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Howard Stern Fined For Blumpkin Discourse

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Howard Stern Fined For Blumpkin Discourse

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MARCH 19--Claiming that Howard Stern's "graphic and explicit" on-air discussion of a "blumpkin" was indecent, the Federal Communications Commission yesterday fined Infinity Broadcasting $27,500 for airing the shock jock's July 2001 "sexual and excretory" ruminations. So what's a blumpkin? Perhaps a review of the below transcript from the offending Stern broadcast--helpfully included with the FCC decision--will clear things up for you. (3 pages)