How the “fleeting expletive" Did I Miss This

Busy schedule, days off, & not getting arround to seeing it until several days later. Just like Obama's 1st 100.

Anyhow, the Supreme Courtactually ruled the way the "Founding Fathers" intended things to be understood for once.

PTC Lauds Supreme Court Ruling Finding “Fleeting” Expletives Indecent
PTC President: Today’s Ruling is an “Incredible Victory for Families”

LOS ANGELES (April 28, 2009) – The Parents Television Council™ praised the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Fox v. FCC. With that opinion today, the Court has upheld the FCC’s ability to enforce the broadcast decency law and found that so-called “fleeting” expletives on the public airwaves could, indeed, be indecent. The FCC ruled that Fox violated the broadcast indecency law when it aired the “F-word” and “S-word” during live broadcasts of the 2002 and 2003 Billboard Music Awards shows. The PTC and its members filed FCC indecency complaints over these two incidents and also submitted an Amicus brief in support of the FCC.

“Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court is an incredible victory for families. The Court has affirmed that the broadcast airwaves do indeed belong to the public, and not to the broadcasters who are granted a license to use the public airwaves for free,” said PTC President Tim Winter.

“We agree with the Court that the FCC’s broadcast decency enforcement policy is ‘entirely rational’. And we agree with the Court’s finding that the FCC was not ‘arbitrary’ or ‘capricious’ in its finding that those words were indecent on the public airwaves when children are in the audience.

“Broadcasters must abide by the terms of their licenses. They must not air indecent material before 10:00 p.m. – the hours when children are most likely to be in the viewing audience. We must put the well-being of children first and allow certain hours of the broadcast day to be a safe haven for families.

“We implore the broadcast networks to abide by today’s Court’s ruling rather than to pursue a path of attempted obstruction with countless legal maneuverings. And we encourage the FCC to use today’s opinion to break the indecency complaint logjam, and rule on the merits of the tens of thousands of indecency complaints currently awaiting review at the Commission,” Winter said.

► Official Court Ruling
► Read the full history of the case and the treatment of indecency by the FCC.