FCC Should Yank Fox Broadcasting License

May 26, 2008 · Posted in Election 2008, Notes 

When an MSNBC anchor is suspended for 2 weeks for using the term “pimping Chelsea” and this evil excuse for a human being named Liz Trotta is doing THIS (please watch it, it’s only 15 seconds or so), it’s a real statement on how devoid of all human decency and morality the Faux News Network has become:

Here’s the transcript:

Trotta: …and now we have what some are reading—as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama , umm, ah… Obama, well both if we could…haha…

Q) Talk about how you really feel?

Write to the FCC and Fox News, and boycott their advertisers, please.

If you’re concerned at all that the statement was taken out of context (it wasn’t), here’s a link to a longer clip.

I could go on and on and on about how outrageous this is, but I won’t. It was a toss-off, a signal and sign of how nasty, mean-spirited and evil the mouthpieces of the Republicans have gotten, and it should not stand.

I see that a commenter on the Daily Kos diary has notified the Secret Service. Good. Because this goes beyond freedom of speech. This is shouting fire in a very crowded, very contentious room, and Rupert Murdoch and Fox should lose their license and right to broadcast for a very long time.

Oh, and yes, Liz Trotta should also be fired.

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Comments

  • There seems like there is such a double standard here. If someone on Air America had a made a statement like this about McCain, the Repubs would want to send the offender to Guantanamo.
  • ...and then they'd waterboard whoever said it, while shrilly screaming filled the Faux News airwaves for the next three weeks.
  • But she won't be, because that is exactly what their viewers like and what Fox seeks to cultivate.
  • You're right, of course. But still -- MSNBC smacked down Schuster really hard for the 'pimping' remark, which they should have. They only did it, of course, after there was such a HUGE hue and cry from the Clinton campaign and her supporters.

    In this case, the Obama campaign can hardly step up publicly and dignify this without turning every loony-tunes whacko loose with an excuse to carry out Trotta's wish.

    Fox will not take responsibility for the reasons you state.

    Therefore, it seems to me that the FCC should take a serious and meaningful stand on this, apology or no apology, and let Fox News know that it is not acceptable to broadcast this kind of speech across the airwaves.
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