Judges Find Dignity in Profanity

Judges Find Dignity in Profanity

On July 12, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City warmly offered the TV networks exactly what they wanted: the shredding of the FCC's lamely enforced rules against broadcast indecency. As of now, the network stars can swear at will in front of impressionable children. These judges did not rule narrowly on the focus of the case -- "fleeting expletives" that networks aired unintentionally. They ruled broadly in favor of all expletives.

There's no other way to say this. The ruling is idiocy.

Judge Rosemary Pooler, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, concluded the FCC's prohibitions against...