The Daily Stern Returns

The Daily Stern Returns -- Now that I'm commuting again, my morning hour in the car is filled by Howard, Robin, Artie and the gang. Jeff Jarvis is also listening...

The Daily Stern is about to rise again. Congress is about to send its indecent indecency bill to Bush's desk. So if you are on TV and say 'F Bush,' you could be bankrupted. Well, let me get this in while I can: F Congress.

On Howard Stern yesterday, they recounted a Dr. Phil show in which the quack put a 9-year-old boy on, showing him smearing feces on a wall, and said he had most of the warning signs that said this kid was going to be a serial killer. Now I call that obscene (and irresponsible and inhuman). But Congress -- and, apparently, the American psychiatric governing body -- won't go after that. But Congress and the FCC will rule that a four-letter word and a breast are obscene.

I heard that Stern show as well and was equally repulsed by the description of the child abuse perpetrated by the bad doctor. Yeah, protect the children from breasts that they recently fed from and harmless utterances, but go ahead and parade them like freaks in "Dr." Phil's tent-show.

But back to specific recent FCCilliness...

How about a CBS defense fund?

Wouldn't it send a message if the big corporate component of Viacom was supported by 110,000 people donating $5 apiece (or, dare I dream... 1,100,000 sending in 50 cents) to show the silliness of the recent fine for Mr. Timberlake's (remember him? how come he skates free?) liberation of Ms Jackson's breast.