Hardball: Showing Scaramucci quote forgot to censor the word "fucking"

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

lol

[targetpractice]

1. Hahahah... I just saw that.

And when Chris began to read the quote... It was like time slowed down for me... I thought is he gonna read it and say it? Then it dropped from the screen.

I really hope someone does not lose their job over that.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. Tweety just apologized.

[targetpractice]

3. I'm restarting my DVR now!

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Now Trump FCC will put msnbc out of business, watch

[TexasProgresive]

7. Cable is not regulated by the FCC- that's for over the air broadcast TV

[Warren DeMontague]

9. But Scaramucci said a nasty word!

"obscenity" harms. It's been proven by sciences, and stuff.

[maxsolomon]

5. About fucking time we had TV for adults

Fucking FCC mollycoddling a bunch of fucking pearl clutchers.

This is the way motherfuckers like Mooch fucking talk.

[Renew Deal]

6. It's cable

Nothing they can really do

[Warren DeMontague]

8. The 2016 GOP platform specifically addressed wanting to outlaw dirty words and pictures.

Right wing anti-porn activists wrote the language that was included in there.

How are they going to handle this?

[Mr. Ected]

10. Why censor it at all?

America needs to hear exactly how foul and coarse the family values crew in the White House truly are.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who love censorship and hate the 1st Amendment

some of them helped write the 2016 Republican Platform.

Anyone who supports censorship is a right-wing Trump ally. We know this.

So by logic they should be calling for "obscenity" charges against Mr. Scaramucci, no?

[kacekwl]

21. +1000

[nolabear]

11. Apparently the NYT is going to print it uncensored.

[Ezior]

23. "Der Spiegel" translated it so Germans can enjoy the new catholic family values :-)

"Ich versuche nicht, meinen eigenen Schwanz zu lutschen"
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/usa-anthony-scaramucci-beleidigt-auch-chefstrategen-stephen-bannon-a-1160090.html

[janx]

12. CNN did not censor these select quotes at all in Cillizza's opinion article:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/scaramucci-lizza-quotes-ranked/index.html

[Warren DeMontague]

13. has anyone alerted the American Family Association?

THEY WILL NOT BE PLEASED BY THIS VULGARITY

[Paladin]

15. Tweety probably interrupted his staff, and it wasn't deleted.

Surprised such fuck-ups don't happen with more regularity on Matthews' jittery show.

[Gabi Hayes]

16. Watching now. What time in, pls?

Thank
You

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

17. if you haven't found it, it's between 10 - 15 mins from the start.

[Gabi Hayes]

18. I missed it

Thanks!

[WinkyDink]

19. Yes, well. Let the people see our President's choice.

[Oneironaut]

20. The concept of censoring in general is pretty dumb.

I can see if the audience was young, but isn't the average viewer age of shows like Hardball around 60 (totally unscientific figure thrown out that I thought I saw somewhere)? I've always found the idea of censoring speech or sex for adult viewers a little odd.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. I agree.

I have trouble envisioning too many grade schoolers sitting down and watching Chris Matthews.

[SoCalDem]

24. I "ruined" my boys

back when they were young, CNN was on 24-7 (almost), and they all grew up pretty well-informed..

In fact, when my oldest was almost 7, we were headed off the the bowling alley for my morning league, when the assassination had just happened... we walked into the bowling alley and my son asked the desk guy to turn the tv on..John (desk guy) asked what channel... my son said CNN.. The guy asked if he wouldn't rather watch a kid show..My son piped up in his little voice with "Anwar Sadat was just assassinated"..John said "who?".. my little guy said the PRESIDENT of EGYPT..I was proud

[Rhiannon12866]

26. You deserve to be

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Right on. Me, too. The Early Reagan years;

That's about when I had my first political awakenings.. I remember seeing Jerry Falwell spouting some shit at the camera, and I was like "okay, whatever side that guy's on; I'm on the other one"



But I had had it with so-called cable news by circa 2004. The crap that election year, the way all the rovian bullshit was catapulted and enabled, just put me over the top. Now I almost never bother with it. And oddly enough, I'm just as informed about current events if not more, I just don't need to listen to a bunch of interchangeable talking heads' opinions on them.

Of course, the talking heads I do listen to, like John Oliver, swear like sailors anyway.

Full disclosure, I watched a bit of the Hardball "fucking" clip, and I gotta say Tweety makes a good point; no one cares so much about the swearing, or even the incoherence itself--- the scary thing here (or one of them, I guess) is that these are the fucking people who are supposed to be driving the train, flying the airplane, keeping the nuclear power plant from melting down, etc- whatever metaphor you want.

[oberliner]

25. NY Times and other sources have posted his rantings without censoring the words

A new era in journalism, I suppose.

[SamKnause]

27. It is sad that words have to censored on adult news programs.

Violence is accepted but cussing crosses a line.

Evangelicals are hard at work to censor everything we say or do.

[HAB911]

29. All networks should publish exactly as issued by the WH