NO BREAST FOR THE WICKED

[MsUSA]

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire calledconscience.”

— George Washington .

Welcome to the United States circa 2005, where all the women are wrong, all the men are still looking and all the children are below average.

No matter. At least they're decent. Damn, they're downright crazy with decency in Kentucky. To prove this, on Aug. 1, Lexington public radio station WUKY-FM decided to cancel an offensive radio show. Howard Stern? Some phone-in sexologist? Nah. Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac."

That's right ... no, really. No. Really.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/21/PKGJNCF2191.DTL&hw=breast&sn=001&sc=1000

[Wapsie B]

1. Well of course.

Keillor's one of them outspoken liberals in the media. We gotta put him in his place. We can't have people questioning our illustrious president. :sarcasm:

These people do live in the 50's don't they?

[phillinweird247]

2. He probably does "it" through a hole in a Sheet

That is rediculous!
chest of chicken with a side of failure fries please

[Krupskaya]

3. How about y'all read the story before you comment.

The public radio station cancelled it because they were afraid the FCC would go after them. There was a huge outcry to bring the show back. Because of the outcry, the station figured that was a good demonstration of a "local standard" (or whatever the legal term is) that would show the FCC that Kentuckyans were OK with the word breast.

It's an easy shot, but it's a cheap one.

[MnFats]

4. but isn't it interesting that the station would be so...

...eager to avoid problems that it would dump a program so innocuous as "writer's almanac" in the first place?
What are they expecting, the FCC thought police to come through the studio door?


I do see your point....but still it seems illustrative of the state we're in....

[Krupskaya]

5. I think they saw the Janet debacle...

...and considered the times, and decided to protect themselves before the administration went after more public broadcasting.

I agree; definitely illustrative. Sad, really. But I object to the cheap shots.