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If it weren't for Fox, there wouldn't be any goddamned Emmy censorship in the first place?
The Emmy censorship brouhaha has moved off the D-List and onto that bastion of political incorrectness... Sally Field?

Sally Field's win for Best Actress in a Drama brought with it an unfocused, rambling speech that would have passed without notice had FOX not apparently cut off an anti-war statement she made at the end. She was to have ended with "If mothers ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place."*

I'll let you all recover for a moment.

Right as she was saying "god-" FOX rather abruptly went to silence and a still shot of the audience, then peppily cut back to whatever the hell else the Emmys were awarding like Best Cinematography On A Tony Bennett or At Least Non-Colbert Special. (Okay, bitter.) Predictably, since the blogosphere hadn't finished toasting the Emmys over its censoring of Kathy Griffin's directive to "suck it, Jesus," everyone's going apeshit on the usual places and it only happened a few minutes ago. This is a perfect example of what I call the "D. H. Lawrence Principle": the mediocre only becomes notable if the public detects its suppression. Let the mediocre pass without comment, and it will join the faceless rabble of sensationalist acts. (Seriously, wouldn't we have just rolled our eyes at yet another political award speech and not paid much attention to it? Now we get to be angry at FOX.)

The woman played Norma Rae and survived several movies with Burt Reynolds. Frankly, I fear for the network.

*We know this thanks to the Canadians, who heard the sentence and as a result of the scandal will surely face riots in Toronto and Vancouver. You sacrificed your society so we could know of a naughty word. God bless.

Edit: Some back-and-forth here on another Democratic Underground thread. "It was censored!" "It wasn't censored!" "Duck season!" "Wabbit season!"

And apparently people are more upset on Ms. Field's behalf than Field herself, who was surprised she didn't utter more curse words.

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	melannen 2007-09-17 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	The last couple of years, John Stewart and Stephen Colbert have kissed on the air during the Emmys. ...that's why I was watching, anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	altoidsaddict 2007-09-17 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	And I got to see Lewis Black's rant about the crawls and ads during shows, which was admittedly too long but I was way too wrapped up in "hell yeah" to care about the length. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	melannen 2007-09-17 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	Lewis Black is allowed to rant at me as long as he wants, oh yes. Mmmm, Lewis Black. (I didn't know he was going to be on, or I'd have watched for that too.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	out_bottle 2007-09-18 02:31 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, that was sweet... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	velvet_mace 2007-09-17 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	... are there any youtube links of this... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

melannen
2007-09-17 06:05 pm UTC (link)

Alas, no, for their evil overlord Viacom makes youtube take down all John and Stephen content regardless of whether it's from a Viacom show or not. (We're all looking forward to the day when the ACLU's lawsuit about that finally goes to court.) Some of it has moved to other sites, but I can't find the emmy kisses and I don't have them saved. :(

It's very blink-and-you'll-miss-it pecks though, both times. Just sweet. And they didn't do it this year; they made a man-sandwich with Steve Carell instead!

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	altoidsaddict 2007-09-17 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	There's a good vid and picture of the man-sandwich here for the time being. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	velvet_mace 2007-09-17 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	Oh that was awesome. And I'm so glad I didn't have to wade through the emmys to see it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stromatolite 2007-09-17 08:46 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, thanks for the link. That is adorable. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	altoidsaddict 2007-09-17 06:16 pm UTC (link)
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