Boortz does’nt get it.
Free speech includes speech you don’t like.
Beyond that XM is NOT radio. It’s subscription based content, and they play by the rules that HBO does. If Bill Maher can spew the lies and filth he and his guests do, then O&A are golden, period.
However, this bill DOES need to be squashed and fast. Radio and the media are giving in to the likes of Jesse and Al, and it’s corruptiing the very spirit of our constitution and our civil rights. Another show on Free FM was fired recently for making a joke about asian drivers, despite asian listeners calling in and saying they thought it was funny. Larry the Cable Guy was on the O&A Free FM portion of the show and they are dumping out of any hint of “racial” humor for even HIM. Free FM (CBS) and the rest of the media are censoring beyond what the law dictates, and are acting like fascists when it comes to free speech - and the most disgusting thing is, they are only doing it to appease sponsors who *might* pull out of a show, *if* a minority group might complain.
Censorship for the corporate dollars.
It’s disgusting. I’m embarassed to live in this country. For all of the bleating about the black lists of the past, the libs right now are going past what they term “Mcarthyism” and treading firmly on fascist territory in terms of how heavy handed they are getting with restrint people’s speech - and it’s all for a few dollars more.
It’s GOT to be stopped, it’s madness. The media in this country has lost it’s mind, it started with Imus, and I do NOT want to know where it ends.
Boortz does get it. Free speech means government can’t censor what you say, even if nobody likes it. Of course, we don’t HAVE that today, Government stops you from saying all sorts of things that people on the left don’t like. People have been arrested for wearing shirts that say that Gay people are not normal.
However, Free Speech doesn’t mean we have to pay for it, or support it, or not rise up against it. In fact, Free Speech works because we are WILLING to rise up to denounce evil when it is spoken.
Two white guys and a homeless man are getting paid by thousands of subscribers to take glee in beating and raping a black woman. They talk about how it will hurt her, they say they should punch her in the face.
I am “shocked” (sarcasm) that none of the great “emperors of black people” have said that white men shouldn’t be joking about raping black women.
Neal said that people who are paying these guy’s salary should stop doing so. I don’t pay the KKK to spew their hatred, I don’t pay Al Sharpton, I don’t pay hatemongers. That’s no censorship, that’s common sense.
Neal is calling on people to stop paying the salary for these evil men. We should stop supporting XM, we should stop supporting advertisers, if we think that these men have crossed a line.
The sad thing is how many conservatives and libertarians no longer think there is a line to be crossed.
The press NOT covering this story is more of bias by omission. They didn't see it, it didn't happen.
> It’s GOT to be stopped, it’s madness. The media in this country has lost its mind, it started with Imus, and I do NOT want to know where it ends.
If Imus had stuck to his guns instead of groveling, he’d have dealt the first major blow to political correctness and that demagogue Sharpton. Not that I’m defending Imus...
How will this bill, if it’s passed, impose censorship on talk radio?