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Speaking of b*****s, it's my birthday today!

Posted by Michigan Matt | November 16, 2007 2:52 PM
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Happy Bitch, you birthday boy!

Posted by Fnarf | November 16, 2007 2:58 PM
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Yay for Saggitariuseses!

Posted by monkey | November 16, 2007 3:26 PM
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Not quite. I'm a Scorpio. But yay!

Posted by Michigan Matt | November 16, 2007 3:33 PM
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There's an urban legend about Johnny Carson once having a professional dog trainer/expert (maybe Lassie's owner or something) on the Tonight Show. Johnny deliberately used the word bitch several times during the segment because that is the technically correct reference to a female dog. He knew the NBC censors couldn't bleep it out since he was using the word in this sense.

Posted by RainMan | November 16, 2007 4:34 PM
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Sometimes bleeped cuss words can be funnier, but I'm all for making that an artistic choice rather than blanket censorship.

Posted by Greg | November 16, 2007 4:34 PM
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Yeah but the sanitizing of what public people for the sake of not offending the public is just nuts. Fortunately, these days most folks have access to find out just what expletives or slurs people actually used. That hasn't always been the case.

Thirty some years ago, Nixon's agriculture secretary Earl Butz rattled off a truly demented sentence that he ended up resigning over.

In the aftermath, Rolling Stone did a great article on how not a single major network or newspaper reported what Butz actually said. Instead they chose sterile euphemisms to explain what he said. The result was that very few folks were reacting to what Butz said, but to a media filter that said it was bad.

Posted by gnossos | November 16, 2007 7:07 PM
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NYT may use the word "bitch" (give'em a medal), but they still are trotting out that old wives' tale (see last line of their story):

"At the same time, the episode may remind voters that many people have strong feelings about Mrs. Clinton and make them question whether they want to live with animosity and polarization."

WTF? The problem with Clinton is that she's not polarizing *enough*. If we was a little more innovative or inspiring, rather than a bland centrist, than that statement could be true. However, if the NYT wants to credit the evangelist whackos out there as "many people" than that says more about them than Clinton.

Posted by blah | November 17, 2007 8:28 AM
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Well, all I can say is that dried up old hag that asked the question shouldn't be calling anyone names. There's not enough KY in the world to moisten up something like that. No wonder she's so bitter.

Posted by someone needs a hormone patch..... | November 17, 2007 9:42 PM
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This is really odd, considering the mild profanity that peppers the WP VP's hilarious and insightful presenations.

Posted by Lauren | November 18, 2007 4:27 PM

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