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I've said it before, but I forget if I did so here:
The term "Politically Correct" was last used without irony on June 23, 1993.
Since then, it's been used to justify every hateful, petty, racist, bigoted, short-sighted and close-minded statement uttered through human lips.

"It may not be (finger motion)Politically Correct(more wiggling fingers), but killing Tutsis makes damn good sense to me.
Hey, I'm just telling it like it is!"

Finally, someone expressed it in a way I appreciate:

"Okay, here's what I said in the RS interview: "He's good at what he does. It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor -- which people like in America - all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel, selling-ring tones-act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride."

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David Cross, in an Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy

The rest is here:
http://bobanddavid.com/david.asp

I don't know if I've ever seen either LtCG or David Cross perform, but this makes me want to see both.

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Yeah, I've not seen either, so I don't know (and probably don't care ;-)) about LtCG's act. And really, this is one comedian griping at another comedian about what was written in a book about comedy, something I'd probably never read just for that.

The paragraph in particular just struck me :)