-- in a nonliteral way. there is nothing in the past that try to define liberal versus nonliteral, and that is why it appeared in the fox decision. on review before the second circuit and ultimately before the supreme court, those decisions sort of got wrapped into 1. so the staff decision about bono's nonliteral use of the word became part of the court's analysis, but it was never part of the history of the fcc decision making in this area, and it certainly was not part of the 1987 pacifica order. but because the supreme court was looking at the exclamations that came back together in the omnibus quarter of 2006, it looked at this issue among liberal expletive. -- of a nonliteral expletive. >> what is the difference between liberal and nonliteral for expletives? >> as i understand it, the way the fcc has referred to it is to say if a presentation of languages actually describing sexual or excretory activity, that is liberal usage. whereas with other context, it is not actually referring to that activity but

-- in a nonliteral way.beral versus nonliteral, and that is why it appeared in the fox decision. on review before the second circuit and ultimately before the supreme court, those decisions sort of got wrapped into 1. so the staff decision about bono's nonliteral use of the word became part of the court's analysis, but it was never part of the history of the fcc decision making in this area, and it certainly was not part of the 1987 pacifica order. but because the supreme court was looking at the exclamations that came back together in the omnibus quarter of 2006, it looked at this issue among liberal expletive. -- of a nonliteral expletive. >> what is the difference between liberal and nonliteral for expletives? >> as i understand it, the way the fcc has referred to it is to say if a presentation of languages actually describing sexual or excretory activity, that is liberal usage. whereas with other context, it is not actually referring to that activity but it is using it as a euphemism, and because of that

argued several times that those words were not all nonliteral uses. there are arbitrary in their application -- defining them one way in one case and finding them anin another way in other cases. >> is there anything else you would like to say? >> i feel like sometone being asked for his last words. >> this was very well-argued and very well-briefed. we would like to have a transcript made and ask that you share that. please check with the clerk's office. we'll take it under advisement and we cross is cancelled once again. >> please rise -- and we thank you the council once again. >> please rise. ho[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] memo to night on c-span, president obama's -- >> tonight on c-span, the president's remarks. paul otellini talks about his thoughts on u.s. tech companies. the former u.s. senator rick santorum talks about the future of conservatism. the former ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, on the obama administration's foreign policy. >> preside