there’d be no goddamned war,” muthafuckas!
From Think Progress: sunofabitching Fox assholes suck big hard cock by censoring Sally Fields’s righteous anti-war comments. Perspective from the comments:
“Libs, grow up. She used an obscenity.”
Comment by Daryll  September 16, 2007 @ 11:39 pm
And Fox allows Family Guy to used “pissed†all the time. Your myopia keeps you from seeing the double-standard.
Comment by barfly  September 16, 2007 @ 11:41 pm
So, remember, fascists: It’s only your myopia that causes you to recognize distinctions among things.
Sister Toldjah has thoughts regarding this terrifying Orwellian censorship, as does Don Surber.
Meanwhile, the LA Times reveals that people who give you money are likeable.
For all who did business with Hsu, the pattern is remarkably consistent: an initial attraction to a likable individual who offered the moon, followed by disillusionment and feelings of betrayal — sometimes tinged with embarrassment at having been gullible.
Many questions remain about Hsu’s often murky career. How could he rise to such heights, given that he had been a fugitive on a felony grand-theft charge since 1992? Why did no one ever dig into the background of a benefactor who seemed to emerge from nowhere? Exactly where did the hundreds of thousands of dollars that he showered on politicians come from?
And how was Hsu able to continue organizing multimillion-dollar financial schemes despite a trail of business failures and disappointed, often accusatory, investors? After all, he had no obvious source of income and had gone bankrupt twice.
An examination of court documents and financial reports — as well as interviews with government officials, business associates and others who dealt with Hsu — suggests that the people who say he deceived them were lulled by a remarkable combination of personality traits and shrewdly constructed illusions.
C’mon, don’t be so judgy. You would have fallen for it, too.
LA Times nitwit challenges Fox’s decision to bleep “goddamn,” stating that technically this is not profane. Not that it ought to be left to the religious to have any say in what is profane. Meanwhile, at the end of his blog, this disclaimer:
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I tried posting the comment, “Dude, you are a goddamn moron.” It hasn’t yet appeared.
“….there’d be no goddamned war,â€Â
– Right, There’d come a morning when they’d all wake up with rampaging PMS and nuke everything out of existance. “Gee, figuring out which dress to wear for this evenings dinner date was harder than nuking Newark.”
– The poor osteoporosis-powered nun has just never been the same since Burt dumped her.
It’s awful how they threw Sally in jail for sedition. Think we’ll ever hear from her again?
If they don’t suspend habeas carcass.
“If mothers ruled the world there’d be no goddamned war.”
Obviously it’s been a while since Sally has been to a dress rehearsal at “The Honey Bunches of Oats Little Miss Belle of the Bluebird Ball” beauty pageant.
Does Margaret Thatcher have any kids? Not that it matters — anyone remember Boudicca? She was a mother who started a war.
Over her kids, granted, but she still started a war.
The Flying Nun used an obsenity? I’m shocked, SHOCKED. But the real question is why anyone should give a damn what Sally Fields thinks. I mean. She suffers from an excess of earnestness that could resupply New York City, but I’d be more interested in Homer Simpson’s take on the war.
No War, that’s because If a country broke “the rules” and didn’t wear a Euro-scarf on Friday as agreed, the consequences would be staggering.
Yet more proof that fame does not equal wisdom. Tell ya what, Sal; go back to reciting intelligent-sounding words written by someone else and pretending to emotions you aren’t really feeling, and leave your personal limitations out of this.
As Bradley Whitford points out, the whole industry is just two steps up from a dancing monkey.
Or maybe an armadillo. Who can tell nowadays?
I guess “You really love me” Fields saw that Kathy Griffin had her mug splashed all over for her “suck Jesus” comment so decided to indulge in a little obscenity (“goddamned” is one of those phrases ALWAYS ‘blipped’).
But the real obscenity is her idea that her bumpersticker slogan has any connection to reality.
Then again, she grew up in, lives/works, in El Lay’s “The Industry”.
Speechwriters. Don’t they exist for a reason?
Creationist.
Why I don’t watch award shows ……
…and it’s kind of hard to duck them, too, seeing as there’s one broadcast every week or so. I ignored the Kathy Griffin “Suck this, Jesus” kerfuffle because Miss D-List obviously knows her audience. The Christophobic ones would cheer and……
I kinda laughed at Sarah Silverman’s “Jesus Is Magic”, though.
“If Mothers Ruled the World, there’d be no goddamned war.â€Â
Golda Meir and Maggy Thatcher could not be reached for comment.
The network censor has about four seconds on a live broadcast in which to consider whether a possibly objectionable word ought to be bleeped; he is a technician with absolutely no time to consult his supervisors.
I remember when I won the Emmy for Sharkey. I said “Look! Some black guy in the front row just turned to a Chinese woman and said, ‘Where did you learn to drive like dat sistah?'”
Then we all went over to Jan Murray’s house and threw popcorn at Charlie Callas. Good times.
Man, there are some brilliant constitutional scholars over there at the LA Times! They makes Balloon Juice look like the old William F. Buckley show.
They makes Balloon Juice look like the old William F. Buckley show.
That’s right — I said “They makes.” You wanna fight about it?
She’s obviously never been to a Junior League soccer game…
In other shocking news, Microsoft to stop delivering security updates to the EU.
Seems the Brusselites are PO’d that MEDIA PLAYER (??!) has a proprietary format. Threaten to hold breath, turn blue.
Think Progress is currently in the process of locating all of the footage where Charlton Heston was allowed to say goddam while on a Fox broadcast.
Coincidentally, last night I was working and had a Family Guy DVD on in the background with the commentary running (wasn’t looking, so I don’t know what episode it was — the one where God accidentally kills some bar slut, exclaims “Jesus Christ,” and he and Jesus make a break for it), and the guy who runs the show mentioned specifically that they’re not allowed to use the word “goddamn” on Fox.
So he’s a fascist.
So Sally Fields is another Hollywood liberal. Who knew?
A census taker once tried to censor me…
What am I? Chopped liver?
Incidentally, I see the week has already begun and I’m not yet involved.
Cool. I’m taking the day off, then. It’s raining here, and I’d just as soon watch a couple movies and play with Satch than post, anyhow.
Meanwhile in the middle-east, there’s about a thousand Palestinian mothers whose sons have blown themselves up thinking “What the fuck is this bitch talking about?”
– Thats cool Jeff. Chucky Schumer can take your place, and tell us all how much he loves, hates, loves, hates, loves, hates Bushes new pick for AG.
Sally Fields Anti-War Rant Muted at Emmys…
Video at Hot Air. Basically, she was going to go on about how if mothers ruled the world, there w…
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“If mothers ruled the world there’d be no goddamned war.â€Â
Which is exactly why mothers don’t rule the world.
If fathers ruled the world, people would turn off a goddamned light when they left the room once in a while.
“If mothers ruled the world there’d be no goddamned war.â€Â
Maybe. But if there were any they would last forever.
Good Allah, I just read that entire comment thread at thinkprogress. Do they understand what Censorship actually is? What a bunch of self-leftist arseholes. That is 45 minutes of my life completely squandered.
Sally Field has a son or daughter in Iraq?
I could swear that’s what she said. Anyone know?
She said, “Especially to the mothers who stand with an open heart and wait. Wait for their children to come home from danger, from harm’s way, and from war. I am proud to be one of those women.”
So? Is she one of those women?
I should say… I’m a stay-at-home homeschooling mother of four. All of this “mother” stuff has always bothered me, as though it’s something particularly virtuous when, in truth, it’s as easy as having sex without birth control. The rest of it just happens and a person deals with life as it comes day by day. A mother is not a better person. A mother is not automatically wise. It’s as silly as trying to claim that a person is a better person because they are someone’s child. It’s *life*… nothing more. Family makes our lives richer but it’s something we gain, something we *get*, not some goddess-like contribution.
Mother’s Day at church annoys me. If my own children love me and if they express that on Mother’s Day or any other day that is between them and me. It’s about us. If my husband appreciates what I’ve done for him that is between us.
It gets to the “protest too much” stage very quickly. If motherhood really *was* valued would we need to insist so very strongly that it is valued? I’d rather *be* valued by those I love than made to stand up in front of people during a tribute to Mothers. It doesn’t only happen at church, it happens in the most bizarre and unrelated public situations. I hate it.
The Million Mom march pissed me off. As though my “mother” status has anything whatsoever to do with my opinions about gun-control… or any other political opinion. Claiming that something is a “mother” issue claims something for me without asking my permission.
I’m tired of being politically co-opted by idiots who presume to count me among their number just because I have a womb and have used it.
Our soldiers and Marines are all Sally’s children. She cherishes every precious one as her own. Every poor, uneducated, backward, psychopathic, village-burning, baby-eating one of ’em.
‘Cuz she’s a true patriot, she is.
“All of this “mother†stuff has always bothered me, as though it’s something particularly virtuous when, in truth, it’s as easy as having sex without birth control.”
Synova,
What you say is true, and I’m sure you are a great mother, even though you forgot your birth control four times! Wow! C’mon!
But Sally is not just talking about any old mom who just happened to squirt a baby out and then went about her business. She is a woman who PLAYS a mother on TV and won an Emmy in the process. Let that soak in.
Why is it so dark in here? I can’t see a goddamn thing!
Goddamn, well I declare
Have you seen the like?
Their walls are built of cannonballs
Their motto is “Don’t tread on me.”
The interesting thing about Kathy Griffin’s comments is how they were taken out of context- I think what she was actually saying is “I’m not going to be hypocritical, like every rapper and actor that thanks God on stage, even while peddling XYZ filth that passes as entertainment”ie “Jesus had nothing to do with this award.” I agree with her. Nothing is more ridiculous than a gangstar rapper thanking God for album sales wherein he’s advocating the raping of hos and shooting of gangstas. Griffin’s Catholic too so if it was meant as an insult (which I don’t think it was), she’d be insulting her own religion. I’m not a huge fan of her, honestly, but I wasn’t even remotely offended.
Personally, the one thing I like about being a Christian is that I’m not being encouraged to riot and kill people every time my faith is insulted. If Christianity can survive “piss Christ”, it can survive bad jokes from comedians.
BTW, Sally’s still pretty cute for an old broad.
But yeah, Golda Meir, Maggie Thatcher, etc…
And given no better option, I’m pretty sure my mother would fuck you right up.
Matt, Esq. – I have said the same thing about athletes before.
After living a life of complete jackassery, some clown hits a home run, drains a trey, rolls in a 30-footer, or catches a TD pass, and feels the need to become a good citizen, and give all thanks and praise to God. Horseshit. My guess is that God has better things to do than to give a flying fuck whether or not some Dallas Cowgirl who was out dealing coke can catch a TD pass.
Oh yeah. My mom once stood up to an enraged hippie who was blasting threats at her, and when he ran out of breath she told him, quietly, what would happen to him if he so much as laid a hand on her. He backed up out of reach pretty quick.
Okay, side question… exactly how long has it been stunningly obvious that this woman is developmentally disabled?
Just nod and smile and look away and make that little circle thing on the side of your head with your index finger.
So, I’ve learned two things from this incident. First, Sally Field is still alive. You go girl! Second, that no act is too petty to earn martyrdom in the church of liberalism.
That kind of reminded me of the funeral scene from Steel Magnolias. I give it a 7.
“A census taker once tried to censor me…”
Somebody with a thurible once tried to censer me…
Two steps up? At least dancing monkeys are entertaining and rarely full of themselves.