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<p>At a closed door meeting over immigration legislation, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) got into a shouting match with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), telling him at one point, "Fuck you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room,"</p>

A NEW York politician has been filmed dropping the "f-bomb" at least 15 times in what has become an online video hit, attracting tens of thousands of page views. Unaware that an interview with a Scandinavian "reporter" was an elaborate set-up for a hidden camera-type television show, New York City councillor James Oddo launched into a obscene tirade. After being asked about Hillary Clinton's "embarrassing incident with a cigar", the Republican asked a member of his staff to throw the crew out. "Get the (f-bomb) out of my office,” Mr Oddo told the crew as the fake reporter struggled to...

Colorado State University is still experiencing the fallout from a profane editorial that ran in the college's student newspaper two weeks ago. CSU police investigated a threat that was called into The Rocky Mountain Collegian last week. Advertising in the newspaper and other student- run media organizations remains down. And at least one parent of a CSU student might withdraw her daughter from the school. "It's true. We are reconsidering schools," said Casper resident Cathy Ide, whose daughter, Holly Loucks, is a sophomore construction management major. The school's alumni relations and admissions offices have also received calls and e-mails concerning...

For some, it was a matter of protecting free speech. For others, it was about punishing the editor of a campus newspaper, who they believed damaged the credibility of Colorado State University nationally when he decided to publish the F-word in the school newspaper. "Our university will take a hit for the poor choices of one student," said Chelsea Penoyer, chairwoman of the College Republicans at CSU. Penoyer was one of more than 300 students and members of the staff and community who attended a hearing Wednesday night of CSU's Board of Student Communications, the governing body that will decide...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hasn't spent much time in the Capitol this year as he seeks the GOP presidential nomination. But one of his rare appearances this week provided a pretty salty exchange with a fellow Republican. During a meeting Thursday on immigration legislation, McCain and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) got into a shouting match when Cornyn started voicing concerns about the number of judicial appeals that illegal immigrants could receive, according to multiple sources -- both Democrats and Republicans -- who heard firsthand accounts of the exchange from lawmakers who were in the room. At a bipartisan gathering in...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews accidentally dropped the F-bomb Wednesday during an appearance on "Imus in the Morning." The morning radio show is simulcast on MSNBC, and while Matthews' swear word was bleeped on the radio, it made it onto MSNBC while host Don Imus and Matthews were talking about Rudolph Giuliani as a potential president. "We love good mayors because we love our cities and Giuliani's the city guy," Matthews said. "I'm so sick of Southern guys with ranches running this country. I want a guy to run for president who doesn have a [bleeping] -- I'm sorry -- a ranch....

I just heard Chris Matthews let loose with the F-word on Don Imus on MSNBC. He was talking about how he didn't want the next President to be some rich white guy who lives on a ranch when the F-word was used.

"Hardball" host Chris Matthews lurched even further off the deep end on Wednesday’s "Imus in the Morning." After praising the “great job” Rudy Giuliani did in cleaning up New York City — which Matthews again suggested was done with just “a pinch” of fascism — the MSNBC star went on a rant declaring how he’s “sick of southern guys with ranches running this country.” Losing control, Matthews dropped the F-bomb on national television: “I want a guy to run for President who doesn’t have a fucking — I’m sorry, a ranch.” As host Don Imus began to snicker, Matthews plowed...

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews ran afoul of censors by using "the f-word” during a Wednesday appearance on the ‘Imus in the Morning’ show. Matthews, the fast-talking and brash host of the popular MSNBC show "Hardball,” was praising former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 candidacy when he went on a rant about "city guys” like Giuliani versus the "southerners,” such as President George W. Bush, who run for national office. Matthews: "We love good mayors because we love our cities and Giuliani is a city guy . . . I’m so sick of Southern guys with ranches running this country....

WCVB-TV executives have banned swearing in the newsroom after the "f-bomb" made it into one of their Friday newscasts. The station broke in to carry a live press conference on University of Vermont student Michelle Gardner-Quinn, whose body had been found 15 miles from campus. After the press conference, the station replayed an edited portion of it during its 5 p.m. newscast. During that segment, as the Burlington, Vt., police chief spoke, a WCVB producer could be heard shouting the "F" word in the background. The Herald obtained and reviewed a copy of the segment. Sources say news executives fired...

MIDI - WIND BENEATH MY WINGS We've all heard enough from Barbra Streisand Nonsensical posturing from Cher They have become a royal pain They are supposed to entertain Why don't they do what they are paid for In current events they have no clue When they speak they sound like such fools They're useful idiots and tools Bette Midler, we don't want your opinion For charity you're supposed to sing If Babs or Cher should ever stumble I guess you're the windbag in the wings F-bombs up on stage are so outrageous They called you to help people in...

Incensed by what it sees as a virtual pandemic of verbal vulgarity issuing from the diverse likes of Howard Stern, Bono of U2 and Robert Novak, the United States Senate is poised to consider a bill that would sharply increase the penalty for obscenity on the air. By raising the fines that would be levied against offending broadcasters some fifteenfold, to a fee of about $500,000 per crudity broadcast, and by threatening to revoke the licenses of repeat polluters, the Senate seeks to return to the public square the gentler tenor of yesteryear, when seldom were heard any scurrilous words,...