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This controversy has its origins in 1978’s landmark Supreme Court case FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. A listener to Pacifica’s New York City station filed a complaint after George Carlin’s infamous “Filthy Words” bit—in which the legendary stand-up comic and counter-culture icon gleefully lists and graphically annotates the anatomical, excretory, and reproductive colloquialisms deemed unfit for broadcast media...
...city's most popular radio DJ's, Eddie "el Piolin" Sotelo, who stirred passions and whipped up enthusiasm for the March 25 boycott, didn't report to his mike this morning, in support of the boycott, and the station aired a previously taped show. Meanwhile, over the weekend, some members of the We Are America coalition were disheartened to hear that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would be traveling to Dallas for NFL meetings, rather than participating in their afternoon march. Villaraigosa told TIME.com in March that he preferred to lobby for the McCain-Kennedy Senate bill on immigration reform rather than...
...ExxonMobil, which announced quarterly earnings of $8.4 billion. "Listen, we've got people like this that are working for a living, who are paying higher prices for their gasoline--it's like a tax," said President George Bush, standing next to local resident Michael Wade at Fayard's service station in Biloxi, Miss., where a gallon of regular sold for $2.96. "The first thing is to make sure that nobody is getting cheated...
...President visited the service station to discuss a number of largely ineffectual remedies for pulling down prices, some of which Rove had previously discussed in the staff chiefs' meeting. Bush suspended additional deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to divert that crude to the market. He called for more tax incentives for hybrid cars, fewer environmental hurdles for refinery builders, drilling wells in the Arctic and congressional authority to raise mileage requirements on cars. Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who earlier in the week had advised voters to drive slower and get a tune-up, was fronting a Republican proposal...
Handed the issue that could win back the House, congressional Democrats steered en masse to service stations, like NASCAR drivers pitting for gas. Following a carefully strategized plan of photo ops organized by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, they staged press conferences in filling stations around the U.S. to denounce the Republicans and promote their equally ineffectual solutions. Said John Cranley, who posed near a price sign at a service station in Cincinnati, Ohio: "These gas prices represent the failure of my opponent, Steve Chabot, and George Bush to fight for the middle class. The Republicans and Steve Chabot...