October 3, 2007
Sally Field
When you combine FOX television, the Emmy Awards,
and a sincere expression of disgust for war, what do you get? Censorship,
of
course.
That is why Sally Field, winner of an Emmy this year for her
role in "Brothers and Sisters," is to be commended
for speaking from her heart -- and not apologizing for it later.
We'll let an ABC
News article provide
the background:
"And especially the mothers who stand with an open
heart and wait," Field said. "Wait for their children
to come home. From danger. From harm's way. And from war… I
am proud to be one of those women. And let's face it, if mothers
ruled the world, there would be no… " at which point
her speech was cut short, unseen or heard by American television
audiences.
Immediately after the speech, the censoring was a surprise to
Field. "No,
I didn't know I had been bleeped. You know, the whole thing was
sort of a surreal experience," she told ABC's Diane Sawyer
on "Good Morning America."
It was just as she began to say "godd---ed" that her
speech was cut off by Fox executives.
"I made the mistake of putting a God in front of the damned," Field
told Sawyer. "But basically, I feel if anything on Earth God
would damn, it would be war. But I guess for whatever reason, they
decided that God and damned together was not acceptable," she
said.
(By the way, CTV in Canada aired
the remarks unedited.)
Usually agents and Hollywood PR firms rush in after such a statement
to do "damage control." But Field would have none of
it. She remained steadfastly proud of proclaiming her beliefs as
a mother.
We saw her interviewed after the Emmys. She was with her 19-year-old
son, a student at NYU. Field was proud of her award, proud of
her son, proud of her censored condemnation of war.
Poised and unflustered, she later told an interviewer that the
Emmy Awards were indeed the correct venue for expressing sentiments
concerning peace. "I think in this case because my role
[on "Brothers and Sisters"] is about that, my role
is quintessentially a mother, and quintessentially a mother sending
her child to war."
Well said, Sally Field, and that is why you merit this week's
BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award.
* * *
Nominated by Joanne Lynn Thomas of Allouez,
MI.
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