EastGirlsWest

While there are many, many things going on in the current administration that qualify as “obscene” in my book (let’s start with the war in Iraq, and go from there), my wrath has been focused lately on the FCC, who seems to want to be everyone’s Mommy and Daddy. They will protect our innocent ears and eyes from anything resembling a profane word or exposed flesh! Soldiers at war shall say “heck”. Blues musicians are not an “appropriate artistic context” for swear words. And there will be no glimpses of nudity, which as well all know leads to sex, which is very, very dirty and wrong.

Have you noticed that even John Stewart is being bleeped on the air now? What the fuck is going on???

Violence, however, is fine with the FCC. Bring it on - the more graphic the better. Beat someone’s skull in, remove limbs with a blunt object while wading in a pool of blood, set fire to the corpse and bomb the shit out of the building where it all took place. Shoot a couple of bad guys at point blank range with an automatic weapon on your way out the door and put it all in prime time. Now THAT’S family viewing.

I mean, there’s just a teensy, weensy bit of hypocrisy in all this. Plus unknowable rules that remain a moving target. And some frighteningly emboldened media “watchdog” groups.

Now that I’ve used both the “F-word” and the “S-word” in this post, I may as well go for broke and share this video. It was sent to me by a fellow public broadcasting colleague.

Enjoy!