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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMatt Drudge headline re: Cindy Sheehan in September 2005.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050926210119/http://www.drudgereport.com/What was Drudge trying to accomplish?
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Drudge meant to call Cindy Sheehan the c-word | |
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Perfectly innocent, no misogyny intended | |
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MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)was too permissive. Exacerbated by her anti-feminist candidacy, but that's not an excuse.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)DU never lets me down.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)by claiming there is nothing wrong with using that same phrase at Hillary Clinton.
When they finally stop the sophomoric attempts to justify misogyny we can move on.
Don't forget to vote in the poll.
Cha
(297,723 posts)glad they're not running the board.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)And even if he did, it means something else in the UK, even though he's American.
Cha
(297,723 posts)Drudge was trying to be clever.. it didn't work then and it's not working now.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Sad to see here.
SMH
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)as is everyone that thinks that's a clever turn of phrase.
It's as opaque as clean glass and as old as the internet.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,714 posts)You would be surprised how so many people have defended it on the grounds it really wasn't what he said.
They have to be the most disingenuous or obtuse people on the planet.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I wonder what they'd think if it was a classmate using it when referring to their daughter on Facebook.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,714 posts)It reminds me of an article in Vanity Fair a while back about David Geffen where a fellow Hollywood mogul who obviously wasn't fond of him called him an unusually good fellatrix.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)master debater or cunning linguist?
Hekate
(90,829 posts)I've seen wallet cards purporting to be fishing licenses for "Master Baiters."
Yes, it no doubt confuses some people all to bits.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I don't. So you do this often? Or just to prove a point that the rest of us who did not know, and per your view should have. no dinner for me tonight... are still going to say that this was excessive, but par for the course.
So let me quote somebody else in Republican land.
And we are indeed at that point.
So we will now watch what we say on this site. Well I have since I came back. No use in feeding the usual crowd.
I expect this to be alerted, possibly hidden as well... perhaps worst.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Cindy Sheehan is a Hero.