Monday Morning Rant


Here's something I wanted to rant about last week but it got totally side-tracked by the John Edwards bloggers debacle. Especially since it is a perfect follow-up to the hypocrisy surrounding that debacle. A hypocrisy based on how a certain kind of woman uses language.

I was told by a party insider they could not link to this blog because I used the word "panties" in one of my posts.

Yes people. Like 9 year-olds, Democrats are skittish of the word used for a girls' cootie catcher.

Do I have to be a multi-millinaire political socialite or a couple of guys dressed in blog drag for it to be acceptable? What of the DNC linking to the aforementioned blog back in 2004 when it had a media dilettante who's shitck at said blog was to endlessly pepper her posts with sodomy jokes?

Does choosing not to link to this blog have something to do with common decency or is it just out right censorship?

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Liza Sabater is the founding blogger and publisher of culturekitchen and Daily Gotham. She also a new media producer and social technologist with 10 years experience. You can reach her at blogdiva [at] culturekitchen.com or follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blogdiva

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Soylent Green's picture

pathetic. the new regime

pathetic. the new regime just as uptight as the old one.lets get a new government, a actuall democratic one, without the prude afliction with no corporate rule. oh wait wasnt that here before our Pilgrim ancestors got carried away? Damn.

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JJ Ross's picture

What I've Always Wondered

is, does anyone actually WEAR ruffle-covered undies like this, which surely would just make you look fat? I get wearing long hair at least, even though it's a bother for us, b/c so many men are passionate about it, but in this case -- I don't know many men who prefer squashy and thicky through the middle. Huh.

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NanceConfer's picture

Panties? Hell, I've read a

Panties? Hell, I've read a lot worse than "panties" here. They need to keep reading. Maybe they can work themselves up to being really offended! Smiling

Nance

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M. Loutre's picture

Oh, pshaw.

"Oh, so you want to get your panties in a wad over my mentioning panties in a post? Fine. So I just won't have anything to do with panties anymore at all. There. How do you like them, er, apples?"

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M. Loutre's picture

oh, and besides...

...you missed a prime opportunity to do some pirceless product placement by not posting the link to http://www.cafepress.com/culturekitchen.60615321 in your panties polemic, ahem ahem...

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