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The Fox Network: freedom fighters, or the anchor around American pop culture's neck as it plummets down to the inevitable lowest common denominator in all forms of entertainment? Could be both! Fox is refusing to pay a $91,000 indecency fine from the FCC for a 2003 episode of the execrable show "Married By America" that featured guys licking whipped cream off strippers and being spanked [Variety]. On one hand, screw the uptight fascists at the FCC and their enforced moralizing! On the other hand, we know Fox is fighting this just so they don't set any precedents that would hinder their rush towards programming that will culminate in live executions of the poor on TV. So it's hard not to be torn on this issue. Below, what appears to be the only clip on YouTube of "Married By America' (not the stripper one). This was a justifiably unpopular show.
Fox Fights For The Right To Prime Time Smut
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11:04 AM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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This somehow manages to be more tasteless than a drive-through wedding in Las Vegas with an Elvis impersonator officiating.
The FCC should relax and let Darwin take care of the shlock Fox pumps out.
Didn't they (well Fox News) have a Chris Crocker oopsy this weekend too?
Hey! Fox needs this. I mean, what the fuck else is O'Reilly going to rail against as a sign of the liberal media's war on Christian values over on Fox News?
What inspired programming! Really, really real. Because when men get married, they spend their lives in an isolation booth, considering their insides.
Live executions would be the ultimate Reality TV. Would the Sunday morning audiences of the televangelists be able to vote on who gets executed?
Why are we torn? Do you have poor friends we don't know about, Hamilton?
@KarenUhOh: No. We're contemplating what used to be on our outsides.
Rimshot, please.
@moff: Of course not. Your name is Hamilton.
Look, I LOVE the idea of a war against the un-Constitutional moralizing at the FCC. I just sort of wish it were the Righteous v. the Wrong instead of Trolls v. Hypocrites.
@Itsjustcatnip: Link?
Damn you! I saw that headline and thought my dreams of a "very special" episode of House were coming true.
You'll never go broke appealing to the lowest common denominator.
-Lisa Simpson
@LeGagneur: [evilbeetgossip.film.com]
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