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2006-02-09 Fifth Column

UK mirror: YANKS COCK UP THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH

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Posted by 3dc 2006-02-09 15:33|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Sir" Mick was hired and paid a bazillion simolians to do a show (and a crappy one it was, too). Under those cirumstances, I think those doing the hiring and providing the venue have a perfect right to demand exactly what they paid for.

This is a commerce issue, not a free speech issue.

Posted by SLO Jim 2006-02-09 16:17|| 2006-02-09 16:17|| Front Page Top

#2 For what Mick was paid, if told to, he would have sung, "I'm a little tea pot, short and stout." He can sing what he wants on his own dime.

Posted by ed 2006-02-09 16:29|| 2006-02-09 16:29|| Front Page Top

#3 The Mirror might recall that olde englishe saying, him what pays the piper picks the tune.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-02-09 16:34|| 2006-02-09 16:34|| Front Page Top

#4 A bit OT, and I'm not sure a lot of Stones fans on RB, but:

Did anyone out there see them on tour this year? Do they ALWAYS sound like that now? Yikes.

Posted by Thravinter Glique2258 2006-02-09 16:54|| 2006-02-09 16:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Fox's transmitters. They can broadcast or not as they choose. The government didn't tell them what to do, they did it because they give a rat's ass about what their customers want.

If Jagger wants to say bullshit on TV, he can pay for the time. As he was being paid, he can deal with what his employers want and get over it.

(And, really, if I were British, I wouldn't be bragging that Jagger's got a knighthood. Do they give them out with bags of coke?)

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-02-09 17:11|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-02-09 17:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually its the public airwaves. If the broadcast had been done on cable there would not have been a bit of censorship. We manage our public airwaves the same way we manage our public lands. We don't permit strip mining or clear cutting. We don't even permit the display of Jesus in a cradle on the town square anymore for Christmas. However, on your private land, on your private network, you have a lot of leeway, just ask Mr. Stern.

Posted by Speremble Snalet3763 2006-02-09 17:13|| 2006-02-09 17:13|| Front Page Top

#7 If the broadcast had been done on cable there would not have been a bit of censorship.

Thus the "they're gonna say shit on TV" episode of South Park.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-02-09 17:18|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-02-09 17:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Yawn.

Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-09 22:39|| 2006-02-09 22:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Pick up your gun, use up your Virgin air miles and go shoot those fundamental religious fanatics who've just suppressed a 62-year-old knight of the British realm's right to express himself.

Er...didn't the Brits ban guns, particularly handguns, not too long ago? So, even if somehow these folks being incited had managed to retain their guns somehow, wouldn't they be considered terrorists if they boarded airliners with those same banned weapons with the intent to use them on foreign soil - and isn't the incitement to citizens to band together, invade, and use weapons against citizens of a foreign country an incitement to war against that country?

Just a few questions I'd like this particular moonbat to answer...

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-02-09 23:04|| 2006-02-09 23:04|| Front Page Top

#10 I suspect The Mirror is trying to whip up support for Labour with some good old-fashioned Yank bashing.

Stunning Lib Dem victory in Brown's backyard

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-02-09 23:19|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-02-09 23:19|| Front Page Top

#11 If I reacal correctly the Mirror is one of those that is just a hair above the titty tabloids isn't it? Consider the source.

Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-09 23:31|| 2006-02-09 23:31|| Front Page Top

#12 The Stones performance was downright embarrassing. Jeesh.

Posted by 2b 2006-02-09 23:48|| 2006-02-09 23:48|| Front Page Top

#13 they put one on before 40,000 at SD'd Petco that was reviewed as great (I wasn't there)

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