At about 10:45pm EST Sally Field after making a rather innocuous statement about mothers being home waiting for the children to return home from war lost her lines on what she had planned on saying looked to the national audience as though she let loose with either a spat of profanity or something blatantly anti-war and thus endured the wrath of the dump-button and the mandatory delay getting back to the live feed. As of 10:55pm no one has yet posted what she said... if you DO know hit me up in the comment section here...
Ok here's evidently what was said:
"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."
It was just one of several ignorant statements made by winners for the evening. Topping it off with the final winner of the night implying that America is presently being run by gangsters. Brilliant... real genius there, not surprising from someone who is honored as being the "best" in his industry for producing a show that had more "f-bombs" than any show in the history of television.
Grandpa used to say it all the time, "Profanity is a stupid man's excuse for lack of vocabulary!"
Al Gore winning an emmy - even in the category that he did - was still a raging joke. He and Joel Wyatt were honored for brining interactive internet accessibility to the medium of television for something they've been running called "Current TV." Gore's big claim as the recipient of the award - the first of its kind - was that "Current" has been able to give people the opportunity to "finally have a voice in the dialogue, democracy, yaddih, yaddiah" about the news we all watch and care about every day.
See even though he invented the internets - AlGore still hasn't discovered blogging. Evidently those thousands of hyperlinks hidden within millions of text characters don't equate to - "the people" becoming part of the dialogue.
But honestly - "Current TV" has had more of an impact in the visual medium on the internets than say a little site called "YouTube"? Honestly?
It's too bad that Gore has been so embraced by Hollywood - but we can draw some satisfaction that they share a love for ignorance... and they love to share it with each other.
And the sneer fest in Hollywood tonight said it all...