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Saturday 5 March 2016
Think Trump was crude? The Founding Fathers were just as bad
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, correctness,” said Trump done with any malice or employment lawyer with
right, reacts as businessman Donald Trump speaks during a Re- supporter Carol Ebright disrespect. Male, female, it Meyer Suozzi English & Klein
publican presidential primary debate at Fox Theatre, Thursday, at a Trump rally in Cadil- doesn’t matter. You all just in New York. “An employer
March 3, 2016, in Detroit. lac, Michigan, on Friday. wear a uniform. We all dish may be liable if put on no-
“I want to see the ‘Get out the same comments to tice about these types of
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya) things done!’ not the ‘Did each other.” comments and if they al-
you hear what he said?’” But in a presidential cam- low them to continue.”
BETH J. HARPAZ kind of lost that over the She carried a sign that said: paign, she said, “it’s tacky Whether legal or not,
Associated Press last 70 years, and I think it’s “The silent majority stands and trashy, and I think whether appropriate or
NEW YORK (AP) — You just coming back.” with Trump.” all politicians, especially not, one thing is clear:
could say politics has Not that 20th century politi- But Amy Woody, a self-de- someone running for presi- Trump’s comments don’t
reached a new low with cians shied away from vul- scribed moderate-to-liber- dent, should have at least represent some grand fall
the “small hands” remarks garities. Here’s President Bill al voter from eastern Ten- a trace of class and dig- in decorum. Political mud-
from the Republican de- Clinton describing his 1970s nessee, said Trump’s crude nity.” slinging has gone on for
bate. El Camino pickup truck: “I language is “completely Just because Trump can centuries and our toler-
But the exchange over the had Astroturf in the back. inappropriate.” get away with it, though, ance for vulgarities has
size of Donald Trump’s, um, You don’t want to know “I have extremely thick doesn’t mean the rest built up over time.
hands is merely the most re- why, but I did.” skin,” said Woody, who of us can. Using crude lan- “Politics has emerged as
cent vulgarity in American And Clinton’s Secretary of spent 16 years in the U.S. guage or mocking others in essentially a reality TV show,
politics. The history of crude State Madeleine Albright Air Force in squadrons that the workplace can get you and that’s why Trump is
remarks goes back to the proved that she could talk were typically less than 20 reprimanded, fired or sued. able to use it so deftly: He
Founding Fathers. dirty when she said: “This is percent female. “That type of comment in understands the format. He
In the 18th century, John not cojones. This is coward- “I served in the military for the workplace could be built his campaign around
Adams called Alexander ice,” after Cuba shot down a long time. We probably viewed as offensive and it,” said Andrew Ricci,
Hamilton a “bastard brat” Cuban-American exiles fly- joked much more inap- creating a hostile work en- vice president of Levick, a
and wrote that Hamilton ing civilian planes. propriately than your stan- vironment,” said Richard Washington, D.C. public re-
had “a superabundance of Fast-forward to the Repub- dard workplace. It’s not Corenthal, a labor and lations firm.q
secretions which he could lican presidential cam-
not find whores enough to paign. A week ago, Sen.
draw off,” according to his- Marco Rubio, talking about
torian Ron Chernow. Trump, said: “And you know
One difference between what they say about men
then and now: “These were with small hands.” In Thurs-
words written or spoken in day’s GOP debate, Trump
private, not in public,” said said of his hands: “If they
Chernow, whose Pulitzer are small, something else
Prize-winning biography of must be small. I guarantee
Alexander Hamilton helped you there is no problem.”
inspire the hit Broadway Trump also has called Ru-
musical “Hamilton.” (Cher- bio “little Marco.”
now says the comments Sex therapist Judy Kurian-
were quoted in letters that sky said sex talk among
survived the centuries.) men “is their way of com-
In the 1880s, rumors of Gro- paring themselves and
ver Cleveland’s out-of- evaluating their influence
wedlock child led to a song and their power over each
from his Republican oppo- other. Certainly that was
nents: “Ma, ma, where’s the allusion” at the debate.
my pa?” When Cleveland “Everything is related to
won the presidency, the potency and power in di-
response came: “Gone rect relationship to size,”
to the White House, ha ha she added. “I’m taller than
ha!” you and my penis is bigger
“Old-fashioned American than you and therefore I’m
politics was full of those more powerful than you.”
kinds of vile comments,” What do voters think?
said Arnold Shober, who Those who like Trump seem
teaches government at to give it a pass. Those who
Lawrence University in Ap- don’t are disgusted.
pleton, Wisconsin. “We’ve “There’s too much political
