Connecting the dots on Stern, FCC crackdown and now "60 Minutes" !!!

[wndycty]

Friends I need your help but I think we have finally made a connection to the problems Stern is having with the FCC, a political agenda and now the what appears to be an FCC complaint regard last night's "60 Minutes" the very same "60 Minutes" that exposed some of the fraud of the Bush administration. Now I need your help verifying the identity of John Thompson and to see if this is the same guy that is connected to Randall Terry. Now on to the evidence:

From today's Broadcasting & Cable:http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA411543?display=Breaking+News&promocode=SUPP
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Attorney John Thompson, whose complaints about Howard Stern helped prompt Clear Channel to banish the jock and the FCC to fine the company almost half a million dollars, says he has faxed a complaint to the FCC about Sunday night's 60 Minutes broadcast, in which singer Mary J. Blige uttered an under-her-breath "shit."

According to Thomson, he sent the complaint yesterday to FCC Chairman Michael Powell and his senior legal adviser. He did not contact CBS or 60 Minutes and neither had any comment. One CBS spokesperson confirmed the word had aired, though another expressed some doubt.
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After googling John Thompson-Attorney-Florida I got the following from: http://www.societyfortruthandjustice.com/new_page_2.htm

John B. Thompson, Attorney

1172 South Dixie Highway, Suite 111

Coral Gables, Florida 33146-2750

Phone: [phone]

[e-mail]

October 16, 2003

The Honorable Jeb Bush
Governor, State of Florida
C/o Governor's General Counsel, Racquel Rodriguez, and Christa Calamas
The Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida Via Fax to 850-488-9810

Re: Execution of Terri Schiavo is "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"

Dear Governor Bush:

I have been asked by Randall Terry and by the parents of Terri Schiavo to do what I can to save her life. You asked yesterday for assistance toward that end. Well, here it is.

Governor, you have the power, by the mere stroke of a pen, to prohibit what is, in every sense, the execution of Terri Schiavo by a means that is both cruel and unusual in violation of Article I, Section 17 of the Florida Constitution and the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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So one must wonder if Mr. Thompson was upset about Mary J. Blige's slip, or is he upset about the Woodward interview?

[wndycty]

1. It appears to be the same Jack Thompson

Noted Attorney lashes out at FCC against foul mouthed Howard Stern!

Jack Thompson:

I respectfully ask the hundreds of individuals reading this column to augment this formal complaint with the FCC by emailing your own complaint to the Chairman and Commissioners. I further urge all media receiving this email to report this complaint and Stern's illegal broadcast. /jbt

John B. Thompson, Attorney
1172 South Dixie Highway, Suite 111
Coral Gables, Florida 33146-2750
Phone: [phone]

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http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=351

[PaDUer]

6. And, the same Jack Thompson

who comes and goes at freepsville many, many times..He gets booted.

[rocktivity]

2. Didn't he go after Luther Campbell of The 2 Live Crew

but changed his mind right after they got the mega-bucks backing of Atlantic Records? My friends said Thompson was motivated by racism, to which I replied, "Then why doesn't he go after a big fish like Eddie Murphy and REALLY make a name for himself? Because Murphy's on a major record label and Campbell isn't, that's why." If you're the same John Thompson, thanks for proving me right!

:headbang:
rocknation

[wndycty]

3. No idea. . .

I am going to run him through newsmeat.

[wndycty]

5. Just one

THOMPSON, JOHN B
CORAL GABLES, FL 33146
ATTORNEY PRICE, JOHN R (R)
Senate - IN
HOOSIER FAMILIES FOR JOHN PRICE FOR SENATOR $1000 12/23/97

[Bombtrack]

4. Ok, this is ACTUALLY something everyone needs to E-mail Stern about

you shouldn't send him unimportant stuff cause it blocks stuff like THIS from getting to him

mailto:[e-mail]

mailto:[e-mail]

http://www.howardstern.com/index.html

[wndycty]

7. Also send to Stern fan sites

[e-mail]

[e-mail]

[Katarina]

8. Seems he went after Al Gore as well

http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=1999/11/30/11747 Yes, I know it's newsmax but...

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Now a Florida attorney who went to law school with Gore is demanding that the VP's alma mater, Nashville's Vanderbilt University School of Law, share the same information with the public.

John B. Thompson was Gore's classmate for their freshman and sophomore years. What happened after that? Gore dropped out, it seems, for reasons that aren't entirely clear. NewsMax.com has received conflicting explanations from Vanderbilt's administration and other sources familiar with the vice president's early career.

and

"I would appreciate your releasing to me all of Mr. Gore's law school transcript, including dates of matriculation and departure, classes taken and their dates, all grades achieved, and any and all other portions of his law school record, including any information or documents pertaining to discipline."

Thompson continued:

"One reason I seek this information is that Mr. Gore and his presidential campaign have made a great deal of George W. Bush's undergraduate academic record at Yale. Mr. Gore's people crowed that Mr. Bush got 'gentleman's C's.' Further, a significant number in the American electorate think that Mr. Gore is a lawyer, which, as you know, he is not. They would benefit from proof of the failure of Mr. Gore to finish his education."


And here is another article http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/11/27/192747.shtml

[wndycty]

9. So its safe to say that he is a rightwing hitman. . .

. . .going after any and all enemies of the right. Do you really think the "60 Minutes" complaint was about Mary J. Blige or about the fact that they have been beating the shit out of the right as of late.

[Karenina]

14. Is that a trick question?

;-)

[tom_paine]

19. The answer is as obvious as a Soviet MayDay Parade

What do you think?

[wndycty]

10. Kick

:kick:

[soup]

11. He's after John Ziegler, too.

I'm not familiar with the program, but it also appears this John B. 'Jack' Thompson has an agenda that goes way back:

Jack Thompson, the man who complained to Clear Channel about the show which allegedly got Howard Stern taken off of Clear Channel stations, has now targeted the John Ziegler Show for extinction.

Thompson appeared on MSNBC's "Scarbough Country" with John Ziegler and apparently didn't like the experience. After Ziegler referred to him on his radio show that night as a "Jack off" and criticized him for listening to Stern hoping to be offended, Thompson wrote the following, highly inaccurate, letter to Ziegler's bosses and to the Chairman of the FCC.
http://www.johnziegler.com/news.php?a_id=56

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Here's a bio from April 2000: (apologies for the source)

Jack Thompson of Miami is a nationally recognized commentator and lawyer. He is currently writing dispatched on the Elian case for NewsMax.com. Has appeared on 150 college campuses debating and lecturing on First Amendment issues, and has appeared on 60 Minutes, Crossfire, Nightline, 20/20, Politically Incorrect, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, Oprah, Donahue, Fox News Channel, and more. Mr. Thompson is a Vanderbilt Law Graduate, Class of 1976, and has lived in Miami since 1976. A trial lawyer, he specializes in medical malpractice defense as well as First Amendment law.

Mr. Thompson secured the first decency fines ever levied by the Federal Communications Commission (1989), was court-appointed amicus curiae in the 2 Live Crew federal obscenity trial(which resulted in the first verdict in history that a sound recording was obscene), and represented Ollie North's Freedom Alliance at the 1992 Time Warner shareholders meeting and along with Charlton Heston persuaded them to pull rapper Ice-T's "Cop Killer." In 1988, Mr. Thompson was Janet Reno's Republican opponent in the general election for Dade County (Florida) state attorney.
>snipped last paragraph which can be found here<
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/4/14/63738

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Again, apologizing for the source, a nasty article about Janet Reno from October, 2001 -scroll down to find this:

And then, there is Thompson's own story.

After his unsuccessful attempt to unseat Reno as Dade County state's attorney in 1988, Thompson assisted Christian activists in a campaign against the rap group 2 Live Crew that led a state circuit-court judge — an African-American — to declare the album obscene. Later, a federal court in Florida handed down the first verdict in history that a sound recording was obscene, opening the door to prosecuting record-store owners for selling pornography. Thompson then launched a public campaign opposing the placement of homosexual-education tapes in the public schools by Switchboard of Miami, a social-services group that claims to help troubled teens. "The tapes were included in the sex-education programs, but I argued that they violated a 1978 state statute which banned such materials," Thompson says.

Switchboard struck back. "Under advice of its counsel, in 1990 it tried to disbar me and got a famously partisan Supreme Court of Florida to order me immediately to submit to a psychiatric examination on the grounds that I was mentally incompetent by virtue of a disabling obsession with pornography." The counsel advising Switchboard was State's Attorney (and Switchboard board member) Reno.

Thompson submitted to the examination in good humor and was given a clean bill of health. "I'm proud to say that I'm not only still practicing law," he says, "I am the only officially certified sane lawyer in the entire state of Florida."
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2001/10/29/National/Reno-Redux.In.Florida-113680.shtml

Try using Jack Thompson in your searches as well as John B. Thompson.

personal note: Be careful, wndycty - and whatever you do, don't call him a Jack-off :evilgrin:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. This morning Rush Limbaugh said the word "ass" on the air

He said that "George Bush has worked his ass off to protect this country". Isn't this word one of the taboo words? If so, how can he get away with it? And his show in this market is carried by Clear Channel, yet.

[MarkTwain]

13. Oh. No. NOT Jack Thompson, Please!

I should have known that we might expect to find, what is in my opinion, this fundie slime-bag as one of the worthless and sexually frustrated hacks in the middle of this mess.

To those of us based in South Florida, we welllllll know of good ole' Jack and his many XTian witch-hunts which date well over a decade now.

Jack "cut his teeth" many years ago by targeting a local broadcaster by the name of Neil Rogers who is an atheist, a Jew, and gay. Neil is also a champion liberal with very outspoken opinions - and a truly clever and witty demeanor, all of which has kept him on the air for over two and a half decades with a salary which is in the comfortable seven figures.

In my opinion (and believe me, it's very important to employ that clarification when discussing Jack since his proclivity for filing lawsuits is legion), one of Jack's methods is to overwhelm - no, make that inundate - his target with multiple and frivolous actions, filings, demands, counter-suits, ad nauseam. He is as tenacious as he is, in my opinion, just plain ignorant, vicious, and vile.

In my opinion, Jack has a decidedly severe ego problem. It's been suggested that he lives not off his obviously failed law career but primarily, in my opinion, off his wife and her income. In my opinion, he finds "redemption" for this failed intellectual and professional life in taking the wingnut "cause du jour" and manipulating it for one purpose: to get his name associated with it in some manner. But just one of these is his absolute psycho-pathological fixation relative to Janet Reno.

It appears that he operates that "law office" listed above from nothing more than a Mail Box Drop in Coral Gables:

Mail Boxes Etc - Coral Gables
1172 South Dixie Highway
Coral Gables, FL 33146
http://www.mbe.com

(BTW, it's illegal now to use a "suite" number as opposed to the term PMB, for private mail box when employing one of these mail drops; someone might want to "counsel" the counselor, Jack, in that matter.)

Do a reverse search on the "office" phone number listed for him in a post above and you will see that it's listed to his home on one of the more upscale residential streets in what is one of the most upscale residential communities in the nation. In my opinion, Jack did not pay for that little homestead through these right wing jihads which are his sad lot in life; it's by virtue of his marriage.

(BTW, I wonder if he has a Coral Gables Occupational License for running an office from his home. Believe me, the zoning and license laws are some of the most rigorous in the nation and are very well enforced. Inquiring minds would like to know.)

Jack is a well drawn picture here in Florida. And it ain't a pretty one at all. Just when a year or so passes and you start to forget about Jack, he manages to remind you yet again of his rotten, failed, and sad little life. What a gigantic pain in the ass is this man-boy.

[republicansarewhores]

15. I sent this to Stern the moment I read the story...

Thompson is just another REPUBLICAN WHORE.

RAW


Howard-

Tha same jagoff who complained to Clear Channel about your show is now reporting 60 Minutes for use of the "s" SHIT word. Think it could be because a slew of recent 60 Minutes segments had stories critical of the President? Check out the news story below. It also offers more proof of why "Oprah" isn't getting slammed... she hasn't said anything negative about Bush.

I thought you would find this article relevent and more proof that this is a political witch hunt.

Keep up the fight!


FCC Gets S-Word Complaint


By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/19/2004 6:30:00 PM

Looks like the S-word might be the next profanity in the sites of indecency foes.

Attorney John Thompson, whose complaints about Howard Stern helped prompt Clear Channel to banish the jock and the FCC to fine the company almost half a million dollars, says he has faxed a complaint to the FCC about Sunday night's 60 Minutes broadcast, in which singer Mary J. Blige uttered an under-her-breath "shit."


According to Thomson, he sent the complaint yesterday to FCC Chairman Michael Powell and his senior legal adviser. He did not contact CBS or 60 Minutes and neither had any comment. One CBS spokesperson confirmed the word had aired, though another expressed some doubt.

Thompson was alerted by a piece on The Schnitt Show on Clear Channel's WIOD(AM) Miami. A check of the show's Web site (www.schnittshow.com) provided an audio clip of the Blige expletive underneath this caption: "Mary J. Blige cursing during 60 minutes, will Viacom be nailed by the FCC for this?"


While Clear Channel yanked Stern, saying it was indecent, Viacom did not and Monday asked the FCC to reconsider its decision making swear words actionable regardless of context.

Thompson in his complaint said: "This constitutes a violation of FCC-enforced decency standards, just a surely as does Bono’s use of the word "fucking" on the prime time telecast of the 2003 Golden Globes. "

Thomson pointed out that it was a repeat broadcast, saying CBS had two chances to edit it out and didn't. The complaint was lodged against CBS-owned WFOR-TV Miami and "all other CBS television stations."

In ruling the F-word indecent in the Bono case, the FCC said other profanities might now be actionable.

[wndycty]

16. Kick

:kick:

[qb]

17. Trolling politically damaging programs for any excuse to invoke

the indecency rules. How long before they drop the pretense and just start banning shows because they can? What a bunch of Nazis.

[wndycty]

18. Kick

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