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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:32 PM
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how about this for hypocrisy from the fuckwad wingnuts?
A Tale of Two F-Bombs: WaPo, MSNBC, CNN Bothered By Cheney in 2004, Not Biden Six Years Later
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By Jeff Poor (Bio | Archive)
Wed, 03/24/2010 - 15:12 ET


You really have to wonder what was running through Vice President Joe Biden's head when he leaned toward President Barack Obama and said "this is a big f**cking deal." Did Biden think that after nearly a year of campaigning for health care reform he was alerting Obama to something new?

But Biden isn't the first vice president to allow an expletive slip in a public forum in this day and age of a geared up media apparatus. Back in 2004, then-Vice President Dick Cheney let the F-bomb slip in remarks he made to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., over political disagreement between the two.

However, the media, particularly The Washington Post, MSNBC and CNN, took Cheney's indiscretion seriously. But Biden's indiscretion - which was actually captured on national TV - wasn't seen as so serious.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/03/24/tale-two-f-bombs-wapo-msnbc-cnn-bothered-cheney-2004-not-biden-six-years-#ixzz0j80O4kl0
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:33 PM
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Biden was using it differently
Cheney directed it to another person, go F-- yourself, that's an unpleasant exchange, Biden wasn't being nasty to Obama.
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:34 PM
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2. LOL
Almost exactly what I just posted below.
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:33 PM
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1. Big difference
Cheney directed his bomb at someone personally in his "F-you" to Leahy. Biden's was an expression of exuberance and not directed at anyone in a derogatory manner.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:35 PM
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3. I'm disappointed Biden would use that kind of language on the national stage.
He should have shown some discretion.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:38 PM
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4. He prollee is a little hard of hearing. And fuck that pretense. arcadian hmmmmmf!
JOE ROCKS! :yourock: JOE BIDEN!
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:41 PM
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6. It's not that big a deal.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:52 PM
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:44 PM
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7. I agree with you.
While I certainly wasn't offended by what Biden said---I actually laughed when I heard that's what he really said---they have to know that there are microphones close by that may pick up that language. I am not a prude, but I certainly can't celebrate what Biden said. If a repuke used the same language in the same content (well, they would actually have to do something productive first) many on our side would've objected.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 03:02 PM
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9. It reminds me of my dad's rich, white golfing buddies.
Getting tanked up and urinating in people's backyard's on the course at the country club. It just does. I just don't think it's professional.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:40 PM
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5. Are they clutching their pearls over at Newsbusters?
I say, "Fuck 'em."
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 03:03 PM
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10. 'Fuck' is a lovely and expressive word
when used the way Biden used it. Quite ugly when used the way Cheney did.

It's not the word but the intent behind it.
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