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Mortgageguymn
Posts: 1561
Incept: 2009-03-09
North Coast
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I don't know. I thought the host who went ballistic was kind of being a dick. He could just have disagreed with the caller and let that be that, but he decided to work himself up into a perfect tizzy. He's probably right that screaming like a madman makes for good radio, ratings-wise, and being calm doesn't bring the listeners. I'm just not that into screaming, I guess.
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Porkchop
Posts: 143
Incept: 2007-07-15
Joliet, IL
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It's the same **** everywhere, a few months ago one or two callers called into WLS and chastised the host for using the word "niggardly"...somehow this TERM was racist.
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J0nx
Posts: 3066
Incept: 2008-08-12
The trashcan of the nation
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It's called liberals and their ridiculous sensitivities. They have destroyed a once great nation with this PC horse ****. The next civil war won't be racial in nature. It will be liberal vs. conservative. I know I for one am sick of their ****. Multiply me by 200 million and Houston we have a problem. The Northern Virginia area is destroyed because of their policies. Look at Cali, Illinois, Detroit, etc. Anywhere where liberals are in charge is a dump heap. And this aint no D vs. R rant. It's a L vs. C rant and how totally different their mindset is from that which America was founded upon.
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Swordsman
Posts: 95
Incept: 2009-01-10
Las Cruces, New Mexico
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Quote:It's the same **** everywhere, a few months ago one or two callers called into WLS and chastised the host for using the word "niggardly"...somehow this TERM was racist. Some 4 or 5 years ago a board member of a Washington D.C. transit board in the course of an official meeting used the term "niggardly" in proper context and was ultimately forced to resign. Even though the black members of the board agreed the word was correctly used they still thought it sounded racist. The irony is the ousted board member was gay. |
Jotapay
Posts: 16719
Incept: 2008-08-26
Austin, Tx
Online
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Quote:I thought the host who went ballistic was kind of being a dick. There is a ton of show history and backstory to this rant. Emmis Communications bought a handful of Austin radio stations about 12 years ago. They instantly started implementing absurd HQ-derived policies that affected how the hosts got to do their show on air; or face possible cancellation. The worst was the Janet Jackson boob flash on the Super Bowl halftime show, which was used by conservative thought police to get the FCC to fine radio hosts up to (I think) 1 million dollars per use of indecent words. But there is no clear definition of what these words exactly are. They are told in yearly sensitivity training that they say something every single day that technically could get them fired. So while trying to do an honest, real show that doesn't have contrived bits and is totally made up, they have to dance around this issue every day. Every day they have to stop and say, "Dammit, I don't know if I can say this on the air or not." Which leads them to go to ridiculous lengths to describe a female's sex organs, without actually saying the word "vagina", for instance. It drives them insane. Two other Emmis Austin stations have had show hosts suspended (almost fired) for offending small segments of the public who then caused an uproar in the local media. Management finally said, "No more! The next one is fired on the spot." So that is what they live with in every segment in every show. They try and do good radio but constantly have to check their swing in case they might be offending some group or running afoul of the FCC. It's complete bull****. |
Winstonsmith2009
Posts: 1060
Incept: 2009-08-05
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If that audio had been posted anywhere but here, I would have stopped it at the absolutely idiotic comment he made that everyone who fights in a war is a hero. I'm sure Lt. Calley, his platoon, and former Einsatzgruppen members would appreciate that, along with many other war criminals.
The overly PC-conscious caller has no valid point in his criticism, but I also suspect that the show host may be exposing his bigoted past graphically on the air more for ratings than for education. Shock radio.
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Jotapay
Posts: 16719
Incept: 2008-08-26
Austin, Tx
Online
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Quote:Shock radio. He has mellowed out a lot, but his first 12-15 years on air were definitely shock radio. And he readily admits it. That's his roots. |
Anti
Posts: 4278
Incept: 2007-10-09
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this is the version I used to hear and it seems alright to me: Quote:
Daniel Boone was a man,
Yes, a big man!
With an eye like an eagle
And as tall as a mountain was he!
Daniel Boone was a man,
Yes, a big man!
He was brave, he was fearless
And as tough as a mighty oak tree!
From the coonskin cap on the top of ol' Dan
To the heel of his rawhide shoe;
The rippin'est, roarin'est, fightin'est man
The frontier ever knew!
Daniel Boone was a man,
Yes, a big man!
And he fought for America
To make all Americans free!
What a Boone! What a doer!
What a dream come-er-true-er was he!
Daniel Boone was a man!
Yes, a big man!
With a whoop and a holler
he c'd mow down a forest of trees!
Daniel Boone was a man!
Yes, a big man!
If he frowned at a river
In July all the water would freeze!
But a peaceable, pioneer fella was Dan
When he smiled all the ice would thaw!
The singin'est, laughin'est, happiest man
The frontier ever saw!
Daniel Boone was a man!
Yes, a big man!
With a dream of a country that'd
Always forever be free!
What a Boone! What a do-er!
What a dream-come-er-true-er was he!
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Drench
Posts: 28631
Incept: 2009-11-10
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Etz
Posts: 13887
Incept: 2007-06-26
LA
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Coonskin?
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Ribbit
Posts: 1779
Incept: 2007-09-10
Wales, UK
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Magus
Posts: 1964
Incept: 2008-05-04
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Flaps10
Posts: 5141
Incept: 2008-10-17
seattle
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A raccoon skin hat?!? THAT'S WHAT WAS OFFENSIVE?!?!?
OMFG.
And the guy didn't have a racist past. His father was racist and he clearly is distancing himself from that.
A freakin hat?!?!
coon. raccoon. varmint. not a hat made out of a black guy.
I think I'd have blown up too.
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Anti
Posts: 4278
Incept: 2007-10-09
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Recall when every little boomer boy wanted a coonskin cap? Given to them so they could live the childhood of their father's dream.
unbelievable that someone could be offended by that.
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Sunkeye
Posts: 190
Incept: 2010-12-14
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real normal
i learned a real good lesson about raising my voice at someone i.e. yelling to get my point across
cost me quite dearly and that's the undestatement of my lifetime
i would just suggest one thing to my man:
if you're trying to persuade someone of something
the very most ineffective way of doing it is verbal assault (and that's what yelling is as in assault&battery)
well actually two suggestions the 2nd one being you may
not like the consequences of your actions
Reason: rethink
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Loves2learn
Posts: 1210
Incept: 2009-01-28
The free (for now) state of Kansas
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The following are probably the lyrics he was referring to:
Daniel Boone was a man,
yes a big man.
But the bear was a bigger
and he ran like a bleeper
up a tree.
Fill in the bleeper. I don't use the term. I learned the song as a child,too, but not from my parents or anyone in my family. Had some really racist neighbors, I think I heard it from them.
That said, I think most of us here agree, the right to not be offended does not exist. What is "offensive" is subjective. I hear and see things I find offensive all the time. So, I get over it.
Soon our free speech will be lost, and people will not just get fired, they will go to jail for "offensive" speech. Speaking of which, I am just assuming here, but that is probably what Ted Nugent meant when he said he would be "in jail or dead" if Obama was re-elected.
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A poor person's farm may produce much food,
but injustice sweeps it away. Proverbs 13:23
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
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