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| UK mirror: YANKS COCK UP THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH |
| 2006-02-09 |
| HERE'S a challenge to all of those bravehearts currently banging on about how they'd fight to their dying breath to preserve our right to free speech. Pick up your gun, use up your Virgin air miles and go shoot those fundamental religious fanatics who've just suppressed a 62-year-old knight of the British realm's right to express himself. I'm talking about Sir Mick Jagger having two songs censored by American TV networks during Sunday's Super-bowl, for fear they would upset the country's dominant Christian right. Did he call Jesus gay or Mary a whore? No. He mentioned a grain-eating farmyard animal. .... A really nasty attempt to deflect anger from the muslims and toward the US. Our censorship idiots don't help. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #13 they put one on before 40,000 at SD'd Petco that was reviewed as great (I wasn't there) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-02-09 23:57 |
| #12 The Stones performance was downright embarrassing. Jeesh. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-02-09 23:48 |
| #11 If I reacal correctly the Mirror is one of those that is just a hair above the titty tabloids isn't it? Consider the source. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-09 23:31 |
| #10 I suspect The Mirror is trying to whip up support for Labour with some good old-fashioned Yank bashing. Stunning Lib Dem victory in Brown's backyard |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-02-09 23:19 |
| #9 Pick up your gun, use up your Virgin air miles and go shoot those fundamental religious fanatics who've just suppressed a 62-year-old knight of the British realm's right to express himself. Er...didn't the Brits ban guns, particularly handguns, not too long ago? So, even if somehow these folks being incited had managed to retain their guns somehow, wouldn't they be considered terrorists if they boarded airliners with those same banned weapons with the intent to use them on foreign soil - and isn't the incitement to citizens to band together, invade, and use weapons against citizens of a foreign country an incitement to war against that country? Just a few questions I'd like this particular moonbat to answer... |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2006-02-09 23:04 |
| #8 Yawn. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-09 22:39 |
| #7 If the broadcast had been done on cable there would not have been a bit of censorship. Thus the "they're gonna say shit on TV" episode of South Park. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-02-09 17:18 |
| #6 Actually its the public airwaves. If the broadcast had been done on cable there would not have been a bit of censorship. We manage our public airwaves the same way we manage our public lands. We don't permit strip mining or clear cutting. We don't even permit the display of Jesus in a cradle on the town square anymore for Christmas. However, on your private land, on your private network, you have a lot of leeway, just ask Mr. Stern. |
| Posted by: Speremble Snalet3763 2006-02-09 17:13 |
| #5 Fox's transmitters. They can broadcast or not as they choose. The government didn't tell them what to do, they did it because they give a rat's ass about what their customers want. If Jagger wants to say bullshit on TV, he can pay for the time. As he was being paid, he can deal with what his employers want and get over it. (And, really, if I were British, I wouldn't be bragging that Jagger's got a knighthood. Do they give them out with bags of coke?) |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-02-09 17:11 |
| #4 A bit OT, and I'm not sure a lot of Stones fans on RB, but: Did anyone out there see them on tour this year? Do they ALWAYS sound like that now? Yikes. |
| Posted by: Thravinter Glique2258 2006-02-09 16:54 |
| #3 The Mirror might recall that olde englishe saying, him what pays the piper picks the tune. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-02-09 16:34 |
| #2 For what Mick was paid, if told to, he would have sung, "I'm a little tea pot, short and stout." He can sing what he wants on his own dime. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-02-09 16:29 |
| #1 "Sir" Mick was hired and paid a bazillion simolians to do a show (and a crappy one it was, too). Under those cirumstances, I think those doing the hiring and providing the venue have a perfect right to demand exactly what they paid for. This is a commerce issue, not a free speech issue. |
| Posted by: SLO Jim 2006-02-09 16:17 |