WTF?
by sarabeth at 12:21 pm on October 12th, 2009 in Media, Obama Uber Alles“What’s with all the @#%! language?“, Politico.com:
President Barack Obama called rap star Kanye West “a jackass.” Vice President Joe Biden told a senator to “Gimme a f—-ing break!” Economic adviser Christina Romer declared that Americans had yet to have their “holy s—-” moment over the economy.
Those who pay attention to political rhetoric say an unusual amount of profanity has emanated from this White House – even without counting famously colorful White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
The piece of utter tripe I have quoted was written by Kenneth P. Vogel. Kenneth P. Vogel is a journalist. He writes for a living. He not only went to school at the University of Wisconsin, he graduated from there.
And he doesn’t know the meaning of “jackass”?
Dictionary.com (drawing on the Random House Dictionary):
jack-ass
–noun
1. a male donkey.
2. a contemptibly foolish or stupid person; dolt; blockhead; ass.
This proves something, I believe. Namely that Kenneth P. Vogel is a jackass.
(And doesn’t Politico have copyeditors? Or even proofreaders?)
kiel wrote:
And Dick “Go fuck yourself” Cheney was a paragon of locutionary restraint?
What a dunderhead. Or is that a potty-word, too?
Posted 12 Oct 2009 at 1:50 pm ¶
sarabeth wrote:
Sad to say, anything Democrats do, Republicans can do better.
Bush’s “major league asshole” in reference to a NYT reporter beats Obama’s “jackass”.
And Cheney’s “Go fuck yourself” to Pat Leahy gallops away in the stretch from Biden’s “Gimme a f—-ing break!”
So Bush-Cheney have Obama-Biden beat quite handily, even without considering Bush’s “Fuck Saddam, we’re taking him out” to La Condi.
But when the media has a liberal bias, they just keep handing the victory to the Democrats. No wonder Republicans are pissed.
Posted 12 Oct 2009 at 4:07 pm ¶