As I write this my inbox is filled with email newsletters using in the subject line a vulgar word that refers to bodily waste. They come from mainstream news organizations, many of which are using the word in stories, columns, and even headlines. (If you missed it, the second half of the word is "hole." Figure out the rest for yourself.)
The justification for this is the supposedly horrible thing that President Donald Trump reportedly said during an apparently unrecorded discussion Thursday with other prominent politicians about certain nations of the world sending their citizens to this country.
The columnist, John Walters, said fired Burlington Free Press editor Denis Finley "betrayed a profound ignorance of Vermont by trafficking in stereotypes" and "was deliberately provocative at best, downright intolerant at worst." The column appeared in Seven Days, an alternative Vermont newspaper.
