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MichaelHarris

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:32 AM
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The phrase

Edited on Wed Aug-04-04 05:33 AM by mharris660

"Media Whore" is under attack in ATA. Quick lets find an alternative that we can all agree with.

p.s. this PC crap is really starting to bug me. I feel bad everytime I listen to, "The B**ch is back" by Elton John now. I'll no longer be able to be a Simpsons Whore I guess.

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:34 AM
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1. How about

pusillanimous non-journalists?

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MichaelHarris

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:52 AM
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7. I sure

hope that word is in the spell check data base, we may need it.

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:34 PM
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10. It is

I had to use spell check to get it right!

BTW, pusillanimous means "cowardly", which I think fits the media types very well.

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Lil Jon

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:35 AM
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2. I like "media whore".

It works.

Yeeahhh!

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Dookus

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:41 AM
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3. lol...

Edited on Wed Aug-04-04 05:41 AM by Dookus

yet another sexism war that's totally meaningless. Somebody complains about "media whore" and yet last night somebody referred to Randi Rhodes as an "on the rag bitch" and got only two objectors.

There is real sexism and there is faux-sexism. Unfortunately the real stuff is ignored in favor of silly crap like this.

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MichaelHarris

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:50 AM
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5. I got so riled

I wrote a lounge article:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=1482772&mesg_id=1482772

Sometimes we go just too far in being PC.

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Dookus

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:53 AM
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8. excellent essay

I just nominated it for the front page. The first one I ever did not-by-accident.

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MichaelHarris

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:56 AM
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9. hahahaha

thanks alot, I've messed up so many posts and I haven't even got the old age tremors yet. Now ear hair, thats an uphill battle.

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drhilarius

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:41 AM
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4. aaaaargh

Edited on Wed Aug-04-04 05:44 AM by drhilarius

I don't think anyone is using that phrase in the sense of "I don't like these Media (women who are sexual promiscuous)", but rather are using it in the traditional sense of the word: an individual who will perform a lewd act (like support Bush) for money. And, honestly, has no one heard the phrase man-whore before. Men can be whores, dammit!

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MichaelHarris

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Wed Aug-04-04 05:51 AM
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6. should we

start objecting to phrases like, "CNN just pimps bush*"

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