FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS....WHAT IS HAPPENING TO AMERICA?!!

[pepperbear]

Has anyone else seen this yet?

guys, I am so not having a good day. could someone PLEASE talk me down from this ledge?

FCC eyes old sports broadcasts, looks for dirty words uttered by spectators

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=industryNews&storyID=2006-07-12T053432Z_01_N12208196_RTRIDST_0_INDUSTRY-MEDIA-INDECENCY-DC.XML


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on edit: spelling

[arcane1]

1. trying to do away with live t.v. altogether, IMHO

that way nobody will be able to say anything "unpatriotic" on t.v. anymore...

awards shows

hurricane relief telethons

etc

[steve2470]

2. Ja, ve need protection from the Bolsheviks

ugh. Next comes book burning.

[Master Mahon]

3. RE:talk me down from this ledge

I'd really like to, but it's really all down hill from here.
Sorry! I'll meet you at the bottom.. :+

[blm]

4. Looks to me like GOPs are wanting to use this to tighten pro-censorship

grip on this nation. Not really because of the off color commentary that could be picked up, but to put fear into the broadcasters who might stray and cross BushInc. in an inconvenient way. Like during the next cat 5 hurricane.

[ChiciB1]

5. I Just Posted Again Today For The 2nd Time In About a Month!

I got SOOOOOOOOO Fed Up with SOOOOOOOOOO much and just stopped watching all MSM, well basically ALL the news! Just couldn't take it anymore! Came back and started checking things out and see that it's EVEN WORSE!!!

Guess I better go get a pillow to put over my head!! Something really really really bad is gonna go down, I feel it in my bones! The Idiot presenting himself as changing his "cowboy mentality" is THE FIRST tip off! Diamondback rattlers just don't shed that skin off!

[LSK]

6. you want to come off the ledge?

Looks like this can make the network executives turn on the administration in anger.

[LSK]

7. and an idea i just had

Does Hannity or O'Reilly ever do live shows???

:evilgrin:

[Touchdown]

8. It's fascism. Ah' the smell of it!

Not so good BBQ...eventually. I wish I was joking.:cry:

[izzie]

9. Got to get these evil people. We all love zealots.

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[RagAss]

10. part of the rewrite of history.....

when we're sent off to the death camps the plan is to erase any and all evidence that we or anyone who expressed freedom ever existed.....simple when you think about it....

[rzemanfl]

11. Shit, I don't watch fucking sports so who gives a damn what the

motherfuckers do about the sons of bitches who do? They're just a bunch of cocksucking motherfuckers anyway.

[MagickMuffin]

12. That is insane

Does still mean they'll go after potty mouth "Dick" Cheney?

He seems to be a ripe target of this kind of abuse, as well as Mad king Boy George flipping the bird that was caught on tape.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. PRAVDA. .....government owned and regulated TV only.

They must protect us from baaaaaaaaaaad words and boobs.:eyes:

[villager]

14. they are indeed completely, utterly starkers

The idea of getting along "civilly" with such people, such unrepentent control freaks, is, of course, impossible.

[bluestateguy]

15. Glad we got that "small government " were were promised in 2000

When was the last time a Republican Administration actually gave us a limited government? The Coolidge Administration?

[Skidmore]

16. May I say....

shit!

[Arkansas Granny]

17. So how would you interpret this sentence from the article:

Under federal court rulings and commission rules, material is indecent if it "in context, depicts or describes sexual or excretory activities or organs in a patently offensive manner as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium."

Would the word "bush" qualify under these guidelines as "describing an organ in a patently offensive manner"? Sounds reasonable to me. I think Bush is about the most offensive word I hear each and every day.

:think:

[pepperbear]

18. snap! n/t

[treestar]

21. LOL, only the federal government would use a term like

"excretory activities."

What morans.

[C_U_L8R]

19. Republicans are what's happening to America

Damn Republicans are making a mess of everything.

[milkyway]

20. Fuck the FCC. Unamerican assholes. Can we call it fascism yet?

[caligirl]

22. FU FCC FU U MF'r

[OneBlueSky]

23. we are governed by idiots . . . n/t

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