Why Is The Media Afraid Of The F*ckers?

[corl737]

The national headlines all rant about Southwest Airlines requesting a passenger to remove a t-shirt containing blatant obscenities. "A violation of free speech" some media outlets trumpeted! Yet not a single news source ever printed the actual word. Instead, they referred to the word as “Focker with a strategically changed vowelâ€￾ or used some other cryptic method. If no one in the media is willing to risk publishing the word why should it be considered appropriate to display in bold print on a t-shirt? The application of this word was intended to incite strong emotional responses, not a ideal event to have happen inside a metal tube flying 30,000 feet above the ground.

I fully support Southwest Airlines response to Ms.Heasley's actions. When presented with a potentially explosive situation they remained reasonable. They gave Ms. Heasley the option of removing the offensive garment. She is not a victim. Ms. Heasley is not a poster child for the First Amendment rights. Southwest did not throw her off the airplane. She is no more than an adult who made a conscious decision to continue her unacceptable public display of blatant obscenities and chose driving over flying.

 

[KCFlyer]

"A violation of free speech" some media outlets trumpeted!

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Did I miss something those media outlets picked up...did Congress order her to change her shirt? Southwest Airlines owns their airplane and they can allow or disallow whatever they want and not violate the first amendment rights of free speech. You'd think folks graduating with a degree in journalism would know this little nugget of info.

 

[wnbubbleboy]

There are 7 words you can't use on TV (This lady's word was one of them). Does anybody remember the Old George Carlin Bit? Here's a transcript to refresh you memory .



"I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I uh, I think is important. I love..as I say, they're my work, they're my play, they're my passion. Words are all we have really.

We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. You know, [humming]. And, then we assign a word to a thought, [clicks tongue]. And we're stuck with that word for that thought. So be careful with words. I like to think, yeah, the same words that hurt can heal. It's a matter of how you pick them.

There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' 'Awwww.' There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad Intentions.

And words, you know the seven don't you? Sh*t, P*ss, F*ck, C*nt, C*cksucker, Motherf*cker, and T*ts, huh? Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war.

Sh*t, Piss, F*ck, C*nt, C*cksucker, Motherf*cker, and T*ts, wow. T*ts doesn't even belong on the list, you know. It's such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname. 'Hey, T*ts, come here. T*ts, meet Toots, Toots, T*ts, T*ts, Toots.' It sounds like a snack doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is, right. But I don't mean the sexist snack, I mean, New Nabisco T*ts. The new Cheese T*ts, and Corn T*ts and Pizza T*ts, Sesame T*ts Onion T*ts, Tater T*ts, Yeah. Betcha can't eat just one. That's true I usually switch off . But I mean that word does not belong on the list.

Actually, none of the words belong on the list, but you can understand why some of them are there. I am not completely insensitive to people's feelings. You know, I can dig why some of those words got on the list...like c*cksucker and motherf*cker. Those are...those are heavy-weight words. There's a lot going on there, man. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling. They're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend with. And those K's. Those are aggressive sounds, they jump out at you. C*cksuckerMotherf*ckerC*cksucker. It's like an assault, on you. So I can dig that.

And we mentioned #### earlier, of course. Two of the other 4-letter Anglo-Saxon words are P*ss and C*nt, which go together of course. But forget about that. A little accidental humor there. P*ss and C*nt. The reason P*ss and C*nt are on the list is that a long time ago certain ladies said 'Those are the two I am not going to say. I don't mind F*ck and Sh*t, but P and C are out. P and C are out.' Which led to such stupid sentences as 'OK, you f*ckers, I am going to tinkle now.'

And of course the word F*ck. The word F*ck, I don't really...well, this is some more accidental humor, but I don't really want to get into that now. Because I think it takes too long. But I do mean that. I mean, I think the word #### is an important word. It's the beginning of life, and, yet it's a word we use to hurt one other, quite often. And uh, people much wiser than I have said, I'd rather have my son watch a film with two people making love than two people trying to kill one other. And I of course agree. I wish I know who said it first, and I agree with that. But I would like to take it a step further. I would like to substitute the word f*ck, for the word kill in all those movie cliches we grew up with. 'Okay Sheriff, we're gonna f*ck ya now. But we're gonna f*ck ya slow.' So maybe next year I'll have a whole f*ckin' rap on that word. I hope so.

Uh, there are two-way words, but those are the seven you can never say on television. Under any circumstances you just can not say them ever, ever ever, not even clinically. You can not weave them in the panel with Doc and Ed and Johnny, I mean it's just impossible, forget those seven, they're out.

 

[CLTBWIDAYSYR]

^ I actually have the LP with that bit on it. Hillarious. I'm still waiting for "New Nabisco Cheese Ti*s".

 

[Awa Contract]

I got kicked off the college radio station for playing it one night -- It was worth every second of it.