Dire Straits: Offensive to Gays?

"Money for Nothing" = Hate Speech In Canada
Yes, that Dire Straits song from their 1985 album "Brothers in Arms" has been banned in Canada because the word "faggot" is used three times. GayPatriot linked to the song and says... Give me a break. Guess those Bureaucrats up north just think if we ban an offensive word, then presto chango, not only will people not feel offended, but bad people will change their ways, the sun will stream through the clouds and we’ll all sing kumbaya. ...

Canada: PC Police Successful in Banning Dire Straits Song Money For Nothing From Airwaves 26 Years After it Was Released
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing [1984 @ Yahoo! Video Little behind the times, eh Canada? (TMZ)- 26 years after the Dire Straits classic hit “Money for Nothing” first hit the airwaves … the song has been ruled “too offensive” to be broadcast on Canadian radio … because of a homophobic lyric. The issue first arose last year, after someone filed a complaint explaining that the song contained the homophobic F-word … three different times. The Can...

Dire Straits' song should be censored
TORONTO - Canada's broadcast standards council has ruled that Dire Straits' 1985 hit "Money for Nothing" should be censored because of a Homosexual slur in its lyrics. The council said the British band's use of a slur referring to gay people three times in the song breaches the national broadcasters' code of ethics. The council said an edited version of the song could be played. Helen Kennedy, Executive Director of Egale Canada, an organization that promotes equality for Lesbian, gay, bise...

Money for Nothing, PC For Free: Canada Bans Dire Straits Classic
**Written by Doug Powers This will no doubt perk up some ears over at FCC headquarters in Washington — I can’t believe this one’s slipped by them (and it has because I heard the song on the radio recently in its “original form” ::gasp::). From The Spec by way of Reason: The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits’ 1980s hit Money for Nothing is too offensive for Canadian radio. The ruling, released Wednesday, was in response to a complai...

Whiner's rules
This is an update to this post by Kate about the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council's decision to ban the Dire Straits song Money For Nothing from Canadian airwaves after one person in Newfoundland complained about one particular word. In the song, written by Mark Knopfler - surely one of the gentlest and most mild-mannered human beings extant - a frustrated, hardworking, furniture-moving yob sees a poodle-headed rock star on MTV, and says (in effect) to his buddy, in a tone that's simultan...

DIRE STRAITS NOW banned in Canada as homophobic.
DIRE STRAITS NOW banned in Canada as homophobic. ...

Dire Straits' song should be censored
TORONTO -- Canada's broadcast standards council has ruled that Dire Straits' 1985 hit "Money for Nothing" should be censored because of a Homosexual slur in its lyrics. The council said the British band's use of a slur referring to gay people three times in the song breaches the national broadcasters' code of ethics. The council said an edited version of the song could be played. Helen Kennedy, Executive Director of Egale Canada, an organization that promotes equality for Lesbian, gay, Bisexual...

Radio stations told to censor Dire Straits
A St. John's, Newfoundland, station should have edited the song to remove the word "faggot" because it violates Canada's Human Rights standards, according to ruling this week by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. A unnamed listener to OZ FM in the Atlantic Coast province complained to the industry Watchdog last year after hearing the song, which features Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler and fellow rock star Sting. The council said it realized Dire Straits uses the word sarcastically, ...

Dire Straits responds to Canadian song ban
Where is the green revolution?...

Canada radio stations told to censor Dire Straits
A St. John's, Newfoundland, station should have edited the song to remove the word "faggot" because it violates Canada's Human Rights standards, according to ruling this week by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. A unnamed listener to OZ FM in the Atlantic Coast province complained to the industry Watchdog last year after hearing the song, which features Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler and fellow rock star Sting. The council said it realized Dire Straits uses the word sarcastically, ...

Canada Bans Dire Straits Money For Nothing
Something truly insane from north of the border: Classic Dire Straits track Money For Nothing has been banned from public broadcast in Canada - after receiving...

Dire Straits: Banned In Canada
Oh the horror of it. The prudes in Canada who sit on something called the Broadcast Standards Council have banned the playing of an almost 30 year old song performed by Dire Straits entitled "Money for Nothing" over objectionable lyrics. It seems they used the word faggot. Just so those who weren't aware here is the verse that has caused such anguish in the Great Frozen North. No word on if they find any of the lyrics contained in the gangsta' rap style songs where they talk about Rape, killing ...

Quiz Time: Guess Which Channels Anchor Said Obama Gave Him Chills?
ed357 on Video: Is This a Memorial Service for Six People Senselessly Gunned Down or a Rock Concert? freeus on Not Only Does the Obama Administration Have a Logo for the AZ Mass Murder — They’ve Got T-Shirts too. Hint: It’s not Tingles....

MSNBC SOTU Promo Erases Republican Presidents
Guess MSNBC missed the part of Pres. Obama's Tucson Speech decrying the way our politics have become "so sharply polarized" . . . During today's Morning Joe, MSNBC aired a promo for PBO's impending State of the Union that featured video from previous SOTU speeches. Notably missing were any clips from past Republican presidents. Instead we were treated to a montage of JFK, LBJ, Clinton, Obama and even Jimmy Carter. Think Ronald Reagan, or W just a few months after 9-11, migh...

Kate Fridkis: The Tragedy of Karen Owen
Karen Owen: the girl who wrote a "Thesis" detailing her sexual encounters with Duke University athletes. I read a little of it and got upset and stopped. I got upset when she was saying, "The next day, I was in so much pain I could barely walk. Which meant it'd been really great." Or something to that effect. And then she was saying, "I was so drunk I don't even remember what happened, but we definitely had sex." I just read this article, in The Atlantic, about Duke University. I really didn't...

Guess Which Channel's Anchor Said Obama Gave Him 'Chills'?
NBC's Chuck Todd: I 'got chills' listening to Obama. Click here to watch the video. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. 'Cautious Optimism' for Rep. Giffords Mark Kelly, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband, holds her hand in her room ...

Donna Estes Antebi: Don't Guess, Drug Test!
A drug crisis is sweeping America and it's killing our Children. Parents be warned. We have now entered the culture of ''Pharma-geddon.'' Kids are sneaking pills, drinking Alcohol, and using illegal street drugs at an alarming rate. Even Heroin, once considered the last outpost on the way to junkie-town, is now disturbingly common. Sadly, today's Young People, obsessed with Pop Culture, may soon head further down this road. Teen mega-sensation Miley Cyrus shamelessly allowed herself to be vi...

Sheriff Baca Launched A Criminal Probe At Behest Of Fashion Mogul Marciano
latimes.com: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca personally launched a Criminal Investigation in another police agency's jurisdiction after a request from a Millionaire businessman who later contributed $100,000 to two sheriff's charities, according to civil court Testimony, Law Enforcement records and interviews. The Sheriff's Department spent well over a year probing allegations by Guess Inc. co-founder Georges Marciano that his employees embezzled $1.4 million, despite several ...

The Results Are Anyone's Guess As RNC Chair Election Kicks Off
The RNC chairman's election will commence momentarily, and members are expected to pick a replacement for Michael Steele. But the arcane rules of the committee's election process allow Steele to remain in contention as long as he wants. Here's the intelligence we have so far. The first couple rounds of balloting are expected to resolve the question of Steele himself -- his former ally, Reince Priebus has rounded up over 40 public commitments from the committee's 168 members, and if he comes ...

Sofia Vergara's bf, Nick Loeb, could challenge Haridopolos for U.S. Senate
Millionaire Nick Loeb, boyfriend of 'Modern Family' star Sofia Vergara, is mulling a U.S. Senate bid in Florida, and that could be bad news for state Senate President Mike Haridopolos, who made a de-facto announcement last night via a leaked email. In the past, millionaires for statewide office in Florida were a joke. But Gov. Rick Scott changed that. However, he proved that if you want to win office, you've gotta pony up sizable chunks of change ($76m in Scott's case). Albeit,...

Town meeting attendee confronts GOP freshman over health reform repeal
Guess what happens when a congressional Town Meeting audience isn't created by the Koch brothers or fueled by Fox News? There's a different kind of confrontation. Here's what happened at a meeting earlier this week at Ohio’s Walsh University, with GOP Rep. Jim Renacci (OH). FONTE: You’ve said you want to Repeal the Health Care law and replace it. There’s a lot of things that took effect that help seniors. Once you Repeal it, what happens to all that? And what are you going to ...

Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller scares more businesses away from Philadelphia
One of the biggest problems facing the City of Philadelphia is the fact that businesses are leaving in droves and no new businesses want to come here. Most of that has to do with the fact that our business taxes are some of the highest in the region and that businesses in this City are penalized for being successful. So how do you create a friendlier business environment and entice small businesses and big chains to come to Philadelphia? Well, you don't ask them to change their hiring practices,...

Robert Koehler: The Paradox of Disarmament
Will there be copycats? Will parents let their Children attend political rallies anymore? Will Congress ever come to our corner again? We witness another impromptu festival of American violence, this one in front of a Tucson Safeway. One more place that used to be safe and ordinary, suitable for children, is suddenly, for one random moment, a free-fire zone. A 9-year-old girl who wanted to learn how government works is among the half dozen dead. Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, sh...

When your name is Palin, you have no right to defend yourself
**Posted by Phineas I was going to go off on another rant‡ about Democratic politicians, mainstream Journalists, and leftist Activists (but I repeat myself) and their blood Libel against the Right and Sarah Palin, but then I watched this episode of PJTV’s Trifecta and realized that Greene, Ott, and Whittle said everything I could. And did it better. Just watch; I’ll wait here. Take away line from Whittle: “I have to count to ten.” Of the many odd, even outrageous, thing...

Coin toss: Colorado gov, lt. gov, best the British monarchy
Colorado's coin. England's coin. (AFP/Getty) So there English monarchy! Colorado killed you in the coin-making department. As a parting gift at Gov. John Hickenlooper’s inaugural dinner Tuesday night, guests were given a minted coin with likeness of Hickenlooper and Lt. Joe Garcia engraved on the front. Guess what? It looks like them. (Too bad our Colorado quarter isn’t as well done.) The English are having fits about a coin to commemorate the marriage of Prince William and Kate M...