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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 12:58 PM
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Should Simon Cowell be deported?
Last night I watched a documentary about John Lennon and how the Nixon administration tried really hard to kick him out of the country.

Couldn't we do the same thing with Simon Cowell? All he does is shatter the dreams of good, hard-working American singers.

And he's kind of rude too.
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:02 PM
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1. Nah. If we deport all foreign born celebrities who are assholes...
California will be without a governor.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:39 PM
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5. And why would that be a bad thing?
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:40 PM
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14. Oh, that would be a good thing.
Yes, it would. But some people would complain.

(Like my straw man insertion into the debate?)
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:43 PM
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16. I complained like a banshee when they tried to deport Lennon
Were my complaints listened to? Noooooooooooooooooooooo
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:02 PM
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2. Yep, I would be happy to see him go.

n/t
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:26 PM
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3. It will never happen.
He makes FOX too much money.
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:26 PM
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4. No. Keep him.
Please.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:43 PM
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6. Only if he's a lefty
People preaching peace and love and stuff, those are the ones that get deported.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:44 PM
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7. That's why my OP said should not could :)
I'm not talking about reality. I'm talking about the way we wished the world worked.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:49 PM
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8. Oh. In that case I am ambivalent
I mean yeah, of course you'd want to get rid of the asshole. But that would mean we'd have to take him back.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:07 PM
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13. We could arrange a trade
Surely there's at least one rude American in your country right?
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TheFriendlyAnarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 06:24 PM
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19. People always try to hurt me when I do that.
:(
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 06:27 PM
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20. No pain no gain
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:51 PM
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9. No way - he's the only honest one on the show
and the only one who seems to care, at least a little bit, about the integrity of being an artist.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:59 PM
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11. He's also the only thing that is remotely entertaining on the show.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:04 PM
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12. Ain't that the truth! The best - perhaps the only - art that appears on that show
are his deliciously and artfully constructed truth bombs.

Rude is saying "You suck", with no qualifiers or reasons.

Artful truth is saying "I've heard elephants farting manhole covers into tunnels that sounded better than that. And had less vibrato."
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 01:53 PM
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10. That was the WORST attempt to justify expulsion I have heard...
Edited on Tue Mar-06-07 01:54 PM by Deep13
...since Charlie Chaplin. Your composition was rudimentary and your delivery was dreadful! I'm just being honest.

Can't deport a lawfully present person for being rude. While it was probably a pretext, Lennon was facing legitimate drug charges. Unless Mr. "Just Being Honest" is a criminal, we are probably stuck with him.

On edit: If deporting him means A.I. is cancelled and that House will no longer be preempted, I might support the deportation.:evilgrin:
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jakefrep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:43 PM
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15. No
He is performing an important public service by artfully shattering the dreams of the delusional fuckwits that get in the way of the "good, hardworking American singers".
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 02:44 PM
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17. I'm naming my next band the Delusional Fuckwits
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Jimbo S Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 05:39 PM
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18. Simon rules
He's a straight shooter who tells it like it is. The country needs more of that.
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