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DISSENTING STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER KEVIN J. MARTIN
Re: Complaints against Fox Television Stations, Inc.
Regarding Its Broadcast of the ``Keen Eddie'' Program
on June 10, 2003, Memorandum Opinion and Order
This Order involves a television program that the majority
admits ``contains references of a sexual nature that were
broadcast at a time of day when children were likely to be
in the audience.'' Yet, the majority concludes that the
program, in which a prostitute is hired to sexually arouse a
horse by removing her blouse and to ``extract'' semen from
the horse, is not indecent because the prostitute is ``never
seen actually touching'' the horse. Despite my colleagues'
assurance that there appeared to be a safe distance between
the prostitute and the horse, I remain uncomfortable. I
respectfully dissent.