Reply #30: Um, your post was MOST clear

[Occulus]

Was PA's letter for publication in print? No. It was a letter TO those who print. That's a vast difference.

Prudishness is part of the overall NeoCon strategy; it is broader than simple language. The same mindset which would condemn language, for example, is also the same mindset that gets twisted up by the exposure of Janet Jackson's Jug, gay marriage, and so on.

How very odd, that a progressive would be offended by the use of vulgar colloquialisms when one is expressing very real and justified anger.

They'll read it all, despite the language. At least, being journalists, I would hope they would. If their skin is so thin as to be offended by language, they have no place being in journalism in the first place.