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Justice Scalia?s most recent entry in the kulturkampf

By Rebecca Tushnet

From today's decision:

We doubt, to begin with, that small-town broadcasters run a heightened risk of liability for indecent utterances. In programming that they originate, their down-home local guests probably employ vulgarity less than big-city folks; and small-town stations generally cannot afford or cannot attract foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood.

I can't really help but think about "real Virginians" versus, you know, me and people like me, who only live and vote here. But more broadly, who exactly does he think invented the earthier terms, if not the salty salt of the earth?

Full post as published by 43(B)log on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).