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Green Day's 'GMA' Shocker
By JT Ramsay
Friday, May 22, 2009 14:39:09 GMT

Yesterday, Green Day made headlines by bashing mega-retailer Wal-Mart for not selling their new album, '21st Century Breakdown' after the band refused to edit it to meet their so-called 'family friendly' standards. Today, they're making headlines after ABC forgot to bleep expletives from their 'Good Morning America' performance. Oops.

Yeah, someone at ABC fell asleep at the switch, allowing the 'S' word and the 'F' bomb to sneak past censors during their breakthrough classic, 'Longview,' as the teeming crowd sang along in Central Park.

Just a month ago, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong complained that 'American Idol' producers forced them to play their cover of John Lennon's 'Working Class Hero' to an empty room for fear that they might blurt a 'F' bomb on live tv. Armstrong told Spinner.com, "We almost got thrown off the show before it even started because they didn't trust us," he said. "It's like, 'Man, we've done this so many times. We can do this.' And finally they're like, 'OK, you guys have to record it before.' So we played to a completely empty room."

Maybe ABC's people should've talked to the folks over at 'Idol.'

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Whatever happened to the 7sec. delay? Perhaps that wouldn't have worked either as the fans could have just continued. I wonder what the FCC will do here? Anyways, apparently they can't be trusted so why would they change for ABC/Disney. Those producers were asleep at the switch.

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:roflmao: Whatever happened to the 7sec. delay? Perhaps that wouldn't have worked either as the fans could have just continued. I wonder what the FCC will do here? Anyways, apparently they can't be trusted so why would they change for ABC/Disney. Those producers were asleep at the switch.

I wondered about that too. There was a bleep but in both cases it came just after they said it. That would indicate that there was a delay but the guy just hit the button at the wrong time.

The FCC just recently ruled that incidental curse words are a punishable offense (they didn't use to be) so I would imagine they'd be fined.

I'm not sure Green Day was even asked to change it. Either the producers simply didn't realize those words were in the song or they did and assured the band that the delay would take care of it. It wasn't the band's responsibility to change the words unless they were asked to. Either way, it's still ABC's responsibility to bleep it, as you correctly pointed out.