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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: Mouton

21 posted on 03/25/2014 7:20:53 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: mandaladon

22 posted on 03/25/2014 7:21:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: lrdg
I would suggest “pervert”.
23 posted on 03/25/2014 7:21:25 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You’re just making it worse for yourself!


24 posted on 03/25/2014 7:21:44 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: mandaladon
How long before using the word Homosexual will be a criminal offense, or worse?
25 posted on 03/25/2014 7:21:47 AM PDT by Larry381 (It don't matter what you say.....I'm offended!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
NObody can accuse you of being niggardly with usage of that word.
26 posted on 03/25/2014 7:21:48 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: mandaladon

Homosexual Fridays at Media Matters must be a hoot?


27 posted on 03/25/2014 7:22:04 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Homo Sapiens, Homo Erectus, Homogenous, Homogenized.....


28 posted on 03/25/2014 7:22:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cuban leaf

” I call blacks “negroes” and whites, “caucasian”. That drives ‘em nuts too.”

They don’t care for the term American-African either.


29 posted on 03/25/2014 7:22:17 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

30 posted on 03/25/2014 7:22:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: mandaladon

Just say “homo” or “queers”.


31 posted on 03/25/2014 7:23:23 AM PDT by dforest
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To: mandaladon

It has come to mean what it labels.

Soon “gay” will also be banned, because it will come to mean what it labels.

This is the same with all the perverted leftist ideas, concepts, and groups. They change their label to make them more acceptable, but people soon are using that label to describe the truth about that which is referred to, and the label then is discarded.


32 posted on 03/25/2014 7:23:37 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Dahoser

33 posted on 03/25/2014 7:23:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: mandaladon

“Homosexual” has a clear, specific, technical meaning. “Gay” has several meanings, only one of which relates to sexual preference.

All homosexuals are homosexual.

Some homosexuals are gay (depending on which meaning of the term one is considering or intending).


34 posted on 03/25/2014 7:23:53 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: cuban leaf

They are NOT the same! Try telling that to the “Colored People’s Front”, and then the same to the “People Of Color Front”.


35 posted on 03/25/2014 7:24:03 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Mears

No. Because what the labels describe will forever be unacceptable, no matter what label you put on it.

Think “honey wagon”.


36 posted on 03/25/2014 7:24:22 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: mandaladon
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.”

It can't keep it all straight (so to speak). "Colored people" is incorrect, but "people of color" is the preferred term. Now, referring to people who engage in homosexual behavior "homosexuals" is incorrect? (Calling them, "people-who-engage-in- homosexual-behavior" seems kinda awkward.)

37 posted on 03/25/2014 7:24:22 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: mandaladon
Websters:

ho·mo·sex·u·al

adjective \ˌhō-mə-ˈsek-sh(ə-)wəl, -ˈsek-shəl\

: sexually attracted to people of the same sex

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

38 posted on 03/25/2014 7:24:33 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: mandaladon

Homosexual, sodomite, and a thousand other phrases to say a faggot hat sticks his body parts into the asshole of other men.


39 posted on 03/25/2014 7:24:44 AM PDT by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: cuban leaf
"Will it ever end?"
40 posted on 03/25/2014 7:25:27 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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