Elizabeth Lauten is the latest one. It just burns my bacon that these people think nothing of posting any abusive thought that pops into their little pea brains, and then think that “apologizing” makes everything OK.
Risking putting myself in the same boat, maybe it’s a Religious thing? Sin, and then ask for forgiveness, and it’s like it never happened?
Well, I wish that they would either have the eggs to leave their crap on-line without apology, or not post it in the first place.
She probably thinks a little more of it, now that its cost her job.
I pit the word “phucking.”
She’s still getting grief over her “apology” as noted on Rachel Maddow and at Forbes. She apologized for saying the stupid stuff, but didn’t actually apologize to the two people whom she actually insulted. Essentially it was a non-apology, just apologizing because she got caught.
Al Gore should ban her from the internet.
Indeed.
One might almost think that it was all planned* - post outrageous, offensive garbage, and then "apologize’ for it once it starts to get smeared around the internet.
Phony.
*perhaps not the whole “losing my job” thing, but, who knows.
Apparently, the only qualification needed to be a communication expert for the Republicans is an AOL account.
In the SRIofTD thread, mhendo found something.
I guess she knows all about badly behaving teens.
You’re a partisan fucktard. :rolleyes:
Yes, because one person behaving badly completely excuses everyone elses bad behavior. :rolleyes:
So, against all odds, both sides are equal? How fortunate for people that support the GOP.
I don’t think this communicates your idea effectively.
She was the one with bad behavior. How would *her *previous bad behavior be an excuse for her current bad behavior?
There was a time when you had to put in effort to engage in vapid libel, by printing out pamphlets and such. It’s too easy nowadays.
nicely put - so polite! 
The strange thing is not the rude comment to the Obama daughters, but the shit she said about the President and First Lady:
Where the Hell does that kind of thought come from? I can see a Republican not agreeing with Obama’s policy or agenda, that’s expected. But you have to be Cruz-crazy to say they don’t respect the country.
I believe he’s attempting to humorously apply the attitude espoused by Bricker et. al in iiandyiii’s pit thread.
So she lost her job for telling the Presidential daughters to dress better and show more respect during a turkey pardon. Which makes no sense - the turkey pardon is too stupid an occasion to show respect, and the only appropriate costume would be a clown suit.
Do people really worry about stuff like this? It may have been inappropriate, but it is a fairly mild criticism of a markedly silly occasion.
Regards,
Shodan
Heck, ask Fox News how much mileage they get out of mock outrage over stupidities, be it flag pins, umbrellas held by Marines or Obama saluting while holding a coffee cup… whether or not people actually worry about petty shit, there’s a whole pseudo-industry built on assuming they worry about petty shit.
It was pretty harsh criticism of a couple of teenage girls who didn’t do anything wrong. If you’re talking about Lauten paying attention to the turkey ceremony, then I agree - it’s not news.
She used the man’s teenage daughters as a political tool. What’s more, she did so in such a way that was grossly insulting to them, and acted as though their father was some deadbeat dad who had no respect for anything, rather than, yanno, POTUS. Sometimes, things are a bit off-limits. This should, within all reason, be one of those moments.
Just imagine if the nation’s teenagers became rebellious tramps like Obama’s kids. And this is the thanks Miss Lauten gets. A patriot’s job is never done.
I’m still not really sure what she’s talking about. I guess the one on the left is showing too much leg? Maybe I’m just another victim of America’s cultural decline. They seem uncomfortable in the same way you would be if your dad was acting like an awkward nerd telling horrible jokes on national TV and you were forced to stand by him.
It’s funny when PR managers and communication directors say stupid shit, you’d think they’d be good at not doing that. The RO over this non-sense is funny in general. There just always has to be something, doesn’t there?
Alternatively, ask ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN how much time they devote to stupid things some random congressional staffer versus, say a key Obamacare architecht repeatedly admitting they lied on camera to sell the thing, and undercutting the administration’s legal arguments in a case currently before the supreme court. That story was out there for a week before they deigned to even mention it on-air.
GOP unknown snarks on Malia … THAT’s a story worth leading with for three days? :dubious: