Sally Field: "Good. I don't care".

[Neecy]

"Oh, well. I've been there before!" Sally Field just said back in the press room when asked what she thought of being censored on the Emmycast.


"Good. I don't care. I have no comment other than, 'Oh, well.' I said what I wanted to say. I wanted to pay homage to the mothers of the world. And I very very seriously think that if mothers ruled the world we wouldn't be sending our children off to be slaughtered."

When she was pressed for further comment, she added, "Too bad. That's a shame. And I think I probably shouldn't have said the 'god' in front of the 'damn.'

"If they bleep it, oh, well. I'll just say it somewhere else."

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2007/09/field-on-being-.html

[Maven]

1. HA!

Love her.

F. U., Fox, and you don't even have to censor me.

[mcg]

11. more from TV Week...

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/james-hibberd/2007/09/sally_field_at_the_emmys.php

“I wanted to say something about the mothers who wait for their military children to come home from harm's way,” she said backstage. “I said at the end that if mothers ruled the world, there would be no wars."

[pocoloco]

94. Dildo had a pretty good way also!

[G_j]

2. oh, well. I'll just say it somewhere else."

:applause:

[C_U_L8R]

3. and we'll help say it

thank you Sally !!

[DesertRat]

4. Good for you, Sally

We like you, we really like you! :applause:

[Cha]

69. Yeah! We Really

Do! :loveya:

[alfredo]

5. I like her attitude.

Bleeping it just shows the ugliness of Fox. They can broadcast shows that appeal to our basest instincts, but any unkind words about the Fuhrer, and they go ape shit.

[Cha]

71. Pravda at its

Worst.

[alfredo]

86. We are winning in the heartland. They are not believing anymore.

Some don't know, but they are disgusted with the whole mess. I think many Reps will stay home on election day.

[Cha]

88. That's encouraging to learn..

sooner or later, a lot of people don't like others thinking for them.

[alfredo]

89. The candidates they are fielding don't inspire either. An adulterer,

a slick Ken Doll Mormon, and an actor that seems to have one foot in the grave is the best they can do?

[Cha]

91. Maybe that's why someone like

huckabee might have a snowball's chance(for repuke nom)?

[alfredo]

92. He's been the dark horse candidate. He's probably the best "conservative"

in the field, but he hasn't been able to raise any money. Remember, his second in Iowa was because Rudy and McCain weren't there.

[EFerrari]

6. Now, THERE is an attitude.

k&r

[Zookeeper]

7. Fox was clearly censoring her as they are capable of....

bleeping out the word, "Goddamn," and still leave the rest of the statement intact.

Between this and the fact that Fox didn't "bother" to broadcast the Democratic response to Chimpy's last speech, I'm thinking of boycotting everything they own, not just Fox Noise.

They are using our public airwaves! They have no right to censor anything, simply because it doesn't fit their political ideology!

Good for Sally, it sounds like she handled it very well. However, I'm really pissed off. :mad: :grr: :nuke:

A pox on Fox!

[Cha]

73. And their "political idealogy" is Fascism.

And they Bite Me.

[dickbearton]

87. Fox News should have it's license revoked...

For violating the public trust. They should lose their license
for broadcasting lies, disinformation and propaganda. The
airways are a public trust that they continuously violate.
Freedom of speech does not give you the right to yell fire;
nor does it give Fox the right to yell war.

[emilyg]

8. Good for her.

[DearAbby]

9. Just dawned on Americans sitting in their livingrooms

THERE IS AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM! So long to Fox's "Fair and Balanced"

[mcg]

10. "god-damn wars" is right, wars are god-damn obscenities. nt

[Disturbed]

13. "if mothers ruled the world, there would be no wars."

Really? Somehow, I just don't believe that. But I cannot prove it.

I wouldn't want to be ruled by anyone, even mothers.

[2rth2pwr]

16. I agree,

No wars? Has anyone been to a PTA meeting lately?

[Mythsaje]

17. Fewer, perhaps...

But I'm sure there are mothers who are equally as capable of sending other mothers' children to die as there are fathers willing to do the same.

[OnyxCollie]

95. Grandmother Pelosi doesn't seem to have a problem with wars.

Or anything else the Chimpenfuhrer is doing.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. No Wars Under Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, and Benazir Bhutto

It's a laudable sentiment though...

[wuushew]

36. Not true

Ghandi was Prime Minister in 1971 when India was at war with Pakistan. And while Thatcher and Meir didn't start wars the Yom Kippur and Falkands conflicts most certainly count as wars.

[Wednesdays]

49. We're talking "mothers" here, not just merely females...

Did Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, and Benazir Bhutto all have children? :shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

62. Yes, actually.

[emlev]

64. She didn't say "if women ruled a few countries in a world dominated by male rulers"

did she, now?

[HardRocker2005]

67. exactamundo. nt

[Jacobin]

25. Queen Elizabeth?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

38. She was a virgin.

Therefore, she gets out on a technicality.

[BoneDaddy]

60. This ridiculous notion that women

are pure and innocent and men are bad and evil is a childish creation of ideological feminism. Women, like men, are both good and evil, pure and impure, violent and passive.

The flip side is how many women would have been raped, killed and wounded if the men who had protected them and given up their lives were not there.

It aint that simple.

[PurpleChez]

78. A very important point,

made simply and succinctly!

It might sound flippant, but as a teacher I would rather deal with a run-of-the-mill boy fight than a girl fight any day. The guys seem to cool off the moment they get separated (too bad the world doesn't work like that), but the girls nurture lingering hatred like a cellar of fine new amontillado. And for the most stupid shit (e.g., one doesn't like the boy that the other is getting email from...this can lead to Girl World War III)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

80. As a teacher...

it's not so much the sexual naivete that gets to me, as it is the appalling ignorance of history.

[PurpleChez]

82. I know we've crossed paths before....

what do you teach (if'n you don't mind me askin')?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

83. Science, actually.

And I'm retired.

[PurpleChez]

81. I agree, but

doesn't the myth's creation predate feminism by several thousand years? Chivalric epics of damsels in distress, angelic women beset by brutish men. But the important thing is that you made the point.

[BoneDaddy]

99. No disagreement from me at all

but we cannot neglect the mythology from matriarchal cultures that were very much aware of the negative feminine as well as the positive and did not show the fantasitical naivate of many feminists who subscribe to a simple, black/white, childish view of the sexes instead of seeing the complexities of gender.

[PurpleChez]

100. Absolutely!

[ChazII]

96. This is going back in history but

how about Golda Meir, Queen Elizabeth I and Boadicea to name a few. They sent men to war, and in Boadicea's case, fought in war as well.

[Daphne08]

43. I agree! n/t

[gratuitous]

51. And while Faux bleeps "goddam"

They continue to provide a platform and an outlet for even greater obscenities and atrocities. It's like hearing the prostitute to whom you just did unspeakable things object to your saying "Damn, that was good" as you leave the c-note on the dresser.

[bobbolink]

79. God damned this war.

He told me so.

:)

[Unbowed]

12. Good for her. K&R

[Baby Snooks]

One advantage to the bleep...

What was bleeped will now be heard around the world. By deleting it, they only drew attention to it. And the print media of course will run with it.

[Forrest Greene]

53. Fox Is

...kinda stupid, huh? Makes me glad.

[Cha]

74. Backin' buSHIT....you know they're

STUPID.

[John Kerry VonErich]

14. Actually, they did censor the whole thing where I live.

I didn't know it was about the war until I got on here. Well, if she says she didn't care that is her opinion. But me, I be down right pissed off. Many shows like 24, Prison Break (which is a show I like), have said Goddamn before. Why is this any different? Answer, it was about the war mention. My conclusion: it was definitively political censorship.

[Bitwit1234]

15. I never watch any of the awards, to me they are boring but my

son did and he said that they let the whole speech go thru here, except they bleeped the GD but they tried to bleep the 'shit' one of the other winners said, because she didn't think she would win. He said they hit the bleep but
got the following word instead.

[G_j]

18. k

[Stinky The Clown]

20. I used to have a crush on her. I've always liked her. Now I can forgive her those .......

..... Boniva commercials.

[Vinca]

22. LOL - me, too. Sally doesn't want to know what I've been yelling

at her during those commercials. (Note to Sally: Please tell your friends who haven't switched to Boniva that I'm available at $1,000 per diem to manage their weekly pill.)

[dflprincess]

45. I still like Sally despite the Boniva commercials

- but I do yell at her during them. Of course, I'm one of those who "has to set aside time ONCE a week to take her osteoporsis pill". And what a pain in the neck that is (:sarcasm:), get up, take the pill, bring in the Sunday paper, start reading it, check the clock and discover more than half an hour has gone by and realize I could have been eating my breakfast and drinking coffee 15 minutes ago!!!

[pamela]

97. That's too funny...

My husband laughs at me because every time that commercial comes on, I mutter "...because it's just soooo damn hard to take a pill."

[CitizenLeft]

55. LOLOL!

Me too!

[Richard Steele]

21. K&R

[Canuckistanian]

23. There's a censorship that backfired

They just drew more attention to the statement than just allowing it to be aired.

They could have bleeped just the "god" part of "goddamned" and everyone knows it.

[w8liftinglady]

28. no kidding-it led the OJ story this morning.

[Cha]

72. Oh boy! You know

that's HUGE!!

[spanone]

24. thank god we have faux covering our ears......

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[YOY]

26. Giget goes balistic on Rupert Murdoch's ass

I like it...

[truth2power]

27. Good for her!! It's about time we stopped worrying

about what war criminals, thugs and murderers think of us.

Same for the Betrayus ad. Fsck 'em! None of these people who support the war and/or the Boy King have any standing to tell me or anyone else what to do!

[Mrs. Overall]

29. Go Sally, Go Sally, Go Sally....

[tomreedtoon]

46. Those three pictures kind of show a spirit advancing, don't they?

From a passive but insistent nun, to a teenager with a mildly rebellious spirit, to a fierce union supporter (remember unions? Remember wages and benefits? Remember America?) this little photo collage tells a story, and about more than her career.

I'm even beginning to like that effete little soap opera she does on ABC, Brothers and Sisters, where she plays a stern but loveable rich man's widow.

[Vidar]

30. Bravo Sally!

[in_cog_ni_to]

31. How is it determined which network will air these awards shows?

and why on earth would Hollywood ever agree to having FAUX air it? Just wondering.

Hollywood should BOYCOTT Faux network!

[pollo poco]

32. Why watch FOX?

If no one watches, they have no power to do this. If no one watches, the Emmys will be moved to another network. To me, the questionable value of viewing the Emmys is far outweighed by the undoubted value of never turning on FOX again. I know it's hard. I hate missing football games. But I hate FOX more.

We have the power to take FOX right out of the picture. If no one watched, they would not be a powerful network, no matter what they own. Why support these enemies of democracy?

Friends don't let friends watch fascist FOX.

Sally rocks! She shouldn't have to appear on FOX to accept her award.

[emmadoggy]

85. Preliminary reports are showing that last night's Emmy's got their

lowest rating ever - 13.1 million. The previous low was in 2004 with 13.6 (?) million.

Of course, they are putting a chunk of that blame on the fact that it went up against Sun. Night Football for the first time ever.

I don't care if they bleep out a bad word now and then, but this was a total hatchet-job - and not just on Sally. Keep this up and they'll lose even more viewers.

[donsu]

33. the 'GOD' word should have been there as all the wars are sponsored by a god

the war loving men always bring their gods into the picture.

thank you Sally, we WILL keep on saying it.

IF MOTHERS RULED THE WORLD THERE WOULD BE NO GOD DAMNED WARS

the word I would have changed is 'ruled'. I think we women would rather 'manage/nurture' the world. 'ruling over' should go the way of the dinosaur.

[Katherine Brengle]

34. Good for her. The comment was even relevant to the show she's on, so there was

no reason to censor it.

[JTFrog]

35. K&R. Good for you Sally! n/t

[Cleita]

37. In my area not a single station carried more than a few

minutes of Emmy coverage. I had to come here to DU verify that I had indeed watched a blatant act of censorship on behalf of Fox at the Emmy's. If she had said that the commander guy was to be obeyed by sending our children to be sacrificed to fight terror, the message would have remained on air.

I will be advising Fox that not only do I seldom watch any of their corny programming anyway, I now vow to watch nothing that is put out by them, on all their channels and any of their movies. We can't have a fascist, corporate takeover of everything in our lives just because they hold the camera and microphone for their propaganda uses.

[Wednesdays]

50. Indeed! If she said "We've got to get all those God damned terrorists"

It would not only have passed the censors, Faux News would have replayed it 24/7 for a week, amid raves from their talking heads.

[Forrest Greene]

54. Tell That To Their Advertisers, Instead

...& cc to Fox. They'll care about that.

[redqueen]

39. Love her...

[Irishonly]

40. Why Should Anyone Be Surprised

It would have made too much sense for Faux to bleep "god damn" and leave the word war alone. One thing they accomplished and probably didn't mean to is that everyone is talking about her acceptance speech. By censorship they managed to bring her speech front and center.

On a side note-what a bunch of pricks.

[connecticut yankee]

41. They didn't censor it for the "god damn"

They censored it because it was an anti-war statement.

This is Faux Noise we're talking about.

[liberal1973]

42. Good for her.

I agree with her. Everybody should have stood up and said that's god damn right.

[peace frog]

44. BRAVA, Sally!

She's a role model for other celebs who might wish to speak their minds but hold back out of fear.

Don't be afraid to speak out if you are so moved, celebrities! You have a ready-made audience that wants to know your views.... SPEAK OUT!

[Blaze Diem]

47. VIEW THIS !!! GREAT...

DU link...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1825830
----------------------

Would like to put the pic on this page but I'm not able to.
Maybe someone else can.
..Can someone do a split screen shot of then & last night?

fuckfox

[bdamomma]

48. Dissent is patriotic, and good she was being outspoken!

[BoneDaddy]

52. Yeah us fathers don't care about our children

that tired old mantra of "if mothers ruled the world"...blah blah blah".

[Arugula Latte]

57. The repukes care about their own children; just not the "other" people's kids. nt

[BoneDaddy]

58. no argument from me there

more a response to the "gender irrationality" that only women care about their kids.

[closeupready]

56. Good for her. And she was absolutely right.

n/t

[Desertrose]

59. The more they try to silence people....

The attention they draw to the thing they wanted hushed.

Nice work,faux.

And REALLY nice work, Sally. :applause:

DR

[JMDEM]

61. She is Forrest's Mother, right?

Just kidding.

I like that woman -- a lot. Always have. Huge heart.

[haydukelives]

63. I love Sally Feild

Pretty, smart, and moral.

[Binka]

75. Once I Played Sister Batrille (The Flying Nun) In A Smoky Bar In Ensanada

Some drunk guys thought I WAS Sally Field! For years people have come up to me saying "you look like Sally Fields." They even did it when I lived in Europe. I love Sally too!

Me in Sicily.

[Gloria]

65. "...I'll just say it somewhere else."-----Right on, Sally!!!

[AtomicKitten]

66. Brava!

[hiphopnation]

68. how long before the

"I wish Sally Field would sit down and shut up, there's a time and place to say these things" contingent pops up here on DU?

u. go. grrrrl.

[Bolo Boffin]

70. Fumed? Fumed?

In every account of this, Sally laughed off the censorship. That graphic is seriously prejudicial. Thanks for documenting that atrocity.

[snappyturtle]

76. K&R Glad Sally used her time well! nt

[ClusterFreak]

77. She wasn't censored on CTV in Canada...

...which carried the show live as well.

I also loved what the Sopranos creator said at the end of his speech about the country being run by a bunch of gangsters.

[ThatsMyBarack]

84. I like you, Sally! I really, really like you!

:patriot:

[MisterApologist]

90. The Obama campaign has sally field post

the Nevada blog has a post about sally field...!

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post_group/NVHQ/CWnL

Form the post:
During Last Night's Mock Caucus at the Teamsters Union Hall, One of our Intern Organizers, Christine, was photographed holding up a sign for one of the dishes. Her likeness to a role played by Sally Field in the movie "Norma Rae" was uncanny. Let us know if you agree."

I found this when searching for Sally Field Info-- very funny stuff

[kenfrequed]

93. As great as Sally's comments were

I have to say does it have to have three seperate entries that occupy three slots on the 'Greatest' posts?

I mean there is other stuff going on in the world.

[fortyfeetunder]

98. She can come on over to DU and say it...

there is an audience of over 100,000

or even other progressive blogs....

[Orsino]

101. She's sorta half-right.

I'm glad that she promises to keep propounding her message, but can't help being suspicious of her giving Fox a pass. How soon is she likely to be on TV as herself, after all? Denouncing the network's censorship would show even more courage.