[[S L A N G]] * According to TV Squad, the Parents Television Council (PTC), a conservative nonprofit organization that says it’s dedicated to “restor[ing] television to its roots as an independent and socially responsible entertainment medium,” has its panties in a monumental twist over an offhand remark uttered during NBC-TV’s recent Emmy Awards telecast by actress Helen Mirren.
What “ignited their anger ...,” TV Squad explains, “was a comment by winner Helen Mirren as she accepted her Emmy for Best Actress in HBO’s Elizabeth I. You may recall, Helen worried about taking a tumble on her way up to the stage. She mentioned falling ‘tits over ass,’ a common British phrase. Calista Flockhart later presented with Mirren and said the phrase again in playful banter. NBC did air the show on a delay, but chose not to censor the comment. The PTC released this statement: ‘It is utterly irresponsible and atrocious for NBC to air this vulgar language during the safe harbor time when millions of children were in the viewing audience.’”
Oh, pllleeeaaassseee! At a time in history when atrocities are being committed in the name of justice, when a beautiful American city remains in ruins because of White House inaction and incompetence, and when thousands of young men and women are dying in Iraq because of poor planning and subsequent denial, does anybody take seriously the notion that saying “tits over ass” is the most serious offense in the world?
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