Couldn’t help noticing that PC has reached a new height. A New York City councilman is After the aide accused the council of “spending money like a drunken sailor” earlier this week, The mayor wisely refused to apologize. He pointed out that when describing the council’s Today, the same day that kerfluffel was reported in The New York Sanneh writes that since the concert coincided with “the third night of Hanukkah, Mr. Aiken Will PC Christians and Jews demand an apology from Sanneh for his insouciant treatment of Postscript: <\/STRONG>“Following up on your PC Christianity,” a reader Couldn’t help noticing that PC has reached a new height. A New York City councilman is demanding an apology from the mayor for his aide’s use of the term “drunken sailor,” because it denigrates the men and women in the Navy. After the aide accused the council of “spending money like a drunken sailor” earlier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndemanding an apology from the mayor for his aide’s use of the term “drunken
\nsailor,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> because it denigrates the men and women in the Navy. <\/P>
\n
\nthe councilman issued a press release claiming that the “slur against sailors” was “unacceptable” —
\nespecially because it occurred on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor day.<\/P>
\n
\nspending “drunken sailor is about as nice a ways as you can phrase it.” <\/P>
\n
\nTimes<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, the paper’s pop music critic Kelefa Sanneh called Jesus a Jewish
\n“birthday boy” in his review of Clay Aiken’s Christmas
\nconcert<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> at the Theater in Madison Square Garden.<\/P>
\n
\nturned his second act into a celebration of Jews. Well, one Jew: Jesus. Whereas other seasonal
\ngatherings evoked a secular or multifaith ‘holiday spirit,’ Mr. Aiken’s concert was one party where
\nthe birthday boy got all the attention.”<\/P>
\n
\n— pick one, a) the son of God or b) the guy who was not the messiah — and will the editors of the
\nTimes be excoriated for their insensitivity? And if he gets wind of this before his departure, what
\nwill Times ombudsman Daniel Okrent have to say?
\n
\nwrites, “if Dan
\nBrown<\/B><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is on to something and Jesus did marry Mary
\nMagdalene, does that make her the daughter-in-law of God? If so, Mrs. Christ deserves her due.
\nRenaming St. Patrick’s Cathedral<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in her
\nhonor would be a healthy start, or a casino in Sin City. Maybe