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Fox Business contributor drops F-bomb on the air

Charles Payne, a contributor to Fox Business Network‘s “Varney & Co.” show, said a cuss word on the air Thursday, according to the Huffington Post.

The Post writes, “He voiced his support for the proposed program, and recalled his own experience working as a teenager. He made the slip saying, ‘I’ll never forget one guy I worked for, Mr. Hoover! He taught me how to count change, he taught me how to make sausage, he taught me how to f–king wake up in the morning and do what I was supposed to do!’

“Payne covered his mouth in shock as soon as he realized what he had said. Later, co-host Stuart Varney said, ‘Varney & Company apologizing for Charles getting carried away.’

“Payne added, ‘I apologize for that, that was a slip!'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.