Re: the language watch continues

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mediaone.net>]

At 11:33 PM -0400 9/4/00, Donna Halper wrote:
>So without getting into politics, as you know, Gov. Bush referred to 
>a New York Times reporter a "major league bastard"-- into an open 
>mike that wasn't supposed to be...  From what I have seen so far, 
>Channel 4 bleeped the B word, as did CNN.  ABC did not.  Reuters did 
>not.  Would you, given that the word is used on assorted talk shows 
>and on night-time dramas?

Except, as I heard it, the word was not "bastard", it was "asshole". 
I heard the CBC news via satellite, and they did not bleep anything.
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Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH