It is time to tell CBS and the other networks that enough is enough!.
Not content with all the profanity already on TV, CBS has decided to air the profanity-laden unedited version of “9/11” on Sept. 10. The decision by CBS is a slap in the face to the FCC and Congress, which recently raised indecency fines to $325,000 per incident.
“9/11,” which will be shown in prime-time, contains a tremendous amount of hardcore profanity. CBS has stated they have not, and will not, make any cuts in the amount and degree of profanity. CBS will ignore the law. The network is suing the FCC over the indecency law, saying they should be able to show whatever they desire whenever they desire. CBS wants no limits…
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There ain’t enough :rolleyes: on the server for this one…
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The American Fucktards Association knows that swearing in prime-time is what caused 9/11 to begin with.
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And, besides, the librul media are lying to the public – everybody knows that the good God-fearing Americans responded to the attacks with decorious language like “Golly Geez!” and “Tarnation!”
With luck this will finally cause the FCC to realize the AFA is a small group that does not represent a large part of the American public and can be safely ignored so we can go back to seeing the occasional boob on PBS.
First of all, CBS is refusing to censor 9/11 partly to goad the FCC into issuing more consistent guidelines on language. (NPR story)
Second, in what universe is it okay to show children extremely violent images and allow them to hear the THUD! of human bodies as they hit the pavement, but to worry about the profanity? For that matter, why is it okay to show children violent images of combat, or the emaciated corpses of Holocaust victims stacked like cordwood, but if someone utters a single “fuck”, the Tighty Whitey Righties get upset about it.
I want to live in their whiffle-ball world. Nothing bad ever happens there.
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Second, in what universe is it okay to show children extremely violent images and allow them to hear the THUD! of human bodies as they hit the pavement, but to worry about the profanity? For that matter, why is it okay to show children violent images of combat, or the emaciated corpses of Holocaust victims stacked like cordwood, but if someone utters a single “fuck”, the Tighty Whitey Righties get upset about it.
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I watched the Penn & Teller Bullshit! episode on profanity last night, and they had a guy on who teaches a course on how to control your swearing. At one point he said, and I quote, “Sure, James Bond kills people…but he doesn’t swear.”
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I watched the Penn & Teller Bullshit! episode on profanity last night, and they had a guy on who teaches a course on how to control your swearing. At one point he said, and I quote, “Sure, James Bond kills people…but he doesn’t swear.”
The mind boggles.
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It is possible to control your swearing. It’s just that, in my world, swearing is probably down there on the list of true evils.
I love visiting the AFA website, it’s always good for a laugh. It’s also a good way to know who the far right are boycotting so I can be sure to shop there.
But, in a slight hijack, does it strike anyone else as less-than-noble that CBS is using a 9/11 documentary to push their own agenda of a less restrictive broadcasting policy? If the FCC doesn’t relent, then they must be pro-terrorist too!
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It is possible to control your swearing. It’s just that, in my world, swearing is probably down there on the list of true evils.
Robin
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That isn’t exactly what boggles me. It’s the sentiment that killing people is okay just so long as you don’t swear. I was reinforcing what you said, that these people who oppose profanity don’t seem to care about violence and grievous bodily injury.
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Yes, the AFA are a bunch of doody-heads.
But, in a slight hijack, does it strike anyone else as less-than-noble that CBS is using a 9/11 documentary to push their own agenda of a less restrictive broadcasting policy? If the FCC doesn’t relent, then they must be pro-terrorist too!
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What’s good for the jackboot’d is good for the rest of us?
What is “hardcore” profanity? Does that mean that you can actually see the tongue, teeth and lips forming the words? Does there have to be a “money shot” where you see the spittle land?
Ooh! Ooh! Time for my story!
I was watching a slasher flick on AMC about three years ago, and they had a scene where a girl is killed as she steps out of the shower. While she was crying and screaming and getting hacked to pieces, they digitally scrambled he breasts.
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But, in a slight hijack, does it strike anyone else as less-than-noble that CBS is using a 9/11 documentary to push their own agenda of a less restrictive broadcasting policy?
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That is the agenda attributed to CBS by the AFA, but to state that it is their agenda is to assert a fact not in evidence.
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I watched the Penn & Teller Bullshit! episode on profanity last night, and they had a guy on who teaches a course on how to control your swearing. At one point he said, and I quote, “Sure, James Bond kills people…but he doesn’t swear.”
The mind boggles.
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Yeah, but if you’re James Bond, you don’t have to swear because you’re just that damn cool. And if you do, you do it in that British accent (or sometimes Scottish accent) that we all love to hear.
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Why *not * edit some of the profanity out? Will it hurt the basic message?
There’s too much damn profanity used casually (and I should know, I do it :smack: ) anyway.
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If this were, say, a fictional movie like Snakes on a Plane, I’d have to agree with you. There is too much casual (and IMHO, unnecessary) profanity in theatrically-released films. I could also see cleaning up some of the more gratuitious language in a made-for-TV dramatization of the WTC attacks.
However, this isn’t a History Channel “documentary” that is mostly dramatizations of real events; the Naudet brothers filmed the action inside and around the WTC as it was actually happening, in real time. Editing the language would dilute the essence of the experience of what happened in the WTC on September 11.
Will it hurt the basic message?
profanity used casually (and I should know, I do it :smack: ) anyway.
Will it hurt the basic message?
profanity used casually (and I should know, I do it :smack: ) anyway.