FCC launches investigation into Stephen Colbert's Trump insults

[L. Coyote]

Just now from The Hill:

Link to tweet

[murielm99]

1. Surely this is a joke.

[juxtaposed]

3. not a joke

[forgotmylogin]

27. His words were bleeped.

Nothing went out over the air.

Anyone who knows what he said either gleaned it via context and lip-reading and understands what it meant (and is thus adult enough to hear it) or did research on the internet to find out. Nobody who watches Colbert would have been harmed.

It's no worse than anything introduced to the lexicon by the so-called President. (cough)grab'embythepussy(cough).

[forgotmylogin]

28. Oh, and:

cock
käk
noun
1.
a male bird, especially a rooster.
synonyms: rooster, cockerel, capon
"strutting around like a barnyard cock"



http://www.hensaver.com/Hen-Holster.html

[juxtaposed]

2. this should be good

[MindPilot]

4. Could any of DU's legal community weigh in on what might be in violation?

AFAIK, neither "cock" or "holster" (even when used together) are prohibited words, especially at 11:30 pm.

[juxtaposed]

9. I think holster cock is descriptive of a cock, and cock holster is descriptive of a holder of ones

cock.

[bathroommonkey76]

12. lol

[forgotmylogin]

29. Even if you go dirty as possible...

A "cock holster" could be a jockstrap. It could be your underwear.

AFAIR, I was taught what a jockstrap was and coerced to employ one in junior high school at age 13.

Ooh, Colbert called 45 a jockstrap, sick burn!

[murielm99]

5. Do you have any other sources?

[Qutzupalotl]

6. but they bleeped it...?

[HoneyBadger]

7. Is it on the list of banned words?

****sucker is banned, I do not believe that ****holster is.

[JoeStuckInOH]

8. Result of investigation: Comments found to be TRUE.

[L. Coyote]

22. A million dollars wasted again.

[lpbk2713]

10. If Limbaugh can lie and distort and say he's an entertainer ...

then Colbert can crack a few jokes on a late night talk show.

[juxtaposed]

11. they are not cable

[Bengus81]

15. He's radio,you still answer to the FCC....n/t

[MindPilot]

17. Neither is Colbert--he's on CBS now.

[MindPilot]

14. I'm still laughing at the lead-in to that....

"You talk like a sign-language gorilla that got hit in the head."

But yeah, there's a real double standard in play here.

[PA Democrat]

13. The FCC rules ban obscene, indecent, or profane programming between the hours

of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The Late Show airs at 11:30 p.m. on the east coast. Does it air earlier on the west coast? I don't see how this sticks otherwise.

https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/guides/obscenity-indecency-profanity-faq

[MindPilot]

16. 11:30 here too.

The earliest it airs is in the MTN time zone where it starts at 10:30.

[Bengus81]

18. On at 10:30 here in the CST.....sorry FCC n/t

[PA Democrat]

19. Trumpies either don't know how to tell time (entirely possible)

or they failed to read the FCC rules (also possible).

[smirkymonkey]

20. How ridiculous!

Why on earth is an investigation required?

[Bengus81]

21. It's ok though for Limbaugh to insinuate that the Pres and First lady had Foster killed.....

on this show during the middle of the day.

[dalton99a]

23. Tin-pot dictator using government to silence critics

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. I consulted google! WARNING

[L. Coyote]

25. We can save #netneutrality. In fact, we must!

Link to tweet

[GoCubsGo]

26. You have got to be shitting me.

How about they investigate Comrade Trump's "I like to grab them by the pussy!" comments first.

[Initech]

30. If Alex Jones can call Obama a smelly demon from hell...

Fuck you, republicans. Let us have Colbert. We got nothing else right now.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. Well, the people with a perpetual burr in their pants over "obscenity" will be thrilled, no doubt.

Orrin Hatch was positively pleading with Jeff Sessions to save the US from internet porn, but Sessions probably needs to deal with the marijuana use "crisis" first.

[BigDemVoter]

32. Seriously? For real?

I'm not writing this to be obscene--seriously. . .

But the President talks about PUSSY. . . . His wife, the First Lady, shows HERS. . . . . . And they're going after Stephen Colbert?

Jesus Christ. . . .