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Fox Business Asks FCC if It Can Police Offensive Comment From Stephen ColbertWhat health care vote? On Thursday, far-right outlets seemed more interested in their war on Stephen Colbert, with Neil Cavuto asking the FCC chairman if he could get involved.
Ben Collins 05.04.17 7:45 PM ET
As Republicans were scrambling to pass Trumpcare through the House on Thursday, far-right media were increasingly focused on something else: their war against Late Show host Stephen Colbertand whether the Federal Communications Commission could get involved.
The Drudge Report, Breitbart, and InfoWars repeated a talking point that spread first on right-wing social media websites like Twitter and Reddits r/The_Donald calling for Colbert to be fired for joking Monday that President Donald Trumps mouth is Vladimir Putins cock holster.
Colbert refused to apologize in his Wednesday night monologue, and by Thursday, the outrage had reached Fox News and its sister station. On Fox Business Network, Neil Cavuto brought on Trump-appointed Republican FCC chairman Ajit Pai to ask him if its possible to regulate or at least police offensive comment.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/04/fox-business-asks-fcc-if-it-can-police-offensive-comment-from-stephen-colbert
CrispyQ
(36,552 posts)I have some money to spend!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)underpants
(182,989 posts)He just implied that Trump is a cocks>ker which doesn't mean that Trump is a cocks>ker it just means that he implied it ....that Trump is a cocks>ker
Initech
(100,129 posts)orangecrush
(19,661 posts)Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)Seriously, thoughthe sexual discrimination propaganda outfit will do well not to push this. 1st amendment swings both ways.
Right birthers?
TheBlackAdder
(28,242 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,539 posts)Nobody who didn't do research actually knew what he said. Nothing went out over the airwaves.
procon
(15,805 posts)They say they want to regulate or at least police offensive comment, but it hadn't occurred to any of those geniuses that such a ruling would also apply to them?
Skittles
(153,261 posts)Rush Limbaugh can call Chelsea Clinton a dog but you'd never hear these hypocrites complaining about that
malaise
(269,256 posts)and lies about the Clintons over and over. FUCK them
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)When President Obama was being savaged by the reich wing on a daily basis???
malaise
(269,256 posts)They were savaging Obama
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)spanone
(135,920 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)What Colbert said was far less offensive than our so-called President bragging about how he likes grabbing women by their genitals. Abysmally-low-rated Fox Business had no problem with that comment, yet this is bad? You idiots need to shut up while you are ahead, unless you want to be next in line for one of Colbert's jokes.
dmr
(28,352 posts)They find a way to hurt one, they'll get creative to hurt them all.
Comedy and satire is effective. Donald Trump, his grifting family, his staff & cronies, the GOP, and even their voters offer an overflowing array of humor. Hell, the comedians don't even have to work very hard. Reality these days practically writes its own humor.
They've been fighting against the media, now they're going after Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel, and we can't forget SNL, either. Who knows what or who will be next. Maybe you and I.
I refuse to let Trump & his surrogates win. I stand with the media, Colbert, & anyone willingly, & sometimes, bravely, against those who want to take the power out of truth-telling!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)F him and his lousy government