Before Mr. Halperin made the quip on "Morning Joe," he had asked if there was a seven-second delay available, a feature of television control rooms that can be used to bleep out stray curse words on live TV.
"Bleeping bleep!" he shouted.
Even American TV, which used to fastidiously bleep out any part of the human body that would be kept hidden under a three-piece suit, is now dominated by HBO and Netflix, where you can say whatever you want and show some nipples while you're at it.
I couldn't even use a bleep.
The only outward sign that Obama is laboring over his formulations is the way he will often elongate the word "and" for several seconds, a processing hitch that enables him to preview in his own head what he is about to tell you, like one of those five-second delays the networks use so they can bleep out profanity.
At one point, he wrote with so much passion about the Clemens bat incident that he used 17 epithets, which appeared in print as "bleeping," "bleeped" and "bleep".
It was denied release in China, and in India one fan has launched a petition complaining that the film has been ruined by the use of bleeps to cover up swear words.
Others referred to a need for more training in specific basic clinical skills, tasks and procedures, including prescribing drugs, acute emergency training, administering warfarin, insulin and fluids, carrying out chest drains, central lines and lumbar punctures, dealing with confused, hypertensive or breathless patients, and using a bleep.
The Green Party won a public-relations battle with Google on Tuesday, forcing the company's television advertising division to book time for a commercial in which its presidential candidate uses a (partly bleeped) obscenity to describe the policies of the major-party candidates.
The National Patient Safety Agency recently published guidelines for medical handover with recommendations such as dedicated bleep free time and the use of IT solutions, which although applicable do not address specific variables relevant to the ED.
