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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Lets The F-Word Slip

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in At TMV.
Nov 11th, 2008 | Comments

And we don’t mean “fudge.” WARNING: Adult word so hide kiddies.

And who says nothing spontaneous happens on TV anymore?

On the other hand, much talk radio and cable TV discussion of issues has boiled down to using that word without using that word…

CORRECTION: The earlier headline misidentified Scarborough as being on Fox News. TMV regrets the error.

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djshay

Umm. Joe Scarborough is on MSNBC's Morning Joe, but you can be forgiven for thinking he is on Fox. He would be a perfect fit there.

archangel

Goodness.

perhaps the most odd /funny/ironic thing is the expressions of all the other pundits on Scarborough's show who have child-like expressions of 'Owm, you said 'the bad bad word,' Owmmm.'

That was priceless, their expressions after the fact, and though I wouldnt like the lexicon as a matter of daily discourse, it looks like a mistake. One of those unguarded blurts that makes you wish you could jump off the roof and go invisible.

One wonders where the 'bleeper-outer-of-bad-words' guy was at MSNBC. Asleep at the Bleeper, obviously. Poor guy.

It was a Groucho moment, that's for sure. (Who used to cuss like a sailor it is said)

dr.e

joegandelman

I'm writing this as I get ready to go out of state for a few days...but that is NO excuse. That's a very bad error and I'm going to fix it and run a correction notice. THANKS

roro80

Wow, after all his panty-sniffing, holier-than-thou witch hunts, Janet Jackson-demonizing, and the real attempts to make that particular word a friggin issue of political import, Joe of all people lets it fly. I assume he will be calling for his own firing now?

Rambie

OMG, someone call the FCC... "Won't someone pleaseeee think of the children!"

LOL

StockBoySF

It was clearly a mistake. Yawn....

But I agree with roro80 (and Rambie) and all the hypocrisy that goes on around such matters (mistakes). Poor Janet, her boob will never be the same. Yet Joe can make this boo-boo and get away with it. :) Anyway, let it drop.

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