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John Mayer´s Curse Dodges 5-Sec-Delay on NBC´s Star-Packed Tsunami-Telethon

With contributions by high-profile cast of music an movie stars NBC broadcasted a live Telethon for Tsunami victims on Saturday evening. It was reminiscent of the 9/11 benefit with music performances and tsunami stories told by Hollywood actors.

While Hollywood heartthrobs Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Leonardo di Caprio, Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage, Johnny Depp, George Clooney and Tom Selleck were taking telephone pledges, music stars Madonna, Norah Jones, Elton John and Lenny Kravitz performed.

John Mayer´s performance was overshadowed by an expletive he cursed withdrawing from the microphone during a guitar solo. That profanity got live on air bypassing NBC´s five-second delay, planned to protect against such occurance.

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	Great
	Now because of some minor technical error, all the networks are in for a ride. This is getting rediculous. It's a word. It's not going to fry your brain or scar your children. I could understand if a hardcore p0rn ended up in a sesame street timeslot on PBS, but an accidental curse word is not worth getting in a fuss over, especially considereing it's a benifit show. We have bigger and more important things to worry about. Well thats my rant, if it turns out no one cares, then I'm happy :)


by:	rapscaLLion	01/16/2005 06:47 AM

	Yeah rapscaLLion
	Got to agree. What is the problem in America where the land of free speech gets bent out of shape by a single word or some nudity. When I lived in England regular TV channels (i.e. terrestrial free channels) had every kind of swear word on late at night. No one got sued for millions, no one got hurt. I would compare Britain with America any day for morality, culture, social policy and compassion. Cuss words do not corrupt society; nudity does not make children into rapists. I hate to see a country that so regularly touts its freedom to censor itself so badly it begins to look like Victorian England. Let's spend more time worrying about the poor and needy. The 45 million that don't have adequate insurance, or the 12 million who live below the poverty line. Let's worry about real issues and stop getting bent out of shape about some tits or some 'bad' language. All that said I do think someone needs to ban John Mayer and for that matter Ashlee Simpson. Although perhaps she should be told she can only perform if she is lip syncing to a digitally corrected version of her song and be fully nude. But I digress…


by:	ZCT	01/16/2005 07:37 AM

	Inside job
	I'm not even going to bother to read this story, but I intuit that the word was deliberately passed to be broadcast to futher erode standards of propriety. Such fools will see that in the long run this will result in future conditions they won't want their family, friends and neighbours to endure. However, anarhists don't have any foresight, do they?


by:	Luhker	01/16/2005 08:08 AM

	@luhker
	You gotta give advanced notice so I can stay out of the way of any future crusades, ok? Such a primitive and superstitious being...


by:	erasedgod	01/16/2005 09:02 AM

	Oh?
	I guess it depends on which side your bread is buttered on. If he said "F*ck it", the protests would be deafening. If he said "God bless..." then the other side would be heard protesting. For some reason, I don't find either one of them offensive.


by:	firstsgtmike	01/16/2005 11:50 AM

	The funny thing....
	Is that in something so many people gave thier time and money to the only thing that is discussed is a slip of the tongue and a naughty word.... :)


by:	bag	01/16/2005 12:14 PM

	@
	For some reason, I find both 'f*ck you' and 'God Bless' offensive. Anarchists to blame? Isn't it apparent that the inoffensive cow-towing "politically correct" (a term originating within the Communist Party USA) Socialist regulatory agencies within the U.S. are to blame for this supression of free-expression, and not the other end of the political spectrum? It's the controllers that want to control it and filthy it up instead with bleeps and silences... I would prefer raw sewage be spilled from a Television I don't watch anymore for that reason than to be "cleaned up" so that people would be lulled into a false sense of security or feeling of there being decency coming from that box. There is none; never will be. We are all best served by abolishing the censors, however. It does no good.


by:	verboten	01/16/2005 05:27 PM

	This country
	is getting so damn stupid when you can't even find out what 'naughty' word was said in the news article. Hopefully one day the FCC will be regulated and free speech will be free again. :P


by:	treyjazz	01/16/2005 07:13 PM

	@Luhker
	Please tell me you're being sarcastic... One word is not going to corrupt our youth. If people were so worried about it, they would all homeschool their kids and throw out their tv's... I heard more bad words ( and other crazy stuff ;D ) on the bus to school than I ever heard in all the movies I watched as a kid combined. Don't let people make you think otherwise... curse words have been around forever, and they did not, are not, and will never lead to the downfall of society. Everyone says them at one time or another. Move on, grow up.


by:	fredfredrickson	01/16/2005 11:27 PM

	I suppose...
	that Dick Cheney is the only person allowed to curse!


by:	lurker	01/16/2005 11:43 PM

	Well, some . . .
	reflection and discussion was sparked now wasn't it? You live with your decisions, I'll try to manage with mine! I modify and withdraw no assertions.


by:	Luhker	01/17/2005 01:13 AM

	wonderful
	good


by:	earlwhjr	01/24/2005 12:55 AM

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