Interesting, thanks. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the Bruce in question turned out to be gay?
Bill O’Reilly defends Meghan Kelly on the “Santa Is White” thing… with a picture of a dark-skinned St. Nicholas.
Can we drop the tangent, and agree to call them all dumbasses?
As Jon Stewart noted, too, if you want to call Turkish “white,” you still have to defend why it’s OK to say St. Nicholas lives at the North Pole, has flying reindeer, and visits the house of every good child on Christmas Eve, but it’s not OK to change his race.
Sounds good to me.
I’m sorry you are bothered by the “r-word” and want to banish its use as an insult, but I don’t give a damn whether your bothered or not!
When describing a brain dead, uselsess, drooling neanderthal idiot, Republican is the perfect word to use and I’m not going to stop just because it offends your delicate sensibilities.
Oh, different r-word? I must be in the wrong thread.
LOL - I’ll have to steal this joke.
You’ve all heard about the Duck Dynasty star who was suspended by A&E from the show due to some vehement anti-gay slurs he used in a GQ interview? Well of course that brings out the usual suspects: Republicans who do not know how the Constitution works.
Future leader of the Stupid Party Bobby Jindal expressed his dismay at the lack of First Amendment rights because a private TV channel decided to refuse to air a person that they think would harm their business interests. There’s a blurb in there about Sarah Palin doing the same, but we all knew her skull is filled with lemon jello so that’s not surprising.
I feel that whenever something like this occurs, there must be some kind of Public Service Announcement clarifying what exactly the First Amendment is and how it applies. There are conservatives on this board who still don’t get that, I shudder to think what happens when they encounter an untied shoelace.
“I don’t agree with quite a bit of stuff I read in magazine interviews or see on TV. In fact, come to think of it, I find a good bit of it offensive,” Jindal said. “But I also acknowledge that this is a free country and everyone is entitled to express their views. In fact, I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.”
Prominent Canadian clown Rafael (Ted) Cruz had this to say:
"And Texas Sen. Ted Cruz posted on his Facebook page that Americans should be “deeply dismayed” about Robertson’s treatment.
“Phil expressed his personal views and his own religious faith; for that, he was suspended from his job,” he said. “In a free society, anyone is free to disagree with him–but the mainstream media should not behave as the thought police censoring the views with which they disagree.”
In a better, more fair universe, these two would be forced from their jobs and sent back to 8th grade social studies (and Sarah Palin would be euthanized for the good of mankind) where they learn that ONLY the government can violate your First Amendment rights. A private company such as A&E has NO obligation to run anything they don’t want to run. They are within their rights to suspend Duck Dynasty for whatever they say, however they say it, or whether the brass thinks their beards are too dirty. A&E can say they don’t want Christians, Muslims, or skateboarders on their shows and they have every right to do that. No rights are being violated here! Only when the government abuses its authority with arrests or similar behavior can a citizen even claim First Amendment violations.
Fuck you Jindal and Cruz. Eat shit and fall off a tall building you lying, stupid, ignorant wastes of air.
Conservatives think it’s ok to fire someone from their job for being gay, but that it’s against “freedom of speech” to fire someone for saying hateful, bigoted, racist, homophobic things.
They think taxation is wrong and the free market solves everything, but insist that people give conservatives money and they you hate freedom of speech if you refuse to go to their businesses.
Fuck the hypocrites, I am so sick and tired of the constant bullshit that basically always boils down to “People who aren’t me deserve to suffer for my gain”.
It’s worth pointing out that Robertson wasn’t just fired because he said mean things about gay people. He also implied that Jim Crow wasn’t so bad:
Somebody else pointed out on my Facebook page that A&E quietly reinstated Dog the Bounty Hunter a few months after they suspended the show because he’d called his son’s girlfriend a nigger.
“I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!”
Because that could get you lynched?
Okay. But let’s not be hypocrites by saying that only conservatives can be hypocrites. (I’d say they’re hypocrites far more often than liberals, though).
I agree that Jindal and Cruz are clowns, and that what A&E chooses to air is not a First Amendment issue, but you’ve fallen far short of connecting the dots. Cruz didn’t even mention the First Amendment in the article you cited, and Jindal at most drew an analogy to it, but didn’t claim that A&E violated it.
Worse, A&E absolutely does NOT have every right to say they don’t want Christians, Muslims, or skateboarders on their shows. There’s a huge difference between suspending someone for what he says very publicly and prominently in an arranged GQ interview, and suspending someone simply for being a Christian or Muslim.
Tell me, do you agree with the wacky right-wingers who would allow any boss to deny any type of health insurance coverage to his employees, based on his own opinions of what is right or moral?
I do not agree if such insurance is required by law. Employer provided health insurance is a form of compensation, not a gift. As compensation, the employer has no more right to decide how the employee may use that compensation than telling employees how to spend their wages.
My wording did not say that at all, and if you think it did, you may need your eyeglasses adjusted.
But they are within their rights to deny them airtime or their own shows because they don’t think their viewers will tune in or that their advertisors will pull their support.
From a business perspective, they kinda have to. The action is OK depending on their reasoning for taking it. Or am I missing something?
Didn’t mean to say you were saying that - just adding to your post.
Hm, where did the blues come from, again?