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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.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
What you know about Trump.
Man! You democrats are a real piece of work! More disgraceful you will not find
What you know about Trump.
Man! You democrats are a real piece of work! More disgraceful you will not find
Correction: we just found you.
Just imagine if Trump said that about Colbert as a joke. Then you'll see the problem.
We don't really care that much when people insult the president, and we can think badly of such people or goodly of them. That part doesn't matter.
Some of us remember differently.
People aren't going after him for the rest of his monologue, which was also very insulting, and they don't complain about John Oliver or Bill Maher when they face the camera and rattle off insults with no wit or insight.
Yes, they are, and yes they do.
It's the explicit profanity, and Colbert knows better.
You only care because Colbert hurt your precious Turnip's feelings, and yet we know better, because of this one time.
Yeah, that's a tip-off.
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.
No, dressing up as a gay man and then making a joke about two homophobic men engaged in a homosexual sex act would be offensive to some of the snowflake "liberals".
You know, those people who didn't see the irony in calling themselves liberal whilst dictating to others what they can and can't say and wear.
Donald Trump is a piece of shit. If you support him, then you are also a piece of shit and I would beat the shit out of you if I ever ran across you.
I think we can all pretty much agree that Trump is the person that Colbert hates most on this planet. When you compare the person that you hate most of all to group X as an insult, what does that suggest is your opinion of group X?
Was Colbert complementing Trump? Was this a roundabout way of saying "Trump is a beautiful, creative, productive person, just like my token gay friend?"
Of course not. He was saying that Trump is so vile and disgusting that he must suck dicks like a degenerate.
There is a saying that it is very hard to be a liberal, because of all the stuff that you have to pretend that you don't know. It has, however, been a hilarious few days watching people like you pretend that you are having a hard time understanding why a group of people would be upset that their very identity itself is as a slur.
See that "Preview" button?
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.