Posted on 05/11/2007 3:30:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
These guys are FANTASTIC by the way, even if this stunt/bit was in poor taste
> You must be suffering from oxygen depravation since your head is so far up your @$$.
Easy there, cowboy. May I suggest a decaf?
> Nobody is “dictating” what you should be listening to. If HR3302 passes, somebody will.
Neal Boorts is. If HR3302 abridges the right of free speech, then it is too.
> Got it?
Got MILF?
Bingo!
Boortz was upset when O’Reilly did it to him but Neal’s happily doing it to O&A.
I didn’t want Neal fired for his crass stupid comments about VA but apparently Neal thinks a crazy homeless guy ought not be given that same leeway.
Precisely and exactly.
XM is providing content people PAY TO LISTEN TO.
Legislation won't change the fact that these idiots get paid to be idiots.
If you are outraged, cancel your XM subscription.
> You sound like you are on cloud 9
Not sure what you mean. Opie and Anthony are certainly disgusting and I don’t listen to them. You can if you want to; it’s none of my business. That’s not outlandish; it’s freedom.
... just as long as it’s not your mother they’re graphically talking about sodomizing, right?
It wasn't THEM talking about it. It was an insane homeless man.
So, what if at 9 a.m. everyday - seven days a week - 52 weeks a year - Opie and Anthony had a guest on to graphically describe sodomizing your wife, mother, daughter, etc.? Not just any one. YOUR loved one. Seven days a week. What’s your opinion on “free” speech? What if they took out a billboard in your community and printed the same for everyone to see on the way to work? What would your opinion be of free speech as your family honor is desecrated for the purpose of “entertainment”? Shrug your shoulders? Oh well? It’s their right?
I’m just curious if your idea of free speech only applies to people you don’t know...
> It’s GOT to be stopped, it’s madness. The media in this country has lost its mind, it started with Imus, and I do NOT want to know where it ends.
If Imus had stuck to his guns instead of groveling, he’d have dealt the first major blow to political correctness and that demagogue Sharpton. Not that I’m defending Imus...
How will this bill, if it’s passed, impose censorship on talk radio?
Is Boortz insane? He’s going down the Reverend Al route- wanting radio hosts fired because his feelings were hurt. Whining little crybaby...
LOL! So, they're not responsible for the content on their program? You mean, they were struck with paralysis while this guy was ranting on and couldn't turn off the mike? That must be it. They were numb with moral outrage at this guy describing a rape fantasy of Condoleeza Rice!
Come on. Free speech doesn't apply to defamation. You must know that.
Well first, anything if repeated often becomes unfunny. Second what you described is harassment.
Somewhere on a radio station someone is saying something that angers me. How can I find these people and how can I get them fired?
Joking about rape isn’t defamation.
The relevant section is this:
"`(a) Public Interest Obligation to Cover Publicly Important Issues- A broadcast licensee shall afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views on issues of public importance. The enforcement and application of the requirement imposed by this subsection shall be consistent with the rules and policies of the Commission in effect on January 1, 1987.'."
In other words, the Bill includes an attempt to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine.
The Wikipedia article on the Fairness Doctrine says, in part:
"In 1986 the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a loose interpretation by the FCC of an aspect of the Fairness Doctrine, ruling that Congress had "never made the doctrine a binding requirement." In August 1987, the Commission abolished the doctrine by a 4-0 vote, in its Syracuse Peace Council decision. The FCC insisted that the doctrine had grown to inhibit rather than enhance debate and suggested that, due to the many media voices in the marketplace at the time, the doctrine was perceived to be unconstitutional.
"In the spring of 1987 Congress attempted to contest the FCC vote and restore the Doctrine (S. 742, 100th Cong., 1st Sess. (1987)), but the legislation was vetoed by President Reagan. Another attempt to resurrect the doctrine in 1991 ran out of steam when President George H.W. Bush threatened another veto."
The article also points out that:
"It has been routinely criticized by conservatives in the media as a means of keeping their views from being expressed or of deliberately cutting their available air time in half."
This is the reason why some of us are concerned by anything that gives ammuntion to those arguing in favor of this Bill.
Got it?
WELL SAID, sauropod! This is not about punishing an exercise in "poor taste." This is about the necessity of defeating what is evidently a conspiracy to control speech -- which is, of course, utterly unconstitutional. In talk radio, the Left couldn't "compete"; so it wants to "defeat." The next target will be the Internet.
Who said it has to be funny to be entertaining. There are probably enough perverts who would find the 60-second rape fantasy of your mother extremely entertaining. Should it be protected free speech?
Second what you described is harassment.
And what Opie and Anthony had on wasn't harassment? Harassment is subjective. If everyone finds a rape fantasy of your mother great entertainment, who's to say it's harassment?
At least they didn’t say nappy. THAT would have been too much.
See, you’re being so silly over this it’s funny. Feel free to keep overexagerating and acting silly. Even if it does involve talking about raping my mother your babling is hilarious.
The more ridiculous you get. The funnier it gets.
Denigrating jokes can absolutely constitute defamation.
According to WordWeb
defamation:
1. A malicious attack
2. An abusive attack on a person's character or good name
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