It wasn't that Lenny Bruce was colorful, it wasn't that Lenny Bruce was using four-letter words, it was that Lenny Bruce was angering people in power. He was saying things about race, about religion, about politicians that offended people. It is precisely that which the First Amendment is designed to protect.
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