Back in early May, Stephen Colbert dropped a bomb.

No, not an F-bomb, and yes, the word he uttered was not only bleeped for viewers of The Late Show on CBS (and for subsequent watchers of the clip, which went viral), but the mouth he used to utter it was briefly blurred so no one could lip-read.

Still, it caused an uproar, with some viewers and media types getting their panties in a twist (or at least pretending to — more on that in a moment). And things escalated when the chairman of the FCC — the government hall monitor charged with penalizing “obscene, indecent, or profane” content on TV and radio — said that they were evaluating Colbert’s remark after receiving citizen complaints.

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