# Yup, you heard Joe Scarborough right! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-you-heard-joe-scarborough-right/379939 "2006-11-10T22:11:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-you-heard-joe-scarborough-right/379939/21 "2006-11-13T03:37:47Z")
The very fact that it’s such a trivial difference in the way the words are vocalized and really no _semantic_ difference at all really points up the inanity of having any rules at all for profanity. Incidentally, the FCC has no jurisdiction over cable television anyway, so the decsion to allow profanity in newscasts does not affect MSNBC in any case. Joe can legally say “fuck” all he wants. The censorship on cable channels is self-imposed. I read somewhere that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have said that the don’t really have to bleep the profanity on South Park but that they do it because they think it’s funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-you-heard-joe-scarborough-right/379939/22 "2006-11-13T04:26:18Z")
As an impartial judge, I have to rule that’s it’s definately either “frick’n” or “freak’n”. Tucker has a bit of a giggle at the critical moment, but on my sound setup it’s clearly _out_ of the fucking ‘fuck’ category. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-you-heard-joe-scarborough-right/379939/23 "2006-11-13T04:56:20Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I’ve actually found Scarborogh’s show pretty entertaining lately. He’s a conservative but he’s not a nutbag about it. He has a sense of humor, he lets other people talk, he’s willing to criticize his own party and his show lacks a lot of the kneejerk, partisan rancor and defensiveness that you see on most political talk shows (even Olbermann can overdo it sometimes). The way Scarborough kept playing Don Sherwood’s campaign commercial (in which he admits he cheated on his wife but denies that he tried to strangle his mistress) and laughing his ass off about it kind of endeared me to him a little. I guess now that he’s out of politics and not running for anything anymore, Scarborough doesn’t feel the need to toe the party line so much and can say what he really thinks. He’s a lot easier to tolerate than Bill-O or Hannity, that’s for sure. [/QUOTE] Agreed-I’ve noticed that he and Keith seem to be pretty buddy-buddy, even though their politics are probably the opposite of one another. I’ve also found myself thinking that Joe ain’t half-bad looking. Help! (And yeah, I think he did say “fuckin’”.) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-you-heard-joe-scarborough-right/379939/24 "2006-11-13T12:36:23Z")
God bless Lenny Bruce and George Carlin! (I know there must be others, but their names fail me) I believe Messrs. Bruce and Carlin “opened the doors” for obscenities to actually have a place in humor, and made it possible for ol’ Joe to be so spontaneous. Agree/Disagree? Thanks Q [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-you-heard-joe-scarborough-right/379939.md?page=1)