{"id":32344,"date":"2011-05-03T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32344"},"modified":"2011-05-03T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T21:28:54","slug":"trumps-profane-speech-disqualifies-him-from-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32344","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Profane Speech Disqualifies Him From Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The following comments were made in a public speech last week by a man considering running for president of the United States:
\nOn gas prices: “We have nobody in Washington that sits back and said, ‘You’re not going to raise that f—ing price.'”
\nOn what he would say as president to China: “Listen, you mother f—ers, we’re going to tax you 25 percent.”
\nOn Iraq and America: “We build a school, we build a road, they blow up the school; we build another school, we build another road, they blow them up, we build again. In the meantime, we can’t get a f—ing school in Brooklyn.”
\nThe man is Donald Trump. And the words render him unfit to be a presidential candidate, let alone president. They also render a need for some Republican Party soul-searching as to how a group of Republican women could laugh and cheer at such language coming from a would-be presidential candidate.
\nOn a number of occasions, I have written that the use of expletives in public discourse has been a characteristic of the Left. Public cursing is not an issue to the intellectual and artistic left. They shrug off criticism of such language as antiquated and elitist — not to mention hypocritical, given that prominent conservatives such as former Vice President Dick Cheney and President Bush were both caught using such language.
\nBut there is a world of difference between using an expletive in private and using one in a public speech. For those who do not see the difference, think of the difference between relieving oneself in private and relieving oneself in public. It usually takes a university education and a Leftist worldview not to see the enormous moral distinction between public and private cursing. One affects society, one does not.
\nI hereby plead guilty to occasionally using an expletive when angry about something particularly vile or, for that matter, in a punch line to an off-color joke — in private to my wife or to friends. Likewise, while I find the vast amount of gratuitous cursing in movies injurious to society, I do not find all such cursing offensive. The use of the F-word in a powerful private moment in the Academy Award-winning film “The King’s Speech” was appropriate and genuinely humorous.
\nIn general, however, the use of such words — whether in public or as a matter of general usage in private — is degrading to the user, to the listener and to society.
\nAs a father, I even banned use of the word “sucks” in general conversation in my home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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