Here we go again

A few weeks ago I wrote about the end of a press briefing and the unfortunate statement that was made at the end.

Last week, it was a chimp.

In fairness, this came on the heels of a chimp attack, but really, now. Are we to be so naive and so blind that we can't see a cartoon gone bad?

Could it have been worse? Yes. But more importantly, I think it could have been handled differently.

Then there is an offense when the Attorney General calls the US a country of cowards.

I feel about those types of images and words the way I feel about cursing.

There have got to be more creative ways of expressing one self. Eddie Murphy was infinitely more funny in Dr. Doolittle and Daddy Day Care than Coming to America or Beverly Hills Cop. He said no more than 3 curse words.

Learn what hurts your neighbor and avoid that. This principle is the easiest.

Coon Update? Are you serious?

I wasn't going to add anything else today, but I heard something during today's press conference from the White House that just rubbed me the wrong way.

Robert Gibbs is wrapping up for this week, and a reporter asked about the raccoons. Ok, I am not a fan of the creatures, and it was a strange enough question (but I don't follow day-to-day briefings, and I don't live in D.C., so, outsider am I) but what was stranger was what happened when CNN took the air again.

The reporter says, "And that's the coon update..."

"Coon update?" Really? Are the pun and the irony lost on them?

Ugh. Ugly words from the past. I am sure they didn't mean anything about it, but, oh, it hit me in the gut.

Ugh.