"Honestly didn't know you could put this word on television"

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Honestly didn’t know you could put this word on television

[Lindsay]

1. Now that we've broken that barrier,

maybe they could use the word "lie" more frequently.

[pangaia]

32. YES !!!!!!!!!!!!! The money shot !!

[HAB911]

38. WERD

[bearsfootball516]

2. I was under the impression that you couldn't

But I love that they did. Maximum impact, no need to sugarcoat it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. cable

[snooper2]

27. I clearly remember George Carlin not having shithole as one of the banned words

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. Ah, but "shit" WAS. Numero Uno, as I recall.

So I suppose all derivatives must be included. But I'm not going to spoil their fun. I think some of them are halfway ENJOYING the opportunity to say "shit" on live TV.

And I still agree that "tits" doesn't even belong on the list.

[tazkcmo]

3. France

I expect they will be asking for that nice statue back any time now.

[nolabear]

4. Im glad they did. We need to be appalled.

Of course there is the danger of this becoming the new normal. Jesus, I hate that knuckle dragging monster.

[Siwsan]

5. Wow - neither did I! But I'm glad they did.

Maybe it's a sign of how angry and frustrated people are becoming. The press and MSM needs to stop pussy footing around the vile words that tumble out of that narcissistic misanthrope's mouth, and start documenting them, in real time.

[jmowreader]

16. How about tiptoeing around?

I hate using the word pussy when we’re talking about Trump.

[Siwsan]

17. Use it if you prefer

It is an old saying that has a specific meaning. I don't twist myself into pretzels over such things.

[Hekate]

25. Pussyfooting means treading softly like a cat. Always has ...

Trump dragged the secondary meaning out of the gutter and into our living rooms, and here we are.

Nonetheless, pull a Mother Goose volume off your children's bookshelf and find:

1). Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?
I've been to London to visit the Queen.
Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

2). Ding-dong bell, pussy's in the well.
Who put her in? Little Tommy Green.
Who pulled her out? Little Bobby Stout.
What a naughty boy was that,
To try to drown poor pussycat,
Who never did him any harm,
But killed the mice in Father's barn.

[grantcart]

6. Just saw this exact same thing on Family Guy

"Didn't know you could say 'bang your wife' on TV"

When Trump has out done Family Guy we have achieved a new level of hell.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Cable has different rules. The real obscenity is anything that comes out of the mouth

of the active traitor in the WH.

The vile pile of human dung in the WH who is ACTIVELY engaged in TREASON as we speak working WITH Putin to hack our democracy.

This country would be burned to the GROUND if a democrat did this and the D party did nothing, the R party would SEE to it!

[delisen]

9. The Limbo Competition_how low can we go?

The Republican Party is leading the race to the bottom.

[onecaliberal]

15. They're a crime family and a crime party. There is no bottom.

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. I'm sure you all know that FCC has no control over what is said on

cable.

[Kirk Lover]

11. Jim Acosta just said shithole and my neck snapped back...I just turned on the TV didn't

know what the story was yet. And then PHIL MUDD.....said what needs to be said over and over again. I yelled at the TV PREACH BROTHER, PREACH. This ugly face of racism against the immigrant is nothing new. Damn ignorant fools !

[Amaryllis]

12. There are no norms any more.

[TomSlick]

13. My mother would have washed my mouth out with soap.

It's a mystery I wasn't struck blind by soap poisoning.

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[yonder]

23. Exactly!

I was 7 or 8 years of age and had a habit of exclaiming "shoot" whenever I felt the need. Once, at a family gathering of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends, I saw the need for my little exclamation. However, it didn't quite come out that way. Well, before I could gargle out a "sorry", mom had marched this little mister to the sink and in front of astonished family, proceeded to introduce my little ivories to a bar of Ivory. Gotta say, I never forgot the melody of that Proctor and Gamble tune.

[LiberalLovinLug]

42. I came from a strict evangelical family

You know, like the kind of people who voted overwhelmingly for the shithole in chief.

And we would get in trouble for even using words like shoot, heck, and dang. Because they were simply covers for their more crude meanings.

[onecaliberal]

14. Oh well Ms. Rhule, couldn't bring herself to say it.

She was saying S H I T hole. And her takeaway was her hoping dump can do better. Mind numbing.

[whathehell]

36. It wasn't just her...Most on MSNBC wouldn't say it

It seemed like a ""policy" decision.

[MineralMan]

18. If you're quoting the POTUS, you can.

In fact, if you have tape of it, you can run that, too.

Besides, cable stations have no such rules.

[edbermac]

19. Make that Six Words You Can Never Say On Television.

[rusty fender]

20. of course, it's Broadcast television

that the FCC has banned the use of those seven words

[Orsino]

21. As he does with IQ averages...

...Trump lowers the bar wherever he goes.

There was no way his presidency wasn't going to make our discourse meaner and less intelligent.

2018 will probably see more common use of such terms as "bestiality," "fuckstick," and "atomic sea beasts."

[niyad]

22. I caught a bit of msnbc and nicole wallace yesterday. she just kept shaking her head,

saying, "still trying to process this". the others with her looked pretty much the same.

[Codeine]

24. Of course they can say it on cable.

The FCC doesn’t have a mandate over cable. I really WAS surprised to hear it on NPR this morning, however.

[skydive forever]

26. But, but, but

What about the children?

[Nitram]

29. NPR used the word in reporting the story.

[LiberalArkie]

30. CNN is a cable channel not a broadcast channel.

FCC rules really only apply to over the air broadcast stations. Like AM, FM and Television stations.

[Sancho]

31. just a reminder...

[orleans]

33. i don't have cable and the local news played

the clip of durbin quoting trump and didn't bleep out the word when durbin said it.

wow.

public television (i forget which news i had on--cbs, abc or nbc) has broken through the shit barrier

[Liberal In Texas]

34. Cable is no probem

Broadcast not so much. Different rules.
Over the air is not allowed to have "swear" words. Cable is not regulated that way.

[videohead5]

35. SNL?

I wonder if SNL is going to try to get away with saying it?...they are on late in the east but they are also live to the west coast.

[pressbox69]

37. Yes SNL

will probably lead off with a president sh**hole sketch. It will probably replace their president Oprah sketch.

[crazycatlady]

39. He also brought the word 'pussy' into the mainstream

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. Ugh. Clueless.