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For bitch-slapping the Regular Guys

Hot damn. Thanks to TiVo, we can all stare at Janet Jackson’s nipple for hours.

The thing is ... who’d want to? And was it really worth the ensuing crackdown on marginally funny shock jocks like Howard Stern?

Clear Channel, the same bastards who’ve taken Stern out of six big markets, now has yanked 96 Rocks’ the Regular Guys morning show. Indefinitely.

The guys, Eric Von Haessler and Larry Wachs, were sidelined because of a bit they were working on to protest the Federal Communication Commission’s recent attack on entertainers who tend to thrive on toilet humor.

The specifics are fuzzy, but apparently 96 Rock accidentally broadcast a porn star’s graphic descriptions of sex. Yep. Sex, that hot and slippery activity that allows for the survival of all humankind.

The Regular Guys aren’t sweating it that much, though. They’ll be back on the air one of these days, Clear Channel says. And they’re still drawing paychecks, thanks to their contracts.

Still, what kind of world do we live in when borderline indecency is targeted like hate speech — while drug addicts like Rush Limbaugh regularly get away with sanctimonious hatemongering?

With the Regular Guys gone, who’s going to supply Atlanta with its fix of pre-recorded fart noises? Who’s going to host the Pregnant Bikini Pageant? Who’s going to challenge political correctness and push the boundaries between entertainment and crudeness?

Creative Loafing will, that’s who.

That’s right, Clear Channel. You and your fundamentalist Wal-Mart ideals may control every radio station and concert venue in the city. But you don’t control us (not yet, anyway — as far as we know).

So take this: You Clear Channel people are a bunch of jerk-nosed, cry baby, poo-poo faced, meany pants who never, ever have really good sex. And you pass stinky gas, too.

-- Michael Wall






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