Big Papi says: Boston is our fucking city. FCC Chair gives it the thumbs up

[cali]

A Red Sox star used blue language, but he won't be fined any green for his emotional reaction the day after police captured marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev.

To the contrary, longtime Boston icon David "Big Papi" Ortiz's use of profanity has been Federal Communications Commission-approved.

In a ceremony before the Red Sox took on the Kansas City Royals at a packed Fenway Park on Saturday, Ortiz threw out the F-word while delivering an inspirational message over the baseball stadium's loudspeakers.

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While the FCC has pursued others for broadcast profanity -- most notably, FOX Television Stations for expletives dropped during live awards shows in 2002 and 2003 -- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gave Ortiz a free pass Saturday.

He tweeted: "David Ortiz spoke from the heart at today's Red Sox game. I stand with Big Papi and the people of Boston - Julius."

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/21/us/massachusetts-fcc-ortiz/?hpt=hp_t3

[MOTRDemocrat]

1. Awesome move on the part of the FCC. nt

[dballance]

2. That's Going to Make it Interesting the Next Time the FCC Tries to Fine Someone Else

The next time the FCC tries to fine someone on an awards show who uses "fuck" in their speech as more of an adjective than an expletive as in "I'm so fucking happy/proud/honored/etc." and not on a show where it's used in a sentence like "Fuck you George W. Bush." I'm going to bet that lawyers will be quoting Genachowski when they say that the former is just a person "speaking from the heart" about their award and the FCC has already approved of this by their actions(or lack of actions) with regard to Bip Papi. The latter will still probably not be defensible.

[FarCenter]

3. Wouldn't this fall under the "fleeting expletive" rule?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleeting_expletive

I don't think anyone is going to accuse Big Papi with being scripted.