Fox Kills Alec Baldwin's Phone Hacking Emmy Joke; Baldwin Pulls Out Of Ceremony

[deminks]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/18/fox-kills-alec-baldwins-phone-hacking-emmy-joke_n_968688.html

Rupert Murdoch's Fox network cut a joke by Alec Baldwin about the company's phone hacking scandal out of a skit for Sunday's Emmy Awards, causing Baldwin to pull out of the ceremony.

Deadline was the first to report the news, and Baldwin confirmed it on Twitter.

"Fox did kill my NewsCorp hacking joke," Baldwin wrote. "Which sucks bc I think it would have made them look better. A little."

Baldwin had made a reference to the omission in an earlier tweet, writing, "I did a short Emmy pretape a few days ago. Now they tell me NewsCorp may cut the funniest line. #NewsCorphumorlessaswellascorrupt."

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Yuck, I wouldn't wanna be on Faux anyway.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicon Propaganda Pimps, like Fox, are soooo thin-skinned

They cannot abide a whisper of the truth.

[butterfly77]

2. PROTEST FOX TOO..

[sarcasmo]

3. Fox kills more than just jokes.

[SoapBox]

4. Gotta keep the truth censored!

...what a sleeze ball organization.

[Firebrand Gary]

5. That just made them look all the more guiltier!

[Coexist]

6. his tweet about this....epic!

'if I were enmeshed in a scandal where I hacked phones of families of innocent crime victims purely 4 profit, I'd want that 2 go away"

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R

:thumbsup:

[AtomicKitten]

8. Fox: "We Paid $3 Billion For These Stations. We'll Decide What the News Is."

:puke: