How CBS News Covered a Vulgar Twitter Hashtag (The Atlantic Wire)

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The Atlantic Wire - As lawmakers in Washington inch closer to the deadline and have yet to reach anything close to an agreement, Americans are expressing their frustration on Twitter, appending #fuckyouwashington to their angry tweets. This morning, the already explosive hashtag got national attention, nabbing a feature on CBS's The Early Show. The hashtag has given tweeters a forum to express their disappointment with lawmakers, who have yet to reach a debt-ceiling deal as time runs out. But as Tweeters attach the expletive, how did CBS manage to cover the off-color phrase? Let's see how the morning network news program fared.

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