"When you start using words such as lynching," Mr. West said in an interview with "Fox & Friends," "that's a very reprehensible word and I think we should move away from using that type of language".
They wanted to alert the audience to the realities of racism: Show Boat begins with the singing of that most reprehensible word – nigger – yet this is no coon song... [it] immediately establishes race as one of the central themes of the play.
The Iranian news agency Fars, which has ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, posted its own translation of Mr. Rouhani's answer, and claimed that he did not use the word "reprehensible" and that he said historians should be left to judge "historical events," not "the Holocaust".
Reprehensible was their word.
The decision strongly goes after the duo for their views on women, with Blouin writing "any position communicated that essentially denies that an entire half of the world's population are human beings is so outrageously reprehensible that the word "hate" is starkly inadequate".
It regarded homosexuality, in other words, as reprehensible, and homophobia as fine; it viewed ethnic minorities as alien, and racism as natural.
Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, the Democratic speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, said Klingenschmitt's words were "reprehensible and disrespectful".
In spite of bad behavior, reprehensible actions and thoughtless words, there is often a modicum of goodness hidden under the tough exterior, the devil-may-care attitude or the selfish approach to life.
"The unhelpful and really - I will use a different word - reprehensible rhetoric that is coming out of Moscow is unacceptable, and it's not helpful to a relationship that actually has some positive aspects," Rice told the US Senate foreign relations committee.
