Little People Want to Ban Word ‘Midget’

CNS News . COM ^ | 7/6/09

[llevrok]

New York - Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.

The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.

The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" that the group said was demeaning.

In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

Calls to the FCC and "Celebrity Apprentice" host Donald Trump were not immediately answered Sunday. NBC Universal representatives didn't immediately respond to e-mail messages, and the telephone rang unanswered at their Los Angeles office

[Steel Wolf]

Are you kidding me? *Holds one hand at waist level* I've had it up to here with midgets!

[devane617]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286035/posts

[clamper1797]

It will only take a short while.

[Lazamataz]

Curiously, midgets want to ban the term “little people”.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

[Mr. Mojo]

The group Little People of America

In another few years they'll find the phrase "little people" offensive and want it banned.

[ml/nj]

I heard this this morning and wondered what they would prefer. How about "shrimp"?

ML/NJ

[calex59]

Yeah, and I want them to ban the word Whitey, but they probably won’t!

[I Hate Obama]

I want them to ban the word cracker on the boxes and start calling them “butter crisps.”

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Now I have the Randy Newman song “Short People” stuck in my head!

[t1b8zs]

“Short people got no reason.....Grubby little hands grubby little feet.......Grubby little cars that go beep beep beep”
Great tune....Ban Randy Neuman

[djsherin]

South Park.

[oh8eleven]

Little People Want to Ban Word ‘Midget’
When asked about their understanding of the First Amendment, they said very little. Little people indeed.

[TheWasteLand]

Sounds like someone’s self-confidence is dwarfed by their insecurity.

[The Original Pissant]

I would rather be called a Midget then little person. Why not vertically challenged? Either way, its who you are..there’s no nice way of putting it into words when a person has been born with a rare height and is sensitive about it. You’ll take offense no matter what they call you even if you are politically correct.

[rockabyebaby]

Just when you thought things could not get any more absurd, another day dawns and it does.

[clamper1797]

Well I see this thread has no shortage of puns ...

[Sylvester McMonkey McBean]

But then the song won't rhyme anymore?

[Tax-chick]

There you go ...

[BeerLover NYC]

I think of that silly old song -—Short people got no reason etc etc etc

[Paladin2]

Jumbo Shrimp.

[Snickering Hound]

All the elevator Buttons
Oh so Incredibly High
I stand today for the midget
Half the size of a regular Guy

Let Me Hold You Little Man
As the parade passes by
Let Me Hold You Little man
We’ll make believe you can fly

You shout for me to put you down
But I’m marching today for your cause
I’m bangin’ the drum
Your big day will come
When they remake the wizard of Oz

Let Me Hold You Midget Man
We’ll pretend that you’re flyin in space
Let Me Hold You Little Man
So the dog will stop licking your face

Little Shoes, Little Pants
Little Song, Little Dance
Little Heart, Little Mind
But your rights are as big as mine

Na, Na-Na-Na, Na-Na-Na-Na
Na-Na Na Na-Na Na Na
Thank God I’m Tall
I won’t let you fall
We’re all midget, one and for all
Thank God I’m Tall
I won’t let you fall
We’re all midget, and some are just small

Stand Up For The Little People!

[King Moonracer]

Little People Want to Ban Word ‘Midget’

How niggardly of them.

[The Original Pissant]

(:

[alarm rider]

I am planning a response. I will post it shortly.

[matt1234]

Theirs is not a weighty argument.

[Krankor]

Actually, there aren’t any “midgets” any more- at least not in the States. It’s a condition that can be easily cured. Now, dwarfism, is another matter.

[jimfree]

Seems rather short-sighted, perhaps even small of them.

[3niner]

In the long tradition of banning words, because the word itself is a problem, not what it means.

[MarkL]

To quote Neal Boortz, the vote will probably “fall short” of a majority...

Mark

[calex59]

Yeah, what are we anyway, a bunch of crackers?

[Alex Murphy]

Dwarf church serves under-privileged

[MaxMax]

[Savage Beast]

"I'm tired of living with a g--damned (you-know-what)"
-Ava Gardner-
(explaining to Micky Rooney why she was divorcing him)

(I suppose they have a point.)

(I can't keep all the politically correct terms straight. Especially since they keep changing. Do you suppose we could just refer to all of them as "you-know-whats"?) (or something like that?)

[wastedyears]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA

Definitely a great little song.

[The Electrician]

Little People Want to Ban Word ‘Midget’

The headline could use a bit of work.

My suggestion:

Midgets Want to Ban Word ‘Midget’

[calex59]

Yeah, resembles some people I know!

[llevrok]

The headline could use a bit of work.

We need some one to take short hand for that discussion.

[quintr]

If not “midget” then what? Untall?

[9422WMR]

midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,

midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,
midget,midget,

[Dr. Sivana]

There are at least two episodes of "The Odd COuple" where midgets play a central role. In one, Felix the photographer says, "Everyone smile and say midget!" to a midget family getting a portrait.

In another, Felix and Oscar get can't miss tips from "a midget named Harry."

[Eddie01]

I used to live next to a manufacturing outfit that made midgets.

Had a small distribution network, used short haul truckers.

[Oztrich Boy]

“fun size”

[allmendream]

Midgets lack a proper amount of human growth hormone (HGH) (IIRC), because HGH is easily produced and administered, there is no reason for anyone (in the advanced world) to have to be a midget if they don’t want to be.

Dwarfism is caused (IIRC) by a defect in a bone elongation gene. This is not as easily produced and administered as a dwarf is born as a dwarf; while a midget just fails to develop proper human growth without the application of HGH (by nature or medical administration).

[allmendream]

You have BY FAR the best response EVER.

In fact, if I was either a dwarf or a midget I would HAVE to wear a “FUN SIZE” T-shirt nearly EVERYWHERE; and look for women who had heard of Toulouse le Trek. ;)

[autumnraine]

I would LOVE to ban Randy Neuman but dear God Disney just keeps using him over and over and over with the same damn tune over and over and over until I want to bash my short people brains in!

[musicbymuzak]

MIDGET!

MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET!

[jakerobins]

Are they going to hold a fake funeral with a little casket?? I just want to know are they supported by the Lollipop Guild????

[Daniel II]

Who was that comic who was corrected for using the word “midget” when the correct word was “dwarf?”

Oh ... excuse me! Midgets are little people with proportionally correct physical features. A dwarf has flippers where his arms should be!