exposed the facet normally associated with nournishing any newborns she might have lying around, the values-pimpocracy of America reacted with howls of outrage and the most diresome threats imaginable. Michael Powell the then head of the FCC (and the notorious money grubbing son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell)levied fines and made explicit the Government's interest in cleaning up television and broadcast entertainment.
Anyone else remember this, it was a wingnut freakshow in extremis.
Yet when cable chat tyrant Bill O'Reilly openly fantasizes about killing one of his fellow citizens, the late Dr. George Tiller...the FCC, those stern guardians of publik morality...did nothing.
No Fine
No suspension...
No even a good "Dennis the Menace" style talking too...
SUDDENLY, Bill O'Reilly had first amendment rights that included the right to use the congressionally licensed airwaves to muse over harming a fellow private citizen.
Anyone else sensing a discrepancy here?
Values are pretty much whatever conservatives need to use in order to restrain their oppponents nothing more, the "values" meme is a racket and a fraud as far as Humble Elias is concerned.
The only thing I've learned from the current controversy is that Bill O'Reilly has conclusively demonstrated that he himself has rights that supercede the right of a private citizen to be safe and secure in their own home or place of worship.
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