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Pai’s comments on Colbert are surprising as “The Late Show” airs outside the FCC’s long-established “safe harbor” time frame of 6 am to 10 pm in which the commission has the authority to police allegations of indecent and obscene material on the airwaves. They would also seem to clash with Pai’s vow to maintain a lighter regulatory environment for media overall.

Colbert faced backlash following the Monday night airing of “The Late Show,” during which he made numerous jokes about Trump during his opening monologue. Among them, he said, “The only thing [Trump’s] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c–k holster.” Colbert’s mouth was blurred and the term was bleepded out for the broadcast, however.

Viewers took to social media to declare Colbert’s joke homophobic.The hashtag #FireColbert began spreading around Twitter, along with calls for people to boycott sponsors of the late-night show.
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http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fcc-stephen-colbert-donald-trump-1202410837/

So, what do you think?
should jokes spark federal investigation, even when they don't fall in the safe zone?
 
They just arrested a woman you who laughed at sessions
 
Well for starters I don't know that I'd call the joke "homophobic" at all.

Homophobia is an irrational fear of homosexuals. Neither Trump nor Putin are (as far as we know) homosexual, so Colbert wasn't verbally assaulting either of them for being gay. He was just making the observation that Trump is for all intents and purposes Putin's bitch, which is a fair assessment.

As far as the FCC goes, they should probably stick to measuring the directional patterns of broadcast antennae instead of trying to figure out what's offensive.
 
Whatever happened to letting the marketplace decide?

If people don't like Colbert making a joke about how Trump is a tool of Putin they should change the channel.

Colbert's ratings have been great lately by the way.
 
Although I disagree with this level of anti-rusian hysteria, I like Colbert and I agree with him that choice of words should have been different.
 
I love Colbert.

The English vocabulary is entirely inadequate to describe the horror and nausea and disgust and loathing I feel at even the name of Trump.

I think that cock holster was a bit over the line but only because it was regular TV and not cable. I don't disagree with the term in the least and I don't think that anybody should be forbidden to say anything---but it was a bit over the line for network tv.
 
No, the FCC should not investigate or anything else. Colbert did nothing wrong. These same asswipes through an absolute fit when Muslims complain about drawings of Muhammad and yet they are ready to have Colbert taken off the air for essentially calling Trump a name? Fucking hypocrites. I fucking hate the whole lot of them.....NEVER in my life have I despised an administration (and congress) so much. I don't like the feeling.
 
Ford said:
Well for starters I don't know that I'd call the joke "homophobic" at all.

Homophobia is an irrational fear of homosexuals. Neither Trump nor Putin are (as far as we know) homosexual, so Colbert wasn't verbally assaulting either of them for being gay. He was just making the observation that Trump is for all intents and purposes Putin's bitch, which is a fair assessment.

As far as the FCC goes, they should probably stick to measuring the directional patterns of broadcast antennae instead of trying to figure out what's offensive.
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His comments are what I think the kiddies call "A micro-aggression." An unfortunate (And unintended) implication of Colbert's words is that a man who sucks dick is an object of amusement or derision. So not homophobic, but I can see how people who read into things might be offended by the statement.
 
It was somewhat daring for Colbert to say what he did. That's what we need in times like these where a person can be prosecuted for laughing and where a frightening percentage of Americans would have Colbert removed (and even worse) for what he said along with a severely incompetent President who despises the First Amendment.

Silencing dissent doesn't have to come at the point of a gun. It can come through legislation and fines as well. I never thought this nation was as fragile as its been shown to be, and it scares the hell out of me.
 
Opoponax said:
It was somewhat daring for Colbert to say what he did. That's what we need in times like these where a person can be prosecuted for laughing and where a frightening percentage of Americans would have Colbert removed (and even worse) for what he said along with a severely incompetent President who despises the First Amendment.

Silencing dissent doesn't have to come at the point of a gun. It can come through legislation and fines as well. I never thought this nation was as fragile as its been shown to be, and it scares the hell out of me.
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But it's always been this way. If anything it's arguably better today than it was 100 years ago. All you need do is a little digging into the government's dirty exploits throughout the 1900s.
 
I agree that most of these complaints are likely either the work of alt-right internet trolls or putin payroll internet trolls, or both. The fact that they are objecting to this "homophobia" is an attempt to make it sound like it's coming from the left.
 
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