I discovered this through Tommy Christopher, who can’t believe that the term “blow job” requires not one but two apologies from MS-NBC anchors, especially since the same cable news network made a fetish of using “teabagging” as a sobriquet for tax protesters over the last few months. I’m a little confused, too. Didn’t the media argue that oral sex wasn’t actual sex?  If so, why apologize for the use of this well-known phrase?

I guess I’m supposed to get the vapors from this segment, but I confess it registers about a 0.5 on the Outrage-O-Meter here.  I’m not aware of any reason why the perfectly acceptable words “blow” and “job” cannot be combined to discuss a specific act of oral sex, especially in conjunction with a political controversy that occurred over a decade ago.  It’s pretty amusing to see David Schuster get his knickers in a twist over it, though, looking downward and stammering like any good Puritan confronted with evidence of earthly pleasures.

What do you think? Is “blow job” an acceptable means of referencing that act on national television, or should we run screeching for the hills?