Emily Schrader at The College Fix:
In an effort to curb “crude and racist speech,” the Los Angeles City Council has passed a resolution asking TV and radio broadcasters to censor their hosts. This of course comes in response to the overwhelmingly sexist comments made by pundits like Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann.
Oops! I meant it comes in response to conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, and Los Angeles’ KFI 640 AM radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou. …
[T]he resolution passed by a vote of 13-2. One of the two dissenters, showing uncommon good sense for an L.A. council member, was Joe Buscaino, who condemned the distasteful remarks that motivated the resolution, but said “we should be focused on issues that are facing the city…last time I checked the city of Los Angeles is not the FCC.”
Buscaino, a self-described Democrat, also pointed out that the resolution, which has no legal force, is purely symbolic – and that if people are offended by talk radio they do have the ability to turn it off.
What do you wanna bet Buscaino’s office is fielding hateful phone calls and e-mails right now?






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