Posted on 02/24/2006 7:05:39 AM PST by mft112345
On February 23, 2006 during her nationally broadcast 4 PM show, aired on WJLA in Washington D.C., Oprah interviewed three female sex addicts (http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200602/tows_past_20060223.jhtml). During the interview, Oprah stooped to the level of Howard Stern and asked one guest if she had "let men ej*!%$@te in her face." This reference to excretion clearly violates community standards and should be investigated by the FCC.
In fact, in the FCC's Indecent Broadcast Restrictions, the agency states that it "has defined broadcast indecency as 'language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities.' Indecent programming contains patently offensive sexual or excretory material that does not rise to the level of obscenity."
The FCC also warns that indecent speech "is prohibited on broadcast radio and television between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m." Oprah's indecent comment was aired during the prohibited hours, reaching the ears of thousands of young children.
Oprah's question might not meet the Supreme Court's definition of obscenity -- 1. appealing to the prurient interest, 2. patently offensive, and 3. lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value --, but the broadcast of her gratuitous question was harmful to our national culture and insensitive to viewers with young children in the room. Like Superbowl viewers, parents had no way to know that Oprah's performance would get so graphic, and her producers offered no content warning at any time during the show. The battle for ratings has fewer and fewer limits at an hour when many children have just come home from school.
File a complaint through the FCC website: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/obscene.html
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cib/fcc475B.cfm.
IT's alright when PC apparatchiks do it..Let's see if they treat Oprah like Howard Stern..
Let this pig broadcast whatever swill she wants.
(steely)
This was on daytime TV???
I bet she had her egg in and on high at that time
Save it. Oprah's untouchable.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4.htm
Drudge contains excerpt
Sigh!
You got it. Sucessful Black female? No way will they say a thing to her.
However, she is somewhat "teched"..
During the interview, Oprah stooped to the level of Howard Stern and asked one guest if she had "let men ej*!%$@te in her face."
Well, did she?
I tuned in to see and hear this "sex addict" talk about her mis-adventures but one some level she seemed to me to be bragging about them. It was repulsive; that is, the less than five minutes I watched the show.
Got knob?
Why would anyone with young children let them watch Oprah?
Perhaps it's time to send Oprah some emails. The woman is beginning to "leak". First Frey and now this.
She's on at 3 in the afternoon where I live, so children are likely to be around "mom's tv" at that time.
The FCC should be defunded.
The last time she was talking about "tossed salads". The FCC ruled that it was not obscene, seeing as how Oprah is "beloved".
I missed that. What was the answer?
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