Welcome to the Bizzaro World of political correctness, 2013 edition.

In case you missed it, the Associated Press recently made some changes to its official “Stylebook”, the guide journalist use to determine what words and phrases they should or should not use in their reportage.  The new edict declares terms like “illegal alien, an illegal, illegals or undocumented” as verboten. 

Why?  The AP claims that it is just “ridding the Stylebook of labels”.  And that “…the English language is constantly evolving, enriched by new words, phrases and uses.  Our goal is always to use the most precise and accurate words so that the meaning is clear to any reader anywhere”.

Except in this case, that is, given the fact that the term “illegal alien” is the actual legal definition of the people they are trying to describe.

Over the years the politically correct terminology has evolved from “illegal aliens” to “illegal immigrants” to “undocumented immigrants” to “undocumented workers”.  What’s next, “uninvited guests”? 

Just how are we supposed to accurately describe people who have entered into our country in violation of our laws, forged official documents and committed perjury?  But that’s the point.  We’re not supposed to accurately describe them, because that would make achieving goals like amnesty and newly registered voters difficult for the folks on the left.  read more »

 Hank Williams Jr. Out At ESPN

To top off all of the political correctness that we have seen over the past few decades in this nation, the figure at the beginning of the Monday Night Football events is now gone. ESPN has cut their ties with Hank Williams Jr. after comments made of Fox’s Fox and Friends where Hank Williams Jr. compared Boehner playing golf with President Obama would be “like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu.” When I believed political correctness and double standards could not be any more pathetic, this one comes along. ESPN has been trying to sweep this under the rug, and while the NFL will continue to be a very popular league, this will be one of those things that will be the straw that broke the camels back for at least some of those who were and still are fans of the league.  read more »