http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/08/meghan-mccain-calls-out-t_n_453778.html 3.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/colbert-sarah-palin-is-a_n_454744.html 2.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/02/02/emanuel-steps-up-his-apology/ 1.
Several links here in reverse order, so I suggest you start with number one and then go that way (I numbered them).
Rahm Emmanuel called the liberal democrats 'f'n retards' then Sarah Palin called for his resignation for saying such things. Rush Limbaugh said that Rahm Emmanuel's comments were much ado about nothing and that you can't say anything in this PC world. "Why can't you call people who are retards 'retards' [referring to the liberal democrats]....they're going to go to the White House and have a retard summit". Sarah Palin defended Limbaugh as being satirical and that she wasn't the 'word police'. Colbert diagnoses the situation in video 3 rather bluntly...
First of all is the r-word comparable the n-word? (another reference Palin made). Is there a ranking of words that are more taboo than others? Does such fuss about word usage and policing words create a feeling of disillusionment and desensitization to the general public or even worse defensiveness? Are we just filling up news dockets, or does this stuff matter?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/colbert-sarah-palin-is-a_n_454744.html 2.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/02/02/emanuel-steps-up-his-apology/ 1.
Several links here in reverse order, so I suggest you start with number one and then go that way (I numbered them).
Rahm Emmanuel called the liberal democrats 'f'n retards' then Sarah Palin called for his resignation for saying such things. Rush Limbaugh said that Rahm Emmanuel's comments were much ado about nothing and that you can't say anything in this PC world. "Why can't you call people who are retards 'retards' [referring to the liberal democrats]....they're going to go to the White House and have a retard summit". Sarah Palin defended Limbaugh as being satirical and that she wasn't the 'word police'. Colbert diagnoses the situation in video 3 rather bluntly...
First of all is the r-word comparable the n-word? (another reference Palin made). Is there a ranking of words that are more taboo than others? Does such fuss about word usage and policing words create a feeling of disillusionment and desensitization to the general public or even worse defensiveness? Are we just filling up news dockets, or does this stuff matter?
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