Poor taste, bad taste, and no taste
I think most of us know what “no taste” means: a preference for paneling in the rec room and Kenny Rogers on the stereo.
“Poor taste” is somehow more licentious than “bad taste,” and often implies something sexual that is misaimed. It shows poor taste to make double entendres to middle-schoolers.
“Bad taste” is summed up by Rush Limbaugh’s song “Obama the Magic Negro.”
I’m not sure what to call a candidate for Republic National Committee chair having sent that record out as campaign collateral for himself. It’s surely a combination of all above, and more: poor taste, no taste, bad taste, and sheer stupidity.
December 30th, 2008 at 4:44 am
“Taste don’t enter into it,” as my Pappy used to say.
Unfortunately, the reaction of the Republican party to the losses of ’08 (or at least the reaction of their shrillest shills) has been to double-down their bets for next time. Rather than seek to become more inclusive, they just squeak louder about Guns, Gays, Abortion & Family Values. And if this means alienating large segments of the population as a way of appealing to their base… if this means further polarizing a nation that so obviously wants to come together…
Pappy also used to say, “It’s enough to make a man think.”