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Deggans' Favorite Bloopers of 2008: Diane Keaton Drops the F-Bomb on GMA
What's best about this clip, is that the relentlessly conservative idealogues at the Media Research Center tried to make this into a "Hollywood is Babylon"-type argument, insisting that the FCC should take action against ABC and Good Morning America.
Robert Knight, director of the MRC's Culture and Media Institute, put it this way in a statement: "“There’s no reason ABC should not take full responsibility....The presence of Hollywood celebrities, who are known for vulgar outbursts, ought to send the in-house monitors at Good Morning America into High Alert mode. But this morning, they were asleep at the switch. At least, that's the most generous interpretation of this unfortunate incident.”
Watch the video and judge for yourself:
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