During live coverage of the Iowa caucus results, Monday, MSNBC featured the F-word as voters debated who would be best for the military. A young woman talking to a Bernie Sanders fan complained, “I am a vet. My mom's a vet. How is he [Sanders] going to fix it?...The fact I haven't gotten benefits in three months because the VA is so fucked up really makes me concerned.”
Live coverage host Brian Williams tried to protect his audience from bad language: “Well, you know, you listen in to caucus, you take the good with the bad....And people speak the way they do out on the street. We apologize....We all join him in apologizing for a bit of French that snuck into our English language translation.”
A transcript is below:
Place for Politics
2/1/16
9:30WOMAN: What I want to know is how — I get VA. I am VA. I am a vet. My mom's a vet. How is he going to fix it? Because I can tell you right now the VA is more screwed up than it has been in a while. The fact I haven't gotten benefits in three months because the VA is so fucked up really makes me concerned. So, how is Bernie going to fix it? Because I will tell you will win or lose me on this.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Well, you know, you listen in to caucuses, you take the good with the bad.
RACHEL MADDOW: Sorry about that.
WILLIAMS: And people speak the way they do out on the street. We apologize. I know Jacob apologizes. We all join him in apologizing for a bit of French that snuck into our English language translation.
