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Lady Gaga: Just Too Gay For Malaysia

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” is just too provocative for Malaysians to hear. That’s what the government of the Southeast Asian nation decreed this week. The government there ordered radio stations to play an edited version of the hit song because its lyrics are an affront to Malaysia’s conservative values. So what exactly was so offensive? A refrain proclaiming “No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I’m on the right track, baby I was born this way,” makes it pretty clear … Little Monsters in Malaysia instead hear a jumble of indecipherable words due to the nation’s cultural restrictions on anything promoting an LGBT lifestyle. “‘ Born This Way ‘ may be considered as offensive when viewed against Malaysia’s social and religious observances,” said the country’s AMP Radio Network. “The entire issue of being gay, lesbian or [bisexual] is still considered as a ‘taboo’ by general Malaysians.” Lady Gaga herself has yet to speak publicly about the “BTW” censorship, but given her recent fallout with Target , we don’t expect this news to go over well. [Photo: WENN]

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Lady Gaga: Just Too Gay For Malaysia

Unedited Interview Reveals Bill O’Reilly Cut Best Of Jon Stewart’s Interview (Again)

Did you think that the conversation between Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly lacked “zazz”? For all the expectation of two of the heavyweights of opinion media world — ostensibly presenting differing ideological points of view — the jovial exchange lacked any real body blows to declare a “winner.” Well, thanks to the folks at Fox News, the entire unedited version of the interview is available, and it turns out that much of the un-aired portion includedthe most pointed commentary by Mr. Stewart, which we’ve summed up below. The edited version that aired on last night’s program, came out to just under 12 minutes of actual interview time (interrupted by a commercial break.) The unedited interview (embedded at link in two parts) rounded up to over 19 minutes. So what was cut out? Some of the most interesting parts to the interview, namely Stewart’s mocking of O’Reilly’s “folksiness” and blue collar perspective. More importantly, a fascinating back and forth over the Tea Party movement that Factor producers decided to leave on the cutting room floor. Unedited Interview @ link This isn't the first time Bill O'Reilly has heavily edited Jon Stewart's interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xobA2MoDzDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLMQ2TIpfWk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzSxMdAxmC8 added by: Future_America