News comes today that Michael Powell, head of the FCC resigned today. This is great news. He's behind this beating down of the 1st Amendment that started with Janet's boob. He used that incident as a mandate to restrict free speech. Look what he's done in just a year. This guy was put in place as a favor to his daddy. Yes, Powell was put in place while Clinton was in power, but it was still as a favor to his ole man. Its frightening to think in a country that not only professes to be a free country, in a country that insists all other countries be free, that we let one guy have carte blanche in censoring the entertainment world. This guy's got broadcasters so freaked, they hand out fines for pretending to moon the crowd. So Michael Powell, may you have a nice life thumping your bible, and setting your parental lock on your cable box. He's supposedly going to run for the Governor of Virginia. I'm sure Howard, and every other DJ in the entire world will make sure he loses. Remember, what goes around comes around. Maybe one day his kid will be a Shock Jock... or star in a bukkake video.
Whenever I'm happy someone gets fired, its always tempered by one caveat: The devil you know is sometimes worse than the devil you don't know. Being in a business, or working at a station, that has more turnovers than a french pastry shop, I've seen this happen. So maybe the next FCC head will be an open-minded person, but since Bush is in the White House, the next guy will be just as conservative and closed-minded. In the best case scenario, we get a guy who comes in there and says, "Look, don't use the seven dirty words, don't show nudity on the air, and don't show disgusting violence. Other than that, use your best judgement." But that won't happen. We're going to have Jerry Falwell as head of the FCC. Like Ice-T said more than a decade ago: "Freedom Of Speech... Just Watch What You Say."
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