No weelittledrummer, the point I'm making is the conservative right, including the Powell contingent of the FCC, loves the movie 'Saving Private Ryan'. I've seen the film, and felt that while it was very graphic and realistic, and the violence in context, that it still glorified "the good, righteous war". Which is why in the post-9/11 world, the network chooses to show 'Saving Private Ryan' instead of the equally excellent war film 'Apocalypse Now' on Veteran's Day. 'Saving Private Ryan' makes the US military look heroic, in an admittedly gritty, realistic way. 'Apocalypse Now' shows the military in a much darker, more disturbing, but equally realistic way.
I think we all know why the conservative right and the networks make the choice to show 'Saving Private Ryan' in war time, rather than 'Apocalypse Now'.
The conservative right hates Janet Jackson and Bono and all they stand for as rock and R & B musicians. They play the devil's music. Bono has been a strong advocate for social change and progressive activism that is anathema to the conservative right. Janet Jackson is black and female, and an easy target for stereotyping with the "loose morals" schtick that black females often get from the white conservatives.
The conservative right is fining the musicians for using the same language live, as is being used in an unedited film shown in prime time.
That is a double standard that unfairly privleges what they value, and punishes what other people value. It doesn't have anything to do with decency, it has to do with the conservative right trying to dictate what we will and won't be allowed to watch on TV, according to their definition of community standards, rather than the community standards that has served the networks for decades.