Scalia rules against FOX in censorship case

This is when conservative worlds collide.

Today, in an opinion by ultra-right wing Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court ruled against Rupert Murdoch's FOX network in an case about swearing. Okay, it's a stupid case based on a stupid rule from George Bush's FCC -- and the Court didn't even make a determination on the First Amendment implications. But, I do love that FOX lost because of a dumb Bush policy supported by the right-wingers on the Supreme Court:

The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Tuesday in favor of a government policy that threatens broadcasters with fines over the use of even a single curse word on live television, yet stopped short of deciding whether the policy violates the Constitution.

In six separate opinions totalling 68 pages, the justices signaled serious concerns about the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's "fleeting expletives" policy, but called on a federal appeals court to weigh whether it violates First Amendment guarantees of free speech.

By a 5-4 vote, however, the court did throw out a ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. That court had found in favor of a Fox Television-led challenge to the FCC policy and had returned the case to the agency for a "reasoned analysis" of its tougher line on indecency.

The commission appealed to the Supreme Court instead.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the court, said the FCC policy, adopted in 2004, is "neither arbitrary nor capricious."

The FCC changed its long-standing policy after it concluded that a one-free-expletive rule did not make sense in the context of keeping the air waves free of indecency when children are likely to be watching television.

This must mean a fine for FOX News because of Shepard Smith, too. (Even though it was one of the few times anyone on FOX News made sense.)

In George Bush's warped world, it was one expletive that would destroy the well-being of children, not the economic collapse or the war built on lies or global warming or not protecting the food supply or failing to provide health care....