Posted on 08/15/2008 9:20:18 PM PDT by Redbob
Did anyone else see the Letterman Show tonight, Friday 8/15: when actor Ben Kingsley walked out to great applause, he walked up to Dave Letterman and said "God Bless American Enthusiasm!" and then repeated himself, "God Bless American enthusiasm!"
Except CBS simply filtered out the word "God." Both times. Watching closely, I know I saw Kingsley's lips form the word "God" both times, his lips were clearly moving before I heard "...Bless American enthusiasm!" I thought I was imagining things, but it happened a second time!
Ted Turner bought all of the CBS Christmas special for awhile I thought and only showed them on TBS or whatever but I thought they’d also gone back to a CBS broadcast.
And the repeated reruns of these programs in the season schedules kills that whole shared experiece where everyone saw the same thing at the same time. Used to be if you missed that 30 minutes of tv- you didn’t get to see it for another year and all the kids would talk about the show the next day.
“Did you see it? I’ve got it rented from netflix. No, but I will. yada yada yada.
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