Clear Channel Taliban bans song

The book-burners at Clear Channel are at it again.

Everybody remembers when Crap Channel released a list of songs right after 9/11 that were blacklisted from its stations. Now one Clear Channel outlet has banned the song "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster The People because it's about a spree killer.

As you know, "Pumped Up Kicks" is the song 'Lawn Chair Quarterback' mentioned a few weeks ago because it was the only song in the top 10 that week that sported vinyl-friendly production. But it's been blackballed by Clear Channel's WJJS-FM in Roanoke, Virginia, over its subject matter.

Probably at least 7 or 8 songs in the current top 10 are thoroughly unlistenable, but I bet WJJS plays them without any trouble. Yet they won't play the one song in the top 10 that's more popular than all the others.

No wonder K-92 is kicking the shit out of WJJS in the ratings. This reminds me of the late '80s when out-of-town stations encroached on the Cincinnati stations' listenership because lyrical censorship was so rampant in the 'Nati.

The Clear Channel stuffed shirt who made the decision to ban the Foster The People song also renamed one of Clear Channel's other Roanoke stations for himself. No, I'm not making this up.

Crap Channel puts on a facade of hip but tries to decide for everybody else what they should be allowed to hear.

(Source: http://www.wdbj7.com/news/wdbj7-local-radio-station-decides-not-to-play-song-about-a-shooting-20110922,0,4159139.story)