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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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I remember wonk, i think, had a strong reaction to homicide bombers, but i forget why.
but "homicide" need not be used*, because all bombs are intended to kill, so all bombers are killers, and thus the only adjective that makes sense is "suicide" since that distinguishes from the guys who, say, blow up a roadside bomb remotely.
Okay. that at least makes sense, but it seems a silly thing to get angry about. I can see getting angry about "freedom fries" actually, way more than calling a guy a "homicide bomber".
*no one uses it to modify the act, the "bombing," it is used to modify the actor.
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