Emmy Awards Censored Sally Field?

This is really stunning, because they cut away from her- and didn't just bleep her when she said "goddamn." Seems political to me... From the LATimes blog:

Producers of Sunday's Emmy telecast bleeped best drama actress winner Sally Field in the midst of a controversial acceptance speech attacking U.S. involvement in Iraq.
"If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god -" she said when the sound went dead and the camera suddenly turned away from the stage so viewers would be distracted. Chopped off were the words "god-damned wars in the first place." (The phrase was not censored in the Canadian telecast.)

"This belongs to all the mothers of the world - may they be seen and valued," she added when she won best actress in a drama series for her work as matriarch Nora Walker on "Brothers & Sisters." While the two-time Oscar winner already has two Emmys, this was her first nomination for series work, and she bested a field that included favorite Edie Falco of "The Sopranos."

And this is what Field said, in response :

“Oh, well. I’ve been there before!” Field added when asked what she thought of the gagging. “Good. I don’t care. I have no comment other than, ‘Oh, well.’ I said what I wanted to say. I wanted to pay homage to the mothers of the world. And I very, very seriously think that if mothers ruled the world we wouldn’t be sending our children off to be slaughtered.”

When she was pressed for further comment, she added, “Too bad. That’s a shame. And I think I probably shouldn’t have said the ‘god’ in front of the ‘damn.’…If they bleep it, oh, well. I’ll just say it somewhere else.”

I will put up more info and posts as I see them:
Think Progress

A blogger (who I can't find now, sorry!) wrote: "Maybe Murdoch though Sally was going to go all 'war-mom' on us..."

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Awful. Awful. Awful.

Yet another reason why we want diverse ownership of media properties.

Emily

Submitted by cooper and emily on Mon, 09/17/2007 - 08:45

I was watching this live last night, and I had no intention of posting on any of my blogs about them Emmy Awards. But then, from the very beginning FOX was cutting away (censoring video and audio), it was very annoying. Then when they did it to Sally Field, my annoyance turned into anger...Isn't there still "that thing" about freedom of speech? I could be mistaken about that.

Apparently I am, because I posted on this last night, and by this morning had three comments on my Women 4 Hope blog basically agreeing with the censorship. I thought more people (women in particular) would be up-in-arms over this.

Are we really that brain-washed in this country, that we are now supporting censorship and propaganda as an acceptable form of journalism? Or is it just three people who stumbled upon my blog?

Maybe it's just me being an overly emotional, unpatriotic, misinformed women. I'm sure there is a man over at FOX that could set me straight over a tall glass of Kool-aid...Because women with an opinion are so "pre" 9/11.

Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan
also at Women 4 Hope and Informed Voters

Submitted by Catherine Morgan on Mon, 09/17/2007 - 09:44

drink the kool aid, or just tune out

Thanks Catherine.

Did you see this Frank Rich column (thank you, Pottersville) yesterday, where he mentions Americans' essentially tuning out?

Even if military "victory" were achievable in Iraq, America could not win a war abandoned by its own citizens. The evaporation of that support was ratified by voters last November. For that, they were rewarded with the "surge." Now their mood has turned darker. Americans have not merely abandoned the war; they don't want to hear anything that might remind them of it, or of war in general. Katie Couric's much-promoted weeklong visit to the front produced ratings matching the CBS newscast's all-time low. Angelina Jolie's movie about Daniel Pearl sank without a trace. Even Clint Eastwood's wildly acclaimed movies about World War II went begging. Over its latest season, "24" lost a third of its viewers, just as Mr. Bush did between January's prime-time address and last week's.

You can't blame the public for changing the channel. People realize that the president's real "plan for victory" is to let his successor clean up the mess. They don't want to see American troops dying for that cause, but what can be done? Americans voted the G.O.P. out of power in Congress; a clear majority consistently tell pollsters they want out of Iraq. And still every day is Groundhog Day. Our America, unlike Vietnam-era America, is more often resigned than angry. Though the latest New York Times-CBS News poll finds that only 5 percent trust the president to wrap up the war, the figure for the (barely) Democratic-controlled Congress, 21 percent, is an almost-as-resounding vote of no confidence.

Submitted by Morra Aarons on Mon, 09/17/2007 - 10:11

Fear trumps freedom in our new world.

Hi Morra. I hadn't seen this, but I do agree. However, I think it is more than just tuning out, I think collectively we are giving up. The freedoms we all "thought" we shared as American citizens have virtually disappeared under the ruse of..."We now live in a post 9/11 world." In our "new" world, fear rules (a.k.a. the Bush administration).

To sum up:

Fear trumps freedom in the "new" world, and dictatorship is the new democracy. And unfortunately, tuning out is equal to protecting ones sanity.

Obviously, I'm not currently protecting my sanity very well.

Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan
also at Women 4 Hope and Informed Voters

Submitted by Catherine Morgan on Mon, 09/17/2007 - 11:00

Femme Power

We just have to keep standing strong. There were male actors arrested on narcotics charges in airports when Paris was stopped for driving with a suspended license (thank God she wasn't drunk the second time).

The political censorship is terrible!

The more honest we are and the more courage we have to speak out, the stronger we ALL become.

let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

Alixandra
www.angelmystics.com
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/angelmystics
http://freeclairvoyantandpsychicreadings.mypodcast.com/index.html

Submitted by Alixandra on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 12:59