Obama's Minister; Fleeting Expletives: The Supreme Court To Review FCC Ban on Profanity; John Rechy
Obama's Minister
Senator Barack Obama delivered a major speech Tuesday on the issue of race in the Presidential campaign. The speech addressed the controversy surrounding remarks made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., the former pastor of his Chicago church. Larry talks with Democratic Congressman Steven Rothman, social critic Joe Hicks, and Obama advisor Tony West about Senator Obama's relationship with the pastor, his speech, and how his campaign has been affected by the controversy.
Fleeting Expletives: The Supreme Court To Review FCC Ban on Profanity
For the first time in 30 years the Supreme Court will consider broadcast decency standards. A 2004 FCC decision that even a one-time use of an obscenity on broadcast television and radio violates decency standards resulted in a reprimand of Fox Broadcasting. The networks subsequently sued, and the 2nd Court of Appeals said the FCC's policy sanctioning "fleeting expletives" infringed on the 1st amendment. Now the Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments in the case this fall. Larry talks about the case with Stanford Constitutional Law Center Director Derek Shaffer and Parents Television Council public policy Director Dan Isett.
John Rechy
Novelist John Rechy has been hailed by Gore Vidal as "one of the few original American writers of the last century." Now Rechy turns to non-fiction in "About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir." In it, Rechy shares his experience as a Mexican-American in El Paso, Texas at a time when Latino children were routinely discriminated against. As he grew older - and as his fascination with a notorious kept woman from his childhood deepened - Rechy became aware that his differences lay not just in his heritage but in his sexuality.