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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Rush Limbaugh's Morning Update: Slurred

Rush Limbaugh: On a recent flight from New York to Washington, DC, a flight attendant instructed Senator Chuck-U Schumer to turn off his cell phone -- it's a federal regulation that anyone flying commercially has to follow prior to takeoff. Well, Schumer wasn't being singled out, either; everyone who flies knows the drill. Failure to comply can lead to your arrest.

But Chuck-U wasn't in the mood to bother with regulations intended for peasants. He argued with the flight attendant and then called her the B-word: B-I-ITCH. Yeah, he said to her: "B-I-ITCH!" Sitting next to him while this spectacle unfolded was New York's junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who refused to condemn Chuck-U's behavior.

Now, Schumer has since apologized to the flight attendant and said that his sleazy outburst was "off-the-cuff." It took four days before the story emerged in State-Controlled Media -- and even then, some outlets refused to print the actual slur that Schumer used (so, again, it was: B-I-ITCH) to castigate the flight attendant who was just doing her job.

What a stark contrast to the media feeding frenzy that another senator, George Allen from Virginia, faced when he "off-the-cuff" called a disruptive Democrat political operative a "macaca." Nobody even knew what "macaca" was; we all know what the word "B-I-ITCH" means, though. (I still don't know what "macaca" means!)

The State-Controlled Media hounded George Allen out of the Senate for his supposed "slur," while Democrat Chuck-U Schumer gets a pass. And, by the way, he got the flight attendant's phone number, too.

Read the Background Material on the Morning Update...
AP: Sen. Schumer regrets comment to flight attendant

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