WASHINGTON — The head of the Federal Communications Commission says the agency will consider a petition to ban the Washington Redskins nickname from the public airwaves.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says Tuesday that the commission “will be dealing with that issue on the merits, and we’ll be responding accordingly.”

A law professor has challenged the use of the name on broadcast television, saying it violates FCC rules against indecent content. Native American and other groups have demanded the name be changed, calling it a racial slur.

Wheeler did not offer a timetable for a ruling on the matter. He has previously said he finds the name “offensive and derogatory,” but that he hoped Redskins owner Dan Snyder would change it without any formal action.

Snyder has vowed never to change the name.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/09/3...-airwaves/

stupid... but this is what liberals do..

Why can't they just leave this to the NFL and stay out of it. Bunch of idiots.

As we move closer to a communist style society.

You cannot allow progressives to get their way even a little bit.

How about the FCC insist that warnings about diseased immigrants be broadcast? That's its real purpose.

(10-01-2014 02:18 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  How about the FCC insist that warnings about diseased immigrants be broadcast? That's its real purpose.

They also used to warn boys against the "homosexual" too but you can see what happened when that stopped getting aired. Like they'd want to hurt some non-English speaking illegal immigrant's feelings now.

Eight words not to be said over the air:

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Piss
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Tits
Redskins

(10-01-2014 02:29 PM)mlb Wrote:  Eight words not to be said over the air:

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Piss
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Tits
Redskins

I only see three.

I'm probably the only one here who watched the Redskins vs. Giants game this past Thursday (and why would someone watch that garbage that doesn't like either team), and it was funny to watch Phil Simms struggle to NOT say Redskins while Jim Nantz was using the term very freely. More respect for Nantz now, no doubt.

Really ? with all the other things going on in the Country, this is still an issue.

(10-01-2014 08:08 PM)CardFan1 Wrote:  Really ? with all the other things going on in the Country, this is still an issue.

30 days before elections? You bet it's an issue. So is global warming and anything else that will make the left forget about Obama's many failures.

bull****.

Like the government doesn't have better things to worry about, do they still think that ISIS is a JV team?