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The FCC has promised to investigate Stephen Colbert for Mondays rant about Donald Trump. Many are calling parts of the joke homophobic and others calling it insensitive. Stephen Colbert is a late night host and his show is not within the 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. safe harbor zone.
Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine, Colbert joked in his Monday monologue. You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putins c--k holster.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai pledged to take the appropriate action even though he has been known to take a lighter touch on regulation. It appears that President Trump is strong arming Pai to, at least, speak out, against anyone who would dare make the man in the oval office the subject of an obscene joke.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalentertainment/2017/05/05/fcc-to-investigate-colbert-over-trump-joke-referencing-putin/#acefa4016969
underpants
(182,949 posts)Abu Pepe
(637 posts)Coventina
(27,215 posts)As I posted in another thread about this......
I invite them all to kiss my sn@tch!!!
eleny
(46,166 posts)Laf.La.Dem.
(2,946 posts)What about FOX "news" - see if they ever told the truth!!
Wawannabe
(5,685 posts)I know I run the risk of getting burned. Hopefully Colbert was "all in" and ready for any possible consquences.
I love his balls for those true remarks in the first place but will wait to see if he maintains them through the fire.
I wish him luck because we need all the anti trump we can get in the media!
orangecrush
(19,645 posts)To D.U..
All this is going to do is call attention to the fact that Trump is a wannabe dictator.
I knew it was a good idea to contribute to the A.C.L.U. again this month.
We still have the courts to fight back with.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)rerun the Correspondent's Dinner:
worth another look
Initech
(100,108 posts)"President Trump's FANS do not like to see him be mocked and we might have to put up with them fighting back like this for the next few years. Because they have no sense of humor and take things way too seriously. Either that or theyll have to lighten up a bit."
LiberalFighter
(51,170 posts)Pai is the worst scum possible.
onenote
(42,782 posts)Like most indecency complaints it will disappear.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)They tried this shit all thru the 70's and the networks gladly paid it.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)It's because Colbert is doing Much better in the ratings. Gotta get that government revenue somehow, so they can give that Big tax break to the super wealthy.
CBS will pay it, and it brings with it some free publicity, and maybe a few more tune in. It's not like there is an exodus among current viewers. Those complaining probably don't even watch, but saw these clips, and suddenly became OUTRAGED!!
onenote
(42,782 posts)If a fine is proposed they will fight it st the FCC and if the FCC still goes ahead CBS will take it to court.
GeorgeGist
(25,324 posts)OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)tried to silence". I bet Stephen is licking his lips at this attempt to interfere with his 1st amendment rights.
rzemanfl
(29,573 posts)An obscenity if you get my drift. Here's a free "c."
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)They have no case.
onenote
(42,782 posts)Not 6 pm to 10 pm as the article states and thus the show is in the safe harbor and the FCC can't do anything unless they find that the monologue was obscene taken as a whole. And under the constitutional standard for obscenity there is no chance such a finding could withstand judicial scrutiny.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/oip/
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Anyway, CBS bleeped what they wanted, so they will stand behind him.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)I'm pretty Eastern-Time-zone-centric, LOL, didn't even think about it. But it makes sense that they delay it since it is the "Late Show", not like a live sports event or something.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)ever for Colbert and CBS. CBS knew exactly what they were doing. I'm betting the lawyers were all over it.
It doesn't mean our RW Sup Crt won't make a stupid ruling. I think it is still a win win for CBS. So they pay a fine, at worst...Cost of business.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)It was bleeped out, both sounds and mouth movements. If bleeps are obscene, then every R2D2 scene in Star Wars is obscene.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)This is just the Trump administration working to crush free speech. If the FCC imposes a fine, we might as well stop the charade, pick up weapons and get on with a civil war.
Baitball Blogger
(46,769 posts)Not a good precedent to set if they shut him down. Free speech and all. I don't think Richard Pryor's albums would be approved by today's purity tests, and that's what is wrong about censoring.
briv1016
(1,570 posts)Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Who am I kidding, we are living in a fascist country.
Wah, wah, the big ole fat dictator's fee-fees wuz hoit! Boohoo, punish that man, he made me angwy!
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)They had several hours after the taping to do so.
I don't think that Colbert himself is at risk from the FCC, though. They go after the broadcasters, not the speakers, generally.
On the other hand, it would be a riot if the FCC fined CBS over this. It would have a reasonable chance of going all the way to SCOTUS, which is well overdue for a fresh look at the First Amendment vs the FCC rules. (Colbert's 12 minute long monologue might wind up in a SCOTUS opinion!) While I'm personally not very eager to see network television go the way of a YouTube comment stream, the '7 dirty words' decision is from 1978, when cable television and household internet services were a thing of the future.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,664 posts)They can probably be FOIA'ed.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Political...there is no level to which they will not stoop.
Initech
(100,108 posts)Different Drummer
(7,652 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,679 posts)1st Amendment freedoms.
moondust
(20,016 posts)Where they've arrested more than 47,000 (political opponents) in the past 9 months over a "coup" that I'm still not convinced wasn't staged by their dictator-wannabe. Our dictator-wannabe is just getting started.
forgotmylogin
(7,539 posts)If you figured it out by context or lip reading, and it didn't go over your head, you already knew what it meant.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)pnwmom
(109,009 posts)who tries to justify using gay slurs against anyone, even DT and Putin.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029010750
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)Oral sex is both gay and straight. The implication of the joke is that Donald is in a submissive position while the dominate person is standing. I took it completely as a dominance joke.
Skittles
(153,220 posts)throwing tens of millions of Americans our of healthcare assurances? OK......making a joke about Trump? NOT OK!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)funny or trenchant!0