Why did s**thole change to shithole on the CNN crawl?

[LAS14]

For the first half hour or so that I was watching (muted), Trump was quoted with asterisks. Then the asterisks were replaced with letters. Was any comment made about that?

[thegoose]

1. Because CNN found its intestinal fortitude?

Either way, whoo-hoo! Pull the curtain back and reveal the festering pile of shit that's squatting in the White House.

[applegrove]

2. Maybe it was decided it is not a swear word when it is paired with 'hole'?

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. They were the last ones to the dance. n/t

[MontanaMama]

4. MSNBC has it

spelled out in so many words too.

[superpatriotman]

5. Won't somebody think of the children?!

Shitholes, pussy-grabbing, fucking idiots, moving on her like a bitch, etc.

All on the six o'clock news.

Where are the religious wrong and the family research phonies?

[Control-Z]

6. Go to this link:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210087488

Watch the video. It's pretty remsrkable. It's Jim Acosta, I believe, and he goes there with the language.

[madaboutharry]

7. Management decided "Fuck this Shit!"

Good for them. The sanitizing of this presidency has to stop.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. Possibly once they had sufficient confirmation their standards allowed quoting directly.

CNN isn't broadcast so technically they don't have FCC constraints on profanity (which generally allow CBS for instance to only use profanity if it's quoting a news source) but CNN may have internal standards on such things.

[wishstar]

9. ABC Evening news refused to use the word at all, not even showing sxxxhole to give people a clue

The have totally wimped out in informing the American people what he really said. ABC TV also never showed or said pussy or bitch when discussing the Access Hollywood tape where he said those words. Americans without cable or internet don't know what he really said. An elderly friend of mine who only watches ABC asked me before election what he said on the tape that was so bad as she couldn't figure it out from ABC TV. I'll give her a call to tell her what he really said today!

[mcar]

10. Most of them have been saying it

Wolf has been squeamish. Phil Mudd was beyond enraged. Love that guy.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Power is lost when a word is masked. If a racist uses the N-word, when quoting spell the word out!

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If you mask the N-word with n****r or N-word, there is a slight decoding process the mind makes and that removes the raw power of the word, it's sort of like white supremacists using the term Alt-Right. It takes the sting away from their position.

When writing about racism, use the n****r or use N-word, but when quoting a person, spell it out!

I learned that from an English undergraduate degree, in a class taught by a doctor of African-American studies.

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