Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Case for Fuck's Sake

The NYT briefly explained in Week in Review yesterday a case that the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday, Federal Communications Commission vs. Fox Television Stations, that will determine the televised fate of your favorite word and mine: fuck. The argument for the broadcasting of material that uses the word is that not all fucking uses of fuck refer to fucking, in the sexual sense, and is therefore not subject to regulation, fuckers.

If Fox were to succeed in this argument, they would save local Philadelphia stations lots of grief from constantly having to apologize from Chase Utley's potty-mouth. HIs latest "slip" came at the victory rally on Friday:



It's okay, Chase, I'll help fix that mouth right away.

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