Limbaugh a Stern wannabe? Will BJ quip draw a fine?
We're not sure where this was coming from, but Rush Limbaugh got a little reckless on Tuesday, rivaling Howard Stern's "potty mouth." We just hope his hundreds of affiliates don't get fined (too)! Of course, we wouldn't worry about him saying this on a TV net, but with the FCC's history with radio fines, who knows. Fox News' Shepard Smith recently said "blow job" in prime time during a story on Jennifer Lopez. However, he immediately and profusely apologized afterward. And that was on unregulated cable. This is a little different, as you'll read.
Rush was talking about Al Gore's new cable TV net:
"When does he start up this stupid little network? August?! Yip yip yip yahoo. You know what Gore said about this? 'It's going to be liberal. It's going to reflect the point of view of young people.' What the hell is that, Al? What the hell is the point of view of young people? Blow jobs, that's what they're doing out there. They're out there getting oral sex all day long, that's what they're talking about. That's the point of view, they can't wait that your boss Al made sure that has become the number one sport in high school today. So I guess you're going to have a BJ network out there, Al, is that what you're going to do? You're going to call your network the oral sex channel out there, start competing with MTV? No, it's not going to have any of this stuff out there, folks, it's going to be talking about liberalism, no, no, no, that's not what we're about. Classic, cannot even admit who he is."
He followed up later, "I am going to apologize not for saying what I said, but I'm going to apologize if it offended anybody. I never apologize for what I say, but if some of you were offended by a graphic term involving actions committed by Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and that have now spread to America's high schools, I apologize. I meant to say 'oral sex' throughout, but the guttural term escaped my pouty lips in a moment of pure, unbridled passion. The staff was so stunned and so scared today they didn't dare hit the delete button, the deedle button, and so it got out there. My reaction is, 'Somebody go ahead and turn me into the FCC. I'll be honored to be fined.' It's just another government agency with its hand in my back pocket, so go right ahead."
Are you reading this from a forwarded email?
