Congress likes celebrities, too

Forbes noted that celebrities dodged a bullet in the final version of the Sen. Sam Brownback-pushed Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act, because it did not follow through with a Senate proposal to fine performers $500,000 personally for an indecency violation. Actors Alan Rosenberg and Joe Pantoliano had testified against the fines. “That high-paid celebrities, many of them donors to the Democratic Party, were able to persuade the Republican Congress that they shouldn’t have to reach into their Prada bags for saying naughty lines on-air is no small feat,” wrote Forbes’ Matthew Swibel. He also found the most influential celebrity lobbyists on Capitol Hill to be Angelina Jolie (kids, AIDS), Bono (Third World debt relief), Ashley Judd (AIDS), Don Cheadle (Sudan) and Fran Drescher (gynecological cancer).
Posted by Rhonda Holman

One Comment

  1. Wakarusa
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 9:34 am | Permalink

    I think that’s why networks have a ten second delay.

    I wonder if they would fine football and basketball coaches for using profanity too?

    That would pay off the national debt.