The rhetoric, he added, was "entirely inconsistent" with the values "that were central to the founding of this country".
If it's inconsistent with the values and principles of America, then of course it should matter.
"Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated.
But now some people who once thought surveillance cameras were inconsistent with the values of an open society have tentatively embraced them.
It was inconsistent with the values of our nation, it was inconsistent with the teachings of the military to the men and women of the armed forces, and it was certainly fundamentally un-American.
"It was inconsistent with the values of our nation, it was inconsistent with the teachings of the military to the men and women of the armed forces, and it was certainly fundamentally un-American," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
Left-leaning groups describe that message as divisive, and therefore inconsistent with the values of the nation's most watched sporting event.
"Since we were founded, we believe that open homosexuality would be inconsistent with the values that we want to communicate with our leaders," said Gregg Shields, national spokesman for the Boy Scouts.
Besides, the commission has softened its language, stating that it would "develop guidelines on how the city should address monuments seen as oppressive and inconsistent with the values of New York City".
Bean saw the conferral of titled distinctions as inconsistent with the values of mateship, equality, democracy and larrikinism which he attributed to the Anzacs and praised as quintessentially Australian.
