In defense of bullshit --- by Howard Stern

[kpete]

(Kpete - I am not a fan, but my daughter IS...)

In defense of bullshit
Howard Stern
The FCC has outlawed the single most essential word in political discourse and protest: bullshit.

This is not only an absurd misinterpretation of our community standards and another perilous attack on our First Amendment, I also believe it is a violation of our civil rights worthy of court challenge. Get me to a lawyer, I think we now have the basis for a citizens’ suit.
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And bullshit.

I am no lawyer and don’t play one on TV, but I believe that the FCC has now violated my civil right to speak truth to power any time I am on TV or radio. They went too far when they banned not just shit but bullshit and banned it presumptively. Even Commissioner Adelstein acknowleges on On the Media that if the FCC “oversteps in these cases and the court knocks us down… it would actually take a Constitutional amendment, amending the First Amendment, to get the FCC authority back.” That sounds like an opportunity to me.

So I believe there is cause for action against the FCC. I would like to see the newsmakers who want to call bullshit, and the journalists who ought to call bullshit, and the broadcasters who think that stopping them out of fear is bullshit gang up to take on the FCC and the archaic and unconstitutional law that makes them think they can and do what they have done.

It is time to stand up in defense of bullshit.

http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/03/28/in-defense-of-bullshit/

[porphyrian]

1. Has the FCC also banned its permutations, I wonder?

I'm a big fan of horseshit myself. What about the exotics, like pandashit or kiwishit?

[Dogmudgeon]

2. A large lawsuit against the FCC would be in order

Would it have to be filed as Stern and 50,000 Bullshitters, et al., v the Federal Communication Commission -- ?

--p!

[Marnieworld]

3. I don't think this was written by Stern but by Jeff Jarvis

I listen to Howard virtually every day and he would have mentioned it.

Just saying.