'Homophobic' Dire Straits hit Money For Nothing banned from radio

[Jagermeister]

Just what the Canucks need. One ADDITIONAL reason to show the rest of the world why they are so irrelevant. That is what this is about. Trying to make themselves seem relevant. It won't work.
The little faggit Canadians should try to find themselves some other way to con the rest of the world into thinking anybody cares what the fuck they have to say. Hey Canada, shut up and remain America's bitch to the north, eh.Love the opening guitar riff in this song. I like the Live Aid version too, where Sting came out with them.

[Seshmeister]

Yuppy music

[Nickdfresh]

I hear bundles-of-sticks and cigarettes were also offended....

[Kristy]

Love the opening guitar riff in this song.

One of the best guitar riffs ever written

[Diamondjimi]

Von Douche sez wuh ?

Just what the Canucks need. One ADDITIONAL reason to show the rest of the world why they are so irrelevant. That is what this is about. Trying to make themselves seem relevant. It won't work.
The little faggit Canadians should try to find themselves some other way to con the rest of the world into thinking anybody cares what the fuck they have to say. Hey Canada, shut up and remain America's bitch to the north, eh.

See, now THIS is an example of how the world views a typical American stereotype Fuckbag. aka(Small penis syndrome)

Like the citizens of America, Canadian citizens have little or Zero say in the country's politics. To judge a country's people based on their govt's politics is pathetic. I certainly don't...

Realevent? Who cares....

You should be thankful N.Korea isn't your neighbour!

[Diamondjimi]

One of the best guitar riffs ever written

Agreed.

[ThrillsNSpills]

I think attempting to condition people to be offended at something that flat out doesn't wreck anyone's life is petty and manipulative.

Speaking of Petty , they should just plug in the backwards Joint insert from Tom Petty's You Don't Know How it Feels and put that where faggot was.

canadians are just angry because they have such fucked up accents. heheh

Ford was that Hagar?

[sadaist]

One of the best guitar riffs ever written

Sounds awful when I try to play it.

[ThrillsNSpills]

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Speaking of offensive, what's the second line in this song? The way Bon sings it.....?
(not what the lyric sheet says)

[Diamondjimi]

It's "Season ticket on a one way ride." If you listen close. But yes it does sound like "She's a ni**er on a one way ride"....

What amazes me is that they haven't jumped all over The Who' Who are You, yet. (Who the fuck are you?)

[Diamondjimi]

The Canadian government DID NOT ban money for nothing.
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The Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code was neither created nor administered by the Canadian government.

The council is an independent, non-governmental group created to administer standards established by its members, canada's private broadcasters.

Its membership includes more than 700 private radio and TV stations across the country.

It is the PRIVATE BROADCASTERS that put the ban into effect

[FORD]

Ford was that Hagar?

Sure looked like him, didn't it? Could be an identical twin to the way Spammy looked in 1985

[FORD]

What amazes me is that they haven't jumped all over The Who' Who are You, yet. (Who the fuck are you?)

They play a butchered version of that on the radio now too.

[Diamondjimi]

canadians are just angry because they have such fucked up accents. heheh

Have you ever even met and talked to a Canadian in person? Just curious...

The only Canadians with "fucked up" accents are from Quebec and Newfoundland.

[Diamondjimi]

National Post Staff January 14, 2011 – 4:55 pm

By Charmaine Kerridge

A day after the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruled the Dire Straits’ 1985 hit Money for Nothing was unfit for radio play due to a gay slur in its lyrics, the band’s keyboardist, Guy Fletcher, posted a message on his website decrying the decision.

Calling the ruling “unbelievable,” Fletcher wrote that Mark Knopfler, the song’s writer, will now substitute the word “fudger” for “faggot” for use on Canadian airwaves. “I reckon Canada could ban about 75% of ALL records ever made,” he wrote later.

The ruling was prompted by a listener objection in St. John’s, N.L., and applies to every Canadian radio station. However, two radio stations in Edmonton and Halifax are protesting the decision, saying they will not comply with the CBSC ruling, the Canadian Press reported. Edmonton’s classic rock station K-97 and Halifax’s Q104, which are both owned by NewCap Radio — are planning to run the unedited song in its entirety for one hour.

“We believe that this decision may trivialize the meaningful work done to further the cause of the LGBT community and could actually work against them by creating a sense of excessive political correctness at the cost of the fundamental freedom of speech,” Q104′s J.C. Douglas said in a statement.

Read more: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/01...#ixzz1B3lBc5hT

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