{"id":1077,"date":"2004-02-05T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/plain-spoken-common-sense\/"},"modified":"2004-02-05T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T17:14:41","slug":"plain-spoken-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/plain-spoken-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Plain Spoken Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Reuters News Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=politicsNews&amp;storyID=4266802\">Howard Dean Calls FCC Probe of Breast Incident &#8216;Silly&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Howard Dean, a physician and a Democratic presidential candidate, on Monday dismissed as &#8221;silly&#8221; a government inquiry into whether indecency rules were broken during the broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show when pop diva Janet Jackson&#8217;s bodice was ripped to expose her right breast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I find that to be a bit of a flap about nothing,&#8221; the former Vermont governor said. &#8221;I&#8217;m probably affected in some ways by the fact that I&#8217;m a doctor, so it&#8217;s not exactly an unusual phenomenon for me.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dean, who does not have cable television at his home in Burlington, Vermont, said Americans could inadvertently turn on &#8220;far worse things&#8221; while &#8220;cruising through cable at regular viewing hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;I don&#8217;t find it terribly shocking relative to some of the things you can find on standard cable television,&#8221;<\/b> he added. &#8220;I think the FCC probably has a lot of other things they should be pursuing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Dean Calls FCC Probe of Breast Incident &#8216;Silly&#8217; Howard Dean, a physician and a Democratic presidential candidate, on Monday dismissed as &#8221;silly&#8221; a government inquiry into whether indecency rules were broken during the broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show when pop diva Janet Jackson&#8217;s bodice was ripped to expose her right breast. &#8221;I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/plain-spoken-common-sense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plain Spoken Common Sense<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}