Turn It Off

I imagine you heard about this, if not actually heard it yourself. Plenty blogging via Memeorandum.

Warning: Extremely Vulgar Language. On Wednesday's show XM Shock Jocks Opie and Anthony engage in discussion about forced sex with the Secretary of State. A studio guest, Homeless Charlie, begins describing the scenario as the hosts laugh and encourage him. Anthony talks about the horror for Rice as the guest is "holding her down" and assaulting her. They invite Charlie to be a regular guest.

XM is subscription-based, so you can condemn it, but not really censor it. The marketplace has to censor this type of filth. I wish I had more confidence that it will.

The battle for the culture, and I am by no means a prude, is complex - who gets to make the rules about what can or cannot be said?

The people should and because we are capitalists and a democracy, the marketplace is our purest form of democratic expression. You can choose to not vote. But almost everyone participates as a consumer in one form, or another. Spend or don't spend your dollars on what you want. But remember, it is almost as powerful as a vote in some cases.

Comments

[Buzzy]

Sounds like a hate crime to me. Some bigoted rich white boys laughing at the thought of raping a black woman. I'll bet Hillary, Obama, and Edwards are all up in arms over this. Well they better damn well get that way real damn quick or we'll roast their bigoted asses on this issue.

[Helo Pilot]

get over it - XM is full of this crap - most of it coming from punk DJs on the RAP stations. If you want to hear what a group of angry young black ignorant racist gang bangers sound like - tune to any rap station on XM...

This must be the XM attempt to balance out the black racists on XM - by adding a few white ones to the mix....

Imus' XM deal is almost ready - that should even things up.

Be pissed - yeah - be pissed at the people who enable this by subscribing. Their the same McDonalds manager types that take prank calls from people claiming to be the police. You are surrounded by ignorance - it's everywhere.

[jerry]

I heard that part of their show and thought it was hilarious!

[jerry]

I heard that part of their show and thought it was hilarious!

[Fred Beloit]

I read jerry twice. It was not even hilarious the first time.

[Zifnab]

Republican Radio: We can dish it out but we just can't take it.
Shorter Republican Radio: *cry* "My feelings!" *cry*

[southdakotaboy]

Zifnab please provide a link to any Republican talk show host that promotes the forcing of sex acts with an unwilling minority person.

[Hard Right]

Ziftard tries to get in a cheap shot-and fails miserably...just like in life.

That's pretty repulsive what was said. If the NAACP and the other race pimps don't have a fit then it further proves what we say about the left-they are raging pimping hypocrites and racists.

[phin]

Aren't they the guys that got fired several years back for having a contest where people earned points for the various public places where they'd have sex (while being observed). I think their "crowing moment" in that contest was when one of the couples had sex on church property and got arrested.

[southdakotaboy]

phin I think your right. If I remember all the details of the story didn't they also have to be on the phone at the same time? I think that was the straw that broke they camel's back.

[BARRASSO]

A shock jock said something shocking on his shock radio show, I'm shocked.