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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:39 AM
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Oprah might be censured by FCC for indecency? Ummmmm....
this is the link from a post in the Media forum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x7144
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K-W Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:41 AM
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1. Oprah is bigger than the FCC
This would be a beautiful battle.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:27 AM
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18. Not anymore, she lost weight
Sorry, not nice :(

Seriously, Oprah vs. Michael Powell. I can't wait. She'll kick his ass around the block!

Khash.
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Buns_of_Fire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 01:43 PM
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27. Meeeeeeyow!
(In your honor, we're currently serving saucers of milk in the Lounge... :hi:)

Just kidding. I agree. If there's one person in the media I wouldn't want to royally piss off, it'd be Oprah. :spank:
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:47 AM
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2. Is Michael Powell nuts or something?
Talk about opening a large economy size can of Whoop-Ass on one's party and oneself ... during an election ... that boy has to be suicidal. Has to be. Maybe delusional, too.

Maybe God told young Master Powell that he should take after Oprah after he had finished smoting Howard Stern.

--bkl
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:50 AM
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5. "'boy' is a white racist word!" - Michael Evans
If Norman Lear tried making his shows (All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, et al) today, he'd be fined tens of millions, methinks by the near-fascists in power... :eyes:
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 02:37 PM
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28. Tell it to A-Dub
:)

Aaron Magruder, that is; auteur of Boondocks.

Y'know, I never even particularly thought of Powell Jr. as being "black". In my view, he's just another Team Bush functionary. The word "boy" refers to the non-racial part of his heredity. He's Colin's son.

But I don't think Normal Lear would be fined -- there wasn't enough "profanity" used. No, Lear would instead be audited, indicted, and hauled before a Grand Jury on a charge of Aggravated Martha Stewartism -- committing a financial misdemeanor while being a Democratic Party donor.

--bkl
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Logansquare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:50 AM
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6. Our biggest gift from the Bush administration
has been their psychopathic desire to censor speech. It has won us Stern, Letterman, and now Oprah.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:56 AM
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9. Can you picture 4 more years of this?
Orwell simply had the year wrong.
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orwell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 04:11 PM
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29. I did not! n/t
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:48 AM
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3. Maybe she will stop dragging Gropenator GOP types onto her show
and learn that she is next in line by the GOP to go after.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:49 AM
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4. Remember when Oprah took on the cattle ranchers
and won?

The feds seem determined to alienate all kinds of people who are capable of really hurting them. First they got David Letterman all fired up and now Oprah?

I wonder who the WH will piss off next? The Pope? Tiger Woods?

Who's the most popular figure in the United States? Maybe the WH will go after them next!
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:51 AM
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7. We have Howard Stern to thank. This would be so wonderful to watch!! n/t
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bacchant Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:55 AM
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8. I don't really watch Oprah so
can somebody hip me to what Oprah content might be considered controversial or obscene?
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 10:58 AM
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10. Howard Stern said that if HE was censured, then Oprah had a program
on teenage sexual behavior, mores, attitudes, etc. and the person discussing this on her show apparently used the correct words and slang to describe the different behaviors.
When she covers "sensitive" issues she tries to use experts that use appropriate vocabulary and descriptions.
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bacchant Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:03 AM
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11. Ah... thanks
Next dumb question: Has the FCC actually suggested that Oprah is a target or is it just Howard exploring the irony?
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:07 AM
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13. Apparently, it is the FCC. Howard wanted to replay Oprah's
program in HIS program and his handlers forbade him to do that because of the words used... so they had to ask the FCC. Now the FCC is forced to make a decision on this. What goes around comes around for the FCC. I don't think they would like to touch this with a 10 foot pole.
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bacchant Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:10 AM
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14. Ha cool
right on Howard, good move
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playahata1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:14 AM
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16. In that case,
the FCC should go after Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones, et al. They are far worse than anything Oprah puts on the air.
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:16 AM
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17. Agree. They really opened a can of worms, didn't they? By
the way, during the hearings on breastgate, did you see the repug representative from New Mexico CRYING because her child had seen "the breast"?
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bacchant Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:33 AM
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19. I've always found it funny that
all a child sees for the first 6 months of life is that big pretty circle (nipple), then suddenly it's a dirty nasty thing to be hidden away. A psychologist may have a good explanation for this but I still think it's kind of strange.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 04:25 PM
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30. Pretty bizarre, eh?
Never mind that big pretty circle fills the stomach quite efficiently...
I don't the psychobabble types could be of much help as this, on its face, is SOOOOO NUTS!
:shrug:
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playahata1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:38 AM
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20. I am glad I didn't.
I would have thrown something at my TV. God, people are so hung-up on sex in this country. We have been brainwashed into believing that our God-given gift of all-natural, naked bodies are something to be ashamed of.
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 01:05 PM
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25. Hmm . . .
"We have been brainwashed into believing that our God-given gift of all-natural, naked bodies are something to be ashamed of."

I don't have to be brainwashed into knowing that mine is! :)
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 04:51 PM
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32. That would have been Heather Wilson,
Air Force Academy graduate - and yes she's up for re-election, hence the theatrics and outrage.

NM Senate Pro Tem Richard Romero is running against her again.
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lulu Donating Member (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:10 AM
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15. I saw the show they are talking about
The teenage sex show. It was in reference to the movie Thirteen, and Oprah started with the screenwriter of that movie, who is a teenager herself, acted in the movie, and wrote about her own life experiences. The movie stars Holly Hunter as the mother, and is really terrific.

Anyway, Oprah's show also included other teenaged girls who were having sex, and their mothers. The discussion was very graphic, very real, and very upsetting, I'm sure, to many.
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Sticky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:05 AM
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12. Stern asking listeners to sign this FCC petition

http://www1.stopfcc.com

There are currently 147,925 signatures.
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 12:22 PM
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23. Thanks. I will check this out. n/t
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:43 AM
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21. I doubt the FCC will fine Oprah. They know that all she has to do is to
I doubt the FCC will fine Oprah. They know that all she has to do is tell her viewers to vote against Bush, and the election is over.
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bacchant Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 12:54 PM
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24. Too bad she doesn't do just that
without it having to be a reprisal.
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 01:42 PM
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26. I don't think Oprah cares very much about Presidential politics.
I don't think Oprah cares very much about Presidential politics.

Obviously, I'm not privy to her private conversations, but that is my impression.
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FlaGranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 11:43 AM
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22. Oh my, my, are we back in the 40's or 50's?
The morality police are back with a vengeance. What next? Zoos? Those animals can do some pretty embarrassing things. Farms? Must not show things that happen on farms. Wildlife shows? Oh my god, the fornication, the fornication!
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President Jesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 04:41 PM
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31. Oprah Winfrey's campaign contributions
from the 90s, soft money...she mus have gotten wise to public disclosure of donations.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=IL&last=Winfrey&first=Oprah
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