If you want to be heard, you have to do the unusual, especially when your opinion is not in the majority. It may have been distasteful or uncalled for at that time to some, but it wasn’t to all.
Yes, I have studied the first Amendment (among the rest of the Bill of Rights and Constitution) so I am familiar with that. Did he at any point yell “Fire!” or “Rape!” or “Bomb!” or anything that could have endangered himself or the people attending? Nope. Sure didn’t.
Like I said, I didn’t see it. I don’t watch any of those stupid award shows. And he’s not the only one that has used an award show to express an opinion. I believe MTV has experience with certain people doing and saying certain things, whether it was a majority opinion or not.
I saw the tape of Michael Moore’s speech after the fact. I think it’s funny, and it really doesn’t matter if I agree or disagree with what he said.
I may be for the war in some respects, but I’ve never been a fan of Bush or his ideas, beliefs and reasoning. So hearing Moore’s comments is quite refreshing.
Actually, when I heard that the one Dixie chick was coming under such scrutiny for what she had said about Bush, I was dumbfounded. I can’t believe she was forced to apologize. If I had more “celebrity” status and said something that people didn’t agree with, I would never apologize because it was not the opinion of the majority. For a society that expresses free speech and freedom in general, we sure have a problem hearing things we don’t necessarily want to hear, but things we may be thinking.
It’s just like Eminem. He said that he only raps about things people think but are too afraid to say. He’s right. I may not like all his music or lyrics, but he certainly does talk about things that I, or my friends, have talked about, experienced or seen at some point. To some, Marshal Mathers is evil. And to others, he is their hero. It all depends on what you are saying and whether it’s a majority opinion or not.
I’ve always been brutally blunt, honest and forward. And I have no problem with people who do the same. I don’t have to listen if I don’t want to. Same goes for everyone else.
“Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one.”