NBC Apologizes For Jane Fonda Remark
70-Year-Old Actress Used "C" Word During "Today" Appearance
103NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2008
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(AP) NBC News is apologizing again - this time for Jane Fonda.
The 70-year-old actress used a vulgar slang term on the "Today" show Thursday while talking about the play "The Vagina Monologues." Fonda is appearing in a 10th-anniversary performance and was on "Today" with author Eve Ensler.
Fonda told co-host Meredith Vieira that she was asked to perform a monologue with a slang term for vagina as the title - and Fonda used the term itself on the air in explaining why she said "no."
"I said, 'I don't think so, I've got enough problems,'" Fonda said.
About 10 minutes later, Vieira told viewers that Fonda had used a word from the play that normally isn't used on television.
"It was a slip and obviously she apologizes and so do we," Vieira said. "We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology."
"Today" moved quickly to silence the word and cover up Fonda's face with a still photo when the show was aired in the Midwest, Mountain and West Coast feeds.
It's been a month's worth of apologies for NBC News, owned by General Electric Co. MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews said he was sorry for suggesting that the reason Hillary Clinton was a presidential candidate was because of her husband's infidelities. MSNBC correspondent David Shuster was suspended for two weeks for saying the Clintons had "pimped out" daughter Chelsea for presidential campaigning.
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What makes you so perfect? Why don''t we put the microscope on your life & see what we can find? You have never said or done anything you regret? If you can yes to that then you have never said or done ANYTHING.
I am not surprised at anything she says - she has no "brake" or filter between what she says and how others might be offended.
While she, along with the rest of America have a perfect right to say what we want, we do not have the right to yell ''fire'' in a crowded theatre.
I do not pretend to be her judge - but there is One, and He has the wisdom and authority to pronounce sentence upon her - and us.
Along with an apology, maybe there is something else she should offer - repentence.
After her "revelations" about her father''s coldness towards her and her siblings, I thought- It''s easy to talk about dead folk - thery''re no longer here to defend themselves.
A man named Larry Sinclair posted a video to YouTube claiming to have used cocaine and engaged in a gay oral act with Obama when Obama was a state legislator in 1999.
In the video, Sinclair claims he and Obama met on two separate occasions, that Obama used crack cocaine and that Sinclair performed an oral act on Obama both evenings.
Now Obama and company are quickly trying to quiet this man, but Sinclair has filed a federal lawsuit. Sinclair filed suit against Obama and his campaign guru David Axelrod in Minnesota district court for allegedly attempting to abridge Sinclair''''s right to free speech, and for waging an intimidation campaign against him.
check out the video on youtube for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=sVeFVtcdSYY
America wants to know: where''''s the media coverage on this???? We deserve to hear the truth!
Posted by TruthBeTold- at 08:46 PM : Feb 17, 2008
Her crimes against America followed by her arrogance and disassociation from her antics shows she''d be in perfect company with President Cheney and Bush.