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Another glass of spilt content. For those of you who were around during the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centers, you will know what sort of emotions were flowing days and weeks after. Minority nationalities were driving around with either a Canadian of American flag on their car, people were praising firefighters, paramedics and police. Basically, everyone was proud but sad at the same time.The newspapers had compassionate political cartoons (which, if you are a fan of editorials and political cartoons like me- you will know those are hard to come by) which by about October 11, had tapered off to a lighter note of the situation. Not to say that what happened is a joke, but we can�t cry about it forever. Then the Osama Bin Laden jokes started floating around, those are still kicking about actually. People started looking at a lighter side of the attacks. Eminem had Osama rapping in one of his music videos. I laughed... quite hard. It was hard not to. On a radio parody quiz segment last February, a rather well known local radio host, Gerry Forbes on CJAY 92, asked listeners why Muslims around the world traveled to Mecca. One of the options was that it was "just a way to build up some frequent flyer miles so you don't have to pay for the next time you want to ram an airplane in the stronghold of the western civilization". Ok so driving to work in the morning, no matter who you are, you are going to snicker. Not snicker in a bad way, but you are going to give a little smirk. Yes you will, because it's funny. After a listener chose that option as their answer, Forbes and a second announcer replied, "Absolutely right there" and "You nailed that one." Now a year now after those comments were made, a group called Muslims Against Terrorism, has come forward complaining and stating how unfair those comments were. A ruling read by the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council stated, "The implication that all Muslims might travel to their holiest city in order to fund terrorist activities is outrageous". No. What is outrageous is the extreme view points suddenly the world has taken. Suddenly everything is personal. For God sake, I make fun of blondes everyday. Is there a group out there called, "Blondes against being made fun of"? Give your freakin head a shake. While 99.9% of the listener ship is laughing in their cars or at their desk, the other 0.01% is crying wolf. The same thing as Christians. Oh- suddenly because Christmas is a "religious" holiday saying Merry Christmas is wrong. Now, it is Happy Seasons or Happy Holidays. Where does this bulls**t end? Because quite frankly I am sick and tired of hearing of another person crying over their spilt milk. So called "Edgy" programming is everywhere. Hi- have you seen an episode of Saturday Night Live, Simpsons or any Hollywood movie lately? Gerry Forbes, you go. I am mentally giving you a high five. Posted by Bella at 8:39 PM# 0 Comments:
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