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Smirky Head Shakers
Those TV and Movie moments that make normal people smirk and shake their heads.
Zips? Really?
I imagine, if anyone was paying attention to Media Buzz on Sunday, 6 August, that FOX News got some pretty fiery emails. We’re not talking about a super high-rated news show here. I imagine only news and political geeks like myself actually sit through it. But yeah, there was definitely a head shaker.
The guest at that time was Katrina Pierson, Trump hyper-apologist. Howie Kurtz asked her about the fuss over leaks and the AG’s announcement that Justice was going to turn up the heat on leakers.
She spoke of the Obama hold-overs being the likely source of the leaking. I would say that’s probably true. The DC government is shot through with self-absorbed drama queens looking to get their 15 minutes. Or they are leaking to key political people so they can feel like power players.
But in describing these pansies as an internal threat, she called them “zips in the wire”.
This is the problem when airheads hear words of movie dialog and think, “Hmmm, zips in the wire. That’s sounds like a cool phrase. I’ll sound cool saying it.” The problem being that this particular airhead didn’t know what it meant.
“Zips” or zipperheads” is a derogatory term for Asians. More specifically, in the context where it gained fashion, it refers to Vietnamese. Ms. Pierson might have just as well said “gooks”.
If FOX didn’t get overrun with emails that is because the term has been completely lost to time or people aren’t as tuned in to offenses toward Asians as they are offenses against other races.
Personally, I don’t care. I think we are ALL too thin-skinned anyway. We could use some toughening up. The vast majority of our “adult” population has forgotten the adage “Sticks and stones will break my bones, etc.”
Put more accurately, we have a population shot through with people just dying to feign offense and play the victim. “Look at me! Look at me! I’m a delicate little girl!”
Anyway, I thought it was a funny moment. And if Howie knew what the phrase meant, you’d never know it. He didn’t bat an eyelash.
The “duh” moment is at 5:10 of this video.
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