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FCC to investigate, 'take appropriate action' on Colbert’s Trump rant
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/fcc-to-investigate-take-appropriate-action-on-colbert%E2%80%99s-trump-rant/ar-BBAN3MZ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp ^

Posted on 05/05/2017 5:44:48 PM PDT by DOC44

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To: AnotherUnixGeek
a mongoloid like Colbert

"Mongoloid"? Seriously?

41 posted on 05/05/2017 11:45:59 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: DOC44
Let's see... what would have happened if he had said "The only thing Barack Obama's mouth is good for is to be Reggie Love's c*ck holster... complete with big jug ear handles."

Do you think they would still be searching for Colbert's body?

42 posted on 05/06/2017 12:02:17 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: I want the USA back
The government should not censure speech.

The government has always censured speech across the public airwaves to maintain at least a moderate amount of decency. If Colbert wants to talk like he's in a sewer (and here on Arizona time, it's pretty darn close to being prime time viewing), then he needs to go join that greasy creep Bill Maher over on HBO. That's why cable is cable and mainstream TV is "mainstream."

43 posted on 05/06/2017 12:08:34 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: Mears

What on earth is there to investigate?

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My GOODNESS man, where have you BEEN!!

INTENT!! They have too determine INTENT!!


44 posted on 05/06/2017 1:24:00 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: vladimir998

This is not cable—it is an over-the-air channel & I believe this is is why FCC can make a ruling and fine.


45 posted on 05/06/2017 1:25:06 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: FreedomOfExpression

The OP is right. Boycott Walgreens.

The low-paid guy who takes the call can pass it up the line to the high-paid guy who makes the decisions. Or Walgreens can just read their mail.


46 posted on 05/06/2017 1:30:06 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: gibsonguy

Guarantees him a win.

This is what people are pissed about.

If they just let Trump be Trump, he’d probably lose.


47 posted on 05/06/2017 2:34:57 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: dp0622

It’s sponsors, and advertisers. But don’t stop there. It’s also businesses that do business with those advertisers and sponsors as well.


48 posted on 05/06/2017 2:36:33 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Dallas59

Nope. That’s what they want you to say. Conservatives need to hold liberals to the standards they apply on us. If a conservative said that about Obama, what would happen? There would be outrage in the media, boycott threats would ensue, the person would apologize but it wouldn’t matter as they would be promptly fired and their name forever tarnished. There is a double standard - plus the fact that he used this on a main network, not cable.


49 posted on 05/06/2017 3:44:44 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Hillary's Russia Ties - http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/09/hillary-clinton-and-democrats-have.htm)
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To: Mears; FreedomOfExpression; Dallas59; dp0622

***The double standard in this country is mind-boggling.***

No its not. Just look at this thread. Look at all the wet blankets here telling people not to take action. This shut up and take it attitude of these people is the root cause of conservative lack of will.

Fortunately there are people like dp0622 who will not be deterred by these cowards.


50 posted on 05/06/2017 3:53:28 AM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: BenLurkin

Folks, getting all twisted over Colbert is foolish. This guy is zero from head to toe, just as his useless sister was when she ran for Congress against the “womanizer, Ex-Governor of South Carolina, (Sanford), a few years back!!! The ole governor slaughtered her, and she has not be heard from since!!!

Now Sanford was not exactly a good boy, but, he is a good Congressman. Compared to these two low lifes, he is the boy scout of the year!!! Mr. Colbert will flame out quickly with his ranting, hateful, big mouth, that knows and says nothing!!!


51 posted on 05/06/2017 4:18:45 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Freedom56v2

“This is not cable—it is an over-the-air channel & I believe this is is why FCC can make a ruling and fine.”

I never said it was cable. I have no idea why you posted that to me. I atta-boyed someone’s comment about CUTTING cable.


52 posted on 05/06/2017 4:32:16 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Jimmy The Snake

Wait, you used Google and you want to boycott Walgreens? Wow. I guess you aren’t paying attention.


53 posted on 05/06/2017 5:10:22 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: DOC44

He is a total ahole. And his audience is just as bad. I think Carson would be embarrassed by many of these late night clowns.


54 posted on 05/06/2017 5:26:49 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: DOC44

And it’s not what he says. He just simply sucks.


55 posted on 05/06/2017 5:29:06 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I was wondering how they got that sort of audience, but then when I thought about it it was obvious that they self selected. What conservative would want to listen to an hour of unrelieved no talent verbal attacks on his beliefs?


56 posted on 05/06/2017 5:55:21 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: DOC44

This is a case where the FCC should not exist. But if we don’t uses the leftist own tools against them they will never recognize those tools as a threat to liberty.


57 posted on 05/06/2017 6:20:43 AM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Dallas59
Seen worse. Non issue.

It may seem hypocritical but there are things you don't say in front of your mother or in front of the children. What he said is permissible on HBO or Comedy Central or even the Disney Channel because cable channels are presumed to be "paid tv" so women and children choose to be subjected to offensive material. The over-the-air channels, such as CBS, NBC and Fox are held to a higher moral standard because their locally-owned stations make their living over the public airwaves and must regularly apply for rights to get or keep using certain over-the-air ratings.

That's why Janet Jackson's infamous "nipple slip" at the Super Bowl generated fines because the Super Bowl was being shown on over-the-air television while the same thing or worse can be shown on MTV and nobody would complain.

Colbert deserves to be fined and so does CBS. It was offensive and it is presumed what goes out on his type of show are scripted and rehearsed so, therefore, not accidental.

What would be funny is to see how the liberals would do a 180 if the same thing were said of Obama or Hillary Clinton by a conservative comedian.

58 posted on 05/06/2017 6:24:12 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: gibsonguy

“Colberts a hero now among the Rats and the snowflakes. If he gets a fine the network will pay it give him a raise. Meanwhile the network refuses to run an ad Trump wants to run about his first 100 days.”

The network needs to be called out. If leftist can sue poor christian bakeries who refuses to bake obscene cakes, or poor photographers who refuses to shoot Obsesses photos. They should not be permitted to refuse to sell their advertisements to people they don’t like.

Leftist double standard that needs to be challenged. Lets get this challenged now so that by 2020 the court will decide the issue


59 posted on 05/06/2017 6:30:25 AM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Mears

Most “comedy” is now obscene and mean spirited left wing political screeds. Why anybody watches it is beyond me.

Even if I were a lefty, I would not find the “comedy” of today inspirational, creative nor funny. Little of anything the “arts” produces is worthwhile these days.


60 posted on 05/06/2017 6:40:57 AM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites being racially harassed and harmed by Leftist in power need to sue! It's pay day.)
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