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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
watched the mall news on fox, and couldn't help but think of the board and all it has taught me. i remember how you all explained that the guys who get on buses in Israel and blow themselves and moms and kids up are suicide bombers, and to call them homicide bombers is wrong.
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At the risk of stating the obvious here, the reason people react negatively to Fox's asinine use of "homicide" bombing has nothing to with one's political views and everything to do with the fact that, unless you're an imbecile, "homicide" need not be used as an adjective before the word "bombing." However, there can be numerous types of bombings, one subset of which, where the bomber kills himself, is known as a "suicide" bombing.
When Fox uses "homicide" bombing, or our Congress changes French fries to "freedom" fries, it plays to the lowest common denominator of blind "patriotic" idiot in this country. And it angers me because it advertises to the rest of the world that we are simple, self-righteous and possibly dumb enough to actually buy into a sense of divine Manifest Destiny that drives people like Zell Miller stand on national television at the GOP Convetion and claim "God is not indifferent to the United States of America."
So yeh, Hank. I think people who accept "homicide bomber" as a anything but unintentional and pathetic humor are idiots. That doesn't include the people using it at Fox, however. They are smart businessmen, milking an idiot marketplace. And laughing all the way to the bank.
