The Parents Television Council flooded the FCC with complaints about various shows, including the movie "Saving Private Ryan," for indecent words and acts. In all, the FCC rejected complaints of 37 different programs and failed to uphold a single one.

Reuters reports:

Three of the five commissioners on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission have voted to deny complaints against 159 ABC affiliates that aired the award-winning film, said the official, who asked not to be named because the vote was not completed.

Separately, the FCC also on Monday rejected 36 complaints that television stations violated decency limits by airing episodes of popular shows like "Friends" and "The Simpsons," as well as the movie "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." ... [T]he FCC denied the complaints by PTC, which has been pushing regulators to crack down on broadcasters and lawmakers to raise fines, now $32,500 per incident. "We find that none of the material referenced in PTC's complaints rises to the level of being patently offensive under our indecency definition," the FCC said in its order. The agency also said the material was not profane.

I wonder if any of the members of the FCC are embarrassed about they way their actions have served to encourage conservatives to complain about everything currently on television. So far Bush hasn't appointed any hardline members of the Christian Right to the FCC, saving such acts for various scientific and medical boards, but that may yet be coming.

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