Awfully sensitve, aren't they?
Posted on 01/14/2011 11:19:50 AM PST by Leigh Patrick Sullivan
By now most everyone has learned of the ridiculous decision made by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to ban airplay of an unedited version of Dire Strait's Money for Nothing, deeming it offensive due to the use of the word 'faggot'.
The buzz has even gone international.
K97 in Edmonton, Alberta has decided to protest this idiocy, announcing their plan to play the full version of the tune 'unedited and non-stop' for a full hour, beginning at 8:00pm (Mountain) Friday night.
From their website:
K-97 is well aware of the dangers of censorship and the effect it has on Canadian’s Freedom of Speech. K-97 has had many censorship attempts, but through it all the microphones are turned on everyday giving the announcers the freedom to say whatever is on their mind.
Earlier this week the CBSC ruled that the song “Money For Nothing” has violated broadcasting decency standards because of the use of the word “Faggot”. The Dire Straits song was originally released in 1985 and has since aired tens of thousands of times across Canada, has won a Grammy and has been performed by GLBT supporter, Elton John. If you listen to the context of the term, you will realize it is an artistic portrayal of a bigoted person looking at the riches and excess of the music industry.
While some of K-97’s content may be controversial, we respect the right to free speech for all Canadians and songwriters. That’s why K-97 has decided to go against the grain…yet again, and hold a “MONEY FOR NOTHING HOUR”. From 8pm – 9pm on Friday, January 14th, 2011 K-97’s Todd James will be playing the Dire Straits “Money For Nothing” unedited and non stop for the entire hour to express our deep concern about this decision and the precedent it sets.
Tune in at 97.3fm local or at http://www.k97.fm/index.asp?mn=1
Contact the CBSC: http://www.cbsc.ca/english/about/contact.php
What a bunch of hosers these Canuckistanian censors are, eh?
Censorship North of the Border
Kind of ironic, considering Mark Knopfler himself is a “faggot”.
I have a faggot stitch on my sewing machine, should I ban it?
I seldom use that stitch!
lol! Or make him re-sing the lyric saying “that little gay persons’s got his own jet airplane”. Give ‘em a few years and “gay” will be outlawed too, here in the Nation of the Perpetually Offended.
"Jet Airliner" by Steve Miller
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels
...just to name a couple.
oops I’m probably being offensive by leaving some groups out, that should be:
“That LGBT’s got his own jet airplane”
“That LGBT is a millionaire”
Awfully sensitve, aren't they?
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