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XM Radio has suspended O&A for 30 days.

I just called to cancel my XM Radio subscription. First Imus, then JV and Elvis, now O&A. When does it stop?

Here’s some media clips in case you haven’t heard them. First, the offending “Condaleeza Rice rape” clip that led to the “apology”. Ignore the ridiculous text on the video:

And here’s the audio clip that led to the suspension:

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And here’s some commentary by hilarious Patrice O’Neal:

I find it annoying that this N.O.W. president is harping on the market: “What’s happening now is the marketplace is deciding what’s appropriate and what’s not appropriate.” Oh, a market-based approach, eh? I imagine she wouldn’t be too happy if feminism or the civil rights movement or whoever took a market-based approach instead of an activist-based approach, but yet here she is thumping her economics book! Unbelievable!

Meanwhile, Patrice makes an excellent point: how many [unfunny] rape jokes lead to rape? Whether they are funny or tasteless or whatever is subjective, but joking about rape is not the same as rape. If it’s okay to express that rape is bad, why isn’t it okay to express that rape is funny? You do not have the right not to be offended, especially by a service that is clearly marked “Explicit language” and that you have to pay to get access to!

XM claims that this is a 30-day suspension. O&A fans all know that suspensions rarely lead to anything except being fired. So, I “suspended” my XM subscription for 30 days as well. If O&A come back, then so will I.

The “Imus situation” continues. This time, unfunny dopes, JV and Elvis have been suspended indefinitely for playing terrible prepburger material that contains some racial references. Specifically, Chinese restaurant jokes like that old gem, “flied lice”. Cuz you see, Asians have trouble with “r”. Oh man, what a hilarious duo!

JV and Elvis are awful, and normally I’d be happy that their non-humor is gone. But not like this.

Hannity and Colmes had an interesting exchange with someone from a group that filed a complaint against JV and Elvis (which lead to their suspension).

[Begin transcript]

SEAN HANNITY: …I’m getting concerned here. Are we going to get to the point like, for example, both of my grandparents came from Ireland. If somebody tells an Irish joke, am I supposed to get offended? I mean, are we at the point where we can’t and this isn’t my type of humor, but I’m getting very nervous about the environment that’s being created here.

SMOLIN: Would you want your wife, you know, somebody to call you…

HANNITY: You don’t have to listen to it.

SMOLIN: Do you want someone to talk to you the way the DJ talked to them?

HANNITY: Read the first thing you — if you Google, Sean Hannity, you know what’s going to come up first? HannityisaMoron.com.

COLMES: I’m sorry I started that site, by the way.

[End transcript]

Aahahaha, oh those two. They are a regular Laurel and Hardy!

And here’s the latest issue of Time.

It looks like it’s coming down to fear of the slippery slope, again. The slippery slope argument is used too much, but sometimes there really is a slippery slope. Is the Imus slope a real one? If so, where does it end?

Also, how is it that Time gives Imus a whole cover, but puts Jackie Robinson in the corner? I think that Robinson has had more of a racial impact in the US than Imus or “flied lice” ever will.