At least Doug Bruce actually touched (err, tapped) someone when the media revved into a frenzy over his conduct. Bitch-Slap, Bruce-Tap, what's the difference?
Now, Independence Institute president Jon Caldara is being targeted by two left-wing groups for his on-air use of the phrase "bitch-slapped" when discussing Sen. Hillary Clinton's performance at a democratic presidential debate last weekend.
Michael Huttner and Co. at ProgressNow Action, a far-left Denver activist group, are standing up to big bad Caldara, always happy to be surrogate victims for, well, someone somewhere who is surely offended by all this - they promise. ("Victim Auditions Right This Way", Jan. 24)
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ProgressNow staffer Brittney Wilburn breathlessly declared this was Colorado's version of Don Imus' "nappy-headed ho's" comment that toppled the fossilized, cowboy-hat wearing radio icon.
As the left declares yet another phrase to be off-limits on political correctness grounds, libertarian blogger and Boulder Weekly columnist Ari Armstrong is doing some research of his own.
It turns out Caldara isn't the only thought criminal in Colorado: The Westword, Denver's alternative weekly, used the word at least 12 times in the course of the past 15 years.
Will Huttner start revving up his base to call and complain to the Westword's advertisers, as he was so quick to do with Caldara's sponsors?
Westword publisher Patricia Calhoun didn't see what all the fuss was about. "I have no problem with the term used in context," she told Face The State. "When we use it, I have never found it to be inappropriate...I just added the term into an item for next week's issue," she said.
For the hyper-sensitive, 'tis the season to take offense.