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Newt: “I think Ron Paul’s views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American” — except Glenn Beck
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Newt: “I think Ron Paul’s views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American”
It’s not turning into a good year for the Obama administration – in fact, it’s not been a good administration for the Obama administration – but I think that this is hardly an excuse for a Cabinet level official to use low-rent sexual epithets in public : At the Florida Democratic Party State Convention over the weekend, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis insulted members of the Tea Party, referring to the activists as “teab[*]ggers.” Teab[*]gger is a pejorative term used to refer to a certain sexual act. Liberal talk show hosts such as Rachel Maddow brought the phrase into the mainstream in 2009, using it as a tongue-in-cheek insult. As reported by Tallahassee Democrat and Sunshine State News , after voicing her support for large federal programs, Solis warned, “I’ll be darned if I’m going to set that aside now because a few teab[*]ggers want to somehow muzzle my voice,” Solis said. (Sanitizing mine.) I’ve always been somewhat cynically amused at how liberal/Democrats/progressives could just somehow tell that when, say, the word ‘macaca’ was used it was clearly meant as a racial slur; but that the enthusiastic use of the term ‘teab*gger’ had no homophobic connotations at all. This despite the fact that tracking down the former required some time with a dictionary, while finding rather graphic examples of the latter’s use requires nothing more than a Xbox and access to multiplayer Halo 3 … but that’s not the important thing. No, the important thing is that – according to the nice woman who I just talked to at the Department of Labor – complaints about alleged offensive and/or hate speech made by Department of Labor employees should be directed to the DoL’s Office of Inspector General Hotline at 800-347-4756, or via email at hotline(at)oig-dot-dol-dot-gov. I mean, seriously: it’s one thing when representatives of private companies express hateful language designed to encourage anti-gay bigotry; distasteful as it is personally, certain types of trash behavior have to be tolerated. But the federal government has some extremely tough internal regulations on what its employees can and cannot say in an official or even quasi-official capacity. They must be held accountable to their own rules. They must . Moe Lane ( crosspost )
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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis uses gay-baiting slur in public.
Tonight is The American Spectator ‘s annual dinner, featuring Rep. Paul Ryan.
On the day the World Series is to begin, Major League Baseball has responded to the demand from four U.S. Senators that the sport ban its players from chewing tobacco. The four legislators — Democrats Dick Durbin of Illinois, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Tom Harkin of Iowa — issued their demand yesterday, as seen in this story from Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lyn Sweet. Said the Senators in their letter: Tomorrow night, an expected 15 million viewers, including many children, will tune in to watch the first game of the series. Unfortunately, as these young fans root for their favorite team and players, they also will watch their on-field heroes use smokeless tobacco products,” wrote the Senators. “During the upcoming negotiations over the bargaining agreement, we write to ask that the Major League Baseball Players Association agree to a prohibition on the use of all tobacco products at games and on camera at all Major League ballparks. This would send a strong message to young baseball fans, who look toward the players as role models, that tobacco use is not essential to the sport of baseball. The response came today from former Commissioner of Baseball Clements “Babe” Yastrzemski III. The statement immediately caused a stir. “For decades hundreds of millions of Americans, including many children, have tuned into the news to watch the American political process at work. Unfortunately, as these young Americans root for the party and players the mainstream media insist
