| May 1, 2008 | - At a town-hall meeting in Iowa, Baptist minister Marty Parrish asked Republican presidential nominee John McCain whether it was true that he had called his wife, Cindy, a “cunt” in 1992. “You know,” McCain replied, “that's the great thing about town-hall meetings, sir, but we really don't, there's people here who don't respect that kind of language. So I'll move on.” Parrish was then escorted from the meeting by the Secret Service and local police.
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The Huffington Post
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| March 1, 2007 | - The New York City Council banned the word “nigger.”
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BBC
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| February 9, 2007 | - A Florida production of “The Vagina Monologues” changed its name to “The Hoohaa Monologues” after a woman claimed the title was offensive.
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iol.co.za
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| June 15, 2006 | -
President Bush approved new legislation that allows the FCC to fine broadcasters up to $325,000 for each indecency.
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SFGate.com
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| May 20, 2006 | - An analysis of FCC decisions found that the following terms or phrases are neither indecent nor profane: "a lot of crap," "ass is huge," "ass," "bitch," "damn," "dick," "dickhead," "fire his ass," "for Christ's sake," "hell," "kick-ass," "kiss my ass," "my ass," "pissed off," "poop," "sex with a dog," "singers that suck," "sit their asses down," "sucked," "up yours," "wiping his ass," and "you suck."
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Radio World Newspaper
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| April 10, 2006 | - Polls found that 46 percent of Americans use profanity more than twice a week.
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TMCNet
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| February 27, 2005 | - Halle Berry received a “Razzie” award for the worst actress of 2004 for her role in the film “Catwoman.” “I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit,” she said. George W. Bush won the worst actor award for his role in “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
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Reuters
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| June 25, 2004 | -
Cheney said he felt much better after he told Senator Patrick Leahy, who has been critical of Halliburton's war profiteering in Iraq, to go fuck himself.
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Reuters
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| March 2, 2004 | - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela called George W. Bush an asshole.
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New Zealand Herald
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| December 25, 2001 | -
The French ambassador to Britain was accused of referring to “that shitty little country Israel” as the main source of the current international security crisis.
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| November 13, 2001 | - A Brazilian website was offering to send shit to anyone for $2.50.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Governor Bush was overheard saying that a
New York Times reporter was a “major-league asshole,” an epithet that the Times chose not to print; the Washington Times glossed the comment as “a vulgar euphemism for a rectal aperture.”
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