Senate Panel Restores Profanity Fines

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee on Thursday acted to restore the government's authority to fine television and radio broadcasters for airing profanities, even if they are fleeting references.

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a bill that would undo an appeals court ruling that invalidated the Federal Communications Commission's new profanity policy.

... In response came the "Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act," sponsored by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Mark Pryor, D-Ark. It would require the FCC "to maintain a policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent."

Rockefeller said in a statement that the legislation "is a small but critical step in making sure that the airways remain free of words and images that are patently offensive to the vast majority of Americans."


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071901748.html

[jgraz]

1. Oh Thank God -- I feel SAFE again!

[tomhayes]

2. What a bunch of MAROONS

It's nice to remember that even the democrats can be panderers too.

[whistle]

3. No more penis and vagina talk, eh!

[NV Whino]

4. Well fuck that.

[Taverner]

5. fuckers

[Lefty-Taylor]

6. Pot calling the kettle black -- given the profanity on the Senate floor by DICKhead Cheney as he

told Sen. Leahy to "go fuck" himself.

[Decruiter]

7. Future generations won't like this...

[superconnected]

8. When does dick cheney get his fine for using the F-word?

[OneBlueSky]

9. how about the profanity of an out-of-conrol executive . . .

trying his damnedest to become emperor? . . . when is Congress going to address something substantive like saving the republic from madmen? . . .

[InkAddict]

11. Apparently, they need to save the Republic from themselves

and, party notwithstanding, are loathe to do so.

[originalpckelly]

10. Rockefeller and Pryor can both go fuck themselves.

[YankeyMCC]

12. How about the profanity of ecological negligence and an unjust war? nt

[UpInArms]

13. I thought they were going to go after "Fu** You Cheney" for a

brief and fleeting moment.

:shrug:

oh well

[depakid]

14. Very few thihgs are more irritating and self defeating than moralizing Dems

As if sort of people that they're pandering to are going to vote for them.