Discussion: Mika Apologizes For 'Crass And Offensive' Slur: 'It Was A Mistake'

If it walks like a “butt-boy” and it talks like a “butt-boy”…

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Crass and offensive the term may be, and it would have smart to have used other words, but the gist of it was spot-on. “Water-boy” or “covfefe boy” just don’t carry the tawdriness of this (mal)administration.

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What if Ms. Brzezinski had called Sarah Huckabee Sanders “a wanna-be dictator’s vagina-girl”?

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What if talking heads weren’t endlessly annoying at all? Now that would be something!

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Unpossible!

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Butt boy would be a vast improvement for Pompeo.

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I love how she didn’t qualify ‘if anyone was offended.’ She owned it and apologized. Time to move on (I’m looking at YOU, you hypocritical frauds over at FOX!)

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You probably shouldn’t say “butt boy” on TV. But this administration is far more crass and offensive than any possible verbal slur. They’re getting innocent people killed out of sheer greed, desire for political advantage, and vicious cruelty. Using intemperate language to describe it is the only forgivable aspect of the situation.

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Decorum. Polite society. These are important to teach out kids, and to maintain. Sorry, Mika, but you may be having to stay home. It’s just irresponsible to speak like that on national TV, and she knew better.

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As much as I loathe Mika, I agreed with her characterization 1000%.

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This was, and is, a nonsense “controversy” … and one that adds nothing of value to the discussion of politics. There are words and phrases that are in a general “gray zone” -in that they get used by various people in various way to mean various things. “Butt-boy” ( a term that I just would not use) as used by many, has come to have a meaning like … ass-kisser … butt-kisser … brown-noser … a sycophant … and a jerky one at that.
Oh… and make no mistake … an argument can be made that “brown-noser” has an element of homophobia in it.

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Clearly, kids have virgin ears. Well, for thirty seconds anyway, and then they get on the Internet.

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The meaning of common slang words changes all the time, now faster than most of us can keep up due to the internet. Best for people speaking in public to avoid slang as much as possible. My guess is Mika simply slipped up. I don’t watch the show, but anything that has free form discussion is prone to such slip ups. Apologize and move on.

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Never apologize for telling the truth.

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“A rose is still a rose by any other name !” - William Shakespeare. Maybe she should have said “yes man” or “syncophant” or “lap dog”, but the point is right on.

Pompeo needs to grow a spine and a set of cajones, or every tin-pot dictator will walk right over him, because they know Trump can be easily rolled with just the promise of a deal for the Trump Organization.

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Yeah that is how a person with a conscience apologizes. In contrast to DT who never apologizes.

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Yes …one additional follow up -amusing-
Was channel surfing through the movie channels last night … paused on the cute 1998 Christmas movie “Jack Frost” with Michael Keaton … there was a father & son scene … son protests about having to do something
SON : “… but… Dad !!!”
DAD: " … but … Dad? … but Dad? … did you just call me Butt-Dad?? … how about if I call you Butt-Boy?"

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Let me be sure I’ve got this right. She called Pompeo a buttboy and she had to apologize to buttboys.?

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Sorry? Why sorry? Why are we apologizing to the gay community - are we no longer allowed to mention butts without their permission?? Why is the word butt now a gay thing we must avoid. A butt boy is a butt toy you pull outta your butt to play with and or smear… which pretty much describes all of the president’s men. yes-men, ass-kissers. These are what they are. The gays don’t own this!!!
I see jinnj comment below agrees with this too…

I say no one apologizes til the president owns up to any offensive shyte he has spewed and “owns” his mistake (any of them) with the same steel spine Mika did.

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