The nominee should maintain dignity and decorum - and leave the dirty work to her running mate.īut the closer I examined Vela's words and actions, the less bold it appeared.įirst, there was the lawyerly, long-winded stating of the case against Trump, as if the concluding statement's justification needed to be explained.Īlso, Vela's shocking statement was only an invitation to Trump. The next question, after did he really say that, is: Has Hillary Clinton found her running mate? A presidential nominee shouldn't say what Vela said. Trump's attack of the U.S.-born Curiel, whom Trump called a Mexican, was the last straw for Vela, a fourth-generation American of Mexican descent whose father was a federal judge. Vela saved his shocking message for the end of a long letter in which he expressed his outrage at Trump's racism, especially his recent outbursts against federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a lawsuit against Trump and his despicable Trump University con game. Most headlines were more coy than the first I saw, by the Texas Tribune: 'Texas congressman to Trump: Take your border wall and shove it up your ass.' I also witnessed the occasional 'a-.' Our headline, 'Vela tells Trump where to put wall,' was a clever non-explicit way to be explicit. in the headline instead of 'ass' but to go ahead and use the word in the story. The most popular approach appeared to be to use ellipses.
It was amusing to see how various publications handled it. But in context of where the sun don't shine? I didn't recall us ever having done that. 'Ass' as in a donkey, or a person who behaves boorishly, wouldn't have been a concern. In 1979 when I entered this profession, I did not foresee ever in my career having a conversation like the one I initiated Monday with other editors about whether we should use 'ass' in that context in our family-friendly publication. Filemon Vela, for the mental image of Donald Trump straddling a wall like Humpty Dumpty with his pants down.īy now most readers probably are aware of the open letter in which Vela, D-Brownsville, told Trump he could stick his border wall up his ass.
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