It Takes One to Know One Jane.
Today on the Today Show, Jane Fonda let fly with the Mother of All Cuss Words regarding the vagina. Yes, the one that starts with C and ends with T.
It occurred during a segment when she was discussing the Vagina Monologues.
Meredith Viero appeared after the segment and apologized.
A while back she said F*ck during an interview with Diane Sawyer. correction: it was Diane Keaton that let fly. Thanks Robert.
You have to use these words in everyday language to use them so casually when you are in front of cameras in a TV studio.
Maybe she’s working on Carlin’s list. I think she’s looking for a fight with the FCC.
She probably will get it.
Viewers of NBC’s “Today” show got a provocative Valentine’s Day surprise when thesp Jane Fonda uttered a four-letter word widely considered demeaning and offensive to women.Host Meredith Vieira was asking the outspoken Fonda about her appearance in the play “The Vagina Monologues,” which includes a segment called “Cunt” that Fonda delivers and which she named during her answer.When first invited to join the cast of the play to read that segment, Fonda declined, in part because of its title. But then she met the playwright, Eve Ensler, who was also on the “Today” show with her, and saw the play, and changed her mind.
A Peacock spokeswoman said the net is letting Vieira’s on-air apology to viewers serve as comment for the entire company.
“You know, before we go to break, in our last half-hour we were talking about ‘The Vagina Monologues,’ and Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don’t say on television,” Vieira said to the camera. “It was a slip, and obviously she apologizes, and so do we. We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology.”
Activist group Parents Television Council, which has pressured federal officials to crack down on broadcast indecency, was not placated.
“If an NBC employee used the ‘c-word’ to another employee, that employee would be suspended or even fired,” PTC prexy and former NBC employee Tim Winter said in a statement. “While NBC’s apology is helpful, it is not enough — millions of families were indeed offended. NBC must change its broadcasting practices and implement a time delay on all of its live broadcasts, thereby ensuring that this type of language does not air on the publicly owned airwaves.”
An immediate Federal Communications Commission indecency action is unlikely since the agency’s policy on live, fleeting expletives is under court challenge.
Actually, Diane Keaton is the one who said “fucking” in an interview with Diane Sawyer.
@Robert: Thanks! Changed it. Did you see Fonda on Today?
I saw the apology – I guess you have to consider the source! LOL
That reminds me of a joke from The Snapper…
Whats hard and hairy on the outside, soft and wet on the inside, starts with a c, and ends with a t, and has a u and an n in the middle?
A c-c-c-c-c-coconut.
Yes, I saw the interview. At first I was, like, did she say what I think she said? Then Viera apologized. Hilarious!!
oh my god! no way! the end is nigh! Who cares? I saw it at the gym and laughed. She wasn’t being obscene, she was making the point that she was living in the conservative south. they asked her to do it and she refused because it would cause such a fuss…what’s funny is all these websites have just lost their mind reading so much into what she said. Bring back all that “Hanoi Jane” crap. The funnies is “It takes one to know one”- hi morons, she didn’t CALL anyone a CUNT. So that saying doesn’t apply!!
@Robert: Pretty early in the morning to have to do a double take. You could hurt yourself.
@Anne: Maybe my headline should have been: You have to Have One to Know One? I’m an old fart, so I really hate to see our language get more coarse. But I’ll accept that societies norms are changing. Would you say that it was a slip of the tongue for morning television?
“Fuck” I don’t mind. A college friend said it best: “Why is it considered mean to say ‘fuck you’? What you’re really saying is ‘Hey, get laid!'”
The C word is an ugly word, and despite my potty mouth, I don’t use it. It’s the women’s equivalent of the N word. I like “twat” — it sounds cute and friendly. (Although my kids call it a “woo-woo”, which sounds FUN!)
Don’t get me started on Jane Fonda anyway. Commie bitch.
That person should have been shot during the Vietnam War. Why does anybody care what she says? Even if a man was on Viagra, she couldn’t cause an erection.
@Gretchen: Fuck is inching into our vocabulary more because our best friends use it ALOT and we easily succumb to peer pressure.
@David: Ah, water over the damn as far as I’m concerned.
@David: it’s kind of telling that for you, apparently, the measure of a woman’s worth is whether or not she can turn you on. what a shallow way to look at half the population.
You don’t have to use it in everyday language to use the word which is the specific object of the Vagina Monologues.
You wouldn’t be prejudging would you? I thought so.
@Rob: Noooo, she said is so matter of factly and without hesitation when she knew exactly where she was an everybody was watching. Also its not like I have never seen Jane Fonda before. So I judged – no prejudged.
She shouldn’t have said it because it clearly causes people to really get upset. I mean, there aren’t more important things in the world, right? Is there a big difference that it was “morning television”? On the same broadcast Ann Curry went to the Congo and did a story on a woman undergoing surgery because she was raped by so many men that she lost bodily functions. I had to stop eating it was so revolting. Kind of ironic that they were then discussing violence against women and the only thing of note or outrage is that Jane the “commie bitch” (Gretchen)said the C word.
@Anne: Your kind of argument just gets my goat. You know what? I don’t have much interest in what goes on in the Congo.
I never said this was the most important issue of all time.
ARGH.