It sounds like Ted was using the words to discuss the words. Meanwhile Senator Sheets Byrd dropped the N-bomb on television and meant it as the enwurd and refused to apologize for using it. Some people get a pass in the politically correct world, some do not.
Where are Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins to talk about the blacklist and "chill wind" now? Where is the ACLU?
Don't you mean "whitelist"? "Blacklist" is too offensive. ;-)