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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFCC launches investigation into Stephen Colbert's Trump insults
Just now from The Hill:
Link to tweet
murielm99
(30,657 posts)juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)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
(7,496 posts)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
(2,778 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)AFAIK, neither "cock" or "holster" (even when used together) are prohibited words, especially at 11:30 pm.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)cock.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)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
(30,657 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)****sucker is banned, I do not believe that ****holster is.
JoeStuckInOH
(544 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)then Colbert can crack a few jokes on a late night talk show.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)Bengus81
(6,907 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)"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
(13,225 posts)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
(12,693 posts)The earliest it airs is in the MTN time zone where it starts at 10:30.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)or they failed to read the FCC rules (also possible).
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Why on earth is an investigation required?
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)on this show during the middle of the day.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,231 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)How about they investigate Comrade Trump's "I like to grab them by the pussy!" comments first.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Fuck you, republicans. Let us have Colbert. We got nothing else right now.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)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
(4,149 posts)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. . . .