Posted on 09/17/2007 4:50:16 PM PDT by Baladas
Producers of Sunday's Emmy telecast bleeped drama actress winner Sally Field in the midst of a controversial acceptance speech attacking U.S. involvement in Iraq.
"If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god -" she said when the sound went dead and the camera suddenly turned away from the stage so viewers would be distracted. Chopped off were the words "goddamn wars in the first place." (The phrase was not censored in the Canadian telecast.)
"This belongs to all the mothers of the world -- may they be seen and valued," she added when she won for outstanding actress in a drama series for her work as matriarch Nora Walker on "Brothers & Sisters." While the two-time Oscar winner already has two Emmys, this was her first nomination for series work, and she bested a field that included favorite Edie Falco of "The Sopranos."
Backstage, in the press room later, Field told reporters, "I would have liked to have said more four-letter words up there!
"Oh, well. I've been there before!" Field added when asked what she thought of the gagging. "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
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I won’t watch her after she says G D on national TV.
Gidget has lost her friggin’ mind.
That's too bad. It doesn't occur to her, even now at her age, that it is possible to state your thoughts - and far more eloquently - without using four-letter words.
For a woman she doesn’t know women very well...
As a wise caller on Rush today pointed out, this statement is absolutely wrong. There are plenty of "mothers" in the Middle East right now raising their children to become human bombs.
What a selective memory she has. I distinctly remember Palestinian mothers sending their children into Israel to detonate their suicide bomb vests. That’s my definition of “slaughter”, hers must be different. Are those the mothers she means?
There is some irony here since she was on the TV episode where GD was first said on the air.
STFU, Gidget.
She can always say it was a side effect of that medicine she advertises...
Oh please. If mothers ruled the world there’d be a war at every wedding.
What do you expect? By her own admission, she thinks it’s too hard to remember to take more than one pill a month for her osteoporosis. ;-)
Yep, Golda Meir and Lady Thatcher were such pacifists in their day … LOL!
Isn't she selling some drugs on TV ?
Does Silly Sally want to include those mothers who send off their kids with pride to blow up other innocent people?
She’s even too looney for Hollywood. Why don’t they just stop giving her awards? What did she do to deserve one anyway?
The flying nun has crashed.
If Socialists ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any “god”.
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