Money for Nothing, PC For Free: Canada Bans Dire Straits Classic

Canada Bans Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" for Being Too Offensive. No, I'm Not Kidding
Please don't ever tell me that Canada is a more enlightened country than the U.S. and A.: 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 complaint against St. John's Radio Station CHOZ-FM. The listener complained that the word faggot - which appears three times in the song is "extremely offensive" to gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender people. The cou...

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...

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, ...

"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. ...

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Dire Straits: Offensive to Gays?
This is rich: After 25 years, Canada has officially banned the Dire Straits song “Money For Nothing” because it’s extremely offensive! You Know, it has the word “Faggot” in it. Blog Pals and Facebook Friends, Please link to the offensive song and lets offend Canada like never before!!!! Here you go, Sonic: Doug Powers notes that while the “original version has been banned . . . it can be played provided the offending word is edited.“ Give me a break. Guess those b

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...

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, ...

Our Neighbors to the North Are Terribly Fragile
The world's most politically correct country..eh? You may have noticed the global snort of derision when it became known that Money For Nothing, a 25-year-old Dire Straits song written by Mark Knopfler and Sting, has been ruled too offensive for Canadian radio play. What’s interesting, apart from the simple lunacy of suddenly banning a tune that’s 25 years old and has already been played about a billion times, is the reason: A Radio Station in St. John’s received a complaint. ...

Helpful Advice for Working Moms
When I got downstairs this morning at the crack of whenever, the coffee machine said “ERROR 8” and wouldn’t let me make the cup I had been dreaming about. This begs the question: is it odd to dream yourself to sleep thinking about the next morning’s coffee? Not a good beginning. Got Apple all fed and dressed in her uniform and ready to go but no sign nor sight of Moses at 8 am and we have to be out of the house by 8:20. I went up to arouse the little man from slumber and ...

A Blast From The Past
 When MTV used to be good. From Black and Right by Bob Parks Politically-correct Canada strikes again. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said the 1985 song Money for Nothing by British rock band Dire Straits is unacceptable for play on Canadian radio in a ruling released Wednesday. The issue stemmed from a 2010 Complaint filed by a listener at Newfoundland Radio Station OZ FM about the use of the word “faggot” in the song. The person said that “there is absolutely no valid re

WoW!
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Nation's First Gay Museum Opens in San Francisco
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Nation's first gay history museum opens in San Francisco
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GLBT History Museum, Nation's First Gay Museum, Opens in San Francisco
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Do it for Civility! [Darleen Click]
Dire Straits banned in Canada Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” can no longer be played in Canada in its original form since the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has deemed the song offensive. [...] The decision stems from a listener’s complaint last year calling the lyrics — which contain the word “f—-t” — extremely offensive to gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender people. [...] “Money for Nothing” — co-written by Mark Knop...

San Francisco home to first US gay museum
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