Sally Field went into a crazy rant at the Emmys last night where she mumbled gibberish for a few seconds before finally shouting:
“If the mothers ruled the world there would be no @#$% wars in the first place.”
FOX cut her off right before the swear (a blaspheme that some people — me included — find quite offensive), but I bet a lot of people listening to the statement were saying to themselves, “I don’t know if that’s true; some mothers seem unhinged.”
I think the statement could be made more accurate by adding more — not less — swearing, though:
“If the bad ass THISISSPAMTHISISSPAMace because they’d @#$% kill you if you even thought of starting a war, bitch!”
Of course, such wisdom as that is beyond vapid, self-absorbed celebrities.
Sally Field is absolutley right. Mother’s are so much better at leading the country and there would be no more wars. That being said, I’d like to nominate Susan Smith and Andrea Yates for Pres and VP in 08.
Oh, puh-leez! The religious right have become so twisted in trying to bend the media to their agenda. The word “[word removed by IMAO]” is not a word that really deserves to be bleeped. If the censors bleeped every word that a variety of people found offensive, we would not hear anything on TV. I think we should bleep every instance of when a woman is referred to as a girl.
Oh, Diane. To take the name of G-d in vain (i.e., to use His name as an expletive) is # 2 on the all-time list of Important Stuff You Should Pay Attention To i.e. the Ten Commandments. Those who aren’t believers don’t notice and don’t care. But to those who believe it is quite serious. Surely you can grant us a little indulgence in not making us listen to what we deem blasphemy at every turn. It is pervasive, offensive, and just another example of the coarsening of our culture.
Meanwhile, can we all agree that Sally Field should vow always to work from a script?
Diane,
I’m deeply offended by your desire to bleep every instance of when a woman is referred to as a girl. This ignores the equally heinous acts of referring to men as boys, the elderly as spring chickens, street thugs as disaffected youths, terrorists as young men in need of jobs, and other inaccurate and demeaning labels.
Stop being so narrow-minded. Men, the elderly, street thugs, and terrorist have feelings, too.
Yes Diane, the only people who matter are blacks, gays and Muslims. If she had used a term that offended one of those groups she would currently be in rehab, but if she offends the Christians that make up 80-percent of this country, that’s fine. You’re so right (insert sarcasm here).
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Just so very funny… Mothers have ruled the world, like for instance Margaret Thatcher (remember the Falklands?), Aliénor D’Aquitaine (took part in the second crusade) or queen Victoria (just too many wars to choose from). That’s why I am all in favor of MRTW (mothers ruling the world), they launch kickass wars and they win them!
Diane, just take a Midol & chill out. Everyone else, remember not to take Diane’s name in vain, or you’ll really be in trouble.
I think Sally “Out-in-Left” Field should’ve gotten an Emmy for “Best Melodramatic Grandstanding While On Stage for Another Stupid-Ass Hollywood Self-Promoting Award Ceremony”.
Can you imagine what a demented circus this would be if mothers like Casey Sheehans’ ruled the world!?! Talk about ineffectual leadership… it’s bad enough of a thought of Hillary getting MORE power.
Dang! Does Sally kiss Cindy Sheehan with that mouth? Maybe her Flying Nun days made her bitter? Possibly that Smokie and the Bandit bit left her a little crazy?
I especially love when the audience is applauding her, and the ungrateful [expletive] yells at them for it because, “I HAVE TO FINISH TALKING!!!”
Whoa, Diane! You mean we have been trying to bend the media to our agenda?? I don’t think I got that memo. Come to think of it, either NOBODY got that memo or else we REALLY suck at bending stuff! Have you SEEN the garbage on tv?
Get these mother%&#ing moonbats off my mother%&#ing stage!
I wonder what Sally Field would say to all the mothers who lost children on 9/11. I wonder what she would say to Bill Clinton’s mother about all the people killed on his watch.
I wonder how those remarks would sound to her if she weren’t a rich woman in a free country. How it would sound to a woman in an Islamic dominated country who lost a boy because he wasn’t a Muslim… or lost a daughter because she wasn’t dressed like a damn beekeeper or had on makeup.
How might that sound to the Israeli mother who lost children because some Muslim retard decided to hasten his entry to paradise by blowing himself up in front of a restaurant, day school, marketplace, ad nauseum…
But maybe she’s right; we shouldn’t fight in any wars. We should just let whatever happens, happen. Which makes me wonder:
How would her ignorant remarks sound in Arabic…?
How would her ignorant remarks sound in Arabic…?
they would sound like this
muffle..mummble…muffle…mumble…SHRIEK…mumble…#$%#& ….Burka
But they would look all swirly and cool in print
We are just @#$% lucky that the feeble minded
@#$% idiots in @#$% Hollywood arent running the
@#$% world. By the way Sally WE dont @#$% like you any @#$% more!
To Sally:
We dislike you! We REALLY dislike you!
But she meant a different (totally nonexistant, my DNC handlers say) supreme entity!
Personally, I miss the days when I could tune into an awards show and feed my hate. Who can forget Marlon Brando’s refusal of his “Godfather” Oscar via a phony aggrieved Indian squaw, or (still the best) Vanessa Redgrave’s gasp-inducing “Zionist thugs” anti-Israel diatribe? These rants were Hollywood’s best chance to show the world what a bunch of lefty morons they really were, and were the ONLY reason to tune in – but now acceptance speeches are strictly “How many Jews can I name in 30 seconds?”
As for that God-awful swear word (can we just call it a curse instead of the incredibly weak “swear” or “cuss”?), I personally think God views anyone reluctant to use it as a pussy…
P.S. Just curious – do you people all hit the mute button for the last 10 seconds of “Planet of The Apes”, or do the Blockbusters in Pigeon Holler take care of that for you?
If mothers ruled the world, there would be no alphabet, no wheeled vehicles, no computers, no internet, no internal combustion engines, no mathematics, etc., because we would all be too busy cleaning our rooms, putting toilet seats down, and picking up after ourselves.
I will come out as agreeing with Sally Field. “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” Since that hand belongs to a nanny and to the nanny state, clearly nannies like wars in ways that mothers don’t. Down with day care! Up with the traditional one breadearner nuclear family! Preach it Sally!
As for the blasphemy, if you don’t believe, please take a hypothetical stance about the existence of a land of infinite suffering that nobody was meant to go to and consider why casual references to sending people there for eternity might be highly offensive.