Laura Schlessinger Gets Away With the N-Bomb, But Janet Jackson & CBS Were Fined. Are You OK This?

[David Zephyr]

How in the hell is this glaring double standard justified?

How is it that a white woman can sling around racially explosive language on a national radio broadcast over public airwaves and neither her or the broadcaster is fined while Janet Jackson and CBS were taken to task over a silly wardrobe malfunction?

How is it? Why is it? Here's why:

Racism. Institutionalized, sanctioned and "excused" racism.

Two standards.

If we allow this racist double standard to permit this wicked, vile woman and her broadcaster to get away with this, to dodge any financial and punitive repercussions with regards to their "right" to use the public (my tax dollars) to incite racial hatred (never-mind her homophobic comments that gays and lesbians are "biological mistakes"), then we are not doing our parts as progressives.

We should not, we can not let this stand.

Laura Schlessinger and her broadcaster should be fined and their licenses should be reviewed immediately. Instead, they want this to "go away". Someone here at the DU pointed out that Fox News hasn't even covered the story. Consider that and then how they carried on night after night about poor Janet Jackson. That's really shitty. Really.

This is an issue that we should all go tea-bagger about.

Where in the hell is the FCC in this?!

Laura Schlessinger deserves the same treatment Janet Jackson got and Schlessinger's broadcaster deserves the same CBS got. Demand it.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. I don't want anyone fined for exercising free speech.

Not even that idiot. And certainly not for Janet Jackson's pasty covered nipple.

[msanthrope]

22. The issue isn't free speech--it's use of public airwaves.

Her chosen forum, the radio, is governed by FCC rules.

[laughingliberal]

2. K & R nt

[patrice]

3. I don't want a fine. But I do want people to recognize dog-whistling when they see it.

Do something to attract your racist base's attention and to reward them for their obedience, affirm them, and then show what a "big person" you are by oh so humbly apologizing.

Sick, sick, sick . . .

[David Zephyr]

16. Bingo!

And they relish the fact that they got away with it.

Like Bill O'Racist saying he wasn't "quite ready yet to lead the lynching party against Michelle Obama."

[Stinky The Clown]

4. We're not supposed to talk about race when racists act up.

Shhhhhhhhhh . . . . . . .

[political_Dem]

5. America is a place where racists benefit by virtue of white privilege.

Of course Dr. Laura won't get fined. She gets to get out of her "faux pas" by invoking First Amendment rights while being anti-politically correct.

She won't even be slapped on the wrists because she's put on that saintly pillar of white womanhood.

After all, she's just putting "them black folks" in their place. :sarcasm:

Watch Frau Brewer and Queen Meg pat old Dr. Laura on the back for being "truthful" with her feelings.

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[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. The FCC is thoroughly cowed by big corprat-owned media

and the telecoms (ie: net neutrality). They are controlled and owned by corporations who own the media and telecoms. They'll do nothing because they have been "urged" not to. Who owns the media? If you keep that in mind, everything they do (and also don't do) makes sense - including this blatant double-standard.

They do what keeps their friendly big-business loving Republicans in office and their bottom lines fat, their CxO salaries and bonuses huge, and their investors happy. And the FCC isn't going to get in their way. Janet Jackson's pasty nipple garnered LOTS of ratings - big $$$, and the fine was nothing but a pretentious excuse for "morality" - while you can clearly see these entities have none. The FCC or the media. If they did, this "woman" would have been - if not fined, at least shamed in such a way that she'd keep her yappy mouth shut for a good long while. And so she should be. But her racist diatribe didn't garner nearly the ratings that Janet's nipple did. Because this country still is racist and sexist. And the attitudes of the media reflect that. And the corporate-owned ministry of propaganda (the media) own and control the government that ought to be regulating it - and so they are uncontrolled renegades free to peddle whatever slants, lies, and 'ism's they so choose with impunity.

[kelly1mm]

7. If you want her to suffer financial and punitive repercussions organize

a boycott. As for the government (FCC) taking any action - not as long as we value the 1st Ammendment.

[David Zephyr]

12. The GLBT community has been boycotting her.

Alone up until now. Hopefully, the FCC will step up and fine her and her broadcaster.

But, you are correct in that her corporate sponsors (advertisers) should feel the sting of financial boycotting.

[dkf]

8. You can't just fine white people for saying the n word.

I'm okay if we fine everyone for using it but I'm not sure how that would go over in the Rap community.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Remember when she posed nude for her married lover?

That was fun listening to her try to explain that shit a few years ago.

[David Zephyr]

13. Or Laura's mother rotting dead in a house Laura drove by for nearly 6 months.

Or Laura's son boasting about a soldier making a boy perform oral sex on him.

It's a twisted family that Laura created and yet, she's a paragon of virtues. Sort of like Bill Bennett who called himself "America's Czar of Virtues" until his million dollar gambling habit was exposed.

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[pitohui]

10. i don't believe in fining people for saying nasty words

nor do i believe in finding people for flashing their ta-tas

look, two wrongs don't make a right

the time to complain was when jackson was fined, as what she did while yes a publicity stunt, wasn't worthy of all the outrage

let's not be the party of the language police, ok?

let people express themselves as they are and let the dr. laura's of the world show themselves as they are

as for dr. laura, we should ignore her instead of giving her the attention and drama she so desperately seeks w. this latest stunt

[David Zephyr]

14. Inciting and inflaming racial hatred on public airwaves is more than just free speech.

The Supreme Court has ruled you can not scream "fire" in a crowded theater. Laura can spew the "n" word all she wants to her friends and the public, but not over taxpayer owned public airwaves. There's a big difference between not permitting the public underwriting racially inciting talk and that of language police.

[pipi_k]

11. Wait a second...

are you implying that a white woman in Janet Jackson's position would NOT have been fined for a wardrobe malfunction?

If you want to call "Dr Laura" a racist because of what she said, then go ahead and do it.

But if you want to compare her lack of a fine for using that word with Janet Jackson's fine for wardrobe malfunction and then suggest that it all involves "racism", then I would have to strongly disagree and call that whole idea silly in the extreme.

[David Zephyr]

15. I am not implying it, I am stating it.

White women have been exposing their breasts as much as Janet did for years on television. Get real.

Janet is black. Justin Timberlake wasn't condemned and he was the one who tore it off. Hmm...oh, that's right, he's white.

[msanthrope]

23. I always thought it interesting that Mr. Timberlake was never rebuked by the FCC. n/t

[miso corny]

17. At first I thought the same as everyone else:

She seemed gleeful at finally getting the opportunity to say the N-word. But did you hear the whole 7 minute exchange? It's important to hear everything. I have come to the conclusion that this is how she treats ALL her callers. Her whole life philosophy is "Pull up your Big Girl panties and deal with it." She thinks that anyone with hurt feelings is whining. Her voice oozes with hostility for everyone who calls her up.

[David Zephyr]

18. No. Her slur against the NAACP frames her context. It's racist bile.

Her gratuitous slur against the NAACP shows everything one needs to know. I'm white, but my family (thankfully) is mixed racially and, believe me, she relished doing this.

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