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View Poll Results: Do you support the court's decision to drop the fine against ABC?
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Yes. The scene featuring Charlotte Ross was not indecent.
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No. The fine should have remained in place.
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01-06-2011, 01:41 AM
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There is nothing indecent about actress Charlotte Ross' rear end. That's the word from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, which tossed a roughly $1.4 million fine that the Federal Communications Commission had slapped on ABC and some of its affilaites in 2008 for a 2003 episode of the police drama "NYPD Blue" in which Ross' buttocks were visible to viewers.
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Court tosses indecency case against ABC's 'NYPD Blue' | Company Town | Los Angeles Times
PTC Condemns Second Circuit Decision to Throw Out NYPD Blue Indecency Fine
Very good news for freedom of speech! Keep in mind that this was George W. Bush's FCC that implemented the fine.
Full clip available for download here:
PTC Video Clips -- Playing: NYPDBlue2-25-03.wmv Click on "Download the clip".
I'm sure the conservative Parents Television Council has the clip there for educational purposes only. (Yeah, right!) 
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01-06-2011, 01:44 AM
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Honestly I can't think of anything more offensive than the human body. The Vitruvian Man is probably the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.
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01-06-2011, 02:13 AM
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Location: Tallahassee
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Honestly I can't think of anything more offensive than the human body. The Vitruvian Man is probably the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.
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01-06-2011, 03:56 AM
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Location: Harrisonburg, VA
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Huh? I don't see a problem?
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01-06-2011, 05:04 AM
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Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Shouldn't there be a poll choice for what a friggin' waste of the court's time? Of course, coming from an administration that had an AG who felt it necessary to drape nude statuary it's hardly surprising. Too bad they didn't find unnecessary wars of choice equally offensive.
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01-06-2011, 06:41 AM
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Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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Isn't it the FCC's job to do this???
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01-06-2011, 07:37 AM
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Location: Londonderry, NH
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Any society that considers nudity to be more objectionable than pictures of death and destruction (real or imagined) has a very strange set of priorities.
I would find full frontal nudity of men or women in movies or on TV unobjectionable compared to seeing somebody get his brains scattered over a wall on some cop show. The former is entertaining and the latter disgusting. Salacious action is better than murderous. This is difference between good and evil.
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01-06-2011, 07:42 AM
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Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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Any society that considers nudity to be more objectionable than pictures of death and destruction (real or imagined) has a very strange set of priorities.
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Quite true.
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I would find full frontal nudity of men or women in movies or on TV unobjectionable compared to seeing somebody get his brains scattered over a wall on some cop show. The former is entertaining and the latter disgusting. Salacious action is better than murderous. This is difference between good and evil.
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Strangely enough,growing up we had TV shows that regularly showed breasts and even had full frontal nudity,all on the 'regular' TV(well actually that is that existed at the time..LOL).
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01-06-2011, 07:52 AM
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Location: Londonderry, NH
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Where were you watching TV? All we got was Westerns and cop shows.
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01-06-2011, 08:06 AM
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I've got a big problem with that scene. Where was the studly naked guy? I want something to look at, too! |
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