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We still don't have a problem with the Los Angeles, Mexico billboards nor do we have a problem with the response to it. We think it's a little silly and could've been done more creatively but we like freedom of expression in all its forms.
Well, in most forms. Boifromtroy notes that Lieberman Broadcasting Group has been under attack from GLAAD and NCAVP for two of the programs that air on their spanish language stations. José Luis Sin Censura and El Show de María Laria both feature regular talk show segments in which guests and audience members hurl phrases like puñales, joto and marimacha at each other. The two shows follow the old Jerry Springer/Morton Downey Jr. format in which physical violence is both tolerated and encouraged and takes particularly brutal form against gay guests.
GLAAD met with show execs last year and, according to GLAAD, they agreed to curb the anti-gay violence on the shows. Since then, however, the violence has escalated and Lieberman Broadcasting has refused to meet with the organization again.
Boifromtroy thinks Lieberman Broadcasting is a villain that both Republicans and Democrats might join together to rally against.
We're not so sure.
NPR takes a look at the controversy as well.
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Did you see what Boi posted:
From weblogs on the internets to talk radio, the anti-immigration lobby is condeming Lieberman Broadcasting for the billboard, urging boycotts and more.
In response, Aztlan.net sends an email alert to its subscribers, stating, "Among the most irritated are KABC's jocks Doug McIntyre and the shameless sodomite Al Rantel, both fervent supporters of vigilante leader Chris Simcox. Both devised a plan and conspired, while talking over the airwaves, on how to get back at "these Mexicans!". (hat tip: EClaire)
Now, this comment wouldn't be so harmful were it not in defense of Lieberman Broadcasting's advertizing for its Spanish-language stations.
You see, GLAAD recently criticized Lieberman Broadcasting for the homophobic content on its spanish-language stations:
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) and a coalition of diverse local and national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organizations today called on Spanish-language media group Liberman Broadcasting Corporation to stop promoting physical violence against and verbal abuse of LGBT people on its television shows "José Luis Sin Censura" and "El Show de María Laria" (which recently stopped production but whose defamatory past episodes continue to be frequently aired by Liberman) and its popular Los Angeles radio show "Los Guapos de la Mañana."
On the TV shows, audience members are allowed to get up from their seats to attack the guests, slap them, punch them, and drag beaten panelists across the stage. The shows also broadcast audience members' use of defamatory epithets such as "puñales," "joto," "maricón" [all three of which translate as "faggot"] and "marimacha" [dyke], and other offensive comments such as "All gays have AIDS." The "Los Guapos de la Mañana" radio program regularly features a transgender female character who discusses celebrity gossip while "Simón," a song about a gay man who dies of AIDS, is played in the background.