Kevin Martin is god-darn angry. The FCC chairman has lashed out over a ruling this week by a New York Appeals Court that overturned his agency’s citing of several major networks for on-air expletives uttered by Nicole Richie, Cher, a contestant on “Survivor,” and others. Interestingly, his own statement is laced with expletives.

The court rebuked the FCC Commission for being “divorced from reality.” It’s not hard to see why: the commission ruled the mere utterance of certain words like “shit” or “fuck” implied that certain obscene excretory or sexual acts were carried out. Of course — in reality — these words are often used as simple exclamations. read more