WTF!? What happened to what Sally Field was

[Subdivisions]

saying on the Emmy show?

Anyone catch it? It went zap on my TV.

She was saying something to the effect that "If it were up to mothers, there would be no -- " then it was cut off until she was finished. Her words illicited a rousing applause.

[Synnical]

1. Yeah, WTF?

I think she was about to say, "this god damn" war?

[stillcool]

2. My hubby is watching..

he said Fox is censoring.

[Neecy]

3. they bleeped it

I think she said, "If mothers ran the world there wouldn't be any fucking war" or similar.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. I didn't hear a bleap. There was silence and they took the camera off of her. eom

[MadBadger]

4. Two possibilities

1. there was a technical glitch like we saw earlier in the show
2. They took advantage of the technical glitch so we couldnt hear what she said (sounded antiwar).

Im going with number 2.

[Fleshdancer]

5. That has to be a censored anti-war statement

She started with "if mothers ruled the world" and then the sound went off! :wtf:

[Scriptor Ignotus]

64. good call.

[dickbearton]

86. A good call is revoking the license held in public trust by Fox News...

When they broadcast lies, disinformation and propaganda to
promote war in the middle east; they are yelling fire in a
crowded theater. Their lies and warmongering violates the
public airways. By broadcasting lies for war with Iraq and
Iran, they contribute to the death of untold numbers of
innocent people. They should be held responsible.  

[jasmeel]

6. She said if mother's ruled the world there'd be no goddamn war!!!

Awesome!!!!!!!!

[silverlib]

7. Zap on my TV too

"damn war" or f$*%%& war - zapped for too long for either of those short statements.

[Pirate Smile]

13. I thought she was starting to say "God damned war".

[Sequoia]

80. I think that's what she said.

Because later she said maybe she shouldn't have put "God" in front of it.

[bagimin]

8. Fox SuX!

Censorship.

[ossman]

11. I picture Rupert sitting in his recliner with a kill switch and petting his bald cat.

[lutefisk]

31. "petting his bald cat"...........is that like "polishing the bishop?"n/t

[MidwestTransplant]

32. Austin Powers reference.

[BrklynLib at work]

60. hahahahahahahaha I like your innuendo much better than the real reference.

:rofl:

[txwhitedove]

9. She started to say that if mothers/women ruled the world, there "would be NO ..

more God-damned...bleep" WAR!!!!
Bravo, Sally!!!

:applause:

[Pirate Smile]

10. They bleeped her. They did it once at the beginning - same thing, goes to

showing the ball at the ceiling.

[Synnical]

12. How fucking sad is that that cut off her remaks

and then went onto Memoriam for actors?

[Mira]

14. I thought surely it couldn't be censorship - then I remembered

it was Foxx.
Go Sallie - rock on !
We really really love you

[Subdivisions]

20. I was telling my s/o how good she looks, considering

I was still a kid when she was flying around in that crazy nun hat.

I am really proud of her speaking out like that in that venue. Go, Sally, go!

[jasmeel]

15. Let's get her comments to the greatest page! I already rated

it up.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. Political speech is now equivalent to nipple slips.

And a special thanks to everyone who fell for that bullshit and joined in the false outrage that has enabled the end of live television.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. They cut her off because she first said she wanted the troops home. Then she started

to continue to say what you heard. Not did they cut her off, they cut the mike and took the camera away from her. That's Fox for you.....

[cui bono]

82. Well they couldn't let the deaf people read her lips

could they?

[JohnnyLib2]

19. Recommended.

Let's hope she gets plenty of coverage tomorrow. Good woman.

[young_at_heart]

21. So much for free speech!

Thank so much Sally---we really do love you!

[WinstonSmith4740]

22. No matter what she said...

It still comes down to censorship. I thought it might have been a technical glitch earlier when it happened to Ray Romano, but after the Sally Field thing, it's gotta be pure and simple censorship. I'll bet she said something against war in general.

[Ready4Change]

42. Censorship VIA technical glitch

It's amazing how pro administration stuff comes through clear, and anti-administration stuff becomes rife with glitches. It is constant, to the point I can predict it.

Try it sometime.

[RoccoR5955]

84. Technical glitch, my buns!

[Mutineer]

23. They cut her because of the Goddamned.

You can't say that on network television. They cut Ray Romano earlier and he wasn't trying to tell a war joke at the time.

[Richard Steele]

34. REAL networks merely "bleep" offensive words. This was censoring her OPINION. Different. nm

[LibDemAlways]

48. Absolutely right. Plenty of bleeping of offensive words on tv all

the time. This was pure and simple censorship of an anti-war message.

[Mutineer]

59. They bleeped her as soon as she said "damned"

But fine, if you want to make a conspiracy out of it, go ahead. Everything else on this board is.

[fooj]

79. Everything else on this board is a "conspiracy"???

Nice try. It's called truth.

The greatest conspiracy is that there is NO conspiracy.

She wasn't "bleeped"...the sound was completely cut. Big difference.

[cui bono]

83. Clearly you haven't been here long enough to see how anti-conspiracy

this board is. So much so that they go way overboard and don't even let people discuss certain things out in the open no matter how many established and professional people believe there is truth in what is being discussed.

[jumpoffdaplanet]

47. Sorry but it was out and out cencorship

They know how to bleep the g-d. But they cut out entirely, video too. And just came back as she was about to leave.

Fox made a big mistake here. When Keith O. gets back, I hope he has fun taking Faux on about this.

[Liberal In Texas]

67. Time delaying video/audio to allow bleeping is a whole lot more complicated than bleeping callers on

radio.

Pure and simple, she said GD, and somebody hit the live button.

I don't believe it was for the message, especially since they let her go on about it before she said GD.

[The Count]

89. Another Texan that thinks one week is not time enough to blip one word

Have you two met?

[The Count]

88. The actual awards show happened last week. Plenty of time to bleep "goddamned"

out of a sentence, rather than leave the sentence unfinished. Nice try, though.

[Synnical]

24. What's the phone number for Fox

Is this being broadcasted in LA?

[skids]

25. Wait let me jaunt on down to the bus stop bathroom...

...I think it's written on one of the stalls.

[AngryOldDem]

26. She was censored.

Plain and simple.

It's FOX -- remember?

So much for freedom of speech.

ON EDIT: Fox must be paying the censors overtime because they also apparently blacked out Ray Romano when he said something derogatory about Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton. This according to an online news story I just read. Still, this has made the whole show look very amateurish.

[txwhitedove]

29. Censorship on Fox, but can't we get an uncensored clip???

[AngryOldDem]

30. Someone must have it...

...several posts here repeat what she said.

[cascadiance]

81. Here's the uncensored clip courtesy of the Canadians and youtube..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoMGyJjWIk

[tabasco]

27. The USA has jumped the shark.

I am simply amazed at what this Nation has become.

The warmongers control the telescreens.

[Bryn]

71. Yeah, it reminds of of V for Vendetta movie

Where is V?

[Sonicmedusa]

28. I love Sally!

The woman is SO flustered when she wins an award. She KNEW what she wanted to say, she just couldn't get it out. But when she did, those bastards censored her.

Sorry Fucx Bastards, it wasn't; "They like me! They really, really LIKE me." She is not your lil darling.

She is my hero!

[undeterred]

33. she probably said something specifically against this idiotic war

yeah, that Sally Field, she's a real loose cannon activist, just like Jane Fonda :sarcasm:

[txwhitedove]

37. Yes, and Jane Fonda is still reviled by many, unfortunately.

[G_j]

35. K&R

[merci_me]

36. They censor an anti-war statement

pure and simple. The "goddamn" doesn't hold a candle to the trash talk between Brad Garrett and Joley Fisher, but hey that was sex. And, I understand they have a sitcom. Could that sitcom be on Fox? You bet!!

[EFerrari]

38. Let them out themselves. Go, Faux!

[alfredo]

39. there were three. The last one was Someone from the Sopranos doing

a Soprano version of what Sally Fields said. Not sure if it was edited out. I wasn't paying attention.

[bvar22]

40. This will get MORE coverage now than if they had ....

...just let it slide. I don't watch the Emmys, and now I know.
More will follow tomorrow.

Kind of like the Betrayus thing.

[Neecy]

41. According to the LA Times....

Field was censored in the United States - but not in Canada.

"This belongs to all the mothers of the world - may they be seen and valued," she said in a heartfelt speech that was only partially heard by Emmywatchers in the US while CTV in Canada did not cut her off.

The land of the free, my ass...

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2007/09/the-emmys-reall.html

He also provides the full quote, presumably gleaned from the Canadian broadcast:

"If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god-damned wars in the first place."

[XOKCowboy]

43. Ain't she a doll?

For a professional actress she still goes giddy when given an award and has to speak extemporaneously. I love her for that alone. You tell 'em Sally.

[malaise]

51. Why the hell was that censored?

Bravo Sally Field. :yourock:

[TrogL]

75. I saw it on Canadian TV

The first clip (big icon) was what she actually said, stammers and all. I thought absolutely nothing about it at the time other than she'd made an idiot of herself for stammering and a hero of herself for blurting out anti-war stuff in this political climate.

It never occured to me a network would bleep it, especially for political content.

[JVS]

44. She started swearing a blue streak, sad really.

[Hissyspit]

46. She said one fucking "profane" word.

And then she complained about war. She said it was God-Damned. And it is. Or at least if your god is not against war then I don't want anything to do with him/it.

She was rushed and lost her train of thought.

Give me a break.

[Raine]

49. No way is a profanity

like "God damn" going to make it passed the censors. Field should've left the profanity out then she wouldn't have been cut off in mid sentance and could've finished her anti-war statement.

Edit: to add a word.

[Wednesdays]

70. As I pointed out on another thread

If she had said something like, "We've got to get those God damned terrorists," you think they'd have cut her off?

You think so? Well then, heh...have I got a big bridge to sell ya.

[Raine]

78. Hmmmmmm you make an interesting point...

I started to say yes of course they would cause it was the "God damn" that was profane and not allowed. Then I thought abit more and I really don't know...somehow I think that would've gone on air if it was followed by "terrorists". :-(

[Stephanie]

56. Wow! Not even a good try.

Can't you do better than that?

[mainer]

58. "god-damned" is considered a censorable profanity?

I'm really quite surprised by that. Would she be censored for "damn" alone? Does anyone know the FCC regs on this?

[LibDemAlways]

66. For what it's worth, my teenager likes a musical group

that had a popular song last year prominently featuring the word "goddamn." It gets repeated 8 or 9 times. They performed the song on Jimmy Kimmel last year, and I just re-watched it on YouTube. "God" was bleeped, but "damn" remained. Same thing when they performed it on the VMA's last year. No "God" - only "damn."

If the powers that be had wanted to, they could have bleeped only the "God." Instead, they cut out half her sentence, which just happened to be an anti-war message - on FOX. Coincidence?

[glitch]

45. LOVE Sally Field, good for her! K & R nt

[Yukari Yakumo]

50. Lesse...

Emmys... Emmys... Emmys... ah, here it is...

TV-14...

I think "goddamn" is allowable... maybe. But definitely not the f-bomb.

...

I'm not touching this with a 10 ft. pole.

[B Calm]

52. "If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god-damned wars in the first place."

Sally you ROCK!

[Mike Nelson]

53. I LOVE SALLY FIELD!

((HEART))

[raccoon]

54. Maybe 2 or 3 Americans who didn't know before, now realize the corporate media,

especially Faux, is censoring what we see on TV.

Kudos to Sally!

[femrap]

55. When the Dems take the WH,

I am going to demand that they take OUR airways away from Murdoch who isn't even an American. His media empire requires demolition.

Go Sally!

[trusty elf]

57. They hate us for our freedoms...

and our "uninalienable rights".

[crud76]

61. From USA Today.com

Brothers & Sisters star Sally Field was ecstatic on her surprise win as best actress in a drama. But explaining why Fox censors bleeped her acceptance speech, Field said, "I probably shouldn't have said the 'god' in front of the 'damn.' … I didn't have a point to get across. I have no agenda, I didn't have any political something I wanted to say. I wanted to pay homage to mothers, period, and especially the mothers waiting for children to come home from the war."

[thetaoofterri]

62. She said, If it were up to mother's, there would be no

more god damn war! But they cut her mike and cut the camera from her so the tv audience couldn't even see her mouthing the words!

Go Sally. We like you... we really like you!

[pollo poco]

63. Why are any of us watching 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.

[Cleita]

65. I seldom watch it but since they were the only station carrying

the Emmy's I watched. I saw that blatant censorship move, probably made to look like an "ahem" glitch. Since it is on delay tape, they could have fixed a real glitch. I am sending a letter off to Fox today advising them that I'm not watching their programs or channels anymore unless it's Ruppert Murdock apologizing for his treasonous actions in preventing free speech, a Constitutional violation, and promising ammends. I know if she had said that Bush was the greatest commander guy ever and all mothers should be proud to sacrifice their children to the war on terror, free speech would have been allowed.

[w8liftinglady]

68. MSNBC played the censored comment in full-"Fox has not commented on event"

[One Sweet World]

69. go sally

I understand how the networks are paranoid about getting fined by the FCC but I'd like to know why they didn't block "ass" early in the show. She said her comments after 10pm and they should have been broadcast. No excuses.

[rateyes]

72. What happened? One word:

FOX.

the rest of the sentence was "goddamned war in the first place."

[baldguy]

73. Fox censored Sally because she was being, in their judgment, "obscene".

But they still allow the GOP to run their "news" dept.

[dave123williams]

74. In case you were wondering if Fox is a big bunch of pussies....

Cowards at heart. So strong is their argument that it can't brook public debate or criticism....

[Skittles]

77. that is true of all repukes

yup

[kerry-is-my-prez]

76. The weirdest thing is what they did with the camera - totally took it off her and the audience..

they put the camera up on the ceiling. I've never seen anything that bizarre on a network prime time show. It was like they didn't want anyone to see the audience's approval.

It was like they were in a total panic or like they wanted to punish Sally.

At the very least - it looked very unprofessional and sloppy. At the worst it was a terrifying example of censorship.

[cui bono]

85. Clearly it was censorship.

If not they would have only "bleeped" or silenced the audio. But they cut to a wide shot of the place from some other point in time where nothing was happening in the venue as it was pretty silent. How did they get that so fast? They must have been prepared for anti-war messages in the acceptance speeches.

[L0oniX]

87. I damn thee to hell for watching FOX ...WTF is wrong with you all?

Dorks!

:sarcasm:

[Generic Brad]

90. It was like watching the final episode of the Sopranos

I knew her speech was building to something. Now I can only imagine what that was.