The FCC is a Commission that was established by the Communications Act of 1934. It regulates TV, radio, telephone, cable, cell phone and satellite companies, while granting broadcast license’s and regulating media ownership (but it can only issue regulations and enforce laws that are in fact enacted by Congress.) Sounds pretty strict huh?

In 2003 at the Golden Globe Awards, U2 front man -and egomaniac- Bono said on live radio/tv, “this is really, really, fucking brilliant”

Over 200,000 complaints were immediately received by the Federal Communications Commission regarding the Golden Globes Awards Show’s broadcasting of the word “Fucking.” All complaints cited that The Awards Show had violated federal indecency and obscenity laws.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-03-3045A1.pdf

Is the following quote what you would have expected to get as a reply from the FCC in regards to this incident?

“To be obscene, material must meet a three-prong test: (1) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (2) the material must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and (3) the material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. Applying that test, we find that the material broadcast during the Golden Globe Awards program was not obscene. The use of specific words, including expletives or other Four letter words does not render material obscene.”

“Moreover, the complained-of material does not depict or describe sexual conduct and thus does not meet the obscenity standard under Miller v. California. Because the broadcast does not meet the obscenity standard under Miller, we deny the complaints alleging that the broadcast was obscene.”

Michael Powell (Initially nominated by Clinton in 1997, and then named Chairman of the FCC in 2001-2005, by G.W. Bush) was Chairman at the time of this incident. He could have set the bar high for moral values on tv and radio in this country at this very time, but instead set the bar for mediocrity. Now you know who to thank when you walk into your kids playroom and they have the remote in their hand and this is on the tv.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyiHDH40Oes&feature=related

Just think about it, if “Fuck” is now acceptable on tv, anything else beneath it is now fair game. To be fair, “Family Guy” has been on tv since 1999 and has always been raunchy (which I sometimes do find amusing) and is said to be for adult humor, but it’s marketed for children. This is what I have an issue with. Hell, why wouldn’t toy companies jump at the chance to sell figures of animated characters who have high tv ratings…and use vulgar language. If the FCC has no issue…why should anyone else right?

http://www.toywiz.com/familyguy.html

Some shows or movies on tv, like “Saving Private Ryan,” or the South Park movie, “Bigger, Longer & Uncut” you are actually hearing it as you would at the movie theater, which is not edited of vulgarity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5iKrEXLzXg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBweq6rHnzA&feature=related

Comedy Central is notorious for the “F” word…enjoy these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_aK6TqIK4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhXVknk-Iqs

Ain’t that a F’ing hoot?

Anyways, I understand the distinct differences in regards to the word “Fuck” and how it’s used in different situations (I chose to only type the word if absolutely necessary in this article, to me it’s not a chance to abuse the word but to expose it.) If I were to yell it in anger or in a crazed state (like when a Kenyan Communist was named President,) it is done so in anger and frustration, I’m not implying anything in a sexual nature. But it’s the way the word is distorted to “Fit” into a sexual nature, or even if someone is not mature enough to know how to exactly use the word if they wanted to do so, like say “Our” young children. Yep, kids of all ages watch tv and change channels and know how to use the radio. How could any of this backfire on our society? I dunno…ask the rappers how fast it took them to sabotage their own culture with suggestive lyrics and innuendos.

http://www.songarea.com/music-codes/2_live_crew.html

What a coincidence. The Powells both F’ing over the country at a time when they could have done the right thing to actually help the country.

First, Michael did so by making a decision that poisoned the moral fiber of the country with a long and repetitive trickle,

http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=3863

then his Father supported a F’ing Communist who was running against his own party…because the Commie was/is/half black… his decision was more of a slap in the face to white people as opposed to his son’s slap in the face of this country’s basic moral fiber.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/19/colin.powell/

F’ing unbelievable huh? I have nothing against any of the shows or movies mentioned- I actually watch the shows regularly and Saving Private Ryan is in my top 10 films of all time, but they do not belong in the “mainstream” for our children to witness. Society is crumbling and with families using television as a “sitter” so to speak, our youth is being corrupted with a smile.

Thank the Powells for teaching our youth that vulgarity is acceptable in everyday use, and choosing sides based on skin color only is the correct thing to do.

www.conservativerule.com

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”