Friday, May 11, 2007

Chilling Effect

An hour or two ago on Fox News there was a panel discussing a recent radio bit that aired on the Opie & Anthony radio show on XM Satellite Radio. The bit consisted of the two shock jocks talking to a degenerate character over the phone about the possibility of raping Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The panel wasn’t discussing the merits of the bit, which most people would consider pretty poor, but about how they can stop the radio show. They talked a great deal about how we Americans take the idea of the 1st Amendment too far and that there should be limits to speech in the United States.

-----

The MPAA has recently announced that they will give a motion picture an R rating if the filmmakers “glamorize” smoking unless the “glamorization” of the smoking takes place in a historical context.

What the fuck? The continuation of the MPAA acting as the morality police…

I feel very uncomfortable.

No comments: