..really isn't worth the time to refute. Focus on the Family, American Family Institute, etc. You know the drill: promote as harsh and unyielding a fundamentalist program for America, but do it for
the children. Mrs. Lovejoy from
The Simpsons would be impressed.
So in the wake of a Second Circuit Court of Appeals
ruling concerning the use of a "single, non-literal use of an expletive", it's no surprise that a local group with the word family tellingly included in its name decided to get all p*ssy
(1) and moan about how
the children are going to be oh so battered by the fruit of such rulings:
Tuesday’s appeals court ruling struck David Edward Smith, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, as a “sad” decision.
“What this says to parents is that you don’t have a reasonable expectation of not being assaulted from your television or radio,” explained Smith, who became famous for his protracted crusade against radio personality Mancow Muller while he was a host on rock station WKQX-FM (101.1).
"Protracted crusade", eh? Look, I'm no fan of Muller's: to me, he was just another morning zoo assclown of no real significance. He still has a right to be just that, though. And what must really bug Smith is his rather paltry batting average against Muller:
Smith said he filed 70 complaints against Muller with the FCC between 1999 and 2004. Smith said he was never a fan of Muller’s sexually graphic material, including interviews with porn stars and strippers.
You read that right 70 complaints. In five years. And how many were taken seriously?
According to Smith, at least seven of his complaints were deemed actionable by the FCC and resulted in WKQX parent Emmis Communications paying significant fines. Muller did not respond to calls seeking comment Tuesday.
To me, that equates to a batting average of .100. Feel free to note that Smith made the claim that those seven actionable complaints resulted in "significant fines", whatever that means. But hey, at least he's not paying people to "lift his luggage" like some other guys with the word "family" prominently included in their organization's name, eh?
(1) The Archfiend reserves the right to edit text that may offend people apparently afraid of words such as f*ck, sh*t, c*nt, c*cksucker and the like. He also reserves the right to call them gutless little cretins whose idea of emasculating the English language is akin to reducing Kobe beef to Gerber baby food. I'd apologize if I cared that this may offend certain parties, but I don't. Ah, well.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
