Villager-in-training Becky Quick (yeah, if you've never heard of her, don't worry, very few people have) is shocked, shocked I say, that President Obama used a three-letter word on television.
Becky Quick, who co-hosts Squawk Box with lead anchor Joe Kernen and co-host Carl Quintanilla, slapped Obama for using unpresidential language in an interview he knew would be aired as children prepared for school.
"If you're the president of the United States and you go on the Today Show which is a morning show, where you're going to have a lot of kids sitting around watching this, I think you choose your words more carefully," said Quick. "Using the A word when you are on the Today Show talking with Matt Lauer, yeah, that disturbs me. But I also think that this is a way of trying to prove that I'm mad, to do exactly what everybody's been pushing me to do, and it doesn't ring true."
And, gawd help us, Jim Inhofe, possibly the dumbest being to consume oxygen in the Senate chamber in the last decade (and that includes the house flies), piles on.
"Right now, I think the president made a mistake in the words that he used in an interview yesterday," he said in an appearance on KTOK radio. "I think that he lost a lot of credibility there when he used words that were not very presidential."
Hmmm.... Let's think back a few years to some things that have "sullied" the executive branch, that were not very "presidential."
Let's see, what else might have happened in the Bush White House that sullied the office? Like, maybe, authorizing torture? How about administration principles choreographing torture? How about using that torture to create the lies that took us into a made-up war?
Maybe if Obama should have said "waterboard" instead of "kick." Becky Quick probably would have been ok with that.