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To: Peter0901
Liberal brownshirts have successful forced conservative talk show host Mark Belling, a frequent guest host for Rush Limbaugh, to be yanked from the air in Milwaukee over his use of the word "wetback" to describe illegal aliens attempting to vote in Milwaukee in the presidential election.

Another example of Liberals failing to learn from their previous mistakes.

Sixteen years ago, or so, Morton Downey Jr., another conservative talk show host in Sacramento, California, was removed from the air because of complaints by Liberals about a perceived "ethnic slur." The complaints were in reference to the on-air comment by the conservative host where he used the word "Chinaman".

Lead by then Mayor Robert Matsui (now Congressman Robert Matsui, a DemocRat, what else), a Japanese-American who was not by any stretch of the imagination a "Chinaman" or even Chinese or Chinese-American, the carefully orchestrated complaints lead to the removal of Morton Downey Jr. from KFBK's roster of talk show hosts, despite Downey's tearful on-air apologies.

Despite the fact that the "slur" was a common reference to persons of Chinese ancestry in the area (most people did not even know it was offensive to such persons) and that the usage was by no means intended as a perjorative, within a week Downey was history at KFBK.

HIs replacement was an unknown radio DJ named Rush Limbaugh... and the rest is history.

52 posted on 11/10/2004 9:51:11 AM PST by Swordmaker (This tagline shut down for renovations and repairs. Re-open June of 2001.)
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To: Swordmaker
Wow, that sounds like a topic straight out of "The Rest of the Story"... where Paul Harvey says... and now... you know, the rest of the story.
62 posted on 11/10/2004 10:27:19 AM PST by NYC Republican
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