Bush supporters & Texas-based "Clear Channel" censors free speech AGAIN!!

[Zinfandel]

It's amazing to me how these Limbaugh promoting assholes continue to
suppress free speech, from banning Dixie Chicks music, to firing Howard Stern for his personal opinions about Bush, to stopping a message (below) from being put up on billboards...

"A group of prominent Bay Area women, including pioneering chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, is jousting with media giant Clear Channel Communications over a minimalist anti-war billboard they want to unfurl in New York City's Times Square amid flashy ads for Broadway shows, banks and sneakers.

Project Billboard, the women's nascent nonprofit, rented prime real estate on the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Broadway and then proposed an illustration of a cartoonish bomb draped with stars and stripes, accompanied by the words "Democracy is best taught by example, not by war."

It was supposed to run from Aug. 2 to Nov. 2, well-timed to a Republican National Convention starting Aug. 30 in Manhattan and the presidential election Nov. 2 dominated by the conflict in Iraq.

The women say their group is nonpartisan and the design is "pro-democracy, pro-peace, and nothing more.'' But it was rejected last week by Clear Channel's Spectacolor division, which rents out more than 70 displays in Times Square, as well as by Marriott.

"We're just not going to run bomb copy in New York City,'' said Paul Meyer, president and chief executive of Clear Channel Outdoor -- which oversees the Spectacolor division -- Sunday afternoon.

While accusing Clear Channel of rejecting..."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/07/12/MNG6F7K0UH1.DTL

[buycitgo]

1. the obvoius answer is to

come up with another design, one that's terror-neutral, then resubmit

see if they can weasel out of putting something antibush that way

[cheezus]

2. just heard from a caller on randi...

they changed the bomb to a dove, same message. Clear channel still won't do it.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Free Speech!

You're Free To Say What We Want You To Say.

[Zinfandel]

4. Free Speech?

Why do these same flag waving (and lapel wearing) "patriotic" democracy loving, "America Love It or Leave it" republicans always want to stop, censor and completely ignore others constitutional right to free speech, simply because they disagree with the message?

Is the correct word for their actions hypocrites?

Greedy, war-mongering imperialist, corporate republican fascist, is just as appropriate!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Hypocrite?

You mean to suggest that someone who waves the bible around while screwing the poor and sending fat rich men whose proverbial camels couldn't fit through the eye of a 12 mile-high needle billions of dollars in tax cuts and no-bid contracts aren't real "Christians"?

You mean to say that someone who shills for multinational corporations and Saudi Prices, while sending low-income American Boys to die with sub-standard gear and drastically reduced pay and benefits, isn't a real "Patriot"?

In Republican-Land, Hypocrisy is the coin of the realm, my friend.

[cap]

6. maybe Clear Channel needs to be boycotted...

start telling all companies that use Clear Channel that we won't buy their products.

[Zinfandel]

7. It can't hurt not to buy from their sponsors, but who in the fuck could

stand to listen to their lying trash shows day in and day out?

Now boycotting the sponors on the Clear Channel billboards would be much easier of course.