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From the Editor: How the FCC Helps YOU Find Dirty Talk
The nice thing about the Federal Communications Commission - or FCC, as I like to call it - is that if one wants to know where to find perverse material without paying for it, one need only pop onto the FCC website for a detailed listing.
Yes, even people who still use WebTV can go to www.FCC.gov and find out who's saying what filthy words, talking about which lewd topics, and where one can go to listen to or watch them.
In fact, you can easily find dirty words using the FCC's own "Search" box on their homepage. For example, I used it on Sunday, January 8th, the day that God made, and discovered:
"anal" - 146 results
"hookers" - 81 results
"lesbian" - 70 results
"oral sex" - 59 results
"George Bush" - 27 results
"cunnilingus" - 10 results
"Baba Booey" - no results
Also, searches for the "Seven Dirty Words" totaled 32 results. (Click "Documents" on the George Carlin website after you follow that link.) To the FCC's credit - and, perhaps, to Carlin's dismay - only four of the seven appeared on the FCC site.
It kills me that the FCC thinks it's protecting the public from obscene content, while simultaneously providing transcripts of the obscenities in all their depraved glory - in Word, Acrobat, and HTML formats. How convenient! Click here for one example, from a 2001 Howard Stern radio show. Scroll down to "Attachment A." And if you're faint of heart or stomach, beware.
In fact, I mention Stern because if there's anyone who could appreciate the irony, it's him: For every dirty utterance Stern's been fined for, the FCC happily reprints every last word for him. Without asterisks or dashes, even. And there's no law that compels the FCC to post the transcript online!
It's no wonder the FCC is trying to expand its reach into cable television - they won't know what to do with themselves without Stern. I have a feeling Stern can tell them what to do with themselves, though. Or to themselves, that is.
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