Please don't take away our whore!

Can't help but get a little het-up at the McScandal erupted and dominating the conversation in the hot California gubernatorial race between the hoary Jerry Brown and the chipmunk-cheeked gabillionaire Whitman Sampler heiress, Meg Whitman.

Last week an illegally (and poorly) recorded tape of a Brown aide suggesting Whitman might be painted as a whore for going easy on law enforcement pensions in exchange for a law enforcement union endorsement.

What was meant: Maybe we should we point out that Whitman was willing to sell parts of her body (of alleged principles) in exchange for an election endorsement.

As always, Republicans were disappointed, outraged and troubled; their point was distilled when, in their debate Wednesday night, moderator Tom Brokaw framed the whore controversy, by insisting, "to many women [it's] the same as calling an African American the 'N' word."

Jerry Brown, bravely took issue with that daring to tread 'crost that shitstrewn landscape, calling out, "I don't agree with that comparison..."

And we've gotta be honest (as Sean Hannity would say) our collective BlatherWatch hearts sank: "Dear God, please don't let them take that word away, TOO."

Whore is a useful word in politics (and in life, really) and while a little crude (or forthright) it's a real English word used often on the male of the species: media whores, attention whores, clothes whores, ratings whores, can be any ol' gender. Of course, almost by definition in our system, a pol must sell a little cooze if he or she wants to get elected or get something done. There are limits to that of course, but hey, whoring is part of the game. Calling a politician a whore is an honored designation in this great republic. 

Yeah, yeah, we know. We could use prostitute, but it doesn't usually do the job.          

(photo: hoary Jerry) 

Please don't hang an N-word-like stigma on whore. It's a useful tool, and has nothing to do with gender. (At least to us -- you know where our heart is... don't you?)

Funny about these words... mix in race or gender and it gets dicey, the rules are strict, a little hard to understand if you don't know them, and mistakes are not tolerated.

(whore-y Meg)

A word almost as taboo as the N-word is cunt. Men are called men pricks regularly, but we rarely use the c-word in despite the two words' anatomical equivalence. (Unlike whore, prick hasn't crossed the gender gap... we don't call women pricks, even when there's prickish behavior involved). The c-word is almost never uttered in polite company or put into print. Although the word is used by women that we admire (and despised by other women we admire) it has crossed the gender divide- calling a man a cunt (or a pussy) is to demean him... and in the process demeans women. What a puzzling world we live in.

In meta terms, the stink over these things are just growing pains. The Western world  seems to be finishing a period of white male hierarchy. Other-colored people are filling out the local geography (wherever you live) and women are grabbing the reins of power. These things are happening at a dizzying pace. It's been happening for awhile, but expect more eruptions as these people replace the language of the old order with their own. (Don't expect the new rules to make much rational sense either).   

We love watching how this unfolds, but again, we gotta be honest: If we lived in California, we'd be voting for the white guy -- he's a bit of a prick, but she can be a real bitch.

 

 

 

 

Comments

[tigsnort]

Gotta love these sensitive rightwingers getting all flustered over an overblown sexual slight when all they do is bitch about blacks being too sensitive about racial slurs (see Dr. Laura).

[Puget Sound]

sigh, you also gotta love those sensitive liberals who invented the whole PC convention getting caught in their own shitstorm.

[Chucks]

Of course the recording was in no way illegal. Jerry the moonbat initiated the recording and for some damned reason chose not to hang up the phone after starting the message recording, thus it was the recording he started and did not end in a timely fashion.

[Eric]

Hey guys at least stick to the facts on this one. Jerry just needs to figure out to hang up the speaker phone when he is done with a call. Voicemail messages are not illegal recordings.

[KS]

sigh, you also gotta love those sensitive liberals who invented the whole PC convention getting caught in their own shitstorm.

Posted by: Puget Sound | October 15, 2010 at 03:21 AM

Speaking of that, besides Jerry the moonbat (glad I don't live in CA); just waiting for a post on O'Reilly-the View dustup here over the mosque, coming soon (?)

[George Patkos]

I believe the term for Gov. Brown was "moonbeam."

[blathering michael]

Funny how you righties bemoan political correctness, but are so fast to grab onto it when they find a way to make it work for them.

$110 million of her own money is how this corporate failure is doing so well in her new endeavor: politics.

[Fremont]

N.O.W. has condemned the slur as "hate speech" and called for Brown to fire any staffer who uses "whore" "from this point forward". NOW is a fave of mine, but this use of "whore" is not a slur, as Bla'M argues. The CA PAC of NOW continues to endorse Brown, so the condemnation is merely rhetorical.

[KS]

Most politicians would be miserable failures in the business world - just look at the recent record of Congress (the opposite of progress).

[tigsnort]

Yeah, thank god the do-nothing Republicans are there to stop the Democrats from doing anything.

[The Anti-Dori]

Looks like Meg dips into her box of chocolates now and then...

Whore? Let's get James O'Keefe's opinion on that . . .

[Erik the Red Sovine]

Jerry was correct,even one of her staffers called congress a 'bunch of whores' Where does this whore come off doing that?

[Chucks]

Demonize the opposition!! It is real easy with democrats. Just point out their records.
In my home, there are four of us. Our share of the national debt for this year is $45,000.00. With last years $48000.00, that is a pretty nasty sum of indebtedness your leader has racked up for us. Hell, that doesn't reflect day to day "paygo" part.
I suppose you people are going to vote for the whores fourth term so the debt can keep on coming.

[woody held]

I think it's misguided at best to call a politician a whore. Whores provide a service for money voluntarily paid by their clients.

Politicians take money by a combination of force and fraud. They couldn't be more dissimilar. Politicians (all but a tiny few) are thieves. Some whores are thieves but whores per se are not. Many if not most are honorable people.

[Tommy008 (Star is pooping in my yard)]

Whitman told the nanny..."I don't know you...I never saw you...."
after she admitted she was illegal...... Californians don't buy that Whitman knows what's she's doing in fixing their trainwreck of an economy , otherwise Brown would not be ahead....Have to go with Jerry in this election..Repugs need to come up with a non-whackjob alternative to Obama and his condescension. On the MTV town hall he said that those of us who have concerns about illegals (Arizona Law) and the Ground Zero Mosque are just fearful little rubes who have reverted back to "tribalism". That is a "dog whistle" code word for "racist whiteys".....By the way, I saw Palin's "Alaska", her new reality show debut last night, that is as much as i could stand , about a minute..... they showed the family out in the ALASKAN outback and The Quitter's voice came over the footage, chirping that being out hikin' and fishin' sure was a lot more fun than sittin' in some stuffy old government office. I guess she means the office that she was supposed to be still sitting in , finishing out her term, not out lining her pockets with vulgar, low class publicity stunts. note to Repugs- please don't nominate this moron. We need a viable alternative to Obama- not a clown posse.