Up the creek

Up the creek

: Twice this morning on the Today show, a guest talking about the fight over Outkast using Rosa Parks’ name complained that the lyrics also included the phrase “up shit’s creek.” He didn’t bleep himself and call it crap creek. Today didn’t (and couldn’t) bleep it. He did it once and nothing was said; he did it again and Lester Holt moved it along; at the end, Holt apologized for the language.

Oh, no, the country is going to fall apart.

Calling the moral values police.

Once the indecent indecency bill is signed into law, NBC could be fined millions of dollars for that one word twice said. And the guest could be fined into bankruptcy for these two incidents of too-free speech.

5 responses to “Up the creek”

  1. Kat Avatar

    I never knew shit was a bad word–I say ‘crap’ all the time, but I mean shit. I suppose the guy , Holt, has a certain standard for his show like you do for your blog in not allowing the F word. Using that kind of language on TV and radio just makes you look like a spoiled, pants around your ankles, rapper . ..the guys Bill Cosby is so infuriated with for making Blacks look dumb and crude. It doesn’t impress anyone. I noticed that the Hollywood elite who used their crude talk are now thinking they went too far–like Cher and Dumb Ditty Dumb. Their speech is free, but people are free to think they are classless pricks.
    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=2CAEBKTOMTZK0CRBAEKSFEY?type=politicsNews&storyID=6732780

  2. Kat Avatar

    David Brooks says it best:
    {If you want to understand why Democrats keep losing elections, just listen to some coastal and university town liberals talk about how conformist and intolerant people in Red America are. It makes you wonder: why is it that people who are completely closed-minded talk endlessly about how open-minded they are?}

  3. J.R. Avatar

    Or of course the Today show could use a 7 second delay and have avoided the incident altogether. Not saying much for a show that popular.

  4. tony Avatar

    jeff when will michael powell sit down with you for a nice long interview?
    i cant imagine too many other people who i would want him to talk with.

  5. Amy Avatar

    Nice one Jeff. This culture of extreme “decency” is ridiculous. It’s about time we addressed the real ills of society.
    Millions of American living in poverty, and nothing concrete is done about it. One breast gets on TV and immediate legislation and babble ensue. We gotta get our priorities straight.