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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."
It's not really homophobic, it's more simply denigrating. Regardless, the people who are really complaining AREN'T complaining about Colbert's objectifying of gay people or his choice to use the crude remark on broadcast television. What they're pointing out is the gigantic dose of hypocrisy on the liberal side. If someone they hate (say, a host on Fox, whatever) made the same remark, liberals would absolutely HOWL with outrage and fits of phony SJW hand-wringing and fainting couch use.
But because it's one of their guys making the snark, of course it's just a little humor, blah blah. It's the hypocrisy. It's always about the hypocrisy. The election results in November were about the hypocrisy.
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What you know about Trump.
Man! You democrats are a real piece of work! More disgraceful you will not find
For decades calling (or suggesting) someone was a faggot has been an insult. If you can't see how his "joke" is offensive and invokes that mentality then you're either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid.
If you can't see how his "joke" is offensive
It's offensive towards Trump, which was kind of the point.
The only thing about it that could be considered offensive to gay people is the suggestion that they have something in common with Trump.