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Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
As I've mentioned myriad times, South Park pushes the envelope in ways TV has never seen. Comedy Central has mostly had Trey Parker and Matt Stone's backs when faced with withering criticism. Those days are over as they've acted like good dhimmi's as directed by the Koran:
Comedy Central bleeped out all references to the Prophet Muhammad in Wednesday night's episode of the animated show "South Park."
The episode was a continuation of last week's episode which depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.
A radical Muslim website threatened the show's creators following that episode.
Comedy Central confirmed to FoxNews.com that it had censored the show, and that the episode was not available on its website.
In addition to bleeping the words "Prophet Muhammad," the show also covered the character with a large block labeled "Censored."
Read the whole article as they went so far as to bleep the ending, which was a conversation between Stan, Jesus Christ and Santa Claus discussing intimidation an fear.The irony is so thick you need to brush it away from your face to paraphrase James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams.
Seriously? Anyone who has watched fifteen seconds of South Park knows that Parker and Stone thrive on offending people. No one is safe from Kyle, Cartman, Butters, Stan and once upon a time; Kenny (before that unfortunate evening at TGIFridays).
Here's the gist; Parker and Stone wrote an episode whereby Mohammed has a serious superpower:
What is Muhammad's super power? No one can criticize him.
Something celebrities would die -- or kill -- for.
But they weren't making fun of Muhammad. They were making fun of Muslims like Zach who are the only group of religious zealots who threaten violence every time they are offended.
Which makes this whole thing perfectly ironic.
Here's a snippet (backward for some reason) and the entire episode can be watched here:
Some idiot "artist" puts a picture of Jesus in a jar of piss and no death threats or fatwas are issued. Stone and Parker show Bhudda snorting coke in the episode above and know that Bhuddist's aren't going to run amok and behead people.
The greatest right we as people have is the right to freedom of speech and expression. Stone and Parker have taken that to an extreme but they must be supported or we will end up with laws like those in Canada and Britain that restrict that right under penalty of law.
As an aside; there's a reason people like I are called South Park Republicans; we abhor any restriction on free speech and freedom of thought. While South Park pushes the envelope in every episode, I support their ability to do so. Plus, the show is just frickin hilarious.
The Dems are going hard for what has been a bastion of conservatism: talk radio:
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday defended the so-called Fairness Doctrine in an interview on Fox News, saying, “I think we should all be fair and balanced, don’t you?”
...Asked if he is a supporter of telling radio stations what content they should have, Schumer used the fair and balanced line, claiming that critics of the Fairness Doctrine are being inconsistent.
“The very same people who don’t want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to limit pornography on the air. I am for that… But you can’t say government hands off in one area to a commercial enterprise but you are allowed to intervene in another. That’s not consistent.”
Note they are only bringing up talk radio but what about TV? Turnabout is fair play so I figure that MSNBC will have to move Olbermann (or team him up with Tammy Bruce) and install Jonah Goldberg betweeen Matthews and Maddow. Or better yet, remove Jack McCaffery and put Laura Ingraham in his place. As anyone with half a brain can figure out, Fox would not have to do anything about Hannity and Colmes and they can just insert some other half-wit liberal (but I'm redundant) beside O'Reilly and they'll meet the standard. Brit Hume already has Juan Williams and that lady from NPR so they meet the doctrine.
And my local radio station already has Michael Smerconish who voted for Obama as well as Beck and Limbaugh so they would only need some clueless lefty--say Randi Rhodes at 1:00 AM to balance it out.
If it wasn't such a gross violation of the 1st Amendment it would be kinda fun.
So we have a preview of the next four years. If liberals can't win on merit, they'll do it by decree. I can't wait until this goes to court and the Daily Kos is forced to accept Ace or Allah on the team. Even better, how about Michelle Malkin and Mary Kay Ham on the op-ed pages of the NY Times. The lawsuits over this should be a blast to follow.
When Obama went after McCain on the "how many houses" deal, he left himself open to a full frontal assault on him on things that were not mainstream issues. The major one is Obama's association with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers. The McCain team produced this ad that was released a few days ago:
All factual and very inconvenient for The Messiah during his coronation week.
So, what does our hero Barry H.O. do? Well, he runs home and tells his Mommy that the boys in the neighborhood aren't playing nice and that the feds must get it off the air:
Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign.
Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.
It's the type of going-for-the-jugular approach to politics many Democrats complain that Kerry lacked and that Republicans exploit.
Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
The AP being the AP waters it down somewhat. First, John Kerry didn't respond to the Swift Boat attacks because they were truthful and was on tape lying during the "Winter Soldier" hearings. As for Obama, he's just as at a loss as Kerry because he has indeed had a relationship with a man who planned terror events against our nation.
The AP says that Obama is "going for the jugular" to protect himself but they fail to say that in doing so, he's making it a much larger issue. Now the MSM has to report this story and once it gets into the American consciousness, there's not changing it--think the Obama is a Muslim rumor and how hard he's fought to quash that particular innuendo.
As for going after advertisers, well, that's just stomping all over the 1st Amendment and Americans won't stand for that. McCain should have an ad out within a day slamming the campaign for stifling debate. The Obama hacks are all over the boycott bullshit but it will have zero effect since the Internet is the prime source of news now anyway--it sure as hell isn't the NY Times anymore.
So this must really have The Messiah on edge to go this far to stop this from becoming public knowledge. He's sinking daily in the polls and the convention isn't being watched by anyone so he most-likely won't get the bounce he expected. The implosion continues and this may be the biggest bang thus far.
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds who remains the best in the business.
If I were in Canada, I could get sued for that headline even though all facts point to that being a 100% truthful statement. You see, the Canadian liberals have helped enact laws that make free speech--the cornerstone of American constitutional rights--illegal and have used it to destroy those who they disagree with politically. Richard Warman (did I mention he's a douchebag?) has made a career out of suing right-of-center writers (in Canada, right of center to this idiot mean anyone more conservative than Phil Donahue) and has been pretty damn successful.
But screw it, I live in America where I have protection from girly-men like Warman and I can say what I want, when I want on this blog (note the picture of the smug prick at right.)
Back to Warman (did I mention what a douchebag this a-hole is?), he may have just met his match:
Richard "The Boy Named Sue" Warman has finally filed his statement of claim.
Canada's busiest litigant, serial "human rights" complainant and -- the guy Mark Steyn has called "Canada’s most sensitive man" -- Richard Warman is now suing his most vocal critics -- including me.
The suit names:
Ezra Levant (famous for his stirring YouTube video of his confrontation with the Canadian Human Rights tribunal after he published the “Mohammed Cartoons”)
FreeDominion.ca (Canada’s answer to FreeRepublic.com) • Kate McMillan of SmallDeadAnimals.com
Jonathan Kay of the National Post daily newspaper and its in-house blog
and me, Kathy Shaidle of FiveFeetOfFury.com
Richard Warman used to work for the notorious Human Rights Commission, which runs the "kangaroo courts" who’ve charged Mark Steyn with "flagrant Islamophobia."
And so it goes, Richard Warman (did I mention what a douchebag this dude is?) is suing with the only intention of bankrupting people with opinions not like his own and is trampling on one of mankind's most cherished freedoms for his own ill-conceived goals.
Canada originally created their laws concerning hate speech to combat white supremacist's and in turn began the fall down that slippery slope where anything can be misconstrued as "hate speech". Kathy, Ezra and the others are now in the thick of a lawsuit for doing nothing other than speak their minds and have an opinion.
Here's hoping they beat the asshole and if you have a blog, please spread the word about what is happening to the north. I may one day be beaten but it won't be by the likes of the biggest pussy in the Great White North, Richard Warman (did I mention he's a douchebag?).