MSNBC Viewers Mum over Hardballer's Effin' Slip

• Feb 8, 2007 02:40 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Thanks to a delay system, WFAN's Don Imus was able to bleep out a bad word when Hardball host Chris Matthews, during a Wednesday-morning simulcast interview, let slip, "I want a guy to run for president who doesn't have a f---ing ranch." MSNBC viewers, however, heard the F-bomb in all its glory, since the cabler doesn't employ a delay on its end. MSNBC has received no complaints, reports the New York Daily News - perhaps because, let's face it, Matthews has desensitized us to a lot of things at this point.