{"id":3339,"date":"2009-10-12T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2009-10-12T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T17:21:55","slug":"what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/10\/12\/what-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What He Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifting an Atrios <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2009\/10\/quote-it.html\">post in its entirety<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps if reporters stop sanitizing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1009\/28181.html\">language of politicians<\/a> and their people we can stop pretending that respectable people never use horribly uncivil naughty words. More than that, Villagers can stop pretending that people in their little community never tolerate such horrid behavior. People in DC swear a lot. A senator I had just met in an on the record setting let loose &#8216;fuck&#8217; and &#8216;shit&#8217; within about 5 minutes. Now I&#8217;m not going to &#8220;report&#8221; this (as in naming names) because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s particularly newsworthy, and depending on the day it might cause the absurd fainting couches to come out, but it would be nice if we all stop pretending that bad words are not a part of our normal discourse, used by people everywhere in the socioeconomic spectrum all the time&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No shit.\u00c2\u00a0 And I say that as a DC denizen of more than a decade now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifting an Atrios post in its entirety: Perhaps if reporters stop sanitizing the language of politicians and their people we can stop pretending that respectable people never use horribly uncivil naughty words. 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