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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Jul 10 2003, 10:01 AM
Mr Reactionary ...
So I guess it follows that a privately owned network can fire yet another Compassionate Conservative who fails to follow the script and says what they really mean, huh?
I should not have used the comparisson to the Dixie Chicks anyway - it's apples and oranges. What one of them made is obviously a political comment. The ban imposed by some radio stations was retaliation for that political opinion. As the Dixie Chicks were not employed by the network(s) involved, there are some pretty gray areas involved here since the license given to the same networks is issued by the Government. It's also completely irrelevant to this discussion.
The bottom feeder in question was terminated for hate speech. I have no doubt that he would have been fired had he made equally offensive remarks about any other group with the possible exception of Arabs.
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If, in fact, he was a non-contract employee, they could. If, instead, he was (as I have heard) a contracted performer (much more likely), they had better be sure of their grounds and have some damned good lawyers.
BTW, what would you call the men who founded this country...they were called radicals, probably reactionaries. What they weren't was Communists. What they weren't was Liberals. What they weren't was Democrats. Have you ever bothered to study American History? Read the Declaration of Independence (which you posted on Independence Day) or The Constitution? You have already said that you read Marx (Karl, not Groucho). Does the idea of Totalitarianism give you wet dreams?
When we gettin' that damned 'finger' smiley?
