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    Ivey Janette McClelland (iveyjanette@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:08:48 JST Ivey Janette McClelland Ivey Janette McClelland

    CBS cancelled the Smothers Brothers for criticizing President Nixon, LBJ,Vietnam and racists in the South.

    They cancelled Captain Kangaroo because they didn't want mommy and daddy changing the channel to Today and GMA at 8 am. And they hated Mr. Green Jeans.

    ABC neutered Dick Cavett because his guests were "too controversial". Especially after James Baldwin and Lester Maddox got into a violent argument.

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      Ivey Janette McClelland (iveyjanette@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:09:48 JST Ivey Janette McClelland Ivey Janette McClelland
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      NBC made Rowan and Martin tone down Laugh-In because they didn't like the nonstop Nixon and Vietnam jokes. It got cancelled right before the Watergate hearings started in 1973.

      CBS turned Good Times and The Jeffersons into stereotypical Black shows.

      Richard Pryor told NBC to go fuck off because they kept censoring his jokes and skits.

      Now CBS cancelled Colbert because he was "too liberal" and they viewed him as a "threat".

      Fuck this shit.

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      Ivey Janette McClelland (iveyjanette@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:10:10 JST Ivey Janette McClelland Ivey Janette McClelland
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      • Kinene⭐🐻

      @c_merriweather CBS censored Pete Seeger when he was on the Smothers Brothers show.

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      Kinene⭐🐻 (c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:10:12 JST Kinene⭐🐻 Kinene⭐🐻
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      @IveyJanette Ah, yes, "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy."

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist_Deep_in_the_Big_Muddy

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        Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
        "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1967 and made famous because of its censorship from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Story The song tells the story of a platoon wading in a river in Louisiana on a practice patrol in 1942. Imperiously ignoring his sergeant's concerns, the captain orders the platoon to continue with himself in the lead until they are finally up to their necks. Suddenly, the captain drowns and the sergeant instantly orders the unit to turn back to the original shore. It turns out the captain was not aware that the river was deeper with a joining stream upriver. The narrator declines to state an obvious moral but intimates from what he has read in the paper that his nation itself is being led into similar peril by authoritarian fools. Each verse ends with a line noting that "the big fool said to push on" except for the final verse, which changes to the present tense, and the fourth verse which says "the captain dead and gone." The story is similar to the Ribbon Creek incident, which occurred in 1956. Significance The song was considered...
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      Ivey Janette McClelland (iveyjanette@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:10:28 JST Ivey Janette McClelland Ivey Janette McClelland
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      And Ed Sullivan censored Elvis. They only showed him from the waist up.

      When he was on the Steve Allen Show,they showed his entire body,even though Elvis was singing to a bronze hound dog prop(typical Allen comedy gags).

      The Stones and the Doors were ordered by Sullivan and CBS to "change the lyrics for a family audience" when they performed.

      When the Doors and The Who were on the Smothers Brothers show,they pissed off censors.

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      Ivey Janette McClelland (iveyjanette@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:11:02 JST Ivey Janette McClelland Ivey Janette McClelland
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      • Barbara Monaco
      • Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe

      @phwolfe940 @Barbramon1 And it's always been this way.

      Betty White told NBC to fuck off back in the 50's when she hired Arthur Duncan as a regular on her daytime talk show. They didn't want to "offend" sponsors and Southern affiliates because Duncan was Black. Duncan stayed on the show. It got cancelled.

      Duncan would later break the color barrier on the Lawrence Welk Show.

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      Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe (phwolfe940@denton.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:11:03 JST Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
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      • Barbara Monaco

      @Barbramon1 @IveyJanette

      I also am old enough but it was good for the reminder

      Media for profit is always vulnerable
      People’s media can and is stepping into the gap

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      Barbara Monaco (barbramon1@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:11:04 JST Barbara Monaco Barbara Monaco
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      @IveyJanette I am old enough to remember all of these cancellations very clearly. It's shocking, but not surprising given the circumstances, that we are seeing this again.

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