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Posts Tagged ‘language wars’

Canadian Legislator Resigns In Disgrace After Calling His Colleague A ‘Dumb B-Word’

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Greetings, Member of the Legislative Assembly!In Canada, they have a form of government that involves things called “legislative assemblies” or something, and a member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly resigned as a secretary to the Premier after he called a fellow lawmaker a “dumb bitch.” Basically, a remark that Nancy Pelosi hears a dozen times a day before breakfast made these poor polite Canadians go into palpitations and resign all over the place. MORE »


Republicans’ Crazy Racism And Sexism Survey, Revealed!

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

This sample voter actually objects to both ismsYesterday, we discussed how the Republican National Committee is performing extensive research to find substitutes for certain unprintable words that have wonderful ways of goosing voter turnout. Wonkette operative James Del went under double-secret cover to secure images of the actual survey supposedly sent out by the RNC to college students. Truly alarming ‘agree/disagree?’ questions, after the jump! MORE »


Hillary Clinton Says Barack Obama Shouldn’t Use Words, Money To Campaign

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Guttural howls and barter would be OKHillary Clinton continues to suggest her rival Barack Obama is too stylish, and also he is a thiever of words and slippery when it comes to campaign finances. In other words, he is a “politician.” Hillary Clinton finds this repellent and disappointing, and wants voters to know it. MORE »


Bill Schneider’s Gutter Lingo Demeans McCainiacs

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Expect the McCain campaign to be calling for Bill Schneider’s head tomorrow. In this clip, the CNN analyst indulges in the sort of foul, bigoted gutter talk we’d expect from someone on MSNBC. He calls McCain’s gloriously proud and unspeakably old constituency his “peeps.”