[stylist] censorship

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

You're really stretching for the heights of absurdity over there, aren't
you?  /smile/  Just out of curiosity, how big is your town?  I spent a
number of years as an adult out in the rural part of Oregon, where small
town *means* small town.  /grin/  Except that the locals call it the big
city.  Here in the actual city (not even "the Big City" by west coast
standards), politicis can get a little ridiculous, but honest-to-goodness
small town politics is never not weird.  /smile/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of LoriStay at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 4:40 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [stylist] censorship

Not true.   One of our ladies rewrote "You're the top."   The first couple 
of lines went;
You're the top.   You're Barach Obama,
Malia, Sacha and Michelle, their Mama...

They objected, even though Molly was only trying to say since he was the 
president, he was the top person in the Country.   

We were rehearsing the song for our stage performance when the head of the 
Senior Center ran in and snatched a copy of the song.   She made a phone 
call, and ran back in to tell Paula, the teacher, that we couldn't sing it.

My thought is that he is the President, which makes him the top.   It's not 
Democratic or Republican but the office.   The town told us that it 
indicated we thought he was the best...and that was not acceptable.

Knowing the town's fear of product names and such, I suggested we do our 
rehearsal with the door closed.   That will be Wednesday.   Hoping it works 
out.   The state show is not the magazine, though.   Ridiculous, but we will

deal with it or toss the workshop down the toilet after twenty years.
Lori

In a message dated 5/8/09 4:55:00 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:


> I would leave this argument at the editing.  Tell this person that you'll
> edit using no objectionable language and according to grammer rules.
> Whatever her political leanings they have nothing to do with editing.
> 




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