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Originally Posted by Ruien
OK honestly, to everyone that says what he did was not offensive, do you not remember the thread up about it. EVERYBODY was saying how disrespectful the segment was. Now I am not saying Hassan should be taken off T.V., I am just reminding some of you people that acted like you did not think it was offensive when it first happened.
But like LC said, it only means he is out for now.
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Everyone? I think your interweb is broked, because there were many people arguing the opposite.
The segment itself was in no way disrespectful, because of the following.
--The segment was taped beforehand.
--The segment was planned out with (Presumably) no knowledge of the events to come in London.
--The segment did not re-enact an actual recent event that had been given any sort of actual media coverage. I won't be so bold as to claim that there were no recent decapitations ANYWHERE, but they did not make major news.
--They were not labelled terrorists, they were not arabs, they did not kill anyone, fly a plane into the arena, or bomb a subway. They choked out an aging hasbeen.
Now airing it after, that could be considered disrespectful, or even offensive. However, the same could be said of much programming on TV. Hell, for like a WEEK after 11 September's WTC incident, you oculdn't go near a television without watching those buildings falling. People will gawk at REAL people REALLY dying, and then whine because the Undertaker got choked out by a brow person's henchmen.
BOO HOO FUCKING HOO. Get some priorities people. There was more shocking and offensive TV, such as Fox News adding insult to injury. We're sitting around gawking at a fake person doing fake things that don't even VAGUELY resemble what occurred.