The New Puritanism
Everybody in the house say "Chilling Effects"!
("Chilling Effects!")
Everybody in the house say "FCC!"
("FCC!")
Everybody in the house say "[content redacted]!"
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So, last night CBS bleeped out Janet Jackson exclaiming "Jesus!" on David Letterman. All the kids are in bed, but the Lord is always watching. Or some such bullshit.
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Not so oddly, the logic
Not so oddly, the logic behind that one remains the same as the other FCC decisions: Not offending religious prigs. They don't like hearing the Lord's name as an expletive or taken in vain. So we're left with a landscape in which "goddamit" is unacceptable, but "[bleep]dammit" is OK. Brilliant.