Emmys Censor Sally Field's Anti-War Statement

Los Angeles Times:

"If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god -" Emmy winner Sally Field said before the Emmycast cut her off her sound and pointed the camera away from the stage so viewers would be distracted. Cut off were the words "god-damned wars in the first place."

"How can this be?" she asked when she won best actress in a drama series for her work as matriarch Nora Walker on "Brothers & Sisters." While the two-time Oscar winner already has two Emmys, this was her first nomination for series work, and she bested a field that included favorite Edie Falco of "The Sopranos."

"This belongs to all the mothers of the world - may they be seen and valued," she said in a heartfelt speech that was only partially heard by Emmywatchers in the US while CTV in Canada did not cut her off.

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Comments

[dgscol]

I have always loved the charm of Sally's voice, her general demeanor, and her acting. Consider that it was Jock that was her father - the Jock of all Jocks. If you look closely you will see that MS. Fields has fine bones but her tricepts need a little work. She has the weights. I saw them in her ad, so Sally... One two, one two.

[IMPRISONBUSH]

...." POOR SALLY THEY CENSORED HER "...........

THEY also censored the RALLEY over the weekend of " ANTI WAR VETS ", TWO RALLEYS and the ANTI-WAR RALLEY SHADED OUT THE BUSH VICTORY PEOPLE..
BUT is was a little hard for me to watch MOTHERS of our FALLEN GETTING UP TO A MIKE AND SAYING :
........" MY SON CHOSE TO DIE "................

......" ALL THE TOOPS WANT US TO STAY ".........

..........." WE CANT CUT AND RUN "............

WHAT MOTHER IN HER RIGHT MINDE WOULD SAY :
......" ALLTHE TROOPS WANT US TO STAY "........

NO ONE KNOWS WHATS IN THE MINDE OF OTHERS.

WHEN I WAS DRAFTED IN "63" OUR PRESIDENT :
HIDE OUT IN THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD---COAWARD

AND THE MOTHERS FEEL A COWARED IS THE BEST.

OTHERS STOOD TO SAY BUSH AND CHENEY WERE SAINTS

AGAIN " TWO COWARDS " THEY WANT TO LEAD THEM

AND THIS CUT AND RUN ONLY THE REPUBLICANS ARESAYING THAT YOU KNOW THEM AS THERE SONS AND DOUGHTERS LAY DEAD IN IRAQ THE REPUBLICANS CONGRESS AND SENATE TOOK BRIBES, KICK BACKS, MONEY UNDER THE TABLE.
AS HALLABURTON STOLE BILLIONS OUR TROOPS DRANK UNCLEAN WATER FROM THE RIVER.

BUT NOT ONE PICTURE WAS IN THE PAPPER BECAUSE LESS THEN 500 PEOPLE SHOWED FOR THE VICTORY MARCH.

[ctbutte]

Norma Rae she ain't!

[newman]

Sally, pointless.

It is true that wars ARE started by one 'mother' or another. Always have been. Always will be.

New

[wars4profit]

You're wrong to use the word "mother" as a pejorative. Wars are started by one man or another. Always have been. Always will be.

[Carolinagreens]

And how could she possibly have been better than Edie Falco?!

What does she want to do when evil people want to hurt us - say stop it now, take a time out! Bad boys! I'm a mom too and her comments were just dumb.

[momofsonofwar]

So are your's

[Carolinagreens]

Another hollywood nut job who can't keep their mouth shut. I don't care what she has to say about anything. Shut up and act!

[magicmary]

Hey, how come nobody has created www.thankyousallyfield.com yet?

[bushdoescrack]

Hey Sally, do us all a favor and shut up. Terrorists know that with people like you, they only need to lay low and keep their powder dry, you will do the work for them.



i really doubt that osama was tuned in to the emmy's, you stupid fuck.

[wars4profit]

Osama has a television in his remote cave. It runs off the same generator as his dialysis machine.

[amanda85]

Incidentally, this is what Jay Leno said last week. Oh yes, and everybody knows Osama runs a man/goat dating service...

Many, many Americans get their "news" from Jay Leno...

:)

[ceasenake]

He knows about neocons, global warming, the mortgage crisis and Noam Chomski, so why not?

[shaefromTn]

Boycott Faux and they will get the message or go bankrupt!!!!!

Sally Field you spoke the truth and it was censored by Faux!

Wake up America to what Faux and its criminials are doing to our great country!

[noamjunior]

why is it that cons are always saying that actors and actress are airheads that shouldn't give public opinions about political issues,
yet CONS seem perfectly willing to elect ACTORS with NO OTHER QUALIFICATIONS to public offics
ARNOLD
REAGAN
NOW THOMPSON
funny thing is- with their lame ass actro candidates-CONS prove themselvers right

[IMORPHEUS]

NOAMJUNIOR....You just earned a 'High Five' and a fruitbasket, after making that profound point...


A-fucking-men!!!

[hydenorhare]

"If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god-damned wars in the first place."

As a wise person pointed out ...

Some mothers raise suicide bombers.

Some mothers kill their own kids.

Some mothers sound like jackasses when they win acting awards.

[bushdoescrack]

Some mothers raise suicide bombers.

Some mothers kill their own kids.

Some mothers sound like jackasses when they win acting awards.



and one mother in particular should have a pillow over her retarded son's head, bab's bush really fucked up on that one.

[wars4profit]

hydenorhare--If you hate women so much, why did you spend nine months in your mother's womb? Too bad she didn't evict you as soon as she found out you were there.

[IMORPHEUS]

I met Sally Field some years ago and shared a 3 hour flight with her, from Miami to Denver...

She is a genuinely decent and unpretentious and kind woman, with more brains in her pinky, than the current Chief Executive, occupying the White House.

As for the CENSORSHIP...What's striking to me is, in the un-edited clip here, Ms. Field makes no direct political attack on the Bush Administration, nor the Republican Party.

She just made a passionate call to end the Occupation of Iraq, a sentiment that is shared by at last count, over 65percent, of the American electorate.

Now...guess what network this year's Emmy Awards was broadcast on?

You got it! F O X...

[TimN]

Name one TV Network that has allowed anyone to violate FCC regulation by using the term "God-damned" in a profane manner as Ms. Fields did.

Name just one.

[bushdoescrack]

Name one TV Network that has allowed anyone to violate FCC regulation by using the term "God-damned" in a profane manner as Ms. Fields did.



you sound more outraged over a bit of language than the rape and slaughter of iraq girls by your brave american soldiers. yeh, the heroes who gang rape little iraq girls, then kill them.
fuck you, fuck bush and fuck america, you piece of shit.

[FlaExRepub]

FX

[KosmicKat]

It's a sick world we live in. Britney Spears and Paris Hilton do outrageous things and they get full news coverage for their childishness. Sally Field says something that's true and from the heart, and that only right-wingers consider "outrageous," and she's censored.

Do we still live in a democracy?

Sally, you GO, gal! AND you're beautiful!

[Qbear]

What really is the most ironic thing about CENSORSHIP...if they had allowed Sally to speak unfiltered it would have gotten LESS ATTENTION.

[TimN]

Exactly, that is why this story was carried in its un-edited entirety on numerous network broadcast and cable news organizations including Fox Network and Fox News.

Kind of blows the contrived "they shut her up because she protested the war" story out of the water, now doesn't it?

[Jeff1958]

No, it proves that they were stupid for attempting to shut her up. Now everyone knows.

[wars4profit]

"IF MOTHERS RULED THE WORLD, THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY GODDAMNED WARS IN THE FIRST PLACE."

Thank you, Sally Field. You said it all.
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