[“And what about what Donald Trump said? You know that word, that P-word that no one can say on television but you often hear in porno flicks,” she said on CNN’s “Newsroom.”]
People (whatever gender, “race”, religion, ethnic group)…
Something must happen to these people when they get in a studio and have a mike in front of them. It seems that the more guests, the dumber it gets.
This has nothing to do with what the studio guest has to face–given the bubble most of these guests are in.
This has to do with the civility that is necessary for so many things to take place when humans interact. To remove civility and civil behaviour you are going down a slippery slope.
TRUST ME
This is why diplomacy uses a special language in which leeway is used. It is akin to something that I saw on the first Rambo movie…Sly Stallone was on a dirt bike, rambling through the Northwest USA woods, head bobbing, as the dirt bike sped through the terrain. The Law was after him in a cop full-size sedan. The camera showed the torsion bars and the springs of the car moving up and down…as the car stayed practically level.
That’s civil language. For brain-dead followers of CNN, they do not understand that they are watching the descent of discourse in modern “civil society” to descend to the fourth-grade level of Donald Trump, who, because he is a spoiled rich kid, has been able to do that for his entire life.
And the RepubliBaggers in Hooterville–along with the MSM stenographers with mikes in their face–actually believe that they can, themselves, ACT like Donald Trump.
Are you being snarky and I am missing it? I am 58 and in my experience, pussy has always been a base term for a part of female anatomy – so in my opinion, when a woman uses it as an insult to a male – in this case Cruz – it reflects that she identifies with a misogynistic world view. Trump agreed with her – and we know what he is capable of. If he runs against Clinton, there will be no limits. As for Silverman – she does have a dirty mind – but she is a comedian – and a very funny and astute one – and she is not a politician running for president.
The real issue is a presidential candidate openly using my a word that is considered vulgar - not the uprightness of US puritanical people. That in no way absolves Trump of vulgar attention seeking.
I’m talking in this case specifically about the ‘professional’ anchor, not about the unprofessional candidate.
If I were forced to cover this ‘news’ story as an anchor, I would say something like “I’m asking the panel today about this reference to genitalia that was made at a recent Trump rally. Why do you think the candidate responded the way he did?”
Or if I was talking to Trump, I’d say, “A woman recently shouted at one of your rallies about genitalia, and you responded in kind. I wonder what kind of precedent you think that sets for the dignity of the office of the President?”
Or something like that. My point is, I’d be professional. I wouldn’t talk about ‘pornos’ or laugh or giggle or make it seem like I was trying to avoid a really awkward subject like I was 12 years old.
As to the candidate himself, well, he’s a walking joke, so I’m not surprised or offended by anything he says or does.
It’s entirely likely that the R contestants will eventually insult Clinton and call her a pussy now that Trumpf’s given them permission to do so, but the bigger problem that we’re overlooking is that the woman in the audience shouted it out over Cruz’s equivocation over waterboarding. So the republicans are going to bring it back if it’s all possible, and if one of them hesitates, he’s. . . well, you know what he gets called.
Just make it your job, and maybe Josh will make it official. You can use the usually empty comments section of the Editor’s Blog.
For other film lovers who don’t already know about it, Dennis Hartley writes a really great Saturday Night at the Movies feature over at digby’s Hullabaloo blog. Past editions of the feature are archived at Hartley’s DenOfCinema.
I took a look at DenofCinema, and interestingly he’s dissecting the most recent film I saw, Hail, Caesar from the Coen bros. He’s still trying to figure it out as am I.
Just saw it as well. Disappointing. Love the Coen Bros but Hail, Caesar was too disjointed.
Must say though, the cowboy character Hobie (Alden Ehrenreich) stole the movie. Going to be a big star. A natural. Not to dissimilar to Brad Pitts big moment in Thelma & Louise.
