GraniteGrok

Yeah, I would never have known that words like these:

• cocky
• arrogant
• defensive
• flippant
  

are now off limits.  Yeah, you too?  That's right - these now are considered a solid part of the PC vocabulary of impoliteness.  And yet, as a holder of two degrees and over a 1/2 century of living on this mud ball, I just HAD. NO. IDEA. that if I used any of those in that group of words, I was unwittingly playing the racist card, that I was being (shudder) a NOT NICE PERSON ANYMORE.

Like all things Politically Correct, someone else decided to make that decision on their own and then start throwing the accusations against other clueless (but generally nice) folks who thought that these adjectives simply had their standard, every day definitions.

The person in charge of this idiocy?  <Gulp> that famous arbiter of good taste, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC (H/T: NewsBusters).  And his reason?  

A bunch of Right leaning pundits just happen to use those adjectives in describing Obama's SOTU (State Of The Union).  I guess the line of reasoning is that because they are against the policies of the President, and the President happens to be black, and Olbermann likes the President and they don't, so those pundits are knuckle-dragging racists.  Who knew?

I've come to the conclusion that I could care not what the other side calls me anymore - I'm tired of someone else thinking that they are allowed to change the game on the rest of us in the middle of it and then throwing the flag and expecting us to bow down to their authority.

Like in this state, Zandra Rice Hawkins.  Head of the Progressive-based

sidebar: the only "progress" that Progressives want to achieve is to move forward away from the strictures placed upon Government by the US Constitution.

Granite State Progress (funded mostly by out-of state Progressive money from Colorado) who just loves to do the same thing locally.  She thinks she gets to set the standards of behavior, then hold others to her proclamations, and tries to skewer them in the Press for their perceived failures to obey her pronouncements (even as her beloved unions like the SEIU get a pass).

Again, Political Correctness is nothing more than a way to control someone else's speech - to constrict the other person's way of talking or a way of thinking about a situation.  Thus, they build in a way, in a Progressive way, to limit your freedom of speech or behavior (think a "GOTCHA" moment).

One that is protected by the First Amendment.   That they wish to effectively take away from you.  From us

For that reason alone, these Busybody, Chuckleheads like Olbermann and Rice-Hawkins ought to be ignored, shunned, or ridiculed....personally, I prefer the latter...