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Initech

(100,080 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 12:00 AM Jan 2012

Kid who formed "No Cussing Club" takes on ABC for Modern Family sub plot

Toddler's curse word on 'Modern Family' draws ire
Jan. 18, 2012, 1:32 AM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An anti-profanity crusader on Tuesday asked ABC to pull this week's "Modern Family" episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped curse word.

"Our main goal is to stop this from happening," said McKay Hatch, an 18-year-old college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007. "If we don't, at least ABC knows that people all over the world don't want to have a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb' on TV."

Bing: Watch clips and episodes of 'Modern Family'

"We hope they know better," said Hatch. He's asking his club's members, whom he said number 35,000 in the United States and about three-dozen other countries, to complain to ABC.

ABC has yet to respond, he said Tuesday. The network had no comment, a spokeswoman said.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=696557


Man, talk about limiting speech, which is what this kid wants to do. He'd make a good cult leader.
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Kid who formed "No Cussing Club" takes on ABC for Modern Family sub plot (Original Post) Initech Jan 2012 OP
Why do I think this is probably a lonely miserable kid? drm604 Jan 2012 #1
what the fuck gave you that idea LynneSin Jan 2012 #11
He was 13 or 14 when he started it. TheMightyFavog Jan 2012 #16
Yes, that's just dumb. Denninmi Jan 2012 #2
This is why people hate religion. UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2012 #3
Thirty five THOUSAND? EastTennesseeDem Jan 2012 #4
I was thinking the same thing - how does one kid get 35,000 followers? Initech Jan 2012 #5
I don't like censorship, but I have the exact opposite feeling about profanity. A Simple Game Jan 2012 #12
Mormons! That is how! siligut Jan 2012 #17
Comparing cursing to bu££¥ing? Bigg3469 Oct 2014 #20
This kid is a fucking asshole. Son of Gob Jan 2012 #6
Holy fucking shit-balls! Behind the Aegis Jan 2012 #7
turn the fucking channel, idiot. rurallib Jan 2012 #8
If he's not drawing a check from ABC... Iggo Jan 2012 #9
You fucking tell them McKay LynneSin Jan 2012 #10
What's really funny is if you browse his site listening to George Carlin. Initech Jan 2012 #18
18 year old who doesn't cuss? You know what I have to say to that? originalpckelly Jan 2012 #13
Modern Family is an adult show, isn't it? WTF> LeftinOH Jan 2012 #14
Good grief! HappyMe Jan 2012 #15
No Cussing Club vs Modern Family Bigg3469 Oct 2014 #19

drm604

(16,230 posts)
1. Why do I think this is probably a lonely miserable kid?
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 12:07 AM
Jan 2012

That's a rhetorical question, of course.

What 18 year old has a "No Cussing Club"?

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
2. Yes, that's just dumb.
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 12:08 AM
Jan 2012

I watched that episode tonight, albeit while prepping for a birthday dinner tomorrow night, so I wasn't paying constant attention to it. The actual "F word" was bleeped out. I think that the episode as presented was pretty true to life -- little kids do pick up and say things they shouldn't. I remember calling my older sister an "ignorant slut" after being allowed to stay up really late over Easter break and catching an episode of Saturday Night Live with the Jane Curtain-Bill Murray sendup of '60 Minutes' -- at that age, about 10, I didn't really know what the word meant, but I knew it would tick my older sister off to no end. Needless to say, my mother was NOT amused. But it's really funny to me now.

EastTennesseeDem

(2,675 posts)
4. Thirty five THOUSAND?
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 01:06 AM
Jan 2012

I assume the other 34,999 are the stuffed animals he has tea parties with every weekend.

Initech

(100,080 posts)
5. I was thinking the same thing - how does one kid get 35,000 followers?
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 02:05 AM
Jan 2012

It seems like a good idea but the idea of crippling speech like that is dangerous.

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)
12. I don't like censorship, but I have the exact opposite feeling about profanity.
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 11:30 AM
Jan 2012

I believe it cripples speech.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
17. Mormons! That is how!
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 12:44 PM
Jan 2012
Hatch, who is from South Pasadena and attends Brigham Young University in Rexburg, Idaho, said he began his anti-profanity club in 2007 when he noticed how rampant cursing was at his school and how it was linked to bullying.


Fuckity, fuck, fudge. I saw the name Hatch and pretty much knew before I even followed the link.

No offense to rational Mormons meant. Some of my favorite people, more the women than the men, are Mormons. I just worry they are being taken advantage of.

Bigg3469

(2 posts)
20. Comparing cursing to bu££¥ing?
Thu Oct 2, 2014, 02:48 AM
Oct 2014

That little mother fucker is the BIGGEST SPINELESS SISSY IN THE FUCKING ASS UNIVERSE!!!
The little fuck needs to know that he and his No Cussing Club weenies are infringing THE FREEDOM OF FREE SPEECH! By taking away our right to cuss is to take away our freedom as Americans! That little puke Needs to fucking grow up and act like a fucking adult!

Initech

(100,080 posts)
18. What's really funny is if you browse his site listening to George Carlin.
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 12:44 PM
Jan 2012

Particularly the bits "7 Words You Can't Say On TV" or "Incomplete List Of Impolite Words". That's a trip!

Bigg3469

(2 posts)
19. No Cussing Club vs Modern Family
Thu Oct 2, 2014, 02:31 AM
Oct 2014

Guess this effing twerp never seen South Park or South Park, Bigger,Longer,Uncut where Ike, Kyle's Canadian born little brother saying "Bullshit"! Now that little prude is a college student?? Shit the upperclass students are totally going to fuck him up the woodshed for his weenie no cussing crappola! Face it McCay Hatch you worthless little sack of wormshit. WE ALL FUCKING CUSS THIS IS FUCKING AMERICA AND WE AS AMERICANS HAVE THE GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO CUSS!!! So STMFHU Bucko and be a fucking adult you're 18 and you can't act like a snotty little whiner bitching about how everyone cussing. And try to say that to the victims suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and they'll cuss the hell out of you!!

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