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Charles Cooke: If meaning can be so easily misinterpreted, how far must we go to avoid controversy?

January 27, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

it-doesnt-matter-what-this-sign-says-youll-call-it-racism-anywayWelcome to my world.

Which is precisely why I don’t bother…

No sooner had the word “libido” left Huckabee’s lips than all context, judgment, and verisimilitude were hastily defenestrated; Huckabee, who has not held public office since 2007, had been turned into the de facto spokesman for the entire Republican party; and the word had gone out across the Kingdom that there was a new monster at the gates.

Trouble is, Huckabee actually said nothing of the sort.

In fact, he said quite the opposite…

I wonder, at what point should we say “bugger it all” and elect to stand athwart anyhow? If, in the name of short-term advance, we accept always that this is the way it is, are we not tacitly endorsing an extralegal form of prior restraint and, in consequence, the destruction of conversation about anything controversial, polemical, or harsh?

Whereas I gave up faux “wondering” years ago.

Which is another reason I don’t write for National Review.

 

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