Yes, I am talking to you, Congressman Alan Grayson from Florida.
When you first came over here to Daily Kos and I saw what you said on the House floor, MATTERED. I felt that finally, someone was speaking what needed to be said, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
Calling a woman a WHORE, any woman is unacceptable. Period.
Do you think this language is endearing to WOMEN? Especially women, voters? Think again.
Republicans and Democrats slammed Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) for calling Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a “K Street whore” in a month-old radio interview that circulated on Capitol Hill Monday night.
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The remarks are the latest to surface in a string of controversial statements by Grayson, who said on the Alex Jones radio show that he believes Robertson, a former Enron lobbyist, is not qualified to pass judgment on intricate financial matters.
It’s clear that his colleagues’ opinion of him has suffered.
“Is this news to you that this guy’s one fry short of a Happy Meal?” asked Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer defended Robertson, whom he said he knows.
"I think it's inappropriate and unfair," the Maryland Democrat said. He decried the "heated rhetoric" that he said interferes with the ability solve problems.
I am not a fan of Fed Chairman Bernanke, either, but whatever issue you had with Bernanke and more importantly his adviser, Robertson, could have been handled with better language.
And Daily Kos, we all like Grayson, but we, as a community must police our own and that mean folks that come over here from congress who gets our ire up, get us all ramped up to donate MONEY, but then don't call them out for saying shyte like this.
Finally, this is from POLITICO, the rag that everyone on here HATE, along with HATING Huffington Post, but I have YET to hear Grayson state he did not say what he said, meaning that more than likely IT WAS SAID.
Enough of this. I expect Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi to reel Grayson in, this type of language and nonsense is NOT WHAT WE ARE ABOUT. And no one on here should protect Mr. Grayson, but should reprimand him for this outrageous behavior.
Lastly, I have waited to hear some type of retraction or explanation or apology from Politico for making a mistake for a radio interview, I have yet to hear that from this organization and again, definitely, nothing from Congressman Grayson.
Nuff said.
P.S. Grayson could have used better language than this. Calling a woman a whore is not acceptable, period. I don't care if it is "K Street" in front of it, bottom line it should not have been framed that way.
P.S.S. It is this type of behavior and language used freely by Republican operatives that have people running away from the Republican Party. We have seen it over and over again, in polling, do we want to go down that road by continuing to throw word bombs and tank us? I think not.
Cross-posted @ Daily Kos
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