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Skriven 2007-04-10 20:51:39 av Jan (16872.babylon5)
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In article <mcKdnXFrR7xKyoHbnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@comcast.com>, Carl says...
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>"Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message 
>news:0001HW.C241BF44001B0C6AF0182648@news.verizon.net...
>>>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:24:39 -0400, Carl wrote
>> (in article <OtKdnbm1I7tGpYHbnZ2dnUVZ_qqrnZ2d@comcast.com>):
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>>> "Vorlonagent" <nojtspam@otfresno.com> wrote in message
>>> news:B6FSh.13295$JZ3.1607@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net...
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>>>> Society is not allowed to restrian freedom of expression
>>>
>>> Sure it is, ask Imus.  You're not allowed to say things that
>>> are not PC without people calling for your job or your head.
>>>
>>> Disclaimer: I've never listened to his show.<<
>>
>> The stupid thing about this Imus incident is that it's like being upset
>> because Howard Stern was talking about boobs.  Casual racism has been part 
>> of
>> Imus's shtick for decades.  I'm not saying it wasn't disgusting or mean; 
>> just
>> that I'm amused (and irked) that there's all this press being given to 
>> Imus,
>> a guy whose stock in trade has long been lowbrow, 'dumb-guy' 
>> entertainment,
>> when there are _serious_ hatemongers all over the airwaves who curiously 
>> seem
>> to get a pass (Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Medved, Beck, et. al.).
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>I've never heard O'Reilly say anything hateful. I have heard him point
>out quotes from newspapers that have lied about what he's said though.
>
>I don't watch him often, but he seems to put on more guests with opposing
>views than most others on the air and he usually gives them a chance to talk
>(unless they get obnoxious).
>
>Medved... isn't he a movie critic?  I don't know who Beck is.
>
>The only thing I've ever heard anyone mention is that Limbaugh
>said as hateful was the term "Feminazi" to refer to very activist
>feminists.  I don't listen to his show, so I can't comment on it.
>
>I've heard Franken and others on Air America toss around fascist,
>Nazi, idiot, moron, etc.quite readily.
>
>Nina Totenberg once said of Jesse Helms :
>"I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the
>Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice,
>he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it."
>
>[Can you imagine O'Reilly ever getting away with that?]
>
>USA Today's Julianne Malveaux wrote of Clarence Thomas:
>"I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he
>dies early like many black men do, of heart disease."
>
>Newsweek's Evan Thomas of Paula Jones, who had the audacity
>to come forward against Bill Clinton:
>
>"some sleazy woman with big hair coming out of the trailer parks ..."
>
>[Can you imagine a Republican saying that without NOW calling for their 
>resignation?]
>
>There's plenty of hatemongers around on the left too.  Not only do they get 
>a pass,
>they mostly seem to fly under the RADAR without too much press.
>


Oh, gods...why does it *always* have to turn into a finger-pointing contest? 
How about, whenever you hear hatemongering of *any* sort, you write to the
radio/TV/newspaper/magazine/whatever and say "You've lost a customer until you
foster open discussion of issues rather than allowing prejudice and hate to
fill
your airwaves/telecasts/pages/whatever."  Carbon copy as many advertisers as
you
can.  DO SOMETHING, don't just point fingers.  Assuming you don't like it, that
is.

Just an idea.  Feel free to go back to right/left/Democrat/Republican bashing
if
you DO like all the animosity.

Jan


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