The Times has a profile of Ernie Anastos, the NYC anchor who’s infamous for the “Keep fucking that chicken” slip.  On page three of the article, he addresses the faux-pas, and maintains that he said, “Keep plucking that chicken”.

Months later, he said that he is certain he said “plucking,” but that pretending it did not happen would have been a mistake. “If you keep saying, ‘I didn’t really say that,’ it doesn’t sound right,” he said. “This is New York. That particular word is practically ‘hello,’ the way it is used.”