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.
"Wonder if the show did a warning that adult situations were being discussed before the show and after the break of commercials?"
There usually isn't. She once had Traci Lord on there, discussing in graphioc detail her experiences if ah, abuse and how the porn industry preys on vulnerable females. Strange how once her career in porn and films in general she suddenly comes up with this expose.
Ejaculate?
The woman has been on for many years, it's not all about the "weep" industry. The show I was on was a hoot..it was baby boomers vs. baby busters (I, being the baby boomer). It was really funny as the baby busters were complaining how we ruined everything for them, and we (boomers) telling them to stop whining and get a job. Of course, this was 1993, so things were a bit different!
Not the same "Frey", But come to think of it, That might be an interesting pair ;)
I saw some of the show yesterday and had to pick my jaw up off of the floor... Especially when Oprah had an epiphany and interrupted her favorite shrink's analysis and declared that the women's insatiable sexual appetites are the same as over eating!
She then went on to elaborate that being overweight and binging on a bag of potato chips and feeling bad about it later was the same type of behavior. WOW! Until Oprah made the comparison, I would have never thought having life threatening unprotected sex with life threatening virtual strangers was the same as eating a bag of chips. Silly me!
Well Oprah had Stedman....apparently chips were better!
She went without telling me.
I'm appalled!!!
Where does this lady hang out?
go on....what was the show about?
You *don't* want to know. Trust me on this one. You don't need to and you don't *want* to. :D
ROTFLMAO
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