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Admitted soap stealer Michael Medved wants to keep our language as pure as, well, the soap he keeps boosting from the nation’s hotels. To wit, two clarifying linguistic suggestions from one of our most-mustachioed former film critics:
In recent weeks I’ve made a special point of using the term “Islamo-Nazis” to characterize Muslim fanatics, rather than the previously favored “Islamo-Fascists.” The new coinage carries several advantages. First of all, the average American maintains much stronger images of “Nazis” than “Fascists.” No matter how historically illiterate he may be, every American knows that the Nazis were genocidal, sadistic maniacs, but he may not possess a clear idea of what the word “Fascist” even means.
And of course, since he’s talking about fighting fascists, his thoughts turn to the “tireless promoters of same-sex unions:
I’ve become convinced that we need to strike the phrase “traditional marriage” and replace it with “natural marriage.” For one thing, this change will drive the gay activists crazy, raising immediately the one argument they find most impossible to answer— that as a mechanism for preserving the species and raising a new generation, same sex unions are undeniably unnatural…. Rather than placing us in the uncomfortable, reactive position of trying to defend “tradition,” the new term “natural marriage” will force the other side to try to assert the obviously absurd proposition that it’s just as natural for a same-sex couple to raise somebody else’s baby as it is for a heterosexual couple to raise their own.
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Not fair using a photo of Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink.
Klemperer was forced to leave Germany in the 30's as his family is Jewish!
As for Mikey & natural marriage, I had no idea he was in favor of polygamy, as having several wives was the norm a couple of thousand years ago.
After all, the Bible totally permits multiple wives & concubines.
I wonder who Mikey will chose for his junior wives? Will they all have to be Fox News worshippers?
Mustachioed Mike said: "[T]he new term "natural marriage" will force the other side to try to assert the obviously absurd proposition that it's just as natural for a same-sex couple to raise somebody else's baby as it is for a heterosexual couple to raise their own."
Of course that's not natural. The natural thing is to let unwanted or infirm babies die from neglect or exposure. The _human_ thing is to let those who have the resources care for unwanted children.
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And here I was always believing that Michael Medved was gay.
he is. he's just into the bathhouse scene--not the marriage scene.
Umm... Is it just me, or did he just inadvertently take a kick at the whole CONCEPT of adoption itself?
Is it natural to raise someone else's baby? Did I just hear that right? How about the concept of Biological-Nazis?
Michael Medved's word games are shrewd, if not Orwellian. Of course, the Islamic Right is extremely anti - Semitic, however it isn't Nazi because it isn't pro - Aryan. Nazism means the fanatical support of 'White power', of which no Muslim cares at all.
And why this crafty attempt to separate Fascism from Nazism? Hitler was after all, a Fascist, as well as a Nazi. And also a staunch ally of Mussolini.
I have to wonder if Medved's displeasure at the term 'Fascism' arises from the term's correct usage in 'Islamo-Fascism' to mean extreme Right - wing. Conservatives have often attempted to try to present Fascism as a Left - wing ideology. Whatever else the 'Islamo-Fascists' might be, they have absolutely nothing to do with Liberalism or the political Left.
There's a whole contingent of the far right that views adoption as "unnatural". Medved being in bed with that klan wouldn't surprise me one whit.
Wow, he always pinged my gaydar right off the meter. Or is he "straight" with a heaping helping of self-loathing?
Homeboy's got the sassy-ist mustache this side of the Seaford Volunteer Firemen's Parade.
Or maybe he's just a fan of the old timey baseball.
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