Free Speech and the Media
Don Imus was fired recently for calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team a group of "Nappy Headed Hoes." I will be honest with you, I don't watch women's basketball. I find it boring and uninspiring. I also do not listen to Don Imus. Thus, I am approaching this topic from an unbiased attitude. Simply put, the lady Red Knights and Don Imus matter little to me. However, free speech matters a great deal.
If I owned the radio station and the television station that Don Imus worked for, I would have fired him a long time ago. Why? Because anything that I would own would have a standard of morality and character. Don Imus has neither. He has been saying off colored remarks for years. I am a bit concerned that this remark got him fired. Since when has CBS radio and NBC TV been a standard bearer for decency in America?
I have come to the conclusion that the media will allow people to say anything they want as long as they agree with it. You can poke fun at white people. You can poke fun at Christians. You can poke fun at the President. You cannot poke fun at minorities, unless they are Christian. If they are Christian, you can call them whatever you want.
Today we learned that Rosie O'Donnell will not be on the view after June. I will miss her greatly. Rosie has done more for conservatives than anyone conservative could have ever dreamed. Every time she opens her mouth, conservatives win. People listen to her and realize they are not like her. She has become a mouthpiece for the left. This should keep the right growing.
Rosie left the view because she wanted 10 million for one year. The view was willing to pay her 10 million for three years. Most people thought she was off the view because of her insane comments. This is not the case. Her comments were accepted by the media. Why? because they agreed with her. Rosie can call conservative Christians anything she likes. She can say that we shouldn't be afraid of the terrorists because they are mothers and fathers. She can blaim 9-11 on the United States. She can call the president every name in the book. All of this free speech is acceptable. Why? because she is liberal, thus it is accepted in Hollywood.
If Don Imus wanted to save his job he would have seen if any of the Rutgers team was a Christian. Then he could have said I was speaking only about her and her friends. If he said, "That Christian basketball player and her friends are nappy headed hoes," he would have been just fine.
Don Imus and Howard Stern, and all the other shock jocks are fairly sorry people. They make a living out of making fun of the downtrodden and weak. A morally weak and pathetic society is turned on by this type of free speech. However, this same morally weak and pathetic society will lose their free speech if they allow Political Correctness to dictate the message.
I personally believe that free speech should always have limits. I would never allow unbridled free speech in my house or my church. We have standards, and those standards are well understood. I would respect CBS radio and NBC TV if they had their moral guidelines written down so that Don Imus would have known that he crossed the line. However, they do not have any standards. They make decisions based on public pressure. Don Imus learned a lesson. He didn't learn a lesson in morality, he learned a lesson in political correctness.
If I owned the radio station and the television station that Don Imus worked for, I would have fired him a long time ago. Why? Because anything that I would own would have a standard of morality and character. Don Imus has neither. He has been saying off colored remarks for years. I am a bit concerned that this remark got him fired. Since when has CBS radio and NBC TV been a standard bearer for decency in America?
I have come to the conclusion that the media will allow people to say anything they want as long as they agree with it. You can poke fun at white people. You can poke fun at Christians. You can poke fun at the President. You cannot poke fun at minorities, unless they are Christian. If they are Christian, you can call them whatever you want.
Today we learned that Rosie O'Donnell will not be on the view after June. I will miss her greatly. Rosie has done more for conservatives than anyone conservative could have ever dreamed. Every time she opens her mouth, conservatives win. People listen to her and realize they are not like her. She has become a mouthpiece for the left. This should keep the right growing.
Rosie left the view because she wanted 10 million for one year. The view was willing to pay her 10 million for three years. Most people thought she was off the view because of her insane comments. This is not the case. Her comments were accepted by the media. Why? because they agreed with her. Rosie can call conservative Christians anything she likes. She can say that we shouldn't be afraid of the terrorists because they are mothers and fathers. She can blaim 9-11 on the United States. She can call the president every name in the book. All of this free speech is acceptable. Why? because she is liberal, thus it is accepted in Hollywood.
If Don Imus wanted to save his job he would have seen if any of the Rutgers team was a Christian. Then he could have said I was speaking only about her and her friends. If he said, "That Christian basketball player and her friends are nappy headed hoes," he would have been just fine.
Don Imus and Howard Stern, and all the other shock jocks are fairly sorry people. They make a living out of making fun of the downtrodden and weak. A morally weak and pathetic society is turned on by this type of free speech. However, this same morally weak and pathetic society will lose their free speech if they allow Political Correctness to dictate the message.
I personally believe that free speech should always have limits. I would never allow unbridled free speech in my house or my church. We have standards, and those standards are well understood. I would respect CBS radio and NBC TV if they had their moral guidelines written down so that Don Imus would have known that he crossed the line. However, they do not have any standards. They make decisions based on public pressure. Don Imus learned a lesson. He didn't learn a lesson in morality, he learned a lesson in political correctness.
posted by Foundes Community Church @ 9:55 PM
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