***Fox Business Asks FCC if It Can Police Offensive Comment From Stephen Colbert***

[workinclasszero]

Fox Business Asks FCC if It Can ‘Police Offensive Comment’ From Stephen Colbert
What 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 Colbert—and 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 Reddit’s r/The_Donald calling for Colbert to be fired for joking Monday that President Donald Trump’s mouth is “Vladimir Putin’s 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 it’s 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]

1. Does anyone know who Colbert's sponsors are?

I have some money to spend!

[workinclasszero]

2. Not sure about that but his ratings are through the roof since insulting Putin's puppet

[underpants]

3. Well he didn't directly call Trump a cocksker

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]

4. OMG, seriously Fox News! Stop.

[orangecrush]

5. ...

[Sculpin Beauregard]

6. Guys! A cock holster is just a chicken coop! 😂😂

Seriously, though—the sexual discrimination propaganda outfit will do well not to push this. 1st amendment swings both ways.

Right birthers?

[TheBlackAdder]

7. While at it, let's go back to truth in media!

[forgotmylogin]

8. It was bleeped.

Nobody who didn't do research actually knew what he said. Nothing went out over the airwaves.

[procon]

9. Are they really that stupid?

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]

16. the rules are always different for rich asshole conservatives

Rush Limbaugh can call Chelsea Clinton a dog but you'd never hear these hypocrites complaining about that

[malaise]

10. But they enjoyed spreading lies about Obama's place of birth

and lies about the Clintons over and over. FUCK them

[workinclasszero]

11. Yeah where was the concern at Fox

When President Obama was being savaged by the reich wing on a daily basis???

[malaise]

12. It was being done on FOX

They were savaging Obama

[workinclasszero]

14. Bingo!

[spanone]

13. now they're in the comedy central zone.....you guys at faux crack me up!!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

15. "Tuck Buckford"

https://twitter.com/TuckBuckford

[GoCubsGo]

17. All of a sudden they're upset over locker room talk?

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]

18. This is about silencing not only Colbert, but all the comedians.

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]

19. This is all about Trump wanting to act like a third world dictator

F him and his lousy government