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FCC Considers Fining Stephen Colbert Over Controversial Trump Joke (rollingstone.com)
FCC chairman Ajit Pai said on Friday his agency will be looking into complaints made against Late Show host Stephen Colbert for what some labeled a homophobic joke about President Donald Trump. From a report: On Monday's Late Show, Colbert quipped that "the only thing [Trump's] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c**k holster." The joke drew accusations of homophobia, a viral #FireColbert campaign and FCC complaints against Colbert. In an interview Friday, FCC chairman Ajit Pai told a Philadelphia radio station, "I have had a chance to see the clip now and so, as we get complaints -- and we've gotten a number of them -- we are going to take the facts that we find and we are going to apply the law as it's been set out by the Supreme Court and other courts and we'll take the appropriate action." Pai added, "Traditionally, the agency has to decide, if it does find a violation, what the appropriate remedy should be. A fine, of some sort, is typically what we do."
LOL you think it's millennial democrats filling these reports?!
Head over to 4chan/pol. They are organising a mass complaint campaign and trying to get him fired. 4chan's pol is far right, by the way. Deeply anti-Semitic and racist, but Trump is their guy.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
"Trump was a dick, and Colbert used rephrased versions of TRUMP's insults into a sharper attack."
Actually, it's a bit more subtle than that. A "Cock Holster" is US Military Slang, going back as far as the Vietnam War, and probably farther back than that.
A "Cock Holster" is a Raw Recruit, and the only two words that they are allowed to say is "Yes" and "Sir", together, followed by blind obedience and with no other contributions to the conversation.
Of course, President Bone Spurs would have no knowledge of this, and neither would any of his Chicken Hawk followers, as is so evident here in the comments here.
If the homophobia complaints were coming from gays, then there would be something to it. The fact that it's coming from Trump supporters shows that it's insincere. You can't be outraged on behalf of another group when that group doesn't care, and especially when that group is one that your side goes out of it's way to marginalize.