In ancient India, society worshipped the warrior-prince. In Plato's Greece, they revered the philosopher-king. Here in America, we have the rebel-prude.
While the U.S. military is in the Middle East bravely trying to keep America's children safe from terrorism, the Federal Communications Commission is in Washington, D.C. keeping America's children safe from T&A.
FCC commissioner Michael Copps said on November 18 that the FCC's Enforcement Bureau would be looking into possible "indecent speech" violations by ABC.
Did ABC News report classified military information? Did they broadcast too many minutes of a bin Laden video with potentially coded messages? Did they somehow jeopardize the lives of American soldiers stationed in the Middle East?
Who cares? They broadcast the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
We're talking about some serious erect nipplage and uncovered ass cheeks here. You think we're going to let stuff like this get by unpunished? Hell, no. We're Americans.
We've got other things to worry about besides religious freaks, suicidal towel-headed maniacs, and whether a passenger plane is going to interrupt our day at the office. Imagine the potential havoc that could be wreaked by two-dozen half-covered tits.
Didn't somebody say something about our freedom being attacked on September 11? Our freedom to do what, for fuck's sake? Our "freedom" to go to church, play with G.I. Joe dolls, and learn to differentiate deer shit from bear shit with a bunch of Boy Scouts?
What about the freedom to broadcast soft-core porn and call it a goddamn "fashion show"? What about the freedom from having to flip through your girlfriend's or wife's Victoria Secret catalog ten minutes every month and pretend the girls are real human beings? What about the freedom to watch on television - or let your children watch - whatever the hell you want them to watch?
Maybe the President should have specified which freedoms we're actually fighting for in this war.
