Our parents might have used "damned" or "God damned" but Stewart's choice of adjective intensifier

[ddeclue]

conveyed exactly the right sense of moral outrage that we all are feeling when he told Jim Kramer last night in a relatively understated but direct way that "it (the market and people's finances) is not a fucking game".

Anything less would have been a sin of omission on Stewart's part because it would have truly failed to express the enormity of the crimes that have been committed.

The closest the MSM ever came to having a moment like last night's on TDS in the last 20 years was in the debacle that followed Hurricane Katrina but even they didn't give proper voice and tone to the moral outrage felt by our nation and held back their tongues to meet "network standards and practices."

On the current Wall Street debacle, the MSM has been more or less mute - especially when compared to Stewart's work this week. I only wish cable curmudgeon Jack Cafferty would actually lose it on CNN one day and say what he really thinks about the scum who have so screwed this country but alas, I suppose he fears for his job too much.



http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fucking

(vulgar) An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.

No fucking way.

(vulgar) Offensive or worthless.

Get your fucking car out of the way.

Synonyms
frigging
fecking

as an intensifier

Dutch: fucking, focking, fakking, kanker
Finnish: vitun fi(fi)
French: putain de fr(fr)
Polish: jebany pl(pl), kurewski pl(pl), pierdolony pl(pl)
Russian: ёбаный
Spanish: maldito (Latin America), pinche (Mexico), jodido (Spain)

[Webster Green]

1. It was a thing of beauty.

As were his two previous "Fuck You"'s on consecutive nights. :thumbsup:

[ddeclue]

2. Also a well chosen interjection!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck

Other uses are dysphemistic: The sexual connotation, usually connected to masturbation (in the case of "go fuck yourself" or "go fuck your ass") is invoked to incite additional disgust, or express anger or outrage. For example, "Fuck that!", "Fuck no!", "Fuck off", or "Fuck you!".

[Bozita]

3. Good fucking choice, Jon!

[soothsayer]

4. technically, frigging is masturbation