CNN and MSNBC: sexual degenerates and liars

Renew America ^ | April 18, 2009 | Mark S. McGrew

[mvpel]

The trick, with the cable networks, is going to be whether their repeated use of the term can be deemed “obscene,” since the FCC has not normally applied the indecency or profanity standards to subscription media. There’s a three-prong test for obscenity:

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Obscene Broadcasts Are Prohibited at All Times

Obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution and cannot be broadcast at any time. The Supreme Court has established that, to be obscene, material must meet a three-pronged test:

* An average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;

* The material must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and

* The material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

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This may be a tough row to hoe to actually get them punished, but simply filing the complaint will be a shot across their bow in any case.

[Don W]

Considering that the mighty Maha Rushie, king of talk radio also deigned to put a description of said act over the airwaves, in his OWN voice, ANY claim to offense by our side of the aisle is completely hollow, from Mr. Limbaugh’s misstep, and the public’s assumption (encouraged by said radio host and others) of his influence in conservative circles.

As much as I love you Rush, you really messed us ALL up on this one.

[mvpel]

Considering that the mighty Maha Rushie, king of talk radio also deigned to put a description of said act over the airwaves, in his OWN voice, ANY claim to offense by our side of the aisle is completely hollow, from Mr. Limbaugh’s misstep, and the public’s assumption (encouraged by said radio host and others) of his influence in conservative circles.

The reason the left keeps winning these days is because we're always deathly afraid of looking like "hypocrites," or "insincere," hoping the left-wing whack-jobs would think more highly of us if we are always 100% sincere and always maintain scrupulous adherence to the rules of civilized debate which they violate with glee and impunity.

We can bet our shiny metal a$$es that the left is going to file a swarm of complaints against Rush, because he's the King of All Media, so why not engage in some suppressive fire in the other direction, even if it does make us look insincere?

What's more important, looking sincere to insincere people who hate our living guts, or scoring some hits against those people?

[aruanan]

What's more important, looking sincere to insincere people who hate our living guts, or scoring some hits against those people?

You're the one who's right on this.

[aruanan]

Considering that the mighty Maha Rushie, king of talk radio also deigned to put a description of said act over the airwaves, in his OWN voice, ANY claim to offense by our side of the aisle is completely hollow, from Mr. Limbaugh’s misstep, and the public’s assumption (encouraged by said radio host and others) of his influence in conservative circles.

You're engaging in moral equivalency. What you're doing here is the equivalent of saying that a gynecologist is no different than some stranger grabbing a woman in an alley because they both put their finger in the same place. Or that nutty feminist who says that all sex is rape. The difference makes the difference. Rush wasn't describing anything to be titillating but to demonstrate what the leftist coverage of the tea parties was doing. He succeeded in his tactic. They did not.

[MinuteGal]

I agree that weekday events lower the crowd numbers. However, I object when conservative organizers latch on to traditional family holidays like the Fourth to stage their events.

The Fourth of July is a togetherness "family-reunion" type of day......relatives come over bringing great dishes, there's barbeque-ing, R & R, gab fests on the patio, maybe kids in a pool, then some sparklers and little fireworky things, then watching the sky for the firework displays from the town park or the neighbors' back yards.

The rallies should be scheduled for weekends for better attendence figures, not on American holidays.

Would they schedule Tea Parties on Christmas day? It, too, is a day along with the Fourth that commemorates a momentous birth.

Leni

[Mom MD]

I took my daughter to the rally and it was definitely a family event. I cannot imagine a more appropriate way to celebrate the 4th than at a tea party!

[MinuteGal]

I went to our local rally last week. A few families were there, not many, mostly one or two parents with a kid.

By the Fourth being a family day at home, I meant the aunts, the cousins, the grandkids, the grannies and gramps, the old friends....most of whom you don't see every day.

I don't know about your Fourth, but the ones in my family find the lady (and the gent) of the house cooking and baking a day ahead of time, and on the party day, working like slaveys setting up inside and out.

I'd love to chuck all the work and go to a rally, but we have priorities on important holidays....and that's to be together with family in talking and breaking bread in appropriate ambience for all.

Some aged grandmas and grandpas couldn't handle crowds of 2-5K even if they wanted to go. But they can enjoy a family get-together on lounges on a patio and watch fireworks from there, also.

This year, Independence Day is on a Saturday. The next day, the fifth, would be appropriate for a rally.

Leave our traditional family holidays alone!

Leni

[mvpel]

Excellent point.

[SuziQ]

Yeah, well we’ve know this for years.

[harpu]

bttt

[Dante3]

I agree.