Oprah skates for nasty talk

[Loonman]

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm

THE moral arbiters at the FCC have officially declared that Oprah Winfrey is free to describe oral and anal sex acts on air - but Howard Stern is not. Stern show regular Captain Janks phoned the shock jock yesterday to report that the FCC had sent him a response to his complaint about a recent "Oprah" episode in which an O! magazine editor graphically described the act of "tossing salad." The FCC's deep thinkers said: "We previously found that fleeting and isolated remarks of this nature do not warrant commission action because the complained-of material does not fall within the scope of the commission's indecency prohibition. We reject the claims that this program content is indecent and we need not reach the second element of the indecency analysis." But Stern was recently slapped with a $27,500 fine for a discussion that was remarkably similar to Oprah's. An FCC aide then admitted to The Post that Oprah can cross the line with impunity because she is "beloved" while Stern can be persecuted at will because he's "a lightening rod."

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That's a bunch of crap.

[SCDem]

1. Why is the FCC in business if they toss fines out at random?

Oh yeah Colin's son has to have a job. Oh nepotism at work!

[aquart]

2. NOT at random. At WILL.

A whole other thing. And we all know the real reason: Stern blasted Bush.

[bhunt70]

3. These are the same type of people who got mad at Jocelyn Elders

for her comments.

Ridiculous and hypocritical.

[kiahzero]

4. FCC may have just opened themselves up to litigation

If their argument is accurately presented here, the FCC is engaged in viewpoint discrimination, which is blatantly unconstitutional... Stern should take the opportunity to trounce the FCC.