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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 09:55 AM Original message |
Lou Dobbs "is tired of Cotton Picking Black Leaders" |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. Comedy gold! |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
2. boy, these guys get away with so many slurs don't they? |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:00 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Now, wait, just a cotton picking moment are you trying to throw |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:09 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. cotton picking could be viewed as a slur couldn't it though. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. I've always thought of "cotton picking" as a nice way of saying "God damned" |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:07 AM Response to Reply #18 |
40. I grew up in the South, and heard the expression my entire life. |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Well, my parents picked Cotton |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:15 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. So the issue is class rather than race |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:18 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. I would say class and race, it does mean god damn but |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. If David Duke had said it, it would be a slur |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #13 |
34. ..i dunno... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:58 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. It may have been Freudian, OTOH... |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:00 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. CNN scrubbed the comment in the transcript |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:01 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. I have no faith in CNN's journalistic integrity |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #37 |
45. It tells me that some people--not necessarily Dobbs or CNN-- |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. Wait....WHAT?! Lou, calm down a little bit. |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
4. omg... |
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shain from kane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
6. Does Grand Dragon Lou propose a lynching? |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
7. OUCH! |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:07 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I got called down for saying that too |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:11 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. My parents were bridge players, and I always thought that was a card-playing reference too |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:14 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I thought it was too. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:18 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. I guess I'll just have to cross that off my list of usable idioms |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Read my other post... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:22 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Existence of the false etymology queers the idiom's applicability |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:23 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Some people don't like to think. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:23 AM Response to Reply #24 |
32. LOL |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 12:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
51. actually, I read somewhere |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 02:19 PM Response to Reply #51 |
54. I'll just call every digging implement an "entrenching tool" from now on |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 04:41 PM Response to Reply #51 |
60. It's much older than that, even |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #15 |
53. Or not learn... |
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Hestia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:11 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Everyone needs to quit taking everything as a dad gum |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:13 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I'll bet you didn't know that "dad gum" was a racial slur |
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Hestia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:04 AM Response to Reply #16 |
39. Uh, not it's not, it means 'god damn it' in polite society - back |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:13 AM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Don't get yourself all tied up in a horse pie over it |
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BulletproofLandshark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:15 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Nice try |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:16 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I can't recall ever hearing the words "cotton picking black" in that order before |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #14 |
33. I don't think I have any right to tell anyone else what should and should not offend them |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:12 AM Response to Reply #33 |
41. agree, but by the same token... |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. But if it offends someone, |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:44 AM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Because truth and knowledge are important... |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #46 |
47. No one declared to me that it began as a racial declaration |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:54 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. I was referring to post #15 |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 12:39 PM Response to Reply #48 |
52. Gotcha! |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 02:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
56. job synonymous with black slavery in America |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:19 AM Response to Reply #7 |
25. Actually, you may be wrong as to the origins of that.... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Oh, but false etymologies are so much fun |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
8. WELL, well, well.....Another Imus moment.... |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:22 AM Response to Reply #8 |
29. Imus is back on tv. |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:30 AM Response to Reply #29 |
35. I know. I haven't actually watched him in 5 or 6 years.... |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
9. ROFLMAO! An expert on racial dialogue speaks out! |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
11. Wups! |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
26. I don't care for Dobbs one bit, but-- |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
43. He did not use the term black leaders n/t |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
49. Eh. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
50. Dobbs in an ass, and I'm not defending him... |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
55. I've always wondered if Dobbs is a closet white supremest. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
57. Where did the old saying I used to hear |
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lebkuchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
58. What a 1930s way of putting it. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-31-08 04:36 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Register does not register here! |
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