Mutt

he's already been kicked out of 6 big American cities because Clear Channel which is the largest radio company in the U.S. bent over and took it straight up the ass from the FCC as a favor to the Bush Administration. Clear Channel has made million and millions, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars of the off the Howard Stern Show. That will tell you how fucking scared these giant broadcasting companies are of Bush and the FCC. It's an embarassment. This has happened in an amazingly short period of time, all touched off by Janet Jackson's exposed breast during the halftime show at the Super Bowl. The religious right seized the opportunity and turned it to their own advantage believing they now had a mandate from the American people to clean up the airwaves, the Internet, and soon inside your own bedrooms.
Those who don't believe that are delusional.

Some religious looney toon sentator from some Bible Belt state attached a bill to another bill about military appropriations that would make broadcasters, disc jockeys, talk radio hosts, personally liable, subject to huge fines, for things the FCC, not a jury of your peers, deemed indecent. No due process here, just a kangaroo court.

The FCC under Clinton fined Stern, it was lip service, there were never any threats to revoke licenses, fine broadcasters personally - free speech was alive and well, if you wanted to be a bad boy and say vagina on the airwaves, you paid a little penalty.

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