DNC, ABC News Tell Dem Candidates Not To Swear During Debate

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The Democratic National Committee and ABC News would like the 2020 candidates to please keep it clean on the debate stage this week.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1247548
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Fuck that.

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So what happens if someone lets the f-bomb out on national TV? Is that any worse than HALF the things they let Trump get away with in one rally???

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The obscenity is in the White House.

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Gee I was hoping for some old school Biden working blue.

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Well, fuck that shit.

Our modern day Caligula still has his criminal fat ass in the WH so there is nothing any candidate could say that would be more obscene than that.

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[OT] This is primarily owing to extreme rightwing Catholics in the US and Bill Barr is prominent among them.

There are folks in the RCC who will never accept Vatican II, much less a progressive Pope.

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“…avoid cursing or expletives in accordance with federal law and FCC guidelines”

…but TPM commenters can still let loose, because it wouldn’t be a good TPM discussion without one of @ralph_vonholst’s creative variations of “wanker” or @tena’s colorful daily call for impeachment

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Will they be telling Preznit Shits-For-Brains the same thing when they host one of the Prezidential debates? Asking for a friend.

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Barr is part of the Opus ‘Dayum’ Society or whatever the group of wealthy ultra-conservative Catholic elites like to call themselves these days.

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Goodness gracious me. That’s the shit they’re worried about?

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The FCC can fine the network for swearing or obscenity in a live broadcast, and the current FCC would probably gladly go after them just for sport. The FCC won’t go after Trump for his racist hate speech, even though that is far worse for kids to hear than any of the swear words.

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I told you I don’t swear anymore since I left the band, goddammit.

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Is it just me or does Steve Kornacki drive anyone else crazy? Watching him now and damnit, I wish he would drink chamomile instead of caffeine just once. Some people aren’t cut out for the hard stuff.

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I don’t get why anyone should have to watch their words in that way on debate night. I mean, why is this night different than all other nights? I can assure you its not because we eat matzah.

So I guess saying “shithole countries” referencing our Great Leader is out, huh?

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Because the occasional contextually appropriate use of everyday curse words that literally everyone over the age of 12 uses at least now and then–including the fuckwads who insist on this–is what’s really hurting America, not guns or violence in general, drugs, racism, misogyny, militarism, rampant corruption and dishonesty, climate change, etc. No, using the words fuck, shit and asshole are.

When will this country finally grow up and abandon the hypocrisy and fake prurience?

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Because tonight we taste the bitter fucking herbs of Donald Trump’s cranial asshole.

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Fucking Clearly Anti-Beto bias.

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Otherwise known as heretics sure to experience eternal damnation. The Pope is infallible and OD by its very nature is heretical and thus damned. Vatican II mofos!

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