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  • Stacey Dash Suspended For Vulgarity On Fox’s ‘Outnumbered’

    Another Fox correspondent is receiving backlash for using inappropriate language on air, and this time around, it’s former actress Stacey Dash.

    During a live episode of the Fox daytime news and talk show Outnumbered, panelists discussed President Obama’s address regarding the recent shooting in San Bernardino and the government’s measures to fight terrorism, which he delivered from the Oval Office on Sunday.

    This Speech By Pres. Obama Drew Strong Reactions From Stacey Dash And Ralph Peters

    Regular panelist Andrea Tantaros kicked off the discussion by commenting on Obama’s seeming insincerity about the gravity of the country’s terrorism situation because of his decision to change immediately into a tuxedo “in haste” to attend another event afterwards.

    Fellow panelist Lisa Kennedy weighed in on the issue and criticized the Obama administration for “fixing” the president’s official speech transcript by changing the fact that one of the two suspects, Tashfeen Malik, entered the United States on a “visa waiver” as opposed to a fiancée visa – a detail that was stated in the speech.

    Stacey Dash – who is a semi-regular panelist on the show – proceeded to call the president’s speech “ridiculous” and an “epic fail,” comparing Obama to a teenager who “has to go to dinner with their parents but they have to go to a party afterwards.”

    After declaring that the speech lacked passion and sincerity, Stacey Dash became emotional and accidentally cursed on live TV.

    “I felt like he could give a s**t — excuse me, like he could care less,” she said.

    Watch Stacey Dash Get Censored For Cursing On Daytime TV

    Stacey Dash has since been suspended from the network for two weeks because of the offense.

    However, she isn’t the only one who got penalized for using vulgar language on TV. During a December 7 broadcast of Varney & Co. on the Fox Business Network, retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters made a strong comment on the same Obama speech.

    Retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters Uses Profanity In Another Fox Show

    “We want you to react, do something. You’re afraid,” Peters said about the president’s reaction towards the recent terrorist attacks. “I mean, this guy is such a total p***y, it’s stunning, and you know, we want — we the people, the American people who he does not know in any intimate sort of manner, we want action.”

    Like Stacey Dash, Lt. Col. Peters was also given a two-week suspension from the network.

  • These Massachusetts Protesters Will Cuss If They Wanna and Bans Be Damned

    Earlier this month, the town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, passed an ordinance declaring public use of cuss words a punishable offense worthy of a $20 fine. As you can imagine, there were people who took issue with this new ordinance and today some disapproving residents (and at least one non-resident) of the anti-profanity measure rallied to voice their opposition in the most colorful way imaginable: by shouting out cuss words and holding up swear word-bearing signs.

    Honestly, it is somewhat absurd to think that a $20 fine is going to redirect a behavior that has existed within humanity since people first learned to talk. Cussers gonna cuss, and haters gonna hate. As victimless “crimes” go, cussing ranks right up there among other offenses like leaving the toilet seat up and chewing with your mouth open. Still, the ordinance practically begs for opposition from some young upstarts and, lo and behold, if you build it, they will come.

    Adam Kokesh, who organized the opposition really, excitedly decried the government as a “bully” for passing such an ordinance. Kokesh, who actually doesn’t even live in Massachusetts but in New Mexico, said that the issue wasn’t just about the right to free speech (even though it pretty much is, as a fellow supporter points out in the video below) and went on to escalate the anti-profanity ordinance as some larger metaphor for why government sucks.

    Kokesh has made a small name for himself as a regular anti-war protester and even has his own website up, Adam Versus The Man. According to that site, he made a failed bid to represent New Mexico in the House of Representatives in 2010.

    YouTube user rachelabombdotcom uploaded a video of Kokesh explaining to reporters why he thinks today’s protest is necessary. And yes, he uses some purple language, so if you are in possession of some delicate sensibilities to language, you’ve been warned.

    Meanwhile, the same government body that implemented the $20 fine-for-cussing ordinance in Massachusetts is said to be considering a ban on Civil War beards, prompting further speculation that Kokesh’s next rally in Middleborough could gain the support of re-enactors of the 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

    [via Boston Herald.]

  • Town Swears Off Swearing: Watch Your Mouth or Pay the Fine

    A town that swears off swearing sounds like a place heavily inspired by director Marco Brambilla’s deeply underrated Sylvester Stallone/Wesley Snipes sci-fi actioner “Demolition Man”. In the film, a citation is automatically issued every time a person utters an inappropriate word, which ultimately becomes a running joke due to Stallone’s inability to curb his swearing. Although it may sound like a pretty goofy gimmick from an empty-headed Hollywood endeavor, something very similar is going down in the town of Middlesbrough, Massachusetts.

    In an effort to get the younger generation to cut back on the amount of foul language they spout in public, officials have passed an ordinance that would issue a fine of $20 to anyone caught spewing filth around others. Middleborough passed a public profanity law in 1966, though it was rarely used due to the cost and time required to drag the offending individual into court. Instead, they decriminalized profanity and transformed it into an ordinance, which would allow police to distribute tickets the same way they issue traffic violations.

    What about the ordinance encroaching on a person’s right to free speech? That’s definitely a concern, says Matthew Segal, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. “Police officers who never enforced the bylaw might be tempted to issue these fines, and people might end up getting fined for constitutionally protected speech,” he explained.

    However, despite First Amendment concerns, several local business owners are happy with the decision. In their eyes, public profanity in the downtown area has raged out of control for far too long. Fining folks for flinging obscenities might force them to watch their mouths.

    “I’m really happy about it. I’m sure there’s going to be some fallout, but I think what we did was necessary,” Mimi Duphily, who owns an auto parts store, said in response to the vote. Regarding the perpetrators themselves, she stated, “They’ll sit on the bench and yell back and forth to each other with the foulest language. It’s just so inappropriate.”

  • Facebook Users are Dirty, Foul-Mouthed Heathens

    Social Media monitoring service Reppler has just put out some statistics on their blog about the prevalence of profanity on our Facebook walls. And the results probably won’t shock you – people like to say f*ck to their friends on Facebook.

    Reppler states on their site that they are “designed to keep your social media reputation clean and safe.” They do this by monitoring your content, privacy and security. Basically, if you sign up for the Reppler service, they will monitor your Facebook interactions on your profile to determine things like tone of the content (positive or negative) and the appropriateness of the content.

    The service also deals with privacy by alerting users to suspicious links posted on their walls and advises the users which content should be made private to avoid security concerns.

    Because lets face it, many companies are now using Facebook as a scouting location for future employees. And if post number one on your wall is from your friend Dave telling you that he $^*% the $%^$^$ out of $%$#@%ing !$#!, then it’s not going to make an incredibly strong impression.

    So Reppler has analyzed the walls of its over 30,000 registered users and found some stats about swearing on the Facebook.

    • 47% have profanity on their walls (although they don’t say what constitutes “profanity,” I can guess my definition might be a bit more liberal)
    • 80% of those that have profanity on their walls have a profane comment contributed by a friend
    • 56% of the posts/comments with profanity come from friends
    • Here’s an interesting split – the users in question are twice as likely to curse in the post on their own wall, like a status update, as opposed to a comments.  Friends are exactly the opposite.
    • And when it comes to specific words, f*ck and its various derivations are the number one type of profanity.  Sh*t comes in at number two (too easy).  And b*tch comes in at a distant third.  Moral: when people be cussin’ people be makin the most of it.

    The fact that a significant percentage of the profanity on a user’s Facebook Wall comes from friends demonstrates one of the issues with Facebook – users don’t have complete control over the language used on their Facebook Wall, yet the language used by friends can have an impact on how others perceive them.

    Do you like to keep a pristine wall?  Are you worried that profanity on your Facebook page could negatively impact your professional life?  Or do you not give a f@#$%^ $h*!?

    Hat tip to All Facebook