Apparently, fifty years after the ruling that Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl" cannot be held obscene, you cannot say "cock and endless balls" on public radio due to fear of the FCC fining your ass. Madness.
I had the pleasure of seeing Ginsberg perform "Howl" in Dublin in the early Nineties, I thus have two simple words for the FCC - fuck you.
It's always bothered me that in a country in which censors are supposedly abhorred, there seem to be an awful lot of them running around.
The FCC's indecency rules on broadcast media are ultimately ultimately doomed, I think. Unless we see a backlash that results in successful indecency regulation of cable, satellite, and the Internet under President Hillary Clinton (who has proposed legislation to turn voluntary video game ratings into government-enforced mandates with criminal penalties).
It's just not Pacifica that's going to bring the case that does it, since Congress raised the fines on indecency last year, with broad bipartisan support.