Ravenwood - 05/26/05 06:00 AM
The hair band Motley Crue slipped in the F-word while appearing on the Tonight Show on New Year's Eve. NBC banned them from their network, so Motley Crue is suing. These morons are actually requesting that the courts force NBC to put them on the Tonight Show.
The band. . .is requesting a ruling that NBC's ban is unconstitutional, a court order forcing the network to lift it, and unspecified financial damages tied to the band's reduced media exposure.In case you haven't heard, Constitutional Amendment #28 was recently ratified by the states. It reads: NBC shall not show good taste in music and deny two-bit 80's hair bands access to perform on late night talk shows. If these guys are so good, why don't they go on Letterman? CBS could even boast: "You won't find this on NBC."
Of course they could also spin this as a civil rights issue:
"We meant no harm, but it feels that we're being singled out unfairly," said Nikki Sixx, the band's bassist. "This is a discrimination issue, pure and simple. All we've ever asked is to be treated like everybody else, which is why we're taking this action."Oh, woe is me. Please pass the world's smallest violin.
NBC was somehow surprised that the Crue used the "F-word"? In a way, I think NBC deserves to lose the lawsuit. If you book Motley Crue, don't be shocked when you actually get Motley Crue.
Then again, if they want to ban them from NBC in the future, the band really has only themselves to blame, not "the Man" at NBC.
The reason I feel any sympathy at all for the band is much like when I hear about the occasional family of morons whose pet tiger mauls one of the kids, then they have to kill the tiger. Damn, what did you think was going to happen?
I mean, come on, if you put an extra-large, double-cheese, deluxe pizza in front of Michael Moore, do you actually expect him not to eat the entire thing?
Posted by: roger at May 26, 2005 9:58 AMNot much sympathy here for the pet tiger thing. OTOH, when I hear of some PETA fool getting eaten by a bear, I definitely feel sorry for the bear. First it gets a belly ache, then they shoot it...
Posted by: markm at May 26, 2005 1:14 PM"... All we've ever asked is to be treated like everybody else, ... "
Seems to me the NBC IS going to treat them like (essentially) everbody else: no more TV appearances for them. :-)
Posted by: Bob Reynolds at May 26, 2005 4:10 PMGot bad news for them....
As former private security for a college, one of our privileges was the training of a police officer, without the "burdens" of Constitutional rights. We were taught that on duty we should act like cops and apply PC and plain view rules when we engage in stuff but that wasn't always so. One gentleman lost his cooler and booze when same was spotted in a vehicle on campus. An opened door and popped cooler lid later got the "devil-drink" taken to the office. I was in a similar situation (minus violations) when I parked on a company that shall remain nameless' property. A security officer showed up, saw a reloader kit in my car and the first thing he said after asking if any weapons in the car was "you are on private property." I knew I was screwed at that moment and I don't know if he realised I realised what he could do or not, but he didn't search me or the vehicle.
So, in short, you can't force non-governmental entities/persons to follow the Constitution. That would include NBC.
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