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Old 06-05-2007, 06:06 AM
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WASHINGTON, June 4 — If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts.
That, in essence, was the decision on Monday, when a federal appeals panel struck down the government policy that allows stations and networks to be fined if they broadcast shows containing obscene language. [...]
Under President Bush, the F.C.C. has expanded its indecency rules, taking a much harder line on obscenities uttered on broadcast television and radio. While the judges sent the case back to the commission to rewrite its indecency policy, it said that it was “doubtful” that the agency would be able to “adequately respond to the constitutional and statutory challenges raised by the networks.” [...]
The judges [...] cited examples in which Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney had used the same language that would be penalized under the policy. Mr. Bush was caught on videotape last July using a common vulgarity [sh!t] that the commission finds objectionable in a conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain. Three years ago, Mr. Cheney was widely reported to have muttered an angry obscene version of “get lost” [ go f*ck yourself] to Senator Patrick Leahy on the floor of the United States Senate. [...]
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It's funny it gets banned on this board but the President can say it.
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I like the ruling. But only because I don't think the government should tell people what they can and cannot say (as long as no one else's rights are being violated).
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It's funny it gets banned on this board but the President can say it.
Here's an oddity...
I composed the posting on MS Word and then pasted it into the Message Body box. When I hit Review, none of the profanity was flagged.
The Bush "offending" word was "sh*t" and the Cheney crassness was "Go f*ck yourself"... said to a US senator.

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