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MSNBC host now guarded by 7-second delay
NEW YORK – After an F-bomb dropped on "Morning Joe," the MSNBC news-talk show has installed an early-warning system.

A seven-second delay was added with Tuesday's broadcast, to protect against future eruptions such as that of host Joe Scarborough, who seemed to surprise even himself with his verboten utterance.

Scarborough slipped Monday while attempting to describe the rawboned manner of Rahm Emanuel, incoming White House chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama.

Amid his many on-air apologies, Scarborough said, "My wife is going to kill me when I get home" and spoke of washing out his mouth with soap.

The delay will not be on any other MSNBC programming, according to spokesman Jeremy Gaines. When asked whether it had been ordered up by network brass or requested by Scarborough, Gaines said, "It was a mutual decision."



I spit coffee in my Fruit Loops when he slipped up Tuesday morning.

That's the second time he's done it. Smart to add the delay button.

Know where Mr. Potty Mouth went to school? Yep.

"Only I didn't say 'Fudge.' I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the 'F-dash-dash-dash' word!"

Joe's a patient of one of my favorite docs in Pensacola. My doc is in the process of trying to talk JS into doing a commercial for him, centrered around wearing my contact lenses.