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Sunday, September 03, 2006

L. Brent Bozell Up Wrong Tree, Barking

From IMDb:
L. Brent Bozell's Parents Television Council, which has spearheaded the campaign against indecent language on television, has demanded that the FCC fine NBC for not censoring the comments by actresses Helen Mirren and Calista Flockhart during Sunday's primetime Emmy Awards telecast. Both had expressed concerns about falling "tits over ass" as they came up the stairs. Calling the common British colloquialism "vulgar and obscene," Bozell said Thursday, "It is utterly irresponsible and atrocious for NBC to air this vulgar language during the safe harbor time [before 10:00 p.m.] when millions of children were in the viewing audience." The phrase was not bleeped during the live broadcast in the East and Midwest nor on the delayed broadcast in the West. While a common Britishism, it is sometimes abbreviated as TOA in polite company, as in, "I got out of the taxi and fell TOA on the slippery street."
Calista Flockhart is neither here nor there. But it's hard to imagine what Dame Helen Mirren could say in front of my children that wouldn't have me applauding like a seal and giggling like a schoolgirl. I mean, she's Jane Tennison! Well, I guess I'm just a terrible father...

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