September 25, 2006

"[ticked]."

WaPo quotes me, and cleans it up!
Posted by Ann Althouse at 8:22 AM

5 comments:

Hazy Dave said...

Amusing. If they're going to remove a bit of slightly scatological vernacular, why replace it with another bit of vernacular, rather than something like [annoyed] or [perturbed]? Maybe they found [blood sucking parasited] a better substite for [urinated]? What is it copy editors do, again?

I suppose it makes sense, but the surprising part is that "pissed" isn't quite acceptable in a newspaper story yet. Unless they're feigning surprise at "colorful" language accidentally uttered into an open microphone by a public figure? Or is that "reporting on a controversy" rather than "feigning surprise"? Whatever...

9/25/06, 9:46 AM
goesh said...

Illiterati - luv it! Ha! and I loved Bill's staged wrath too. All that was lacking in that waving hand of his was a wet cigar.

9/25/06, 10:41 AM
mrp said...

Ms. Althouse typed:

That doesn't mean his critics aren't right about a lot of things, but there's nothing really wrong with him getting angry like this. I assume a good part of it is that he's angry at himself for the opportunities he can now see he missed."

Lemme guess: She voted for him twice :)

9/25/06, 1:20 PM
Sanjay said...

How do you feel about them "cleaning it up?" Are you [ticked]?

9/25/06, 4:33 PM
Maxine Weiss said...

Well, I didn't vote for him once, so I don't feel his petty, childish, immature, fake temper tantrums are the least bit cute or genuine.

It shows the same lack of respect he's always exhibited.

Ego-centric as always.

Peace, Maxine

9/25/06, 7:32 PM

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