Little people call for FCC to ban use of 'midget' on broadcast TV

Wow, in this country I didn't know one could ban the use of a word on television other than an obscenity? Considering the FCC allows rather filthy words on TV nowadays, like 's--t,''dick' and I actually think p-ssy has been allowed as the naughty word du jour, it strains reason to ban the word 'midget.'

How about "stupid dwarf"? Would that make the cut?

On this July 4th weekend, people should remember our rights as Americans, including the right to speak freely. It would terrify me if a word like that could be banned on television just because an interest group wants it so.

These midgets need to get a life and cut the pc crap.

SOUNDS LIKE THEY are A "LITTLE" UPSET

They have a point. "Dwarf" is a much better word.

Grow up MIDGETS!

The absurd "Politically Correctness" in this country is plunging to new depths.

BUBBLE THE BUBBLE wrote:

SOUNDS LIKE THEY are A "LITTLE" UPSET

that, and their insistence on such a carte-blanche ban appears to be "short" sighted

I always say good midget.....that way it makes it ok.

What would you like us to call you then? Lollypop kids? Sack up and get over it. Liberals are the ruin to this country.

How dare they hurt their little feelings.

Jack wrote:

What would you like us to call you then? Lollypop kids? Sack up and get over it. Liberals are the ruin to this country.

What makes you think that it has anything to do with 'liberals'?

Is that what you Sarah Palin lovin', teabaggin', Hannity watchin' folk just reflexively now scream out whenever someone says or does something you disagree with? "Oh that darn X, Y, and Zs. Must be those liberals again!"

Wouldn't those nasty liberal pot tokin hippies in the ACLU actually be the folks arguing in favor of free speech, as they have in the past -- much to the consternation of conservatives?

You have got your battle lines all confused pal. Just cause they're midgets, doesn't make 'em card-carrying 'Liberals.' After all, Bush was a mental midget and he....

I punched a muslim today. Try it once a day and make the world a better place.

As the owner of three MG Midget sports cars, I think that this would be discriminatory against me and my cars. There also happens to be a 1977 MG Midget named "Bridget the Midget" who is expecting to complete a round the world drive in Chicago this year. Would this prevent coverage of this notable achievement? It isn't the word "midget" that is a problem here, it is the attitudes towards smaller people which are at fault.