I saw on the Daily Show last night that Keith Olbermann from MSNBC said of the new Republican Senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, that he was “irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.”
Now, I don’t care that he said it. “News people” on the 24 hour “News” networks aren’t supposed to be impartial or objective. They’re supposed to be controversial, so effectively, he’s just doing is it just doing his job. And what he said this one time is really only slightly worse than what pretty much anyone with a mic pinned to their chest on fair and balanced Fox News say about Obama, every single day.
I’m not going to argue about whether he should or shouldn’t have said it. What I take issue with is the use of homophobic in conjunction with tea-bagging. Aren’t these pretty much mutually exclusive terms. I know what homophobic means, and I’m pretty darn sure I know what tea-bagging means. I guess it’s possible that different people have different ways of dealing with their fears. Apparently, the Honorable Senator Elect from Massachussets deals with his fear of gay people by sticking their testes in his mouth.
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