Connie Schultz: Quote the President, and Skip the Asterisks
https://www.creators.com/read/connie-schultz/01/18/quote-the-president-and-skip-the-asterisksQuote the President, and Skip the Asterisks
By Connie Schultz
January 17, 2018 5 min read
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I encourage people to avoid questioning fellow commenters' intelligence, their capacity to learn or the strength of their family's gene pool. I also ask them not to correct other people's spelling or grammar in threads on my wall. As far back as January 2015, I explained that "as the last few months in Washington, D.C., have illustrated, many a fine education is wasted. Learned is not the same as wise."
My Lord, what I didn't see coming.
There's a reason I'm laying out my commitment to civility, and it has everything to do with coverage of recent comments by the president of the United States.
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It didn't occur to me that news organizations wouldn't accurately quote the president's racist comment until I woke up Friday morning to NPR's repeatedly referring to it as merely "vulgar." The story on NPR's website used "s***hole." I was one of many on social media who criticized this decision, and I'm glad that NPR rethought its policy.
Still, too much of the discussion about this is turning on whether we're letting Trump debase our discourse. This is not the issue at hand, and I say that as someone deeply committed to civility. It's not our job to protect the American public from the president's racism.
This is the world we're in, not the world we want. Our challenge, as Americans who care about this country, is how to combat the former while working to bring about the latter.
Yes, yes, the children are listening.
Could there be any greater incentive than that?
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that he saw Connie Schultz socializing with and even hugging Sherod Brown. It remains one of the funniest responses ever.
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/07/18/sen-sherrod-browns-wife-makes-conservative-blogger-look-silly
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Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist and wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, posted an E-mail exchange between herself and an unnamed, unwitting conservative blogger to her Facebook page Tuesday night.
The blogger emailed Schultz on July 9 to say, smugly: "Dear Ms. Shultz, We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him. Care to comment?"
Schultz, of course, is married to Brown. She wrote back a day later: "Dear Mr. [Name Deleted]: I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. He's really cute. He's also my husband. You know that, right?"
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