Fox News House Band Goes Too Far

Couldn't access that link--MLive wanted my first born. What did Ted do now, Bi-Polar Bear?

Used a few endearing terms like nigger, slope and jap one time too many and was invited to NOT take part in a big outdoor festival he was booked on.

Says all the hubbub is due to liberal hippie media. Good for them.

Well, there's no fool like an old fool. I guess Ted needed to prove that--once again!

Ted's no fool, just a bigmouth. Sounds like he jumped in a hole and started digging. Are you still going to his concert BP?

Already did. He talked his rightwingnut **** in concert and said you couldn't rock like him on a jap guitar.

He's a great rocker, but also an idiot.

Depends on one's definition of fool, I guess, but I'm willing to split the difference on this one...

Coming from you two, I'm sure Ted will take those as compliments.

I was thinking of going to his show with ZZ Top next month, here at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. I wonder if they'll cancel him as well, this being such a politically correct place.

While I don't agree with Ted's idiotic opinions (or jokes or whatever they're supposed to be), I don't think he should be banned from playing concerts. That would be, dare I say it, un-American!

But I really mean it. Viva Ted--and the Dixie Chicks, too...

Could someone explain to me why the term "jap" is offensive? I suppose it might be if you were a jewish american princess....

Could someone explain to me why the term "jap" is offensive? I suppose it might be if you were a jewish american princess....

Ask a person of Japanese descent.

Are you sure he said "nigger"?
I haven't heard this.

cjhsa- You obviously were not around during WWII. "Jap" was a very pejorative appellation, right up there with "nigger".

It is also not the same as J.A.P

Sofia it's on the link. I didn't hear him say it, although I did hear him say Jap in a duragatory context in concert, and he did a little three chord song about how the Dixie Chicks and Michael Moore could kiss his ass, cute in a childish way, not as mature as some of his other work like Wang Dang Sweet Poontang, but endearing none the less, and he interjected several times that war is the answer.

probably the very funniest thing he said was that GWB is a real cowboy. Now that was a knee slapper.

He still rocks though, but not like he did in '69 when btw he was out touring during the height of the Vietnam conflict. I guess war wasn't the answer back then. I think war becomes the answer for a lot of these rightwingnuts after they reach the age where they're too old to serve in the armed forces.

Can't figure out what's offensive about "jap", huh? Do "nigger", "kike", "wop", "spic" or "cracker" give you interpretation problems too? Well, let me ease your mind... if the persons that these terms are supposed to refer to find them offensive, then whether you understand their offense or not, doesn't matter.

well said snood.

I can't help wondering why the author of this discussion decided to work the words "Fox News" into the title.

Actually, I know exactly why he did, I just don't think his dislike of Fox News and desire to malign them justify linking their name to something over which they had no control and for which they are not responsible.

I have a name Scrat, you can address me directly.

My point is obvious, that Fox News is one of the standards by which blind, unthinking "fashionable patriotism" is measured, and people like Terrible Ted are mobile mouthpieces for the same inane rambling.

I like Ted when he shuts up and plays and am capable of separating his politics from his art.

Too bad the Chicks can't say the same for God fearing Bush loving middle American right, although within two weeks they were back to number One on Billboard with a completely sold out tour.

Meanwhile Scrat, the name is Bi-Polar Bear. It's right there by my avatar. I answer to it. Give it a try.

Snood, your political correctness I find ridiculous. "Jap" or "japs" was a term used by our military as a shortened version of Japanese, that is nowhere near as offensive as the other terms you cite.

Using your logic, one could decide to be offended by their own name, and thus you couldn't address them without offense. People might as well name their children "Asshole".