POLL: Dire Straits' 'Money For Nothing' banned in Canada

  • Rolling Stone
  • Posted January 20, 2011 at 7:51 a.m.

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Do you find the lyrics "little faggot" in Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" offensive?

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The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that "Money for Nothing," a Dire Straits hit from 1985, is too offensive for Canadian airwaves. The song is being singled out for the repeated use of an anti-gay slur — "that little faggot" — in its second verse.

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