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WITH A HAT TIP TO THE GOOD PEOPLE @ BRAVE NEW FILMS COMES THE FOLLOWING REMINDER of the sheer tastelessness of The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang in Indecision 2008--as in Keith "Countdown" Olbermann making note of where TTMB offered up a joke about interspecies rape @ a campaign appearence back in 1986 (with documentation made), and yet seeks to deny any and all liability therefor, let alone its consequences:

Something for to swift-boat The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang with for once, especially considering his seeking to play footsie with the Elmer Gantry Institute for Advanced Religiopolitical Thought and its articles of faith calling for a defence of "Traditional Morality" as ranks right up there with what White South Africa expected as a direct result of apartheid and its supposedly "empowering White Christians" based on their own warped delusions of Civitas Dei and "rights by conquest," among other bromides.

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I WOULDN'T EXACTLY KNOW HOW THIS RELATES, but in any event, I feel it's worth noting:

You may/may not have heard by now where the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the Federal Communications Commission's imposing a US$550,000 penalty upon CBS for that infamous "wardrobe malfunction" of Janet Jackson's back during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, contending where it was "capricious and arbitrary" for the FCC to impose such a harsh penalty for fleeting obscenity.

In the Court's words, as quoted by the AP:

The Commission's determination that CBS's broadcast of a nine-sixteenths of one second glimpse of a bare female breast was actionably indecent evidenced the agency's departure from its prior policy. Its orders constituted the announcement of a policy change—that fleeting images would no longer be excluded from the scope of actionable indecency.

But then again, there might want to be raised the question of whether the complaints as triggered the action were the byproduct of manufactured and carefully-scripted hysteria from the Elmer Gantry element, knowing the ensuing "call to action" would be unfailingly responded to among their weak-minded and easily-led droogs.

Especially when said scions of Elmer Gantryism are more than likely of the emotionally-disturbed sort, unlikely to come to terms with hidden mental disorders as may have been the product of childhood or juvenile abuse or neglect the parents would likely defend as necessary for "building character" and/or "teaching Christian Love."

Something worth asking.