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There's nothing wrong, obviously, with saying "cotton-pickin'" when you are, say, Yosemite Sam. But "one cotton-pickin' minute," while best avoided, is still less of a faux-pas than saying how you're sick of "cotton-pickin'" black people telling you how you can and cannot talk about race, which is more or less what baby-headed CNN anchor Lou Dobbs said on the air the other day. The occasion? Condoleezza Rice said something rather mild about how the United States has a racial "birth defect" on account of how the nation was founded on the backs of African slave labor and it took a while to get all that sorted out. But Dobbs is sick of people telling him to stop being so racist! "We've got to be able to talk about it," he sputters in the attached clip, "and I can guarantee you this, not a single one of these cotton—just ridiculous politicians should be the moderator on the issue of race." Good thing you caught yourself there, Lou! Thankfully, the CNN transcript omits the almost-gaffe completely, so it's like it never happened! Except for that YouTube clip we've embedded below.
Via ThinkProgress
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Career save of the year?
Cotton candied
Cotton swabbed?
Cotton headed. Lou Dobbs is an idiot.
Cotton mouth.
Then he told Wolf Blitzer to hold on to his yamaka.
cotton eyed?
Thank god we have Lou available to illustrate just how easy it is to talk about race.
Cotton Club.
Stick with "hysterical," Lou. No one cares about women.
"Why, racism hasn't been an issue in America in a coon's--just long time!"
Lou Dobbs is the fabric of my life.
Cotton Mather-wannabes?
Caught on video?
God knows what he calls the spicy, south-of-the-border, gun-toting Mrs. Dobbs.
I liked it better when SNL called her Condiliesa Liesalot.
"Condi, just shut up and go pick some of the fabric of our lives."
"Cotton, ya ya..." Oh that's Grape Stomp Lady funny..
@kokotaylor: "Where's my dinner, you lazy bean... o before and there'll be no gas later!"
I didn't realize Lou Dobbs was capable of covering anything other than immigration and the alleged war on the middle class.
Lou is a champeen of many minorities. Why, just the other he expounded on how his Mexican maid keeps his home spic-and-sp..really, really clean.
Dobbs for president. he is the only one that makes sense anymore
The he broke into his best Foghorn Leghorn impression: "Lookit here son, I say son, did ya see me almost say cotton-pickin'? I scared you! That's a joke, son."
He should have just said "I like turtles."
Lou Dobbs and his slave-whippin' mouth at it again.
He did that on purpose. It's an obviously faked self-interruption. See, he's making a point about how people misuse racist things he says for their own purposes. What an absolute shit.
Similar to calling out someone (else's) name in bed, he could have easily swung this in his favor.
"and I can guarantee you this, not a single one of these cotton-shirts wrinkle when you pack them in your suitcase!"
He can just make up a story how he moonlights as an infomercial host and is method acting. He'd be in a better position than his current, that's for sure!
@love007: But he hates turtles.
Lou Dobbs is tired of people telling him to stop being racist because he hears it so much. Because he is. And his ears are stuffed with cotton...
@In Other News...: Turtles take our jobs!
Isn't Lou Dobbs the original Cotton Eye Joe?
@Disgruntled_Platonist: We are endangered because turtles have been crawling under the barbed wire along our border. That's why we need a really solid wall. And lots more turtle soup served in our school cafeterias. And turtleburgers. Have you read Lou Dobbs' "Turtle Cookbook"?
Wow. Crazy, crazy, crazy, the idea that there is some kind of birth defect with respect to the discourse on race in this country.
@BullfightsOnAcid: That was fantastic.
@Yaq Cottonmouth, indeed.
White people think there's no race problem, film at 11.
cotton.. I hate that condescending turdpile!
His wife is not a gringo? shoot me in the crotch! This man is married to a Hispanic woman? LMAO..
Bitch needs a lobotomy!
By censoring himself, he disavowed his own argument. Shmuck.
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