TORONTO - Don Imus has been fingered by Canada's TV watchdog for calling Muslims "brainwashed" and "stinking animals" during a 2004 broadcast that aired here on MSNBC Canada. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications(Aryan accent) Surely you received your copy of the Peoples Speaking Code Guidelines . . . I mean the Special Services Regulations published by the Ministry of Truth.
Commission, in a rare judgment of U.S. programming airing on Canadian airwaves, said Friday that the veteran U.S. broadcaster had uttered abusive comments that breached Specialty Services Regulations introduced in 1990.
The CRTC said it was responding especially to one written complaint that questioned why the regulator had imposed restrictions on the distribution of Al Jazeera in Canada to guard against slurs against Jews or Israel and not place similarPay no mind to that nation with nothing like our Bill of Rights.
restrictions on a service such as the American MSNBC service. The regulator said most complaints it received after New York-based Imus made comments during the live broadcast of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's funeral cited a comment that most Palestinians might be upset "because Arafat stole billions of dollars from them, and they are all eating dirt. And the fat, big wife is living in Paris."
This is what you get when the government runs the broadcasting (and the airline, and the railroad, and the health care industry, and the national pension scam and . . . .)
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