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Writing FCC Complaints About Arnie States Shoe Throwing Comment On KRXQ & KDOT

Started by Shana A, June 05, 2009, 06:45:32 PM

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Writing FCC Complaints About Arnie States Shoe Throwing Comment On KRXQ & KDOT
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 19:30:00 PM EDT

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/11325/writing-fcc-complaints-about-arnie-states-shoe-throwing-comment-on-krxq-kdot

I've modified Rustin's highlighted words in my own mind. What I believe Bayard Rustin would say now is something more to the effect of:

    That's our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest anti-gay and anti-transgender sentiment.

FCC Obscene, Indecent, and Profane RegulationsSo, when Rob Williams and Arnie States, in the May 28th broadcast on transyouth, stated over the public airwaves of both Sacramento's KRXQ and Reno's KDOT (four excerpts from the broadcast in the clip)...
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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I've modified Rustin's highlighted words in my own mind. What I believe Bayard Rustin would say now is something more to the effect of:

She has as much right to modify Bayard Rustin's words as I would to change Churchill or Chuck Norris would to change Gandhi.  And, at that, I'm not sure that Bayard Rustin is exactly the kind of person we would want as a paragon of virtue in the movement.

Add to that this cute idea: So, I believe we're in a gray area. Although the speech wasn't laced with profanity, I honestly believe it was deeply profane (though, like a lot of other big words she uses, it does not mean exactly what she thinks it means).  Setting ones self up as some sort of judge, "can't describe it, but I know it when I hear it" is very scary in a democratic society.

Don't like it?  Don't listen.  That kills not just the show, it kills the station.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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