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Censorship isn’t the only issue raised by Emmy winners’ rants | Megan Basham

The most surprising moment at the 2007 Emmy Awards came not from an envelope containing the name of a winner but from a speech viewers at home never heard. While accepting a Best Actress award for her show Brothers and Sisters, Sally Field made an obscenity-laced anti-war outburst, prompting Fox to cut away until she left the stage.

This middling controversy followed a more serious one from earlier in the week when the E! Entertainment Channel wisely decided to omit parts of Kathy Griffin's speech at the Creative Arts Emmys. After winning Best Reality Program for My Life on the D-List, the comedienne shouted out an obscenity to Jesus and exclaimed, "This award is my god now." Not surprisingly, news about this year's ceremonies subsequently focused on censorship rather than on the actual winners.

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