{"id":2414,"date":"2008-05-29T11:58:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/05\/29\/words-with-consequences\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T11:58:03","slug":"words-with-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/words-with-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Words with consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right; padding: 5px; width:200px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-22744074d14c4b49f6db277a41a88d35-mark_madden.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-22744074d14c4b49f6db277a41a88d35-mark_madden.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/> <center><em>  Mark Madden <\/em> <\/center><\/span>ESPN shock jock jock Mark Madden made the following remarks on his radio show the other day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>I&#8217;m very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; and thus, got his own ugly ass fired. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/08149\/885330-80.stm\">[source]<\/a><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px; width:200px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-686b618d11459f5ae01080ab43a586b6-sharon_stone.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-686b618d11459f5ae01080ab43a586b6-sharon_stone.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/> <center><em>  Sharon Stone <\/em> <\/center><\/span>Sharon Stone, famous actress, made some remarks too.  She<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>suggested last week that the devastating May 12 earthquake in China could have been the result of bad karma over the government&#8217;s treatment of Tibet&#8230;&#8221;I&#8217;m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don&#8217;t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,&#8221; Stone said Thursday during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview with Hong Kong&#8217;s Cable Entertainment News. &#8220;And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you&#8217;re not nice that the bad things happen to you?&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/ent\/celeb\/articles\/2008\/05\/27\/20080527sharonstone0527.html\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This caused Christian Dior to drop Stone from its Chinese ads.  Sharon, who is a close personal friend*, says that is deeply sorry.Here&#8217;s a video of Stone discussing this:<!--more--><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jRqJBic2jM4&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object>______* &#8230; of the Dali Lama.  A close personal friend of the Dali Lama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Madden ESPN shock jock jock Mark Madden made the following remarks on his radio show the other day: I&#8217;m very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated. &#8230; and thus, got his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/words-with-consequences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Words with consequences<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-CW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}