What can be said of American political culture, of current American journalism, when reporters are so politically correct that they can’t even use the title of the camp that Gov. Rick Perry’s family owned in legitimate news reports?
Rachel Maddow, while speaking to the ever lovely comedic bomb-throwing Sarah Silverman, recently showed a clip in which reporters danced around the word: “Niggerhead.” If Herman Cain – as did Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson in ’84 -- got pissed off and said “Kike Town,” would the media be so circumspect?
Everyone, supposedly seasoned journalists, are getting their undies twisted and lodged in the proverbial crack of unreality because the use of the word nigger is now considered so corrosive that it is verboten from even legitimate news reporting.
So, now the anodyne N-word is used. That's like using the term fornication to replace fuck: it just doesn't have the same thrusting implication.
Granted, if you applied this now verboten term to a man or woman of African persuasion, you probably deserve a beat-down or read the riot act. But American journalism has become so pussy-whipped that it can’t –won’t!—even use the term accurately to tell the story of casual, down- home racism of good ol’ boy Perry.
However, the disappearance of the Perry family's camp having this odious word as its leisure standard has allowed the Man from Niggerhead to have the temerity to question President Obama’s birth and school records.
Wow, a Texas cracker pot implying something ugly about the .5 African-American kettle.
Remember when Perry said it was okay to get underneath the president’s skin, "to poke" at him?
Wouldn’t you just love having some annoying, smart alecky Jew bastard reporter saying, “Yeah, like Niggerhead was a genius piece of marketing, right?"
Oh, yeah, Sarah Silverman, America’s provocateur Jewess, is actually doing that live from Niggerhead, Texas. Calling out that cracker mofo...
The problem with this type of political correctness is that it impinges upon the public record. Reporters are now too scared to use the word Niggerhead in actually reporting lest they themselves are branded as racist or insensitive, with conservatives being the first ones clubbing them and liberals with it. Meanwhile the Man from Niggerhead gets to walk away free and clear, cheaply casting aspersions on Obama as a sop to the more rabid of his party’s base.
Once again, leave it to the irreverent fierceness of the comedic class to pull away the skin of the politicos, yet also exposing how utterly dickless the lame stream media really is.
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Around peopleI don't know, I won't even say the title of the book. If there's music playing and wu-tang comes on, I just leave for fear of uncontrollably mouthing the words.
You can't even use niggardly anymore, for christ's sake, and it's not even a relative of the the big N...just a homonym. That word is fucking radioactive and anyone that uses it will learn real quickly why it was a mistake. I'd take my chances wearing a shirt that had "CUNT" written in big, bold letters to work before I'd risk saying that word or anything remotely sounding like it at that same job. The former is a stupid fashion choice for work, obviously, but it is only most likely to get you fired. Droppin' that word just once - that definitely will.
Most journalists are pussies for plenty of other reasons. I say give 'em a pass on this one.
Pussy-Whipped, eh? Jew Bastard, eh? The media is "dickless", eh?
In this post you come across like one of those disturbed kids obsessed with genitals, constantly playing with themselves. As a reader am I supposed to imagine you have a dick, just because you say the name of Perry's ranch? Meanwhile you sit there in your own private ranch, which is probably called dick head. At your ranch I'm thinking you hold sexist, anti-Semitic, circle jerk parties with all your Dick Toting cronies. The ones who nigga-it-up. Perry isn't getting away with anything when the media decides to tread lightly around the word you seemingly demand they say, but I bet you get away with this kind of misogynistic, macho clap-trap all the time.
But I agree with you on the unseemly spectacle of niggerhead-Perry chuckling about poking Obama with the birth certificate crap.
They hypocrisy with which we swerve at any racial sign is counter-productive. Everyone has differences. Holding them in, though, only compounds the problem.
Great post.