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FCC Considering Move to Ban NFL Redskins Team Name
Reuters via Fox Business ^ | 9/30/14 | Alina Selyukh

Posted on 09/30/2014 3:43:12 PM PDT by foreverfree

The Federal Communications Commission is considering whether to punish broadcasters for using the moniker of the Washington NFL team, the Redskins, a word many consider a slur to Native Americans, the agency's chairman indicated on Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: abuseofauthority; abuseofpower; fcc; football; frivolous; ideocy; idiocy; illegal; nfl; redsharks; redskins; thinskins; tyranny
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To: Bettyprob

Let’s have some fun with the Left. Since the Redskins are owned by a Jewish businessman, Daniel Snyder, let’s name the team the “Washington Foreskins”.

The team slogan will be “The Washington Foreskins. The team that rises to the occasion.”

I want to see the Redskinnets do that chant.


41 posted on 09/30/2014 5:25:24 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: clintonh8r

Ban potatoes.


42 posted on 09/30/2014 5:27:09 PM PDT by ully2
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To: foreverfree

Change the name to something more representative of Washington... my pick is the Washington Kleptocrats.


43 posted on 09/30/2014 5:30:18 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Change the name to: “Dead FCC Jerks”


44 posted on 09/30/2014 5:31:09 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: foreverfree

Let me know when the FCC cracks down on radio stations playing music (make that “music”) by NWA.


45 posted on 09/30/2014 5:37:53 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: BenLurkin

The FCC, like all other bureaucracies, will try grab all the power that they can. What they are allowed to keep is up to us.


46 posted on 09/30/2014 5:49:36 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection " - Glen Morgan, Freedom Foundation.)
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To: foreverfree

Washington Reagan’s!


47 posted on 09/30/2014 5:49:45 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: ExCTCitizen

Products too...Uniroyal’s Naugahyde for example.


48 posted on 09/30/2014 5:50:28 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: foreverfree

A big Sieg Heil shout out to the Nazis down at the FCC.


49 posted on 09/30/2014 5:51:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop flooding our schools with unaccompanied illegal aliens. Do it for the children!)
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To: foreverfree

I remember when Grandpa Munster was a guest on Howard Stern’s show years ago and he had a message for the FCC.


50 posted on 09/30/2014 5:54:58 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: foreverfree

Mrs. BN & were just watching NCIS. Perhaps the FCC will ban all of the offensive junk that kept popping up during the commercials for upcoming new programs.

Naaa, we’re just a couple of ancient foggies with our tired old morality that was laid to rest during Woodstock. The FCC doesn’t want to interfere with the writers, directors & producers First Amendment rights.

BTW, I’m part “redskin” on both parent’s sides. And a “redneck”. But neither a “Red” nor a watermelon.

What a bunch of FCC hooey!


51 posted on 09/30/2014 6:08:06 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection " - Glen Morgan, Freedom Foundation.)
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To: pfflier

PC already in effect for first one; I believe they replaced Chief Wahoo with the letter C on caps.

There’s a leftist jug band called the Wahoo Skiffle Crazies who did a cover of the union anthem Which Side Are You On. I suppose they should change their name...even the name
Wahoo is probably offending someone...


52 posted on 09/30/2014 6:24:26 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio; All

Again, I’ll say since I was born in Lynn MA, a part of the USA, I am thus a Native American. And have no problem with the name Redskins. And when are the United Negro College Fund and
National Assoc. for the Advancement of (Liberal)
Colored People changing their names?

Oklahoma translates to “red people” I think...


53 posted on 09/30/2014 6:26:47 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: foreverfree

Yet another example of what Bill Lind writes about here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031059/posts


54 posted on 09/30/2014 6:34:39 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: foreverfree

Guessing F-Troop reruns will be off limits too...


55 posted on 10/01/2014 4:27:52 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: foreverfree

Dan Snyder should lay down the gauntlet.

How much revenue do the Redskins bring to Landover, DC and surrounding area?

How about Richmond Redskins? I have read that as a whole, the VA tribes have no objection to the name Redskins. Maybe they should pull a Baltimore Colts and leave town in the dead of night. (I know it is not that simple, but the wheels should be put in motion.)


56 posted on 10/01/2014 4:53:38 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Mad Dawgg

And, I dare say, the FCC would need to remove all episodes of M*A*S*H from the air waves as the hometown of Corporal “Radar” O’Reilly -Otumwa- was frequently mentioned.

Oh, what would the lefties do without their beloved demigod, Alan Alda?


57 posted on 10/01/2014 5:01:58 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: foreverfree; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...
The Federal Communications Commission is considering whether to punish broadcasters for using the moniker of the Washington NFL team, the Redskins, a word many consider a slur to Native Americans, the agency's chairman indicated on Tuesday.

Combined General and Maryland "Freak State" PING!

58 posted on 10/01/2014 1:01:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: foreverfree

They have no problem with all kinds of obscentity, perversity and filth during daytime and family broadcasting hours inflicted on the vast majority of Americans who prefer clean TV; but let a few minority activists feel offended, and all hell breaks loose.

Despicable hypocrisy.


59 posted on 10/01/2014 1:14:04 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (S.I.N. = Systematic Inversion of Norms)
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To: foreverfree; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

Hard to believe ping!

Hard to believe that even the lib justices would go for this.


60 posted on 10/01/2014 1:31:29 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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