Comments on: Anti-Alan Grayson smears in context

By: hanoverfiste

hanoverfiste — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I would say whore is a very good term for a lobbyist man or women. I would think in private they might joke about being whores to their colleagues.

Take a look at Alan Grayson in action in this c-span clip on you tube, where he grills Bernake on $500,000,000,000 going to foreign banks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0NYBTkE1yQ

I’d say Grayson is a true American hero.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I didn’t vote for him last time, but I will the next.

By: PaulR

PaulR — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alan Grayson is the only bright spot in American politics right now, as far as I can tell. His “around here, we call a spade a bloody shovel” attitude is very refreshing.

Go get ‘em, Alan!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can we clone Grayson and Kucinich about 200 times?

By: Extrema

Extrema — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seems a more accurate metaphor would be the lobbyists are Johns, our Congresspeople are whores, trading legislative favors for money, …and the parties are their pimps. Without meaning any insult to whores.

By: Baldhead

Baldhead — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#4… which woman was called a whore? Enron execs, as a group, were given this name. we’ll point out later how few of these execs were in fact women.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Digby does a great job of rounding up the criticisms of outspoken Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson, who is being pilloried for such rhetorical crimes a calling Enron lobbyists “whores”…

Meanwhile, I assume that all that “Please don’t make racist, sexist or homophobic remarks or use associated offensive terms” stuff actually means something in these parts? I’d also respectfully suggest that saying “Glen Beck and the tea-baggers are worse,” might be true but it’s also setting the bar at the bottom of Marianas Trench.

By: 2k

2k — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

When your quiet, reserved and cool friend suddenly ‘snaps’ and shouts some idiot down, the fold usually react like an nuclear weapon just went off up their koosies.
But when your inveterate, loud, obnoxious and angry friend does it nobody bats an eyelid because, well… (s)he’s like that all the time.

The clique will often side with the Loud One over the Quiet One in these exchanges. I mean, Gosh! You didn’t need to freak out like that.
Methinks we need to check the temperature of the water we’re in.
And it’s deep too.

By: minTphresh

minTphresh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

as a whore, i take deep offense at this unkind analogy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hmm, calling a woman a whore – I wonder why that might be perceived as uncool …

By: valdis

valdis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Right up there with Barney “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” Frank. We need more people like him and Grayson.

By: Boba Fett Diop

Boba Fett Diop — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unpleasant rhetoric on talk radio? I may clutch my pearls!

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Talk radio is the broadcast equivalent of YouTube comments minus the thoughtful discourse.

By: benher

benher — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

mod Brainspore +5 Insightful and grant him ogre-slaying privileges! If only there were such a thumbs-up icon in the boingboing comments…