CNN Plays Inappropriate Song After Segment on Sikh Temple Shooting
- Posted on August 6, 2012 at 1:40pm by
Becket Adams
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CNN staffers last week sparked a bit of controversy when they chose to introduce a segment on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin with a song titled “Stupid Girls.”
Today, it looks like CNN may have outdone itself in the “totally inappropriate bumper music” department by playing Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young” following a panel discussion on the tragic Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting:
Granted, the song isn’t about murder and it has nothing to do with the Sikh faith. It’s a boorish piece of pop-candy about a guy who’s trying to sleep with a good Catholic girl.
But of all the verses in the song CNN producers chose to play, they picked these?
Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Ah but they never told you the price that you pay,
For the things that you might have done…
Only the good die young
That’s what I said
Only the good die young
Only the good die young.
Okay, okay, let’s be fair: CNN’s “Starting Point,” as Newsbuster’s Noel Sheppard notes, “allows guest contributors to offer a song playlist for their appearances” and Joel’s song was chosen by CNN guest Hank Sheinkopf.
Alright, we understand guests get to choose the music and we understand this wasn’t planned. But, good grief, wasn’t there at least an intern somewhere who said, “Hey, this seems like a really bad idea right now. Maybe we should play something else”?
UPDATE — After news outlets including Newsbusters and TheBlaze reported on the inappropriate song, CNN released the following statement:
We aired a song from a guest’s playlist on the morning show following a three-minute commercial break and before a segment on presidential politics, unrelated to the Wisconsin shooting. Given the news of the day, this was regrettable and we apologize to our viewers.
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Comments (57)
Libfreezone
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 5:15pmLet’s face it the Communist News Network is scraping the bottom of the barrel. All of the good reporters and on air personalities have long since left that excuse for a network. The only people left are left wing extremists taking orders from the White House.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 5:22pmI think they looked under the barrel when they found Soledad O’Brien.
Report Post »resme
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:17pmI’ve never seen a more racist network then cnn, Anytime i flip the channel onto CNN, They are playing a CNN “exclusive special” about racism in inner America.
Report Post »melving
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:59pmCNN? Who?
Report Post »The Sergeant Major
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:09pmCrickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping, crickets chirping!
It’s CNN, who cares?
Report Post »JSherrillj
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:58pmI honestly did not know that CNN was still on the air. I need to get out more.
Report Post »cozmacozmy
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 1:11amLol!
Report Post »dave88
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:52pmI think CNN does this to see who is listening. Obviously, no one is listening that is not paid to listen and report on idiotic things they do.
Report Post »Truth and Justice
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:49pmCNN is as irrelevant as what I had for dinner last Thursday.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:16pmYou should post what you had for dinner on this site; it would get more exposure than anything on CNN. Then you could tell your friends that your dinner choice was officially more relevant than CNN’s programing.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:26pmHow did this become an issue? Did one of the ten and one half viewers they have complain?
Report Post »Patrick Henry
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:37pmYou have much to learn about the “why’s” in life! You are just slow, you will catch up, it just takes a change in oneself
Report Post »Halloween
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:25pmPolitical Correctness is a Liberal subject. If you go there, you are a Liberal. how about playing “I Shot The Sheriff” or any number of songs. Get over it.
Report Post »ACTIONNOTTALK
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:13pmSeriously, does anybody watch CNN?
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:12pmCNN likes theme music huh? How about “Sympathy for the Devil” before every broadcast!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 5:20pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8
Report Post »Raging_Waters
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:51pm“Eve of Destruction” by Barry McGuire would be a good one too..
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 3:06pmInstead of drug testing for welfare,maybe we should drug tests news network staffers?
Report Post »thibx
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 3:01pmat least put some people on who are good looking.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:58pmCNN doesn’t deserve any airtime.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:36pmPlease leave the music to artists. We don’t need it it news broadcasts.
Report Post »BigdaddyK
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:31pm“Stupid Girls”, “Only The Good Die Young”, and the “Monkey Rings” commercial. Can’t imagine what folks would say had it been Fox that had make these blunders. Nah – I can imagine.
Report Post »WILL_OF_LANDREW
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:36pmWell at least they didn’t play “Another one bites the dust” by Queen. But I guess they will at the appropriate time.
Report Post »mersey
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:21pmMaybe CNN should start every broadcast day playing The Doors song called The End. It’s coming……rapidily.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:03pmMERSEY, I think that is an excellent idea.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUIQgEVDM4
KeystoneState
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:21pmZzzzzz.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:20pmAll 10 of the people watching were really offended!
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 3:26pmhahahahahaha!! That was too funny Gonzo.
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:17pmYou gotta love the excuse making by the right wingers after they found out this terrorist was one of their own. And notice how the blaze hides the story in the middle of the page so not to bring any attention to it. If this guy were a muslim Beck and the blaze would be all over it. But now that they found out it was someone from their side of the political isle they try to bury it. Pathetic right wingers!!!!!!!
Report Post »TheEDGE
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:35pmAren’t you going to call us Beckbots?
Report Post »WILL_OF_LANDREW
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:40pm@ trollmonger I bet that is your real sir name hence how you came into existence.
Report Post »Copo
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:51pmActually he was a white supremist and advocated the genocide of non whites and Jews, which isn’t our thing, he was a eugenicist and an abortionist, which isn’t our thing, in fact he basically advocated everything that we are against.
Report Post »Teaparty_Grammy
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 3:00pmTypical lib-troll–determined to blame Conservatives and the Tea Party for every bad thing that happens–no matter how far they have to stretch the truth to do it! This guy had nothing to do with us. He was a White Supremacists. But you idiot liberals hear “White Supremacist” and immediately start yelling, “Oh my God, another act of violence from the Tea Party! That is because you never THINK — you are robots that simply repeat whatever the Lamestream Media and our lying POTUS and friends tell you. Wise up — use that ugly lump on top of your shoulders for something besides growing hair, before you start babbling stupid s**t like this!
Report Post »confederacyofdunces
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 3:01pmHe was a Neo Nazi? Neo Nazis fall under the socialist title just like the original Nazi party was. Socialism is a LEFTIST idea. Why is it American leftists are so anxious to deny one of their own whenever it is convenient? Why do they try to pin Neo Nazis on the right when the clan and American Nazi groups were affiliated with the Democrats as the Republicans sought to give minorities more rights?
Report Post »Teaparty_Grammy
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 3:04pmAnd oh, yeah, Mr. Intellectual Giant–THIS was not the main story published on The Blaze about the WI shootings. The main story gave the shooter’s name and all that was known of his background, including that he was a U.S. Army vet out of Fort Bragg. Guess you just did not read far enough before starting to blame the Right for every bad thing that has happened since the beginning of time you brain-washed moron, or should I just say leftist “useful idiot”. Lenin would be so proud of you . . .
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 3:17pmTroll, you ignoramus. The shooter was a White Supremicist. Do you really think Neo Nazis are voting for a Mormon this year? You’re too stupid to argue with.
Report Post »stumpy68
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:03pmNeo-Nazi’s skinheads are not one of our own no matter
Report Post »what the msm tells you to believe.
nancylou
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:04pmIt doesn’t matter how many times you pathetic leftwingers try to place the blame of hateful actions on the doorstep of the right, we know the truth (that you are wrong) and our conscience is clear. I love how you people ignore, for instance, the hateful ideals and plans of Margaret Sanger. Remember her? She’s the one who started Planned Parenthood, she was a racist and a white supremist who believed in eugenics to get rid of the “problem minorities”. She was admired by Hitler, and is STILL idolized, embraced and revered by the left wingers. Stop trying to accuse the right for everything bad that happens, and look to all the evil on your own side.
Report Post »Locutus
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 5:28pmTrollmonger may have inadvertently tipped his hand with this one. Most folks, I believe, after hearing of a story like this probably secretly hope that it cannot be found that the aggressor would ultimately be found to have ties to their own political or religious beliefs. It’s something we all must worry about these days. No one wants wants to have their cause discredited by some radical puss bucket. Much like the OWS crowd moving their bowels on police cars and the like… But the big difference with this particular troll is that he doesn’t even feel the pain for the victom before these political feeling creep in. His first and only hope is that the perp WILL be conservative, WILL be a Tea Party member, WILL be a Romney voter. He must have it. Praying to a god he doesn’t even believe in to “Please let this be a white guy, and let this white guy be conservative! And I’ll even go to church every Sunday, God, If you will PLEASE let one of those tattoos be the Glenn Beck logo!” Such is the mind of todays political left. I like to argue with the liberal mind. To challenge it. I think most of us do. But the liberal mind seeks only to destroy the conservative at all cost. To eradicate him. To think that we might learn something from each other in the present day is an idea thats fading from me. Sorry for feeding the troll folks, but I am highly disappointed in this person. Good people are dead and yet here we are blaming good people for it. My heart broke a bit for you today
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:08pmWhy any music at all? One of the stupidest things about our society is the idea that everything has to have a sound track.
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:06pmThe SHORT article clearly states This was not CNN’s decision.
Report Post »What am I not getting?
mersey
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:16pmYeah, let the inmates run the asylum. That’s a good way to run a so-called major network.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 5:50pmVERCEOFREASON, Then who in the hell played the song? I swear, every time your fingers touch the keyboard here, you keep proving just what a booger eating moron you are. The song itself was chosen by CNN’s guest Hank Sheinkopf as you would have clearly known had you read the article. Then CNN did play it. Do you think that somebody slipped by their security to play the song?
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:03pmCNN, much like NBC and the stupid “monkey rings” scandal, better be careful. I’m afraid that if liberals keep contradicting themselves in their own PC game this way, the consequences could be disastrous in which:
“The results could cause a chain-reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and would destroy the universe!…(granted that’s a worst case scenario as the destruction might be limited and localized only to our own galaxy…)”——Doc Brown.
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 1:58pmCN Who ?
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 1:50pmCNN’s new motto must be “bad attention is better than no attention at all”.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:08pmNail hit on head .. otherwise no one would even know they were still on the air.
Report Post »blOWS
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 2:31pmI would not know it was still on except for the continuously obnoxiously loud programming in airports.
Report Post »PinkDog
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 1:49pmThese jerks just make you walk away shaking your head. There is nothing to say to such creeps.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 1:59pmOh yes there is! But thee may be women & children here so I won’t say what I really think. Their ratings are in the basement and headed down from there…. Vote with your money and your time.
Report Post »Larry E
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 1:48pmCNN and MSNBC are two of the best reasons for if not censoring the lamestream media at least putting them all on a 30 second delay.
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