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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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To: Eva

Never pass up an opportunity to annoy, harass or disrupt the enemy.


101 posted on 03/25/2014 9:05:52 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: mandaladon
Why not use the term “Uranian tendencies” It's an old Victorian idea but it seems to cover a lot of non mainstream sexual behavior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranian

CC

102 posted on 03/25/2014 9:13:52 AM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: mandaladon

Homosexuals are Homosexuals. They are not gay. If truth is now unacceptable then the end is already here.......


103 posted on 03/25/2014 9:15:44 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: Mears

Will it ever end?

No, unless we stand up and end it.........


104 posted on 03/25/2014 9:18:04 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: mandaladon

Working in the restaurant industry in college I met a lot of Gay Guys (I know, shocker, GAYS work in restaurants). Anyhow, many of them could not stand Transvestites (sorry 1980’s term) and I can not repeat the jokes they said about Lesbians. I often wonder how GAYS and Lesbians feel about being lump in with Transgender?


105 posted on 03/25/2014 9:20:10 AM PDT by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes, and yes again, I second your post-these people want to argue with a distinction and term that goes all the way back to the Greeks-who openly practiced it? Well, that is too f’in bad-I’ll continue to call them “homosexual” because that is what they are. The only pejorative I use is mojado-or wetback, if you like, and I’ll continue to say that, too...


106 posted on 03/25/2014 9:29:42 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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107 posted on 03/25/2014 9:31:37 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Texan5

The fact that they don’t like it means we should use it.


108 posted on 03/25/2014 9:43:25 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: LibertarianLiz

The opposite of a “breeder” is an “extincter”, one who contributes to the extinction of their species.


109 posted on 03/25/2014 9:48:07 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Eagles6

So if you order your BLT with Gucamole, ....


110 posted on 03/25/2014 9:51:12 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: mandaladon
The term ‘heterosexual’ will never be a pejorative term...
111 posted on 03/25/2014 9:56:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (NASA: N othing A bout S pace A nymore - - FreperClearCase_guy)
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To: harwood
1 Kings 14:24 - And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

The Bible uses the term "Sodomite", which is why most of the laws passed previously in the United States forbidding this perverted behavior were called, "Sodomy Laws".

Luke 17:28 - "...as it was in the days of Lot (Sodom); they did eat , they drank , they bought , they sold , they planted , they builded ; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Come quickly Lord Jesus!
112 posted on 03/25/2014 9:57:30 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: mandaladon
 photo Barneysbigday_zpsad02be30.jpg Bonnie looks pretty happy ergo gay homosexual.
113 posted on 03/25/2014 10:03:24 AM PDT by RetSignman
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
It already is in the UK and the sodomite EU.

Seriously ?

If they don't like homo, they'd probably like b___f____r even less.

114 posted on 03/25/2014 10:14:53 AM PDT by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: NorthMountain; humblegunner

I think Incompetent Sphincter played at the Astrodome in the late ‘70s.

I am sure humblegunner would remember.


115 posted on 03/25/2014 10:33:15 AM PDT by Eaker (Sweat dries, blood clots and bones heal so suck it up buttercup.)
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To: Eaker

I seem to recall him getting in trouble for throwing spitballs.

On another note, “Incompetent Sphinctre” would be a great name for a band.


116 posted on 03/25/2014 10:38:08 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Eaker; NorthMountain
I think Incompetent Sphincter played at the Astrodome in the late ‘70s.

1982, reunion tour.

117 posted on 03/25/2014 10:51:53 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: mandaladon
"Homosexual is now a bad word?"

"Homosexual" is a neutral, scientific term, "gay" is a propaganda term. The poofters at Media Matters prefer propaganda.
118 posted on 03/25/2014 11:23:46 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Dahoser

“So is colored, just ask the NAACP.”
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NAACP=Nauseating Association for Advancement of Crime Perpetrators


119 posted on 03/25/2014 11:36:02 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: Dahoser

Or National Association of Criminal Professionals, something like that, I’m not sure exactly.


120 posted on 03/25/2014 11:37:52 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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