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![GEORGE CARLIN on the FCC – Video Clip Transcript
https://youtu.be/yvPVAOklx20?si=kzfIvtQuADjihISK
0:00 - …keep in mind these Reagan people are the ones that were going to get government off our backs. Remember that? That was the rhetoric of the 1980 campaign - we'll get government off your backs and out of your lives.
0:11 – Yeah, but they still want to tell you what magazines you can read and they still want to tell you what rock lyrics you can listen to and they still want to force your kids to pray in school and they still want to tell you what you can say on the radio.
0:22 - The FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
0:34 - I’d like to repeat that because it sounds vaguely important. The FCC, an appointed body - not elected, answerable only to the president, decided on its own that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
0:53 - Why did they decide that? Because they got a letter from a Minister in Mississippi!
A reverend Donald Wildman in Mississippi heard something on the radio that he didn't like.
1:04 - Well Reverend - did anyone ever tell you there are two knobs on the radio? {holds up 2 fingers up to emphasize while audience applause breaks out and continues]
1:20 – Of course, I'm sure the Reverend isn't that comfortable with anything that has two knobs on it. But hey, Reverend there are two knobs on the radio one of them turns the radio off and the other one changes the station. Imagine that Reverend - you can actually change the station.
1:40 - It's called freedom of choice and it's one of the principles this country was founded upon.
1:44 - Look it up in the library Reverend if you have any of them left when you finish burning all the books.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w2mnxolf6ldduik7vvc5tvdv/bafkreifj4bjmdyohmjrz4ktcrcztp2l4bre2m74upeigmcwkm7pwt2gaty@jpeg)
