Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Nice role modeling, fellas
I realize that my sensitive ears place me in the Cleaver clan, but let me be (perhaps the first?) blogger to give the FCC a pat on the back. Its failed efforts to rein in obscenities on network television (for us Cleavers, still the only sort of television around) were certainly not helped by the current White House occupants. As the Second Circuit observed, it is hard to enforce indecency standards against "fleeting expletives" when the leaders of the country freely call people a--hole and drop the f-bomb. As my late grandmother would lament to my grandfather whenever a swear word would crop up in their favorite Barnaby Jones episode, "Oh Harold, why must they talk that way?
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2007/06/nice_role_model.html