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Bush just lost the election.

It's because Michael Powell is head of the FCC, and Stern has been getting people riled up to oust Bush over this.

According to Stern, the number one media company contributing to the Republican Party is Clear Channel, and this is a vendetta against him by the moralistic right.


I'm not saying it is or it isn't. What I'm saying is that a hell of a lot of people are going to be pissed off when they turn on their radio tomorrow. And they'll (perhaps rightly) blame the Republican party.
 
The funny thing is, after stern had already been bitching at bush/powell/republicans for weeks over the pending fcc fine, it turned out that the guy really causing the problems is a democrat in the FCC. Apparently this guy has been trying to crack down on indecency since he was moved there from being a senate aide and finally got his way after boobgate.
 
Silicon said:
Clear Channel Drops Stern on FCC Threat

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They had already dropped Stern for all intents and purposes weeks ago from their six stations that carried him. Today's move is just symbolic imho.
 
corplinx said:
The funny thing is, after stern had already been bitching at bush/powell/republicans for weeks over the pending fcc fine, it turned out that the guy really causing the problems is a democrat in the FCC.
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We aren't talking just the FCC here:




Administration wages war on pornography
Obscenity: For the first time in 10 years, the U.S. government is spending millions to file charges across the country.


In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off limits, they warn, even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in guestrooms of major hotel chains.

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In a speech in 2002, Ashcroft made it clear that the Justice Department intends to try. He said pornography "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet," and has "strewn its victims from coast to coast."


Given the millions of dollars Americans are spending each month on adult cable television, Internet sites and magazines and videos, many may see themselves not as victims but as consumers, with an expectation of rights, choices and privacy.

Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance, and has fought unrelenting criticism that he has trod roughshod on civil liberties in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, is taking on the porn industry at a time when many experts say Americans are wary about government intrusion into their lives.

The Bush administration is eager to shore up its conservative base with this issue. Ashcroft held private meetings with conservative groups a year and a half ago to assure them that anti-porn efforts are a priority.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.obscenity06apr06,0,3004361.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
 
I'd like to think it is true...but I don't think you'll see voters lining up at the polls to defend Howard Stern... at least, not many that weren't already voting the other way.

I oppose most governmental censorship, and it bugs me that Democrats can't seem to keep away from it themselves. But the current direction of the administration is starting to remind me of the Edwin Meese days.

Does anyone here disagree that the FBI has more important things to do right now?
 
gnome said:
I'd like to think it is true...but I don't think you'll see voters lining up at the polls to defend Howard Stern...
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You know, I've seen people line up all night around the block to get Stern to sign their boob.


I think about a million people just registered to vote.
 
Silicon said:


You know, I've seen people line up all night around the block to get Stern to sign their boob.


I think about a million people just registered to vote.
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Does that mean we are going to get a bunch of write-in votes for Bababooey and Howard Stern's Penis?
 
Silicon said:
Clear Channel Drops Stern on FCC Threat


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=/ap/20040408/ap_on_go_ot/fcc_howard_stern_10
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Let me think long and hard....

I could vote for someone who will let me keep a sizable percent of my paycheck and not give it to drug-loving degenerates in Newark NJ who don't work. Or I could vote to save a millionaire's radio show that hasn't made me laugh since 1997, so that he can keep saying "penis" and get giggles from it.


I take it someone is claiming you as a dependent with the IRS this year? Don't bother denying it, since I will assume you are lying.
 
Edwin Meese is a strange bird. In 1985, as attorney general of the U.S., he appointed a panel of 11 members, the majority of whom had established records as anti-pornography crusaders.

But in 1996 he wrote, "Federal law-enforcement authorities are not as attuned to the priorities and customs of local communities as state and local law enforcement," and "Perhaps the most compelling reason to oppose nationalizing crime is that it contradicts constitutional principles. The drafters of the Constitution clearly intended the states to bear responsibility for public safety. The Constitution gave Congress jurisdiction over only three crimes: treason, counterfeiting, and piracy on the high seas and offenses against the law of nations."

If the yardstick is to be local community standards then the federal government should keep their whiskery snouts out of it.
 
Bush just lost the election.

Clear Channel Drops Stern on FCC Threat




The U.S. president loses the election because some shock jock might get fined because he can't be decent on the radio without being profane and vulgar?


Nice country. :rolleyes:
 
The instant Bush think no one is listening, he calls reporters 'major a**holes'.
 
Yeah, it happens all the friggin time. How many times has he done that, now? Of course, he can't keep up with John F'n Kerry...
 
Re: Re: Bush just lost the election.

American said:
Let me think long and hard....

I could vote for someone who will let me keep a sizable percent of my paycheck and not give it to drug-loving degenerates in Newark NJ who don't work. Or I could vote to save a millionaire's radio show that hasn't made me laugh since 1997, so that he can keep saying "penis" and get giggles from it.
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Even someone who doesn't see protecting unpopular speech as a priority could disagree with the President diverting FBI agents that could be engaging in counter-terrorism towards this silliness.
 
Yeah, it happens all the friggin time. How many times has he done that, now? Of course, he can't keep up with John F'n Kerry...
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Sure. Now provide a link to Kerry uttering profanity into a live microphone.
 
Dorian Gray said:
Sure. Now provide a link to Kerry uttering profanity into a live microphone.
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We'll our leaders are human. We like to put them on pedestals but they really don't belong there. By all means judge Bush by his a**hole comment but don't think that Kerry doesn't use the term himself from time to time. I can't prove it but if I could bet my house on the fact I would.

I remember when Clinton went on a tirade about Jessie Jackson (IIRC) when he thought his mike was closed.

By the way, it turns out the reporter was a major a**hole. :D







just kidding
 
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