This episode of Penn and Teller Bullshit! takes a look at people who wish to rid the world of words such as “Tits”, “Shit”, “Fuck” and “Cunt” including some who are willing to use blasphemy, just as long as it's not their god. (You just knew we were going to have to use those words, didn’t you?)

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Howard Stern, Clear Channel and the FCC, care of The Smoking Gun

How to insult, swear, cuss, and curse in 173 languages!

Guests:

Ron Collins - Author and Scholar at The First Amendment Center

John McWhorter - Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley

Ginny Foster - President of Hush-up.com

Jim Lafferty - Traditional Values Coalition

Jim O'Connor - Author, Runs the Cuss Control Academy

John Morse - President & Publisher, Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Mancow - Radio Show Host

Quotes:

"He [Jim O'Conner] believes it is unpleasant words that make the world unpleasant, not unpleasant behavior" - Penn Jillette

"Profanity is a matter of superstition." - John McWhorter

"Words that offend are really a big help to writers, performers and anyone who seeks attention to make a point. Just decide that a sound shouldn't be made and someone will yell it..." - Penn Jillette

"Free speech isn't." - Mancow

"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." - The First Amendment

"There's Adam Claymer, a major league asshole from the New York Times." - President George W. Bush

"Just because you feel like being angry and swearing and feel entitled to do that, why should you jeopardize everybody else? Does the individual's rights have precedence over society as a whole? And the welfare of the community?" - Jim O'Conner

"Hello, yes! It is the cornerstone of our constitution and our society in the United States." - Penn Jillette

"I do think god cares about the language we use, otherwise he would not have said in the ten commandments, "Don't use god's name in vain." A substitute that I have is, when I'm dealing with my students, or even in my home, I would say, "I swear to buddha." Because if you're going to profane a deity, I guess it might as well not be your own." - Ginny Foster

"Marshall McLuhan was just wrong: The message is the message." - Penn Jillette