Well, devil's advocate: It's not the role of his employer to punish him for his art, but it is the role of this employer in particular to give travelers confidence in their safety. I don't know the backstory, but it seems to me that releasing a song in which someone going by his name threatens to fly a plane into a building might undermine said confidence, particularly if someone can identify him as a baggage screener.
The point isn't whether his art is immoral or illegal, it's that it actively works against the interests of his employer--interests he probably signed an agreement to uphold. I think my employer would probably fire me if I managed to get airplay for a song claiming I'd modified their spam filter to introduce viruses into customer intranets. I wouldn't blame them.
Anyway, he wanted attention, and now he's on national TV! Kudos.
And seriously, "against the war in Iraq" is a reason you respect Tucker Carlson? Because, long after he advocated for opening the barn door--a position he later said was "against his instincts" while he was publicly supporting it--he admitted maybe we shouldn't have let all those horses out? (On the same day (http://mediamatters.org/items/200406170002) he echoed the moronic "flip-flop" charges against John Kerry?) I'll agree he's not the worst of conservative TV personalities, but you're setting the bar pretty low.
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Date: 2005-07-17 07:28 pm (UTC)The point isn't whether his art is immoral or illegal, it's that it actively works against the interests of his employer--interests he probably signed an agreement to uphold. I think my employer would probably fire me if I managed to get airplay for a song claiming I'd modified their spam filter to introduce viruses into customer intranets. I wouldn't blame them.
Anyway, he wanted attention, and now he's on national TV! Kudos.
And seriously, "against the war in Iraq" is a reason you respect Tucker Carlson? Because, long after he advocated for opening the barn door--a position he later said was "against his instincts" while he was publicly supporting it--he admitted maybe we shouldn't have let all those horses out? (On the same day (http://mediamatters.org/items/200406170002) he echoed the moronic "flip-flop" charges against John Kerry?) I'll agree he's not the worst of conservative TV personalities, but you're setting the bar pretty low.