Corporate Media: “ABC Censored the Superbowl — But for Censorship Reasons, We Won’t Say How.”
Ensuring complete sexual purity, Disney CEO Robert Iger was recently engaged to Disney’s septuagenarian mascot, Mickey Mouse.
Articles in the New York Times, the Scotsman, MSNBC, CNN, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and BBC News reported the censorship without explicitly stating what was censored. (Reuters appears to be an exception.)
The offending words? “Cocks” and “come.”
Disney executives defended the decision in a press conference. (Disney owns ABC.) “Can you imagine if the masses had heard the words ‘cocks’ and ‘come’?” asked CEO Robert Iger. “They would all get so horny! Women would become unchaste. Men, like lechers.”
Added Iger, pounding his fist on the podium: “Free love would spread like a wave of terror across the land! It would be chaos, I tell you! Dirty chaos!”
Worse things happen at sea. I remember when Germaine Greer was banned from being on New Zealand radio because she had used an eight letter word. I nearly went mad trying to guess that eight letter word only to find out later that it was “bullshit”. Golly. Imagine how relieved I was to find out that my government had saved me from hearing her say that. I am eternally grateful
Comment by Queenie — February 7, 2006 @ 7:18 am