Hillary isn't back because she never went anywhere. Why would she go anywhere?
My question is, once we rid ourselves of Trump and everything he has touched and all his loathsome minions and dignity wraiths, can we go back to the old normal? This new normal sucks and we all hate it right? We're not grateful to Trump for bringing us to this. Right? Please?
@5: Not really, the more things change the more they stay the same. Vulgarity has it's place in our culture, but to ridicule news editors and the FCC who want to maintain a standard on the public airways is ridiculous.
@4: No reason to assume parallels and conflate profanity and racism. They are essentially orthogonal.
@7. I've seen no twitter second hand trace of her, till today. I don't have the stomach for full on twitter.
Good if she's on the political scene. Standing up to this madness, all hands on deck.
The country's political norms recovered after McCarthyism, of which I reread first-hand accounts from the time, and it was strikingly similar (though it did get worse before it got better).
...but to ridicule news editors and the FCC who want to maintain a standard on the public airways is ridiculous.
We’re ridiculing them because they’re trying to weasel out of reporting the sad story of our racist and ignorant president. We want that story reported in full.
If you have a problem with such vulgarity, complain to the person who used the term, “shithole countries,” in the first place. Don’t applaud efforts to minimize or censor a story.
"Shithole" was used in a front-page story in today's LA Times. And sometime in mid-2017, an op-ed in the same paper used "batshit crazy".
I prefer the honest reporting to euphemisms like "a vulgar expression".
No reason to assume parallels and conflate profanity and racism.
He wasn't. He was saying, very clearly, that racism is far worse than profanity.
Perhaps you have a problem understanding that because you've complained repeatedly about profanity, but have said nothing critical of the racism which spawned that very same profanity?
@16: All I'm saying is that news editors are justified in omitting shit or replacing it with s--t. Doing so doesn't detract or negate the damage caused by President Trump by his rant in the Oval the other day.
Now, we're on the same page. Take care and God Bless.
My question is, once we rid ourselves of Trump and everything he has touched and all his loathsome minions and dignity wraiths, can we go back to the old normal? This new normal sucks and we all hate it right? We're not grateful to Trump for bringing us to this. Right? Please?
@4: No reason to assume parallels and conflate profanity and racism. They are essentially orthogonal.
Good if she's on the political scene. Standing up to this madness, all hands on deck.
The country's political norms recovered after McCarthyism, of which I reread first-hand accounts from the time, and it was strikingly similar (though it did get worse before it got better).
We’re ridiculing them because they’re trying to weasel out of reporting the sad story of our racist and ignorant president. We want that story reported in full.
If you have a problem with such vulgarity, complain to the person who used the term, “shithole countries,” in the first place. Don’t applaud efforts to minimize or censor a story.
I prefer the honest reporting to euphemisms like "a vulgar expression".
He wasn't. He was saying, very clearly, that racism is far worse than profanity.
Perhaps you have a problem understanding that because you've complained repeatedly about profanity, but have said nothing critical of the racism which spawned that very same profanity?
You’re just not going to criticize the racism or ignorance which spawned the profanity you claim to abhor, are you?
Now, we're on the same page. Take care and God Bless.
That's not what they are doing:
“...no more than one use of the word each hour in the main shows is enough."
There's a difference between light and obvious sanitization, and hidden censorship. We were mocking NPR for doing the latter.