Just damn.
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Posted on 10/07/2004 6:11:53 AM PDT by mhking
The Parents Television Council said NBC has pulled another Bono.
The group is likely to lodge an FCC indecency complaint against NBC by the end of the week over Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s S-word, according to a PTC spokeswoman. "NASCAR has a huge family audience, including a bunch of kids watching," says Laura Mahaney, director of external affairs. "I don't know why they haven't caught on yet that they need some kind of tape delay."
Earnhardt took the checkered flag in the EA Sports 500 at Talladega, a race that aired on NBC Oct. 3, then let slip a four-letter word--"this don't mean s--t"--in an interview in which he was suggesting his win paled in comparison to those of his late father.
Bill Weber, play-by-play commentator, immediately said: "Certainly, our apologies for his enthusiastic language." PTC is out for more than apologies when it comes to language.
Last week, PTC filed a complaint over an F-word in CBS' Big Brother, which has grown to 23,000 complaints from PTC members in the interim, according to PTC. It was a PTC complaint that led to the FCC's decision to reverse itself on the Bono decision and hold that the F-word, even as an adjective, was actionable. In that same decision, the FCC made clear that swearing as well as stripping, would now be squarely in its sites.
It was also hundreds of thousands of PTC complaints that helped convince the FCC that CBS should be fined over the Janet Jackson reveal.
NASCAR has fined Earnhardt and, more importantly, deducted points, taking him out of the lead for the season championship with only a handful of races left.
NBC had no comment on PTC's likely complaint, since it hasn't yet been filed, and is keeping its next move, if any, on the S-word 'event' close to the vest.
After getting beaten up by Congress over Jackson and Bono earlier this year, NBC and other networks added delays to all their live awards shows. Tape delays on sports are more problematic, though the NFL has at least considered it, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue told B&C in the wake of the Jackson debacle.
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My Gawd! What a chicken chit outfit!
No! Not the "s" word! What is this world coming to?
Well........here we go...........this is sickening.
FYI: Another article on Junior for this weeks thread.
Should scoring be affected by something a competitor said? I think the punishment for swearing should be entirely separate from the socring system. Does any other sport do that? Would you subtract points from an NFL team's score because a player swore during the game?
I never said any such thing!
Yikes. Can't help but wonder how many car wrecks he's been in. His face is a little askew.
NASCAR should have stayed away from network television. NASCAR, the networks an Nextel are making a real mess anyway.
Based on the title, I thought the article would be about something John Edwards said. LOL!
Buffy: Holy $h_t Chad! ...we better send a letter!
Dale would have benefited from a four year hitch beginning at Fort Benning or Parris Island.
Not only that, the Parents' Television Council needs to dummy up as well.
If they start scrutinizing all sports coverage (and no, I'm not talking about that halftime fiasco at last year's Super Bowl), they are going to hear (and read, if they are into lip-reading) off-color remarks from drivers, coaches, players, and fans across all the major sports. Period.
NASCAR was well on its way to going mainstream without the talk show circuit. It's too bad they jumped in bed with these people. This is just ridiculous.
Bono got a pass, as did Norm McDonald for saying the F word - why is Junior getting beaten up for saying the S word on a station that shows homosexual acts on a their evening viewing.
They should just wash his mouth out!
As a matter of fact, his Dad would have as well. It'd be interesting to see how many generations of them you'd go have to go back to find on who'd served in uniform.
The taking of points is going overboard, I think.
This is a joke. The networks own shows use far worse languge and behavior on a regular basis. Okay - fine him, but to affect the scoring is stupid.
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