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it’s insane that this kind of thing even has to be addressed and i don’t know whether it’s a good or bad thing that nbc chose to even dignify it with a response. It is not like there has been some kind of on-going, long time confusion about how to address former presidents, or senators or congress people for that matter. No. This is only a question now because somewhere deep in the right wing fever swamp someone thought it would be a great way to discredit the media to suggest that they were showing undue deference to clinton by using the correct address. That’s all this is about: Tricking people into thinking that what is totally neutral is indeed the height of ideological corruption and bias. I really hope I never hear a fucking right winger bitch about political correctness or the “language police” again when their side has done far more to pervert and corrupt the meaning of discourse in this country on a daily basis.
I wonder, is there’s a way to use Fox News to irradiate and sterilize people? We can’t let these morons breed. Then again, the average age of an O’Reilly viewer is over 70, so they probably are not breeding.
C.S.
The average over 70 Orally viewer is not only not breeding but not breathing.
They are truly the undead.
Yes and the people who sport t-shirts and bumper stickers saying, “He’s not MY President” in reference to President Bush or refer to him as a “squatter” or “President-In-Thief” (some of whom routinely show up around here) are all the second coming of Einstein.
jay,
please tell me that you recognize the difference between stating a political opinion on a t-shirt and being simply, plainly wrong.
I really think he doesn’t understand the difference.
“I really think he doesn’t understand…”
You don’t need the rest. Jay just doesn’t understand.
I have suggested on several occasions in several forums that instead of impeaching Bush and Cheney, the new Congress as first act of business in January 2009, passes a law denying Bush or Cheney the right to even use the word president or vice president, as well as stripping them of their post administration riches.
Unfortunately, the national Democratic Party is a status quo party and they’re not likely to do anything radical.
The (most likely Democrat) president elect is going to have her (or his) hands full fending off impeachment papers from the right, never mind trying to hold Bush/Cheney accountable.
Well, Jay is, in one sense, correct. Some people on the left engage in dumbassery too.
But for Pete’s sake, Jay, what really makes this stand out is the “I’m going back to Fox News” remark at the end of the email. If any of the sloganeers you mention were to add, “I get my news from Indymedia,” wouldn’t you find that telling?
There’s a difference between dumassery and just being dumb.
Wearing a t-shirt that says ‘he’s not my president’ is dumbassery to some because the wearer is trying to be deliberately provocative. Indeed, the whole point of dumbassery is to provoke a response in people you disagree with.
Writing a letter to MSNBC accusing them of political bias because they use the title that Clinton, and every ex president, is entitled to out of tradition and respect, is just stupid.
“I really think he doesn’t understand…”
You don’t need the rest. Jay just doesn’t understand.
In Wingnut World, disagreeing with them is the same as being wrong, so in that sense, Jay cannot understand the difference. It’s the same sort of mentality that tells the wingnuts that disagreement over evolution vs Creationism is a matter of opinion rather than overwhelming empirical scientific evidence on one side and superstitious fantasy on the other. Ditto global warming.
So a matter of opinion on a shirt that he finds disagreeable is the equivalent of being factually incorrect about how to address former presidents.