LittleApple81
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:39 AM
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Oprah might be censured by FCC for indecency? Ummmmm.... |
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:41 AM
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1. Oprah is bigger than the FCC |
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This would be a beautiful battle.
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:27 AM
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18. Not anymore, she lost weight |
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Sorry, not nice :(
Seriously, Oprah vs. Michael Powell. I can't wait. She'll kick his ass around the block!
Khash.
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Sat Apr-03-04 01:43 PM
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(In your honor, we're currently serving saucers of milk in the Lounge... :hi:)
Just kidding. I agree. If there's one person in the media I wouldn't want to royally piss off, it'd be Oprah. :spank:
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:47 AM
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2. Is Michael Powell nuts or something? |
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Talk about opening a large economy size can of Whoop-Ass on one's party and oneself ... during an election ... that boy has to be suicidal. Has to be. Maybe delusional, too.
Maybe God told young Master Powell that he should take after Oprah after he had finished smoting Howard Stern.
--bkl
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:50 AM
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5. "'boy' is a white racist word!" - Michael Evans |
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If Norman Lear tried making his shows (All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, et al) today, he'd be fined tens of millions, methinks by the near-fascists in power... :eyes:
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Sat Apr-03-04 02:37 PM
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Aaron Magruder, that is; auteur of Boondocks.
Y'know, I never even particularly thought of Powell Jr. as being "black". In my view, he's just another Team Bush functionary. The word "boy" refers to the non-racial part of his heredity. He's Colin's son.
But I don't think Normal Lear would be fined -- there wasn't enough "profanity" used. No, Lear would instead be audited, indicted, and hauled before a Grand Jury on a charge of Aggravated Martha Stewartism -- committing a financial misdemeanor while being a Democratic Party donor.
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:50 AM
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6. Our biggest gift from the Bush administration |
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has been their psychopathic desire to censor speech. It has won us Stern, Letterman, and now Oprah.
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:56 AM
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9. Can you picture 4 more years of this? |
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Orwell simply had the year wrong.
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:48 AM
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3. Maybe she will stop dragging Gropenator GOP types onto her show |
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and learn that she is next in line by the GOP to go after.
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:49 AM
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4. Remember when Oprah took on the cattle ranchers |
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and won?
The feds seem determined to alienate all kinds of people who are capable of really hurting them. First they got David Letterman all fired up and now Oprah?
I wonder who the WH will piss off next? The Pope? Tiger Woods?
Who's the most popular figure in the United States? Maybe the WH will go after them next!
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LittleApple81
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:51 AM
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7. We have Howard Stern to thank. This would be so wonderful to watch!! n/t |
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:55 AM
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8. I don't really watch Oprah so |
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can somebody hip me to what Oprah content might be considered controversial or obscene?
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LittleApple81
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Sat Apr-03-04 10:58 AM
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10. Howard Stern said that if HE was censured, then Oprah had a program |
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on teenage sexual behavior, mores, attitudes, etc. and the person discussing this on her show apparently used the correct words and slang to describe the different behaviors. When she covers "sensitive" issues she tries to use experts that use appropriate vocabulary and descriptions.
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:03 AM
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Next dumb question: Has the FCC actually suggested that Oprah is a target or is it just Howard exploring the irony?
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LittleApple81
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:07 AM
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13. Apparently, it is the FCC. Howard wanted to replay Oprah's |
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program in HIS program and his handlers forbade him to do that because of the words used... so they had to ask the FCC. Now the FCC is forced to make a decision on this. What goes around comes around for the FCC. I don't think they would like to touch this with a 10 foot pole.
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:10 AM
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right on Howard, good move
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:14 AM
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the FCC should go after Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones, et al. They are far worse than anything Oprah puts on the air.
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:16 AM
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17. Agree. They really opened a can of worms, didn't they? By |
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the way, during the hearings on breastgate, did you see the repug representative from New Mexico CRYING because her child had seen "the breast"?
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:33 AM
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19. I've always found it funny that |
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all a child sees for the first 6 months of life is that big pretty circle (nipple), then suddenly it's a dirty nasty thing to be hidden away. A psychologist may have a good explanation for this but I still think it's kind of strange.
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Sat Apr-03-04 04:25 PM
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Never mind that big pretty circle fills the stomach quite efficiently... I don't the psychobabble types could be of much help as this, on its face, is SOOOOO NUTS! :shrug:
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:38 AM
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I would have thrown something at my TV. God, people are so hung-up on sex in this country. We have been brainwashed into believing that our God-given gift of all-natural, naked bodies are something to be ashamed of.
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Sat Apr-03-04 01:05 PM
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"We have been brainwashed into believing that our God-given gift of all-natural, naked bodies are something to be ashamed of."
I don't have to be brainwashed into knowing that mine is! :)
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Sat Apr-03-04 04:51 PM
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32. That would have been Heather Wilson, |
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Air Force Academy graduate - and yes she's up for re-election, hence the theatrics and outrage.
NM Senate Pro Tem Richard Romero is running against her again.
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:10 AM
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15. I saw the show they are talking about |
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The teenage sex show. It was in reference to the movie Thirteen, and Oprah started with the screenwriter of that movie, who is a teenager herself, acted in the movie, and wrote about her own life experiences. The movie stars Holly Hunter as the mother, and is really terrific.
Anyway, Oprah's show also included other teenaged girls who were having sex, and their mothers. The discussion was very graphic, very real, and very upsetting, I'm sure, to many.
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:05 AM
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12. Stern asking listeners to sign this FCC petition |
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http://www1.stopfcc.comThere are currently 147,925 signatures.
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LittleApple81
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Sat Apr-03-04 12:22 PM
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23. Thanks. I will check this out. n/t |
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:43 AM
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21. I doubt the FCC will fine Oprah. They know that all she has to do is to |
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I doubt the FCC will fine Oprah. They know that all she has to do is tell her viewers to vote against Bush, and the election is over.
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Sat Apr-03-04 12:54 PM
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24. Too bad she doesn't do just that |
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without it having to be a reprisal.
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Eric J in MN
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Sat Apr-03-04 01:42 PM
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26. I don't think Oprah cares very much about Presidential politics. |
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I don't think Oprah cares very much about Presidential politics.
Obviously, I'm not privy to her private conversations, but that is my impression.
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Sat Apr-03-04 11:43 AM
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22. Oh my, my, are we back in the 40's or 50's? |
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The morality police are back with a vengeance. What next? Zoos? Those animals can do some pretty embarrassing things. Farms? Must not show things that happen on farms. Wildlife shows? Oh my god, the fornication, the fornication!
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Sat Apr-03-04 04:41 PM
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31. Oprah Winfrey's campaign contributions |
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from the 90s, soft money...she mus have gotten wise to public disclosure of donations. http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=IL&last=Winfrey&first=Oprah
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