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Friday, April 27, 2007

Let’s Talk Imus

Okay, enough already. Don Imus was fired after making a bone-headed comment on the radio that two of the most notorious racists in America heard and made a stink over. To hear the hubbub you would think that his syndicate made a moral decision based upon the complaints of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (Reverend omitted intentionally).

Not quite the case.

Imus wasn’t fired until AFTER his advertisers started to abandon him en masse. That makes this a financial decision, not a moral one.

Hey baby, it’s just business. I would have fired him too if the profits from his show dried up on me.

What blows my mind is the way radio people are going on about sponsor intimidation as if it were something new and that there is suddenly a grave threat to free speech on the radio that was never there before. The threat has always been there because there have always been people seeking to destroy radio and television personalities that they just don’t like.

Has everyone forgotten what happened to Dr. Laura’s television show?

You may recall that her television show was cancelled in spite of good ratings because a controversial group of people, homosexuals, who are a much smaller community than the black community, threatened to boycott the advertisers on her show.

This is old hat for libs that want to see conservatism silenced. The only real issue here is that conservatives have yet to use the same tactic effectively against liberals that we find offensive.

Remember the movement to boycott every sponsor of the gay pride convention in San Diego a few years back? Of course not, the only way you would have heard about it was to listen to Christian radio. Lack of media coverage marginalized an effort by a group of people who make up more than 60% of this country to erode sponsor support from the homosexual movement. Homosexuals, comprising a mere 2-3% of the American population successfully had Dr. Laura booted from television by doing the exact same thing, but with massive media coverage.

Kind of makes you think doesn’t it? Makes you think that maybe the media covered one while ignoring the other because they stand for the one and against the other.

Who says the media isn’t biased?

15 Comments:

  • Yes, it's all a big conspiracy. The Gay Secret Police control the media. Or is it The Jews?

    By Blogger DanProject76, at 7:53 AM  

  • Daniel, if the nation's millions of Christians want to use the power of economics to boycott something, they could do it if they wanted to. The media - biased or not - could not stop it.

    The Schlesinger show was pulled simply because enough people were appalled by her words (I assume, I'm not familiar with the case) that the tv stations didn't want to lose money.

    Isn't that capitalism at work?

    By Blogger Dan Trabue, at 11:07 PM  

  • What did Schlesinger say exactly? I am not an American so I have no idea and I am too lazy to Google it :-)

    Although I can probably imagine.

    By Blogger DanProject76, at 2:52 AM  

  • Schlesing didn't say anything controversial. However, on her radio show she has made repeatet statements regarding the immorality and unnaturalness of homosexuality. She is a largely hated figure among American homosexuals for this reason.

    By Blogger Daniel Levesque, at 9:49 AM  

  • I did Google her after all.

    She is one of those nasty people who tells people how to live their lives even though it is none of her business. Charming. I don't blame people for making her a hate figure.

    Why are all the noisy 'christians' obsessed with the gays?

    (I shall not mention her hypocrisy thing about divorce and affairs. Heh.)

    By Blogger DanProject76, at 10:03 AM  

  • So, because she's anti-gay she doesn't have a right to free speech? See, I think saying that, well, that's more bigoted then whatever she supposedly says or does.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:44 PM  

  • Oh no , she totally has a right to free speech. Let her shame herself with her words.

    I hate the 'ban bad words' brigade!

    By Blogger DanProject76, at 12:21 PM  

  • DP76,

    People actually ak Dr. Laura to tell them her opinion on thier lives, they invite her to do it. That is vastly different fromsimply butting in univited. However, considering your personal situation I understand your instinctive revulsion to anyone but you having something to say abou thow you live your life.

    Also, I am morbidly curious about this hyppocrisy you mention when it was her husband who had an affair then left her, not the other way arond.

    By Blogger Daniel Levesque, at 12:54 AM  

  • Well I did find it on Wikipeadia and we all know how accurate that place is!

    People ask Dr Laura's advice?

    Well you do Americans have Dr Phil so you obviously love the opinions of slightly insane people :-)

    By Blogger DanProject76, at 11:36 AM  

  • You are right on.

    Dr. Laura is an Orthodox Jew who does not approve of the Homosexual lifestyle. She is not nasty about it, and does not dislike Gays. The Gays, however, as with most liberal groups support free speech as long as they agree with it.

    By Blogger Rick's Corner, at 4:51 PM  

  • It is sort of language such as this that turn people off by the Dr Laura types. "The Gays," "Those people," "All those Liberals..." are all tags designed to demonize the entire group of Others.

    After all, if They are opposed to free speech, then what kind of people are they? Why, we MUST stand opposed to them!!

    By Blogger Dan Trabue, at 7:45 AM  

  • Regarding the whole free speech thing, I always use the 'replace gay with black' method to judge whether it's offensive or not.

    By Blogger DanProject76, at 8:30 AM  

  • By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:13 PM  

  • Yes, I agree with you that the media is WAY biased. Duh! Just flip on MSNBC or CNN and you will hear about all day long the evil conservatives taking money from the poor and the "big government foes" otherwise known as the T.E.A. party goers.

    NBC SUCKS GO FOX!

    By Anonymous Evan, at 3:04 PM  

  • Down with NBC!

    By Anonymous Thomas, at 5:17 PM  

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