Dolly Parton suing Howard Stern??

nekokate · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: West Yorkshire, UK

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I love the quote from Dolly where she apparently said "They have done editing or some sort of trickery to make this horrible, horrible thing".

Well, fucking duh! How out of touch is she?? "They dang well must'a done some darn tootin' trickery, gosh drat it! Cos I never in ma' ding dong darned life said them there words, no sir'ee!" Fuckin idiot.

I love some of her music, but if she can't see the humour in this then she can go fuck herself.

maycm · 'cheeky banana' Joined: 29 Apr 2006

"Kenny Rogers beard smells like boy cum"

God-Damn!!!

pirtybirdy · 'Native New Yorker' Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: FL USA

I heard about this. I was just waitin' to hear the audio..LOL! Thanks! I love Howard Stern. She knows about Howard Stern and what he does for a living. I don't think she'll have a boob to bounce on with a lawsuit. It's not on public radio, it's on satellite. I think anyone with a brain knows she didn't really say that stuff. It makes it that much more funny knowing that she would never say anything like that. I guess she lost her sense of humor. If she never said anything, this would never have been an issue.

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

I find it offensive - because it's such poor, hack comedy and so badly made! It's like it was done by a 14 yr old on youtube...

nekokate · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: West Yorkshire, UK

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

I reckon it's probably just a whole big tabloid nonsense blown up to sell papers and promote Stern. Though the bit about 'nigger loving' is genuinely offensive I'd say - whoever made that clip had the intention of making a joke out of using nigger. There's humour and then there's using someone to promote an idea of your own. I think she could have a case...

Aja · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:09 pm Post subject:

nekokate · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: West Yorkshire, UK

Yeah, I suppose you've got a point there. Although, to play devil's advocate one could point out that in order for Stern to edit together a clip of Dolly Parton saying that, she evidently used the word herself. Legally speaking, I don't think it could be argued to be putting words in her mouth, but drastically changing the context of words she actually did say. And while changing the context of something to misrepresent a person in order to defame them is libel, this was clearly done for (admittedly tasteless) comedic effect.

Stern, as you said, made a joke and deliberately used the N word, and as much as that is dancing on a pin for a rich white man, as far as I'm aware, that is not illegal or even grounds for a private action.

She'd need to prove that the clip actually damaged her financially or damaged her reputation, wouldn't she? You can't sue for just being disgusted by something.

On second glance I think you might be right about the story being "got up" for the sake of publicity, which is definitely offensive to me!

I did a similar edit a while ago of Christopher Hitchens from one of his audiobooks to make it sound like he was saying he likes to suck baby boys' penises (CLICK), which is probably why I'm interested in this story, because that was tasteless and immature, too, but I did it for a larf and I'd hate for Hitch to discover it and get a judge to make me give him all my money.

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

I think what they've done is taken bits of words and strung them together, she might have said 'bigger' at one point and they've replaced the b with n from another word.

Your Hitchens thing was better and funnier though, and there's no way it could be taken as anything other than just plain bad taste (well done!). For a white southern woman to be 'heard' saying what they've made her say is probably a different matter though.

pirtybirdy · 'Native New Yorker' Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: FL USA

Sure it's an adolescent hack job of clips, but that's the essence of Howard Stern. He's a 50 year old adolescent. He's always been offensive in many ways over the years. The N word is quite offensive, but not illegal, at least not in the USA and it was said on satellite radio. She certainly has the right to sue, but I doubt she'd win. She'd have a hard time proving libel and financial damage in my opinion.

I think that she'll let some time pass and have a think about it.

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

If you CLICK here you can see the official comment on her website. So it is a genuine complaint at least...

nekokate · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: West Yorkshire, UK