So Awesomely Stupid It's Funny

[lizard]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Rapper may be jailed for calling France a slut[/FONT]

[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] Jon Henley in Paris
Thursday November 24, 2005
The Guardian

[/FONT] [FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]A French court agreed yesterday to consider a complaint brought by a conservative MP against the rapper Monsieur R for referring to France as a slut in a song.

[/FONT] [FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The court in Melun, south of Paris, said it would rule early next year on the complaint filed by Daniel Mach, MP for the Pyrénées Orientales, who said he had the backing of 150 MPs but was bringing the action "on my own personal account, because I feel assaulted by these insults. They are a real attack on the dignity of France and of the state."[/FONT]
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] The MP, the latest in a long line of people to object to French rap lyrics since the early 1990s, added: "I want to grab society's attention, to show it that everything could just explode when an audience that is already fragile listens to such songs."

[/FONT] [FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Mr Mach alleged that on the song FranSSe, from Monsieur R's latest album Politikment Incorrekt, Monsieur R - whose real name is Richard Makela - raps: "France is a bitch, don't forget to fuck her till she's exhausted/You have to treat her like a slut, man." At another point, Mr Makela says: "I piss on Napoleon and on General de Gaulle."

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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]If convicted, the rapper faces up to three years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (£51,000). "As soon as a rapper expresses himself, bizarrely, everyone launches into him," he told the France Soir newspaper yesterday. "There are plenty of songs that are part of this country's artistic heritage and every bit as virulently anti-France, and nobody complains."[/FONT]

 

[lizard]

 

[Ellestin]

Well I wouldn't send him behind bars, I'd execute him on sight instead for the ineffable dumbness of his lyrics. And what the fuck is that album's name about??? "FranSSe". Man, I hate rap so much!

 

[lizard]

me too. that's why the story is DOUBLY stupid....by causing all this publicity, the govt guy is making the rapper money, and the rapper is an idiot because ... well, just because he's a rapper.

 

[Ellestin]

hehe...

Lizard redefining sophistic syllogism:
Monsieur R is a rapper
Monsieur R is stupid
Thus, rappers are stupid.

I'm with you!

 

[lizard]

 

[lizard]

 

[NAD]

next thing you know they'll take my thoughts away

this is like that time the Simpsons ragged on New Orleans and almost started riots. fucking cool.

and oh yeah, some dude in Russia sued the Simpsons unsuccessfully yesterday, some bullshit about hating family and grotesque violence. anyhow, the episode clip they showed on the news was from the Itchy and Scratchy Land episode, and of course Faux showed that one on the repeats late last night.