Reply #49: Nice job of couching your accusation [View All]

Or perhaps the term "denouncement" would be more appropriate.

"bleating and braying", is it?

Would you prefer "hand wringing"?

BTW I picked up the term from a great woman politician, Lucy Killea. She used it in the context of abortion ("all the bleating and braying about abortion", nice alliteration IMO), to which she was personally opposed. She was denied communition by the Roman Catholic Church because her political stand was consistently pro-choice. She considered the "bleating and braying" by anti-abortion people to be distractions from more important political issues of the time. I think in that context my comment about this silly song and its fallout is even more appropriate.

If you aren't familiar with Lucy Killea, I suggest you Google her. She was a Democrat for much of her career, then independent, but never a Republican. The abortion quote doesn't seem to be indexed as it was spoken in the late 1980s, but I remember it well.