They could have bleeped the expletive.
Posted on 05/30/2002 8:15:25 AM PDT by marshmallow
(CNSNews.com) - "They let us say all kinds of things on TV, but they beep 'Jesus'? That makes no sense!" said Star Jones, who co-hosts ABC's morning talk show, "The View." As recounted by the Media Research Center (parent organization of CNSNews.com), ABC bleeped the word 'Jesus" in a West Coast feed of the program last week.
On that particular show, The View's Joy Behar was talking about ending her diet: "Yes, and thank you, thank you, Jesus, is all I have to say! Goodbye to that damn scale and this whole diet. I'm sick of it!" According to the Media Research Center, the West Coast feed of that show included Behar's comment, with only the word "Jesus" bleeped out.
This week, on Tuesday's show, Behar and co-host Star Jones complained about the "beeping," as Jones called it. As a "point of order," Behar noted, "The other day...I used the phrase 'thank you Jesus' because my diet was over...For the West Coast, they took it out. They would not allow me to say 'thank you Jesus.' I think that's wrong," she said, adding that the program had received about a hundred letters of complaint. Star Jones commented, "I've said 'Jesus' so many times."
Behar responded, "Yeah, that's right. How come the black girl can say it and the white girl can't? I protest!" Behar, for the record, said she is a Roman Catholic: "Jesus and I are pals, okay? Get with the program!"
If they got a hundred letters of complaint, that means every single one of the viewers was mad enough to write.
ABC sucks.
They could have bleeped the expletive.
But to my point - It would be interesting to hear how the host used the word Jesus. Was it in a manner that standards&practices thought was "in vein"? Or did it sound like she was actually thanking Jesus?
There's a big difference. Just like G*ddamn and God, damn If she was saying Jesus in place of a four letter word than it is appropriate to beep. She can't say "F*ck I sure am glad to be done with my diet." so she says "J*sus I sure am glad to be done with my diet."
Yep!
"Hundreds"!
Dan
Reality-based and Anna Nicole is an oxymoron.
On several occasions this program has been playing in the background, and I've been too lazy to look for the remote to 'bleep' it.
There's not a genuine conservative in the lot, as far as I can see. Yes, some of them (Ms. Behar included) may occasionally attempt to pass as folksy, practical, hard-nosed conservative women (in a grimy sort of 'ridden hard and put away wet' sort of way) but they're every one a card carrying liberal at heart.
Having climbed in bed with the Devil as she has, it's disingenuous of her to feign such surprise that He's dirtied their sheets.
Yeah, what is the deal with bleeping "God" but not the "damn" on so many shows? I would think the expletive should be bleeped if they are going to bleep something.
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