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Va lawmaker calls for removal of 'disrespectful' Metro ad
WTOP.com ^ | Feb 29, 2012 | Adam Tuss

Posted on 02/29/2012 9:37:00 PM PST by Dadofmany

WMATA issued a statement saying its advertising has been ruled by the courts as protected under the First Amendment, and the Authority does not decline ads based on their political content.

"WMATA does not endorse the advertising on our system, and ads to not reflect the position of the Authority," says the statement.

In response to their statement, Congressman Jim Moran says, "I am disappointed by WMATA's defense of this inappropriate advertisement. If their current advertising guidelines do not prohibit profane advertisements on taxpayer-funded property, then WMATA should take the initiative and update them. Profanity has no place in the public forum.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: firstamendment

1 posted on 02/29/2012 9:37:10 PM PST by Dadofmany
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To: Congressman Jim Moran

What is worse than profanity is lying. "Go to hell" is not profane, liar.

2 posted on 02/29/2012 9:45:14 PM PST by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: Dadofmany
Oh my!

Seems littlel Jimmy Boy can't stand the truth?

Good thing I didn't write it or the ad would be much more "disrispectful" to this "Rat" and include such words as "Narcissistic, Fascist, Neo-Commie," etc.

3 posted on 02/29/2012 9:45:43 PM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet (l)
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To: Dadofmany

Where were these people when Dubya was in the White House?


4 posted on 02/29/2012 9:47:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: Conservative Vermont Vet

“Seems littlel Jimmy Boy can’t stand the truth?”

Look in the dictionary under worthless POS, and the underlying photo is of Jim Moron!


5 posted on 02/29/2012 9:49:36 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Dadofmany

RACISM!/s.


6 posted on 02/29/2012 9:51:17 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: Dadofmany

I know why Moran doesn’t like this ad and Metro. He ran off the trolley track a long time ago.


7 posted on 02/29/2012 10:58:36 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Dadofmany

I agree with the Bus


8 posted on 02/29/2012 11:20:43 PM PST by funfan (and his crew)
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To: Dadofmany
The "offensive" ad (according to Moron):

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country." –Benjamin Franklin

Islam Delenda Est!

REFUSE. RESIST. Do NOT Submit! ★FREEDOM!★


9 posted on 02/29/2012 11:37:38 PM PST by Neil E. Wright (An OATH is FOREVER OathKeeper III We are EVERYWHERE)
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To: Conservative Vermont Vet; All

“Good thing I didn’t write it or the ad would be much more “disrispectful” to this “Rat” and include such words as “Narcissistic, Fascist, Neo-Commie,” etc.”

For about two years until just a couple of months ago, there was a billboard on I29 north of KC that I wish I’d taken a picture of to share here. The first few months, it said Marxist in large yellow letters on a blue background. Then for another few months, it said Narcissist. Then for the last few months, it said Sleeper.

Would LOVE to know who put up the considerable money for that board - it was f’ing great!!!


10 posted on 02/29/2012 11:57:38 PM PST by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: Neil E. Wright

I read a comment on the WML ? site where some smurf said “Like it or not he is our President.” I stand with those here who say if they had written the Ad it would have been a lot more disrespectful. But IMO if Barak Hussein Obama is in Washington D.C. he is either in He__ -or perhaps America’s reflection of Sodom.Either way he is in in someplace uninhabitable.(May explain why he takes so many vacations )


11 posted on 03/01/2012 4:37:23 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Dadofmany

Since when does the anti-Semitic race-baiter Jim Moron get to decide what’s disrespectful?


12 posted on 03/01/2012 4:45:30 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Making movies about killing President Bush.


13 posted on 03/01/2012 4:55:47 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: Fresh Wind
ummm... disrespect? i think Jim Moran wrote the book on disrespect.
14 posted on 03/01/2012 5:02:58 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Yes, he did. I’d like to point out that Moran is not a Virginian but another liberal Northerner put in place by the Democratic Party and supported by the large number of “elites” living but not born in Northern Virginia.


15 posted on 03/01/2012 5:18:44 AM PST by Boomer One
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To: xsmommy

Well done!


16 posted on 03/01/2012 5:31:47 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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