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To: hchutch
...they're going ot use the very precedents used on Howard Stern to go after Hannity and Limbaugh.

Anti-obscenity precedents (if they exist) are useless against Hannity and Limbaugh.

Ultimately, you need to remember that Stern's move is VOLUNTARY.

94 posted on 10/06/2004 11:21:01 AM PDT by Petronski (Report back to headquarters for debriefing . . . . and cocktails.)
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To: Petronski; Poohbah

No do you really think they wouldn't try to hit stations that broadcast Limbaugh and Hannity with fines whenever he could?

Take a look at the site and you tell me if a Kerry Administration FCC (or worse yet, a Hillary Administration FCC) wouldn't be able to make an obscenity precedent stick if enough complaints from a trumped-up campaign by Media Matters?

http://mediamatters.org/archives/search.html?topic=The%20Rush%20Limbaugh%20Show

Anyone can file an FCC complaint. Remember how Oprah was targeted by Howard Stern for HER show's sex talk that *didn't* get fined? And oh, yeah, isn't legislation in the works to INCREASE the maximum fine the FCC can impose?


96 posted on 10/06/2004 11:37:04 AM PDT by hchutch (I only eat dolphin-safe veal.)
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