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The Starter Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Southeast Age: 34
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press I guess if all the "righties" start referring to Obama as "BHO the Towelhead" then the lefties should laugh it off right?
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press I don't have a problem with a little ribbing, but towelhead is taking it a little too far though wouldn't you say? |
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The Starter Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Southeast Age: 34
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press Quote:
How about "Karl Marx Jr."? How about "Skeletor the Socialist"? I'm all for political humor in the appropriate context and there's no problem with humor pushing the envelope. Humor that never rises above name calling just never struck me as that funny, at least not since I was about eight years old. Starting nearly ever sentence or comment about a particular candidate with the SNL nickname of the day makes you look like a 3rd grader and marginalizes everything that follows it, no matter how serious or humorous. It doesn't make anyone look hip or wise to pop culture, it just makes the speaker look unintelligent. I don't care what side of the political spectrum you're on (because it's rampant at both ends), starting everything off with a nickname is about as asinine as it gets. Why not just hold up a giant sign that says, "I'm a close minded zealot who turned his brain off and is incapable of considering an issue or at least conveying humor in something that rises above name calling." It'll have about the same affect. For as much whining as there is about all the mudslinging and dirty campaigns and call for everyone to return to the issues, there sure is a lot of petty bickering. It's pretty obvious how things degenerate to this point of unproductive nastiness when the best anyone can muster is a play on the candidates last name.
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press I don't see how McRage compares to calling someone a towelhead. Not even in the same ballpark. Who knew a stupid name could get someone so riled up. LOL that was too easy. |
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The Starter Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Southeast Age: 34
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press Quote:
It would appear the line of reasoning goes something like this: McRage isn't offensive because I say it is. Towelhead is offensive because I say it is. This really just highlights the epidemic of lousy thinking in this country: the complete inability for anyone to get outside their own sheltered little bubble of a life and see the world through the eyes of someone else. Believe it or not there are more opinions out there beyond what shows up on The Daily Show and SNL, as hard to believe as that may be. Funny you think I'm riled up ![]()
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press Based on one name you sure are making a ton of generalizations and assumptions. But I guess that just highlights the epidemic of lousy thinking in this country as you say. |
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The Starter Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Southeast Age: 34
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press Quote:
If you'd like to explain how "towelhead" is different from "McRage" from a societal, cultural, anecdotal or empirical standpoint I would be more than happy to hear it. "I don't see how" simply isn't an argument.
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press Quote:
If you would like to offer up an opinion as to why you feel McRage is equally as offensive as towelhead, I'm all ears. | |
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press LOL are you kidding firstdown? Just a few pages back you said Quote:
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press I'll go ahead and call Joe the Plumber a first class retard...hope no one is offended. |
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The Starter Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Southeast Age: 34
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press Quote:
For the record I never claimed I thought calling Obama a "towelhead" was appropriate, I merely suggested it given the apparent pattern of calling McCain names with which nobody has a problem. Either way they're both juvenile. And I completely agree that "towelhead" does tend to be more offensive than "McRage" and for all the reasons you stated. See, that wasn't so hard, was it?
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press What's really sad to me is that McCain prior to gearing up for this Presidential run really was a Senator who could reach across the aisle and cut through the BS. Since he tacked right in the primaries and brought on the Rovies, it's been nothing but name-calling and nonsense. The fact that we are debating over which is worse, McRage or Towel head, is well, nuts. The economy is is the tank. We've got armies in 2 very nasty parts of the world. China and India are emerging powers. Russia is resurgent. Health care is a mess. The housing market has collapsed, taking with it the equity of millions of Americans. You can see why McCain is losing in the polls--Rovian 'business as usual' is not flying this time. And it's too late for McCain to change course. Too bad--if McCain had picked a decent centrist running mate, tacked to the CENTER (as he obviously should have in this election climate), and run an issue-based campaign, he just might have won. And I wouldn't have really minded that--it would have confirmed what has been best about John McC this last 20 some years. But he didn't. This is his bed, now he's got to lie in it. Maybe he'll pull off the big upset. But the country will be damaged from his campaign in any event, IMHO.
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| Re: Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press Ask saden what he thinks
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