Radio station fined for playing Eminem

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The Federal Communications Commission has threatened a Madison, Wisconsin radio station with a $7,000 fine for playing an unedited version of controversial rapper Eminem's song "The Real Slim Shady", which contains explicit lyrics.

The FCC said on Friday it proposed the fine after receiving a complaint that the station, owned by Clear Channel Communications Inc., willfully played the unedited version of the song on Aug. 24.

"The four minute forty-four second rap song contains unmistakable offensive sexual references," the FCC said in an order proposing the fine. "Such a song is inappropriate for broadcast during times when children may (be) in the audience."

The Wisconsin radio station, WZEE-FM, told the FCC during its investigation that a disc jockey queued up the edited version of the song, but static electricity caused a compact disk player to skip to the unedited version.

The FCC rejected the station's argument that the song contained only isolated profanity and was not sexually explicit, saying the sexual references and expletives "appear designed to pander and shock."

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It's funny; cause at the rate I'm goin when I'm thirty
I'll be the only person in the nursin home flirting
Pinchin nurses asses when I'm jackin off with Jergens
And I'm jerkin but this whole bag of Viagra isn't working
And every single person is a Slim Shady lurkin
He could be workin at Burger King, spittin on your onion rings
Or in the parkin lot, circling
Screaming "I don't give a fuck!"
with his windows down and his system up