[FOX blackout was about] censoring the idea that war, any war and that one in particular, should be questioned.

Fox’s goddamn hypocrisy.

During the Fox network broadcast of the Emmy Awards this week, Actress Sally Field’s acceptance speech was censored because she used the word “goddamn.” “If mothers ruled the world,” Field said, “there would be no god-damned wars in the first place.” Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films catches Fox News cable pundits using the word “goddamn” repeatedly on air. Watch it:
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the blackout was not about the word ‘goddamn’. it was about what she might have said about one particular war and perhaps just censoring the idea that war, any war and that one in particular, should be questioned. These were artists after all. One never knows what will fall out of their mouths.

Comment by po — September 20, 2007 @ 9:51 am