Joe Scarborough Uses the Dreaded "F word" on Live TV
Ooops. During this morning's "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough accidentally dropped the dreaded f-bomb while discussing soon-to-be President Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
"These are good, decent men that don't go flipping off people or screaming f--- you at the top of their lungs," said Scarborough , alluding to a story guest Jay Carney told him (who used "f-word" in describing Emanuel's use of profanity).
Scarborough, however, was unaware of what he had said and continued talking for about a minute before he realized what he said. Co-host Mika Brzezinski muttered "Uh, honey", and guests Jay Carney and Mike Barnicle looked nervous.
Joe finally realized what he said a minute later and said,
"Hold on, let me call a time out. Jay Carney told a story earlier...so great apologies if I said the word instead of the letter. My wife is going to kill me when I get home," he said. "I am so sorry. Great apologies. I'm going to go get some soap. That's what you get for telling political stories."
Moments later Scarborough said his wife "just sent me a text, two words: `Oh my.'
"I'm going to walk though the door, my wife is gonna say, `You know, your daughter watches this show before she goes to school," he said.
Of the flub, an MSNBC spokesman said, "Joe made a mistake this morning and apologized to his viewers immediately. As he noted, the language he used was completely inappropriate." Joe isn't expected to be reprimanded.
Comments
I'm sure there will be some outrage, but who cares? The fact that the FCC issues fines for bad language, but not for the fact that our media so frequently lies to us the real outrage.
That was funny how he tried to ignore the gaffe. He had to of known he f(oops won't bull a Joe)'d up but tried to just go with it.
As much great hilarity combined with insight and diverse knowledge as Morning Joe brings - and the fact that every morning I am reminded of the joy that Tim Russert brought to us - I think it was human and forgivable that Joe let out that word. I'll take a thousand f-words from Morning Joe over one Rush Limbaugh statement.
Keep it going!
One of these days even the corporate media will grow beyond the need to describe a few actual words with single letters...mostly out of a nonsensical corporate propriety, I've noticed. It is true that some segment of the population is offended by certain WORDS. But, so what? They are more offended by the lies and distortions that the corporate media sprays through millions and millions of spigots every single day. If they're not, they should be...
I remember, for one of many examples anyone might point at, the lies and distortions the media employed back at the beginnings of Gulf War I. All at once they were on us full force, right from when Iraq grabbed that ugly, powerfully anti-democracy fiefdom called Kuwait. A first class dictator who'd fled the country as soon as the Iraqi's made their intentions clear, one Amir Jabir al-Ahmad Al-Jabir Al Sabah, returned to feudal rule once we and a reluctant group of allies conquered what our lying ass media kept insisting was the fourth most powerful military in the world.
The obliterating obscenity of lies piled miles upon miles deep were for the most part ignored by the corporate media until well after any revelation of them could make much of a difference...and it was a pattern that remained throughout the long years of less active but still ongoing war against Iraq following "victory" and the onslaught and greater savagery of Gulf War II.
Not to say the actual monsters that made this criminal warfare happen, and I mean U.S. American monsters primarily, themselves worry about a word or too of strong language. Mass murder and mayhem are ordinary tools of their politics...you could hardly expect them to use less vigorous tools in their modes of speech. Yet, as a measure of social control perhaps, they insist upon chopping out certain expressions and especially certain comparisons within the more establishment media spigots.
The corporate media has little respect for the public, something that's so well demonstrated by their collusion-filled relationship with power.
It's hard to imagine any authentic public voice, an actual reporter, who'd be comfortable with being "embedded" in some military outfit in order to observe and report upon any war. It is shameful, it is ordinary.