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THE DECLARATION of Independence announced a revolution. It was not a timid document. The men sweating bullets in the summer of 1776 in Philadelphia knew full well that real gunpowder would explode soon enough.
Yet for all the violence of action that would follow the release of the Declaration of Independence, there is nary an expletive in Thomas Jefferson’s document. In 18th-century Colonial America it was possible to launch a revolution against the most powerful Western nation at that time and not resort to vulgarity. In 21st-century America, it is not possible for a highly paid pundit to comment on the president of the United States without using a profanity.
Last week, Mark Halperin, a big-shot political reporter for Time magazine and a political analyst for MSNBC, said on the air, “I thought [President Obama] was kind of a d—k yesterday.” I listened to the clip online and Joe Scarborough, the co-host of “Morning Joe,” goaded Halperin to say what he wanted to say about Obama, assuming a seven-second delay button would be used to prevent it from reaching viewers’ ears. The executive producer didn’t hit the button.