The other day, President Obama said the following on The News: “”I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.” It was a candid comment, but it wasn’t vulgar by any stretch of the imagination. Most adult human beings have used that word at some point in the last year, and those who say they haven’t are lying.
But Concerned Women for America are not “most adult human beings.” They are, in fact, getting a bad case of the vapors and possibly in danger of dying from consumption because the President of the United States said “ass.” In fact, one of the Concerned Women, a man named Ken Ervin (presumably the most concerned lady of them all), decided this was a big enough deal that he was going to write a column about it!
Last year, the only butts the president was looking to kick were the unhealthy cigarettes he was chain smoking. But on Monday, his rhetoric changed … and coarsened.
Ellipses are for dramatic effect.
At the same time you’re cheapening the office of President, you’re also using words we’re trying to teach our kids not to use. “But Mom, why can’t I swear? The president does it!”
Ken’s kids call him “Mom”? The gender bending at CWA is more widespread than I knew.
How does your swearing lend “hope” to the nation? What kind of “change” does it bring? I’ll tell you what kind. My young son can now feel completely vindicated in using coarse language and acting like a bully. Why? Because, sir, you did it.
By this logic, Ken’s son should also feel validated in doing the following:
1. Mangling the English language in its entirety.
2. Referring to the Constitution as “just a goddamned piece of paper.”
3. Bombing countries based on false pretenses.
4. Authorizing his underlings to torture prisoners, undermining the moral authority of the United States at home and abroad.
5. Undermining the civil liberties of all Americans to an unprecedented level.
6. Trading Sammy Sosa.
7. Clearing a whole lotta brush.
So, based on those things and the fact that Concerned Strumpet Ken Ervin is raising his young son to emulate presidents, we can safely assume that he’s raising a stupid monster.
Not only did you swear, but you did it in such a manner that the threat behind it wasn’t even veiled.
Scaaaaaary. Wait, what threat? He said he consults experts so that he knows what he’s talking about so he knows whose ass to kick and where to assign responsibility. Big whoop.
Mr. President, perhaps while you’re trying to kick cigarette butts, you should also work on kicking your own crass.
Or maybe Ken Ervin needs to grow up, grow a pair, and stop interjecting while the grown-ups are trying to talk?
(h/t Kyle)
Every time I consult an expert, I end up wanting to kick someone’s a*s as well. Glad to know that it isn’t just me. I would sort of like to kick this guy’s a*s as well, but I don’t hit women.
Especially when they are Concerned Women.
We don’t say the “A” word. We use “hiney”.
As in “Concerned Women are a bunch of hineyholes.”
These hineyholes are part of the Super Christian crowd that cheered wildly as George Bush sent American soldiers off to be wounded, disfigured, disabled, or killed in the useless Iraqi war. But now they criticise Obama for uttering the unspeakable A-word. And they are the ones who feel most qualified to teach the rest of us about morals.
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It’s no wonder my partner and I routinely refer to the Concerned Women with the C-word. Our typical usage might be, “have you seen the C*** site today?”
Do you realize that it is now widely expected among dating JUNIOR HIGH students that girls WILL give blow jobs to the boys they date? You heard right–Junior High, not High School. Blow jobs are not even considered real sex. I’m not saying that is a good thing–it’s horrible. But the president saying “a*s” is NOTHING in light of what’s going on in the real world.
These a******s didnt have a problem when Cheney told that reporter to go f**k himself while a camera was rolling. To paraphrase Marie Antoinette, let them go eat da poo poo.
Oh, I know.
Of course, these people are stupid wingnuts, so they probably blame that on Bill Clinton.
But yeah, the sexes is everywhere. The only difference, though, is that there’s a lot more s**t shaming, because women are more equal than they used to be. It used to be, you know, the men could do what they want (and still can in some quarters) with “lesser girls” (or each other) and they’d always get off scot free, while projecting an image of upright morality, because the girls they fucked around with were “those girls.” Now everybody’s getting a piece of the pie, if they want, and the educational side of the culture is struggling to catch up to changing mores. But, of course, the double standards are still there. As you said, girls are expected to give blow jobs. But, quite frankly, when have you ever heard about a high school or middle school where the boys are EXPECTED to go down. Like hell. So. Yeah.
/Ramble
“CWFA hit fainting couch”
Let’s hope nobody was standing behind them! That would be like standing behind a cow when somebody goes cow-tipping.
MOOOOOOOO!!
What a bunch of asses.
One can take whatever stand one wishes about the standards of polite discourse.
However, expressing SHOCK! and HORROR! at words that can be routinely heard on popular network TV shows seems pointless at best.
Me, I’d rather they expressed shock and horror about actively committing human rights violations and putting basic civil rights up for popular vote – but that would pretty much wipe out their own job descriptions.
It’s always entertaining when the cwfa, pitch a mid victorian era hissy fit.
I’m not sure how many women are in CWA anymore.