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Media Matters inexplicably attacks Fox News for using the term ‘homosexual’
The Daily Caller ^ | 25 Mar 2014 | Brendan Bordelon

Posted on 03/25/2014 7:13:26 AM PDT by mandaladon

Media Matters, the website of choice for Fox News haters everywhere, attacked the cable news network on Monday for using the term “homosexual” in its programming — advancing the peculiar argument that the scientific term has a “pejorative connotation.”

The online “media watchdog” contends that calling gay people “homosexual” is “a practice that’s quickly falling out of favor with major news outlets due the term’s often pejorative connotation and frequent use by opponents of LGBT equality.” Fox News, they chide, “has yet to update its language when referring to gay and lesbian people.”

Buttressing their argument? A weekend piece in the Fashion and Style section of the New York Times entitled “The Decline and Fall of the ‘H’ Word.” In it, reporter Jeremy Peters likens the term to using “colored” to address black people and asserts that the word contains “the ring of disapproval and judgment.”

That was all Media Matters needed to pounce, accusing Fox News of not getting the memo clearly received by the New York Times and other “responsible” journalistic outlets. Specifically singled out were hosts Sarah Palin and Megyn Kelly, although the blog post provided no specific instances of when either of them used the term.

But Fox News anchor Shannon Bream — who Media Matters described as “a pro-discrimination champion” — was caught in the act of using the “H-word” as part of a tweet promoting on a news segment. That tweet, however, was over two years old.

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Homosexual is now a bad word?
1 posted on 03/25/2014 7:13:27 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

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2 posted on 03/25/2014 7:14:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.")
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To: mandaladon
Homosexual is now a bad word?

So is colored, just ask the NAACP.
3 posted on 03/25/2014 7:15:23 AM PDT by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: mandaladon

Will it ever end?

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4 posted on 03/25/2014 7:15:38 AM PDT by Mears
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To: mandaladon

they won’t stop this - ever. If they win, people will be knelt beside a ditch and dispatched with a bullet - all because they have morals and values.


5 posted on 03/25/2014 7:15:48 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Dahoser

I agree with that so they should use: Fags and Lesbos. Sounds ok to me.


6 posted on 03/25/2014 7:16:05 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I would suggest “pervert”.


7 posted on 03/25/2014 7:16:26 AM PDT by lrdg
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To: mandaladon

Seems like kind of a queer thing for Media Matters to be concerned with.


8 posted on 03/25/2014 7:16:46 AM PDT by pacobell
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To: mandaladon

> Homosexual is now a bad word?

Yes. It’s used in some of the more modern translations of the Bible, so it’s tainted with evyl connotations. You know, like “sodomite”.

The sodomites prefer to be called LGBTQ, Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer.

No chance of that finding its way into the Bible anytime soon.

They are trying to “medicalize” or “geneticize” their sin, when it really sounds more like a mental illness with all those letters.


9 posted on 03/25/2014 7:16:57 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: mandaladon

Use homosexual or queer, their pick which they like better.


10 posted on 03/25/2014 7:18:07 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: mandaladon

This is interesting. About a year ago, during a sermon, my pastor used the word “gay”. Spontaneously I shouted, “You mean homosexual.”

When I say gay, I mean happy. When I am speaking of men who desire sex with other men I say “homosexual” and regarding women who desire other women I say “lesbian”.

Period.

It drives ‘em nuts on liberal sites.

For what it’s worth, when we are dealing with race, I call blacks “negroes” and whites, “caucasian”. That drives ‘em nuts too.


11 posted on 03/25/2014 7:18:08 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: mandaladon

I prefer the term “bone smoking butt pirate”.


12 posted on 03/25/2014 7:18:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mandaladon
And what term should Fox now be using?

Merriam-Webster

ho·mo·sex·u·al

adjective

: sexually attracted to people of the same sex

: based on or showing a sexual attraction to people of the same sex

13 posted on 03/25/2014 7:18:56 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Dahoser

Homosexual Negro. Next question?


14 posted on 03/25/2014 7:19:11 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Dahoser

So is colored, just ask the NAACP.


What cracks me up about that one is that “colored people” and “people of color” mean exactly the same thing and even sound the same. That one is preferred and the other is an insult is laughable.


15 posted on 03/25/2014 7:19:19 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: mandaladon
So I'm guessing Fudgepacker is out. What about Sodomite?
16 posted on 03/25/2014 7:19:20 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: mandaladon
I don't watch TV news too often and am not familiar with Ms. Bream but Dem males are generally intimidated by the combination of smart, attractive women who don't play the victim's role. And liberal women usually are jealous.


17 posted on 03/25/2014 7:19:39 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: Mears

Will it ever end?


Yes.
The bible covers it pretty well.


18 posted on 03/25/2014 7:20:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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Because “fag” is so old-fashioned.


19 posted on 03/25/2014 7:20:05 AM PDT by pingman (In the Land of the Perpetually Outraged, truth is the enemy.)
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To: mandaladon

Yes, that is the new narrative.

It’s similar to the progressive / socialist / liberal / etc thing, or the negro / black / African-American thing. Verbal jiujitsu.


20 posted on 03/25/2014 7:20:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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