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Friday, May 5, 2017
On Thursday, Ajit Pai said the body had received several complaints after Colbert said: The only thing [Trumps] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putins cock holster, on his Monday night show.
In an interview with the radio host Rich Zeoli, Pai said: I have had a chance to see the clip now and so, as we get complaints, and weve gotten a number of them, we are going to take the facts that we find and we are going to apply the law as its been set out by the supreme court and other courts and well take the appropriate action.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/05/stephen-colbert-offensive-trump-joke-fcc-investigation
Stand your ground Stephen!! Freedom of speech!!
I would assume that DT was responsible for "the several phone calls".
HAB911
(8,890 posts)Be sexual assaulter: NOTHING.
Laugh at lying AG: PROSECUTED.
Be AG who lies to Congress: NOTHING.
Link to tweet
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Hypocrisy on steroids.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)WTF? I can't believe this shit! How ridiculous!
C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)can't take a joke. What a knobber.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)assholes...
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)it will be even more comedy fodder for him.
He may even bring out that guy from the Colbert Report to weigh in.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)Colbert should demand a full and complete accounting of all of Drumpf's sexual contacts in the former Soviet Union.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Please write to someone at the show and suggest this defense.
Please, oh, please???
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)Love this!
Initech
(100,068 posts)At the drop of a hat. But since Colbert did, they're crying for investigations and firings. Keep playing the free speech card, Trumpers. You're playing a very dangerous game here, and you'll lose every time.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Colbert is the #1 late night show because of the fake pundit monologues slamming trump that he does (as we all know about). Trump wants to suppress all the dissent. Well, DT, Colbert has that free speech thing on his side.
Initech
(100,068 posts)It's his supporters. They don't seem to get that free speech works for both sides. They think they have a monopoly on free speech because they've been suppressed by the "liberal media" and liberal education. But what they don't get - and will learn the hard way - is that free speech works both ways. We have a right to say what we feel as much as they have a right to say what they feel. If they want to play that game, it is the equivalent of playing chicken on a Los Angeles freeway. They'll lose every time.
Free speech goes both ways. I think trump does not know that either. He and his deplorables.
HAB911
(8,890 posts)The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission revealed Friday that the agency is considering whether to fine Stephen Colbert over the Late Show host's controversial joke about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
On Monday's Late Show, Colbert quipped that "the only thing [Trump's] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's cock holster." The joke drew accusations of homophobia, a viral #FireColbert campaign and FCC complaints against Colbert.
In an interview Friday, FCC chairman Ajit Pai told a Philadelphia radio station, "I have had a chance to see the clip now and so, as we get complaints and we've gotten a number of them we are going to take the facts that we find and we are going to apply the law as its been set out by the Supreme Court and other courts and well take the appropriate action."
Pai added, "Traditionally, the agency has to decide, if it does find a violation, what the appropriate remedy should be. A fine, of some sort, is typically what we do," Variety reports.
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/fcc-considers-fining-stephen-colbert-over-trump-joke-w480994
Soon we'll see fines for blasphemy I'm sure
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Meaning, if a Trump supporter said what Colbert did, would we be calling for that person to be fired?
Ann Coulter, for instance, says crap like that all the time.