Fonda Stuns 'Today' With C-Slur
AP Posted: 2008-02-14 16:34:19
Filed Under: Star Scandals, TV News

(Feb. 14) -- NBC News is apologizing again - this time for Jane Fonda.

The 70-year-old actress used a vulgar slang term on the "Today" show Thursday while talking about the play "The Vagina Monologues." Fonda is appearing in a 10th-anniversary performance. Gawker Has the Scandalous (and Explicit) Video here: http://gawker.com/356442/...xt-tuesday

Fonda told co-host Meredith Vieira that she was asked to perform a monologue with a slang term for vagina as the title - and Fonda used the term itself on the air in explaining why she said "no."

"I said, `I don't think so, I've got enough problems,"' Fonda said.

About 10 minutes later, Vieira told viewers that Fonda had used a word from the play that normally isn't used on television.

"It was a slip and obviously she apologizes and so do we," Vieira said. "We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology."

"Today" moved quickly to silence the word and cover up Fonda's face with a still photo when the show was aired in the Midwest, Mountain and West Coast feeds.

It's been a month's worth of apologies for NBC News, owned by General Electric Co. MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews said he was sorry for suggesting that the reason Hillary Clinton was a presidential candidate was because of her husband's infidelities. MSNBC correspondent David Shuster was suspended for two weeks for saying the Clintons had "pimped out" daughter Chelsea for presidential campaigning.

Didn't Diane Keaton use the "F" word on Good Morning America or something?...what the hell, all these ladies hit 60 and start swearing like sailors lol ...

Byron said:

it's what famous old ladies are daring each other to do these days, just like paris and britney and whoever else flashing vajayjay for the paparazzi.

Anxiety said:

Well I guess I should be glad it's not the other way around...

haha, well, big deal they're all talking about vaginas

I don't really understand bad words anymore. What she said sounded so innocent, but what I used to hear on Howard Stern (before Serius) was completely vulgar (and often hilarious).

Byron said:

Oh my... yes, let's thank the lawd that it's not!

I personally love Jane Fonda, she's hilarious!

Cunt is a very old posh word. I learnt that from the film "atonement". I had no idea the word had such a history LOL. I thought it was a working class sorta word.

June7 said:

we should place bets on what old bird is gonna drop the bomb on a morning talk show next. my guess is that ellen burstyn is going to appear on good morning america screaming "where's that fuckface joan lunden???"

NDRU said:

I bought the book Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, for my boys

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~s.../1416.html

spot the interesting word in Cinderella (last para)

So is she going to be there next Tuesday? I don't get it. Was she lying?

ArielB said:

Well, then she said "Tuesday - What About Tomorrow?"

thesexofit said:

Wow... I know. Here's what the dictionary says about "cunt":

cunt
noun Slang: Vulgar. 1. the vulva or vagina.
2. Disparaging and Offensive. a. a woman.
b. a contemptible person.

3. sexual intercourse with a woman.


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[Origin: 1275–1325; ME cunte; c. ON kunta, OFris, MLG, MD kunte]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

"female intercrural foramen," or, as some 18c. writers refer to it, "the monosyllable," M.E. cunte "female genitalia," akin to O.N. kunta, from P.Gmc. *kunton, of uncertain origin. Some suggest a link with L. cuneus "wedge," others to PIE base *geu- "hollow place," still others to PIE *gwen-, root of queen and Gk. gyne "woman." The form is similar to L. cunnus "female pudenda," which is likewise of disputed origin, perhaps lit. "gash, slit," from PIE *sker- "to cut," or lit. "sheath," from PIE *kut-no-, from base *(s)keu- "to conceal, hide." First known reference in Eng. is said to be c.1230 Oxford or London street name Gropecuntlane, presumably a haunt of prostitutes. Avoided in public speech since 15c.; considered obscene since 17c. Du. cognate de kont means "a bottom, an arse." Du. also has attractive poetic slang ways of expressing this part, such as liefdesgrot, lit. "cave of love," and vleesroos "rose of flesh." Alternate form cunny is attested from c.1720 but is certainly much earlier and forced a change in the pronunciation of coney (q.v.), but it was good for a pun while coney was still the common word for "rabbit": "A pox upon your Christian cockatrices! They cry, like poulterers' wives."

Nice word to come up in the celebration of "The Vagina Monologues"...

here's what wikipedia has to say about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt

oh jesus christ

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what's the big deal, America? GET OVER IT.

Dauphin said:

is this the title of a new peaches album?

Anxiety said:

So will she be there next Tuesday, or tomorrow?

ArielB said:

From what they're saying, she's Very Actually Going In Next August.

Anxiety said:

No, her agent said it would now be Pussy Twat Cunt Slit ...



Ok, I may not be doing this right...

Anxiety said:

Oh. That's a long time from now. I hope I'll remember to watch.

Byron said:

PTCS?

ZombieKitten said:

maybe that's what you call it when your mouth is full?

Anxiety said:

how does it sound when you try and say it then?

ZombieKitten said:

kind of like the noise sylvester the cat makes when he tries to eat tweety and he spits out a bunch of feathers.

This was on in the background as I was getting ready for work. Obviously I am so used to the word cunt that I never even really noticed when she said it.

Anxiety said:

ah, I know exactly now lol

JustErin said:

i love that jane fonda didn't even bat a lash when she said it on tv. of course, with all the work she's had done on her face, she probably can't blink anyway.

Anxiety said:

She won a fitty off of Helen Mirren for saying it ...

Byron said:

I just choked on my coffee

Oh, and Eve Ensler says "I was having a hard time getting vagina out of my mouth."

June7 said: