The Real Winner Last Night Was Australian Television, Which Provided The World With The Uncensored Audio While Our American TVs Left Us Hanging

Going under all the radar on the heels of last night's Slap, is the fact that in this here AMERICA, the land of freedom, where the Oscars were being held, we didn't hear ANY what transpired after Will Smith slapped the shit out of Chris Rock! Instead, we got pure silence. The Oscars cut the audio as Will Smith advised Chris Rock to keep his wife's name out of his fucking mouth. 

We have a lot of strengths as a country, but our weakness has to be how edited TV shows on television are. Think about it this way- there are people who watched the show last night, but who weren't on Twitter (you know, happy people), who did not even know what happened because they didn't get to see the Australian feed. There are good folks in Oklahoma, Idaho, and Kansas who might still have not a clue what transpired last night. They'll find out at the watercooler today and be so confused but because the real feed cut the audio. And that should never happen.

For some reason we've been told since we were children that "cussing is bad". But if you're the producer of the Oscars, and you have an ALL TIME moment on your hands, you gotta make the split-second decision to let it roll. You have to be the hero in this situation and recognize a huge moment as it is happening. We deserved to get the moment on our screens in real time, not from an Australian man holding his phone at his TV.

So if we learn any lesson from last night, it should be to let live events be live. I mean unless Will Smith took out a gun and shot Chris Rock in the face (as Judd Apatow apparently believes was on the table), than I think we were fine with letting the moment transpire, unedited. We're all adults here. I mean shit, the Oscars let Amy Schumer host the show, so how much worse could it really have gotten anyway?