Posted on 09/19/2001 9:35:35 AM PDT by jern
Sept. 19, 2001, 9:00AM
Federal Express ordered its ads removed from the ABC late-night series Politically Incorrect on Tuesday after the show's host referred to recent U.S. military actions as "cowardly."
After receiving complaints from around the country, including Houston, Federal Express reviewed Monday's edition of the show and decided to act, company spokesperson Carla Richards said.
Richards said she did not know how many complaints the company received, but that they were of sufficient quantity to merit the actions the company took.
"The (30-second) ad that runs during that show has been pulled for the indefinite future," Richards said.
Dinesh D'Souza, a panelist on Monday's show, quibbled with a reference made by President George W. Bush that the suicide bombers were cowards, noting that they gave up their lives for whatever may be their cause.
"These are warriors," D'Souza said, "and we have to realize that the principles of our way of life are in conflict with people in the world."
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away," said Bill Maher, the host of Politically Incorrect. "That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
"I was just appalled," said Dan Patrick, general manager of KSEV (700 AM) and host of a radio talk show. "When you call our men in the (armed forces) cowards and our military policy cowardly, and when you call these hijackers `warriors,' that should not be tolerated."
Patrick urged listeners to call KTRK and urge the station to stop carrying the "irresponsible" program. Other hosts of KSEV talk shows made the same request.
"The First Amendment gives us the freedom of speech, but it does not guarantee anyone a TV show or a TV camera or a radio show, for that matter," Patrick said. "If Bill Maher believes that Americans are cowards and hijackers are warriors, let him go out on the street corner and shout that. But Disney does not have to give him a TV show and Channel 13 does not have to air that show."
KTRK said it received a number of calls -- "in the low hundreds," the station said. The station said it receives triple that amount when it pre-empts a soap opera. It had no further comment.
ABC issued a statement saying, in part, that Politically Incorrect "celebrates freedom of speech and encourages the animated exchange of ideas and opinions. Understandably, this forum can oftentimes arouse intense emotions, especially during such a sensitive time.
"While we remain sensitive to the current climate following last week's tragedy, and continue to do our part to help viewers cope with unfolding events, we have an obligation to offer a forum for the expression of our nation's diverse opinions."
Three cheers for FEDEx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks again !
Bill Mayer is a coward and a disgrace in my opinion.
".........It's their leaders who are the cowards, and in the case of recent military actions we all know who that is. "
Yeah, the CFR are the cowards. They don't ever take the bullet for this country. They just sit from behind the scenes and watch all the action with a cup of English Tea, some horderves, and a mapping out of the next thing on their agenda.
Thanks for your post.
Yup. It's easy for us armchair quarterbacks to say what we would have done, in hindsight. But, odds are, this ain't likely to happen again. Next time some Mid-East types hijack a plane, I think we'll see what we saw with the plane that crashed in PA: "We're probably going to die, but we're going to do something about it". Ready....set.....hut....hut....hut hut....BUM RUSH
10 Posted on 09/19/2001 09:46:31 PDT by ArcLight
No---I don't think it is...especially when the targets KNOW they are targets....dropping a bomb from 10,000 feet is not cowardly either. BUT...............killing civilians, UNSUSPECTING civilians, UNARMED is so cowardly and weak it defies words. Cowardly.....totally cowardly. Faceless, nameless and whimpish to the max.
Can a criminal have virtue--a psychopath honor--decency??
You have very strange values--beliefs.
You came here for the drugs---rock music--abortion--libertarianism?
The way to punish Bill Maher is with the remote control.
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