The effects of seven years of the Bush-Cheney junta giving the finger to the rule of law have rubbed off on their private sector buddies:

Fox Refuses To Pay FCC Indecency Fine

By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 25, 2008; D01

In an unusually aggressive step, Fox Broadcasting yesterday refused to pay a $91,000 indecency fine levied by the Federal Communications Commission for an episode of a long-canceled reality television show, even as the network fights two other indecency fines in the Supreme Court.

That's a neat move, eh? Just like their favoritest preznit evah, the Republicans' own TeeVee nutwork now exercises the "F.U. Option" with federal regulators.

You all joked every time the "administration" simply blew off subpoenas, saying you'd like to do the same next time you got a speeding ticket, or were asked to pay your taxes. Well, here it is, now being practiced by the soft porn arm of the Republican propaganda machine. And I'll be darned... no consequences! Golly gee! Who could have foreseen it?

Who can blame them for adopting the tactics of their patrons?

But, oh! What ever shall we tell the children?

On Super Bowl Sunday tomorrow, the Fox Network will add its unique brand of right-wing propaganda to the mix of football and ads millions of Americans tune in to see.  Before its pre-game show and Super Bowl XLII coverage, Fox stations will first air three hours of Fox News Super Tuesday political "analysis."  Since the New York Giants and New England Patriots hail from the bluest of blue states, viewers should expect Fox and friends to wear red-tinted glasses in providing their legendary "fair and balanced" reporting of everything else.