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...Yeah," said the Kingfish, "we'd better get the new wing ready soon. We can move him in next to the Greaseman...
...truth is, though, that Greaseman seemed pretty disingenuous up there on T.V. And this is not the first time he has betrayed his inner demon on the air; in 1986 while working at WWDC he said this of Martin Luther King Day: "Kill four more and we can take a whole week...
...think, Al, that Greaseman is truly sorry for what he said, just as station-managers and advertisers across the country must be very sorry, too, millions of dollars worth of sorry. But how can we deny the fact that to put Greaseman back on the air would be to endorse the kind of disgusting drivel which can lead, at its very worst, to the brutal murders of innocent people? Shepard and Gaither were not killed because of the color of their skin, but they suffered from ignorant hatred...
Alas, there is a great deal of money at stake in Greaseman's show; and I have even heard some commentators suggest that Greaseman's market value has increased as a result of this scandal. So the chances are that he will get his show back. "No laws were broken," we will hear, "and if we don't have free speech in this country, what do we have...
True enough, Mr. Franken, true enough. But I think that as a society we still do not have to tolerate and promote utter and total garbage--which is exactly what Greaseman and his show are. Let Greaseman find a soapbox in Jasper, Texas from which to spout. Or let him seek counseling and try to beat his demons. Either way, the time has come to say: "Enough is enough; even the media has a shred of decency and self-respect." Yours Daniel. Daniel M. Suleiman '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...