A Buncha Fleeting Expletives!
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[06-05-07]
There are two things to remember as a person in charge, whether of a country, company or family: One, is that the kids are always watching. And two, do as I say not as I do.
Back to June 2004 we go, when the Democrats & Elephants gathered for their annual Portrait, and just after then-Senate-minority leader Tom Daschle speech imploring both parties to improve strained relations, when Dick Cheney told Patrick Leahey to go forth and multiply, by himself, and not in those words.
It was just the previous December, when John Kerry called Bush’s Iraq Plan “fudged” …only he didn’t say Fudged.
Even Bush, has had his day behind the rig, with f-bomb after f-bomb in the infamous Tucker Carlson interview in 1999, along with an Asshole sprinkling there, and a MAJOR Asshole there. And at one republican convention when Bush was asked what he and his father and fromer president talked about, Bush replied “we talk about Trim” …only he didn’t say trim.
And of course there was the G8 summit gaffe:
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But are these really obscene? Ask the Liberal, she will say yes. Ask a Conservative, he will say yes. Ask the Second Circuit Court and they will define it as “Fleeting Expletive” and therefore not bound by Obscenity Regulations.
That’s right, A Federal Appeals Court, on the heels of the Dom Imus uproar has just literally smashed the schematic for the FCC’s next set of indecency rules, all because of a few flying expletives at the hands of bosses.
The court almost verbatim said: If President Bush and vice president Cheney can blurt out vulgarities, then the government cannot punish broadcasting similarly fleeting expletives.
It was the four major networks that hailed it as a victory, who after NBC Lawyers cited the aforementioned potty-mouthed episodes from the mouths of our hailed leaders.
Unfortunately for Imus, CBS & Fox, it comes a day short and a million pennies too late; but for a bold step toward basing obscenity back on community standards, I could give a Flying Expletive.