Your tax dollars at work....

[edmorel]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080127/tv_nm/indecency_dc


FCC will fine ABC 1.3 MILLION dollars for a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue which showed a woman's ass. A woman's ass. Now, there are a ton of issues here, everything from big brother government to censorship etc etc but the two that got me were:

1. FCC claims they are protecting the children. I have a 9 year old and he is not up late enough to watch NYPD Blue nor would he have an interest in watching it.

2. I don't find a woman's ass offensive nor would I care if my son saw one (we are not nudists but over the course of living together the past 9 years he has seen my wife's ass, as have I. Neither of has have been scarred by the experience). As a parent, I do try to keep him away from extreme violence on TV and he can't watch those medical show's depictions of operations as he gets sick to his stomach. Maybe I should complain to the FCC about showing people's insides.

3. Our tax dollars are going to an agency that is not only deciding what is OK for us to watch but are having a legal discussion on whether a woman's ass is an excretory or sexual organ or both (you know who you are you lucky bastards!).

There are a bunch of jokes to be made here obviously and in this time of elections, while the candidates are pretty much saying nothing, we have about 4K dead soldiers in Iraq with no real solution from either side, we have a government agency telling us that it is bad to see a woman's ass, and we have an economic situation that we are going to throw money at, close our eyes, and hope for the best.

 

[Piobaire]

LOL, amazing. After reading it, maybe some of our resident law smiths will pipe in, technically I would submit the buttocks are neither organ proposed, that it is the anus. And if she was not showing the brown eye, no harm, no foul (excuse the pun).

 

[Rome]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

... And if she was not showing the brown eye, no harm, no foul (excuse the pun).

ROTL, some bird spreading her ass cheeks in a NYPD blue esp would have been legendary, I cant think of any show that wouldnt benefit from a random shot of ye ol poop shoot. Although they should have sued them for Dennis Franz always going on about his "prostrate" for like a whole season.

 

[Magster]

Excuse my ignorance of such things, but, what will the FCC do with the 1.3 million, should they receive it?

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by Magster

Excuse my ignorance of such things, but, what will the FCC do with the 1.3 million, should they receive it?

Issue $300 dollar rebates on flat screens to everyone that does not have a flat screen.

 

[Joffrey]

I am proud to say I would be one of the 4333.33 people without a flat screen TV

 

[Augusto86]

How flat is flat? Can we get a ruling?

 

[Chadley]

Kansas flat? Apparently, Kansas is flatter than a pancake.

 

[dkzzzz]

Although this is Orwellian-bizarre, I still think that congressional committee about Janet Jackson nippless boob has not been topped here.
Both are wonderful arguments for abolishing FCC and Congress all together.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

Although this is Orwellian-bizarre, I still think that congressional committee about Janet Jackson nippless boob has not been topped here.
Both are wonderful arguments for abolishing FCC and Congress all together.

Abolishing Congress?

Does your other SF name happen to be Minkous?

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by Augusto86

How flat is flat? Can we get a ruling?

OLED flat

Jon.

 

[Joel_Cairo]

Wait, it's a fine for a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue?? the FCC has that much of a backlog? Presumably this fine is supposed to function as a "warning" or a "message" that teh FCC is serious about decency, but if the threat dissuading you from grabbing tons of exposure (heh heh) for your show now is a hefty fine in 5 years after you're already off the air, I can't imagine it's too persuasive a disincentive.

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

Both are wonderful arguments for abolishing FCC and Congress all together.

You really are the dumbest **** on this board, aren't you?

 

[Dakota rube]

Allow me to be the first: This thread is worthless without pictures.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Joel_Cairo

You really are the dumbest **** on this board, aren't you?

I'll bet he knows Minkous.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Joel_Cairo

You really are the dumbest phoque on this board, aren't you?
The ignore function has done wonderful things for my blood pressure.

However, I'm pretty sure that dkzzzzzzzz is hoping to glean Cultural Learnings of StyleForum for Make Benefit Glorious Nation before returning to Mipos.