MSNBC Host Now Guarded by 7-Second Delay

[Faygo Kid]

Source: New York Times

NEW YORK (AP) -- After an F-bomb dropped on ''Morning Joe,'' the MSNBC news-talk show has installed an early-warning system.

A seven-second delay was added with Tuesday's broadcast, to protect against future eruptions such as that of host Joe Scarborough, who seemed to surprise even himself with his verboten utterance.

Scarborough slipped Monday while attempting to describe the rawboned manner of Rahm Emanuel, incoming White House chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama.

Amid his many on-air apologies, Scarborough said, ''My wife is going to kill me when I get home'' and spoke of washing out his mouth with soap. . .

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-MSNBC-Tape-Delay.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Say it ain't so, Joe.

[GodlessBiker]

1. Too funny. They're treating him like he's in high school. How appropriate.

[onehandle]

2. I wonder how many real complaints they got.

Personally, I don't think it was a big deal. Joe sucks, but shit happens.

[HopeHoops]

18. What's to complain about? I thought the expressions on the other faces were funny as hell!

[Bake]

21. I thought Barnicle was going to have a stroke!

His reaction was priceless.

Bake

[high density]

3. How about a 100 year delay on that show.

What a waste of bandwidth Joe is.

[BootinUp]

8. I propose a delay equal to the half life of plutonium. lol. nt

[Berry Cool]

10. His brain is already on 100-year delay. n/t

[msongs]

4. its cable tv, not broadcast. why would the F word rules apply? nt

[merwin]

6. Station standards, not broadcast standards.

They can drop the f bomb all they want legally.

[valerief]

5. I wonder what his rethug cronies would do if KO or RM did it on a morning show.

Probably they'd request life imprisonment.

[Mabus]

7. So old Joe is now being monitored

for the country's "protection". Another fine example of Republican Family Values. :rofl:

[happygoluckytoyou]

9. Joe The Asswipe, no relation to the plumber

[HopeHoops]

19. The same applies

[Barbara2423]

11. Scarborough should be taken off the air

This is before the 4 letter word.

[appleannie1]

12. Funny thing to happen to the clothing malfunction loudmouth who has ranted against stars using the F

[LiberalFighter]

13. His wife is going to kill him when he gets home? Lying again?

Probably swears more at home than on the air.

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. That's got to be humiliating to him.

But then, KO had George Carlin on "Countdown" several times, and not ONCE did he let one of "the Heavy Seven" slip (although I'm sure there were little sweat-balls popping out on the producer's forehead)...

Hey, what the fuck. Shit happens. I can think of better reasons than that to disagree with ol' Joe.

[auburngrad82]

15. Where's the $250,000 FCC fine for indecency when you really need it?

Fair is fair. If you're going to fine some (ie the Super Bowl fiasco) then you need to fine MSNBC for his language.

[onenote]

17. law only applies to broadcast television, not to cable

[City Lights]

16. I have Morning Joe on permanent delay. nt

[JJ]

20. Too bad they don't have a delay and bleep for lies.

Fuck is probably the least offensive thing he's said since he's been on MSNBC.

[StrictlyRockers]

22. Dude just needs to keep his mouth shut. Period. Why does he hate America so?

[Shine]

23. LOL! I loved how he didn't even realize he'd said it and just went right on speaking

:rofl:

[Supersedeas]

24. Soup will not clean the filth spewing from his mouth