the f-word - "Never Complain! Never Explain!"

[papau]

OK - so Fox News reminds us that Kerry used the f-word in a magazine interview last fall to characterize how the Bush administration was messing up the occupation of Iraq, with White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card saying in response "That's beneath John Kerry," as Card - and now Fox - forgot Bush 2000 speaking to Cheney and saying that New York Times reporter Adam Clymer was a "major league - - A-hole." with "Big Time!" being replied by Cheney.

Fox also remined us that former President Truman suggested in 1960 that people voting for Richard Nixon could "go to hell." - while forgetting to note that Nixon Whitehouse transcripts made famous "expletive deleted." Below Joel Connelly remembers and reflects on the loss of civility.

Politicians' expletives aren't words to the wise
Monday, June 28, 2004

By JOEL CONNELLY SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

<snip>As it prepared to pass the Defense of Decency Act, the Senate took a break to pose for a group photo, joined by its presiding officer, Vice President Dick Cheney.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made a joke to Cheney about standing on the Republican side of the aisle. Cheney responded by taking Leahy to task: The senator has called for an investigation of how Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Cheney, landed huge no-bid contracts in Iraq.

Leahy, a church-going Catholic, then took the occasion to upbraid the Bush administration: The administration's surrogates have charged anti-Catholic bias in Democratic senators' refusal to confirm a judicial nominee from Arkansas.

"F- - - yourself!" Cheney replied, and walked away.

Was there any later remorse? No way.

"I expressed myself rather forcefully and felt better off after I had done it," Cheney later told a sympathetic interviewer with the Fox News Channel. Fox is fast becoming America's state television network.<snip>

"Never Complain! Never Explain!" may be a motto for life. It turns the stomach when applied to public life.





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[ObaMania]

1. FAUX made me sick on either Thursday ...

.. well, every day, but Thursday especially when "The Panel" on Special Report was joking about it, basically saying that Leahy deserved it, and that it was a long time coming. Never once mentioning what if VP Gore did it..

I was never so goddamn furious in my life.

'Course on that day, the panel wasn't balanced out with either Mara Liason or Juan Williams. Instead they had that jackass Charles Krauthammer sitting in. I'm sure FOX selects daily panel members based on what issues they wish to address.

[papau]

2. I could not believe non-Fox - Like CBS Sunday - made light of the F word

Seems that like everything else in politics - the media has one rule for Dems - and a different rule or no rules for the GOP

[papau]

3. W.House on Cheney Obscenity: These Things Happen (won't condemn)

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-cheney-bush.html

W.House on Cheney Obscenity: These Things Happen
By REUTERS Published: June 26, 2004
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Bush is not taking Vice President Dick Cheney to the woodshed for uttering an expletive to a Democratic opponent in the U.S. Senate.

Cheney, annoyed at Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, had hurled the ``F-word'' at Leahy during a conversation on the Senate floor in Washington on Tuesday.

``These things happen from time to time,'' said White House spokesman Scott McClellan when asked what Bush's reaction to Cheney's remark had been.

``You're talking about one incident involving a private exchange,'' McClellan told reporters traveling with Bush on a trip to Ireland and Turkey. ``It's not an issue with the president. The president is looking ahead.''<snip>

[Joe Fields]

4. As with most people, it is the hypocrisy that pisses me off,

not the language. The politicians in Washington cuss like sailors behind closed doors. No one can do hypocrisy like the Bush administration.

[Sugarbleus]

5. Not even behind closed doors!!!

I agree.............the hypocracy stinks to high heaven!