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I don't see any of these things really being banned in Canada. Don Cherry has pretty much called professional hockey players he dislikes "faggot" and gotten away with it, and he is the highest paid government employee in the country. (He makes, like, 10 times what Stephen Harper does). Rob Ford has made similar racist comments against Asians and he was elected mayor of our largest city. He said that if a cyclist gets killed in an accident on the street, it is always the cyclists fault for being there.
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The comments aren't necessarily "banned", but Don Cherry gets into hot water a lot more than Clarkson does, and I believe this is because Canadians tend to be overly sensitive. For example: sure, Cherry calls hockey players "faggots" (although I think "pukes" was the specific word used), but then the entire press is in an uproar the next day and every gay rights activist and casual hockey fan alike is calling for an apology. Clarkson calls politicians he doesn't like "gay", he calls mushy cars "gay", and generally anything he views as weird or awkward is "gay". It's hardly front-page news the next day in Britain, because people just don't care. Point is the CBC (and really the press in general; remember the "Pinkos on Bikes" fiasco?) has responded to Cherry's un-PC comments far more harshly than the BBC has to Clarkson's, which is what I was getting at.
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You are basically arguing for entertainers to say and do anything they want, while criticizing an entertainer for saying and doing something she wanted.
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I was only supporting their right to
say anything- not
do anything. Sure, they can do almost anything, but I draw the line at private (or state-endowed) property. I don't remember Clarkson heading over to Ken Livingstone's house, nor do I remember Don Cherry going to lambast Stu Grimson at his house. Sure, Mercer paid a visit to the cuddly Mr. Harper in 24 Sussex, but that was after a mutual agreement. So where did they get the idea for trying to pull a prank on a politician at his private residence? I wouldn't approve of Ezra Levant doing this to Dalton McGuinty for a Sun News stunt, and I don't approve of Walsh doing it to Rob-Fucking-Ford for a 22 Minutes stunt either. Simple as that.
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BTW, the consort to our head of state has more than topped all of those.
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But there's a difference- he's not
funny.