From CNN
All right. This is going to be interesting. I saw this actually live. Sarah Palin has taken criticism of the president to locker room levels....
MOOS: No, what took nerve was using that certain word against the president.
PALIN: Jan Brewer has the cojones that our president does not have.
MOOS: Linguists say it's not a dirty word, just vulgar one....
Linguist and author Geoffrey Nunberg says it's a brilliant word for Sarah Palin to use.
GEOFFREY NUNBERG, LINGUIST, UC BERKELEY: It reinforces the stereotypes about wimpy, wussy, feminine liberals. They take enormous delight in imagining how this sort of thing drives liberals up a wall....