http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN1144512920070911
Comic Kathy Griffin's "offensive" remarks about Jesus at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards will be cut from a pre-taped telecast of the show, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday.Hilarious.
Griffin made the provocative comment on Saturday night as she took the stage of the Shrine Auditorium to collect her Emmy for best reality program for her Bravo channel show "My Life on the D-List."
"A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus," an exultant Griffin said, holding up her statuette. "Suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now."
Asked about her speech backstage a short time later, an unrepentant Griffin added, "I hope I offended some people. I didn't want to win the Emmy for nothing."
I do think it is ridiculous that they are editing out her comments. What ever happened to free speech??
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I think it is great that Kathy said that. I would like to see more of that sort of thing.
However, to be perfectly fair, Fox airs the Emmy Awards and, therefore, has the right to air or not air whatever they damn well please. This is not an issue of free speech. If the government were censoring this, then it would be an issue of free speech because the Government has no ownership over Fox. I'm sure that if Fox aired Kathy's comments that they would suffer financially due to pressures from advertising. I doubt that Fox cares about much more than how much they can make off broadcasting the Emmy Awards.
Alternatively, if the government were to force Fox to air Kathy Griffin's full speech, *that* would be in direct violation of free speech because it would force Fox to express something that they would otherwise choose not to express. Think about it.
I agree that Fox has the "right" to censor the statement, but I think it is in poor taste.
When discussing free speech here, I was talking more about the sociological acceptance of free speech rather than the governmental right. If she were cussing or saying things that were contrary to the what is allowable on television, then yes, bleep her.
I'm certainly not advocating government interference in any way and certainly not to force Fox to air it. But to censor speech that they just don't like or agree with, that just doesn't sit well with me.
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