so the vagueness issue is is what the second circuit decided they decided not to overturn that george carlin decision but what a lot of groups including cato urging the court to do here is what the supreme the second circuit wasn't going to do because they go by that decision but he has time at this point i think when ninety percent of households that have a t.v. are getting it their content through satellite or. or cable and through things like program or as well to ask what does it really make sense to have this totally different regime for governing broadcast as though it were you know the fifty's or the sixty's when yeah you know that was the only way you're going to get video content in your home you know it's pretty clear at this point that if we tried to impose these kinds of regulations on cable or on the internet that would plainly be unconstitutional so the question is does it make sense and twenty eleven for broadcast t.v. to be carved out of progress he carved out is this sort of special constitution free zone ok so. knowing our supreme court here actually now we'll get back to t

very specific now the original case was famously known because comedian george carlin's monologue about the seven words you can never say on television was broadcast on the radio and the supreme court use the fine against pacifica because broadcast media was quote uniquely pervasive and uniquely accessible to children but today with more and more people turning to the internet streaming satellite you name it and a new case going back to the supreme court an f.c.c. versus fox does that argument still stand here to discuss it with me as julian sanchez research fellow at the cato institute joined thanks so much for being here tonight was a pleasure so i gave a little backstory here in terms of the original supreme court ruling here with the george carlin case but let's talk about this new case one that's already been the supreme court in the case of fox and why it's coming back up here give us some detail so the second circuit basically invalidated the f.c.c. regulations on first term grounds for vagueness after the supreme court has kicked it back to them on a technicality the idea here i

so i give a little backstory here in terms of the original supreme court ruling here with the george carlin case but let's talk about this new case one authority in the supreme court in the case of fox and why it's coming back that he's going to detail so the second circuit basically in value to the f.c.c. regulations on first grounds for a vagueness after the supreme court you kicked it back to them on a technicality and the idea here is that the rules don't really give broadcasters a clear sense of what's allowed and what's not and it's true this is had a chilling effect on for example news gathering of cases of local news stations deciding they can't do a live event coverage or in one case cover the funeral of slain soldier pat tillman because they weren't they weren't confident that they could avoid a really punitive f.c.c. fine if you know if they slipped and let you know afterwards that on the air ironically the second circuit decision could not be read on the air on broadcast television because it contains in the opinion a word that rhymes with duck. so the question now though i mean

material but -- and i take the material out of my life but what i think of as stand-up material is george carlinr example. pithy and right there. i think i take too long to get to the laugh. >> your comedy, a lot of it now comes from television and people laughing a long time after you tape this stuff. do you not fancy -- if comedy gets you going, do you not fancy taking the ultimate risk and going on a stand-up tour? >> i am basically. and the one-man show called "how time flies." i mean the opening joke is have your cake and my mother's whole thing is -- >> i love this story. i love this story. this is why your book. i tore it out. i loved it so much. your mother, god bless her, had this wonderful thing where she would go to any restaurant often with the entire family and say it's her birthday and then you would all get masses amounts of cake. >> well, no. one piece. >> one piece. >> but never her birthday. >> no. it was her birthday once that year. and then she would go to a restaurant with all of us there. >> i love this. >> it's my birthday and the waiters come out an sing happy birthday to

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as george carlin, baseball we can still say is the pastime but in every way it is football. >> how didng ground by then. might have been 20 years ago. a, football televises very well. each game is once a week so it matters to fans. takes place basically on a sunday when people are in front of the television set. it's playoffs. every playoff game is the equivalent of a seventh game in payable, or cohockey. in football, they're all pay off games and they take place in december and january when people have nothing else to do. i think gambling has something to do with it. this part i regret because i like football despite not because of its belligerence and violence. >> i want to ask you sense we've got you here. i know college football is not exactly your beat. what do you think about a playoff system in the bcs, -- pf system versus the bcs. >> seems to me it would be a very simple thing to involve the major bowls in an eight-team playoff and you rotate which of the bowls get to host the ultimate game and then sometimes you get the semifinals. you do no worse than the quarterfinals. would

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