probation. They never know what they will be fined for and for what reason. The FCC is totally arbitrary in their censorship criteria. When you live under a system where no rules are in place beyond the whims of the overlord it is a tyranny. If you want broadcast standards to be fair - write them down so people know what is allowed and what is not.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:25:21 PM PST
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
To: OldFriend
Go read those Savage threads again.
He told the crank caller to drop dead 3 times. Choke on sausage, get trichinosis, and get AIDS. Is AIDS a politically protected disease? It's better to choke to death (asphyxiation) or to die from parasites?
He did not inleash a torrent of profanity at the caller even though he believed himself to be off the air. The caller certainly was not harmed by the insult; he went bragging on his blog about getting Mike fired.
While some early reports identified the caller as a gay man, that does not seem to be the case. Calling the "gay" caller a "sodomite" would have been enough to get him fired in this PC climate.
Ironically, as I searched the web for the name of the caller and his admission of making a prank call (and not being gay), I found numerous blogs that cheered Mike's firing. One of the posters even called Michael Savage a "retard". So much for consistancy on compasion, feelings, and health issues from the left.
By the way, your tax dollars pay Nina Totenberg at NPR. She wished that Jesse Helms or his grandkids would get AIDS. She's still on the air.
"If there is retributive justice, hell get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it". - July 8, 1995 Inside Washington
184
posted on
02/25/2004 6:26:10 PM PST
by
weegee
(Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
To: adam_az
"Howard is STILL free to speak - but no one owes him their soapbox."Yeah, you're right.
185
posted on
02/25/2004 6:26:57 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Mark Felton
good for you!
glad you had the courage and commitment to put it in writing.
then when those "standards" you are swooning over today are manipulated tomorrow, in order to stiffle YOUR speech... you will remember what you said today.
I know I will.
btw, your rights to free speech are not terminated by location. you can remove someone trespassing from your property because you don't like what they say, but you cannot legally muzzle them or shut them up. Of course, you can elect to remove them, just like you can elect to not listen to howard, just like me.
the "public impact or property" argument can and will be used to regulate every aspect of your own freedoms, some day in the not too distant future. bon apetite.
someday, it will be used to censor speech that YOU and I would both agree with, even amongst us conservatives on the private property of this website domain.
mark it down.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:28:24 PM PST
by
Robert_Paulson2
(smaller government? you gotta be kidding!)
To: GSWarrior
I am glad this loud mouth phoney porn loser is gone. And I hope for good! Made a movie about how he was a "family man" and then divoirced her? Get lost! A perveyour, exploiter, and presreter of freaks for mass consumption? I hope he dies a painless death- for his afterlife won't be that easy.
To: sinkspur
You also think Robert Novak is a traitor for outing somebody who was already outed You are incorrect. I think Novak is a hero of the paleocons in their struggle with the neo cons in the Plame incident.
I think John Kerry's military history should be off limits because it will not help us gain moderate and indie votes.
So you get censored and you throw out lies on top of that. Should I have you censored again?
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:29:42 PM PST
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
To: OldFriend
It doesn't matter what his listeners think - only you are important.
189
posted on
02/25/2004 6:29:43 PM PST
by
garbanzo
(Free people will set the course of history)
To: Benrand
Jackie the Jokeman quit - he wanted more money.
190
posted on
02/25/2004 6:30:50 PM PST
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
To: Indy Pendance
Although I would never listen to Howard Stern, I have no problem with him having a raunchy show. Now if CBS were to give him the stage during the half time of the Super Bowl I would be ticked.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:31:12 PM PST
by
TBall
To: adam_az
I agree with you...
about them having the right to muzzle howard.
Howard can still say what he wants.
I just don't have to listen, but then, I wasn't listening before.
If the FCC is pushing this stuff, it is a bad precedent, as that same "leverage" will be used in the future for speech that IS important. Hillary would censor this private website using some mechanism if she could. Just like San Francisco tried to by labelling it as a hate site...
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:31:46 PM PST
by
Robert_Paulson2
(smaller government? you gotta be kidding!)
To: Indy Pendance
Whoa! I figured it would take him about 3 weeks. Looks like he did it in, what, 3 days?
193
posted on
02/25/2004 6:32:11 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Boston: So much Liberty, you can buy a Politician already owned by someone else.)
To: Destro
"The problem is that the FCC has no standards"Fair and appropriate comment. We should demand clear community standards. (it is tough sometimes)
The reason it hasn't been established before is due to industry influence.
194
posted on
02/25/2004 6:32:15 PM PST
by
Mark Felton
("All liberty flows from the barrel of a gun")
To: Rome2000
"lot of people are going to be taking a look at Clear Channels monopoly."
How can Clear Channel have a monopoly when most radio stations are owned by companies OTHER than Clear Channel?
195
posted on
02/25/2004 6:32:27 PM PST
by
adam_az
(Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
To: Robert_Paulson2
When Rush says things like; "why didn't the Columbine killers rape the girls before they wasted them" then I'll be all for Rush's censorship.
To: Destro
Never underestimate the power of "selective enforcement."
one of tyranny's greatest tools for intimidation.
197
posted on
02/25/2004 6:33:44 PM PST
by
Robert_Paulson2
(smaller government? you gotta be kidding!)
To: mikenola
How long will it take Pres. Hillary to declare "badmouthing Democrats" to be in violation of "common decency" ? The bots assume that Republicans will be in power for ever. How else do you explain thier support for crap like this and the traitor (patriot) act?
To: sinkspur
Sink? Did you know Plame was "outed" before Novak? Should I pass this thread on to the Grand Jury? Do you know something we dont'? Plame's name was "common Knowledge" among the beltway IN crowd right? Tell us the dirty ditti that only you know about!
To: Burkeman1
I wanna see where he thinks I called Novack a traitor?
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:35:57 PM PST
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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