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The Curse of Millhaven
08/27/09

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I just assumed that she was calling for the election of Gerry Cooney to public office.
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Hands
08/27/09

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I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington.

Like Audra Shay for example.

I'm now feeling officially old when I can reminisce about the time I knew some Republicans who weren't racist.
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MissNormaDesmond
08/27/09

@Hands: The only thing that's currently more pathetic than the Republican party is the way the Democratic party keeps allowing them to call the tune.
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Mediahohoho
08/27/09

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Kansas. Out to disprove evolution one crazy-assed racist at a time.
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smithhimself
08/27/09

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Gosh. This thread has shown me how much boxing is no longer part of the American culture (it's been replaced by MMA fighting). Twenty years ago, any sports fan would have understood the reference to the Great White Hope. It was a turn of the century phrase that briefly returned when Muhammad Ali won the heavyweight championship.

The original Great White Hope was boxer James J. Jefferies who came back from retirement to fight the black champion, Jack Johnson on July 4, 1910 at Reno, Nevada.

This was billed as the "Fight of the Century" by the match promoter Tex Rickard and the newspapers of the time heavily focused on the racial angle.

In a famous interview, Jeffries said, "I am going into this fight for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a Negro."

The match went 15 rounds and Johnson won -- clearly the superior fighter.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
08/27/09

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I don't know if an apology was necessary (Professional Expert Black Person here). They said what they meant the first time around. If you're going to be provocative, stick to your guns!

The Republican party is hedging its bets on being polemic, but insists on backpedaling. I honestly don't understand what they're going for - if there's even a focused game plan.
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se7a7n7
08/27/09

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I'm sure many people who read Gawker saw the big interview on the last Daily Show, before they went on hiatus. It was with Betsy McCaughey who was one of the originators of the death panels idea.

Not knowing who she is, I looked he up and according to Wikipedia...

"McCaughey was also listed as a member of the board of directors of the Cantel Medical Corporation until she resigned on August 20, 2009. According to a Cantel press release, McCaughey resigned from the board of directors "to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest during the national debate over healthcare reform."The same day, McCaughey appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and discussed end-of-life care."
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MissNormaDesmond
08/27/09

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"'There may be some misunderstanding there when she talked about the great white hope,' Geiger said. 'What she meant by it is they have a bright future. They're bright lights within the party. And, of course, that they're white.'"

Okay, I put the last part in. Seriously, that is the best Freudian slip since ever.
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anonymousryan
08/27/09

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Well, it sure is mighty white of her to issue an apology.
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MissNormaDesmond
08/27/09

@anonymousryan: I keep wanting to reclaim that phrase to be usable as a form of sarcastic insult, but people don't get it.
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Pope John Peeps II
08/26/09

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That's funny because I always assumed that it was always ironic coming from Americans, since everyone knew the Jack Johnson story. Isn't that phrase famous? I mean, someone made a movie called "The Great White Hype", right?
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MissNormaDesmond
08/27/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Someone made a play and a movie about Jack Johnson called "The Great White Hope", for that matter. It's the role that made James Earl Jones famous.
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Paul_Is_Drunk
08/27/09

@Pope John Peeps II: It is famous, but we're also a country with a number of people who think Africa is a country.
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kappakappaspankme
08/26/09

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Kansas is just bitter since Arizona has been getting all the attention for being the big bowl of crazy.
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MissNormaDesmond
08/27/09

@kappakappaspankme: They're lonesome. "Don't forget our crazy school boards!" they cry out to a world that's passed them by.
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kappakappaspankme
08/27/09

@MissNormaDesmond: So...it's no longer a cup o' crazy or a bowl o' crazy - it's a stew o' crazy (I should say bouillabaisse but that's French and we all know how dreadful those pesky French are)!?!
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Mymoustache
03/02/09

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Everyone I have ever met from Kansas was a bit off...
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slainte_pants
03/02/09

@Mymoustache: hmm, what is the matter with Kansas?
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HiredGoons
03/02/09

@slainte_pants: I want to go to there?
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misslinda
03/02/09

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Oh for crying out loud, are RISD design professors still giving out that same old tired board game assignment? I interviewed several RISD graduates with board games in their portfolios over ten years ago and it was a yawn then and it's a yawn now.
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OopsRecession
03/02/09

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I'm really hoping the fact that she has been vetted three times now (Right? RIGHT?? VP, Cabinet, Cabinet again) means nothing crazier than a RISD son comes out.

Granted, RISD children are fairly crazy, Prisonrape-opoly or not.
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BookishLookish
03/02/09

@OopsRecession: But crazy in a good way, I have always found.
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uninspired
03/02/09

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I'm not sure how I feel about the President's "Let's appoint Democrats from traditionally red districts, so they will be replaced with a conservative" strategy.
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crimsonlaugh
03/02/09

@uninspired: As a current Kansas citizen Gov. Sebelius' appointment is rather bittersweet. I'm a little afraid of what the super conservatives are going to get away with now!
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Mediahohoho
03/02/09

@uninspired: I'm no longer sure I'm bothered by it. On the one hand, their being elected in such districts either means they're exceptionally good or exceptionally conservative. If it's the former, hey, they whole country wins. Great. You just have to hope the people that helped get her elected can find someone else just as good and help them get elected. No state party should just depend on one charismatic politician to represent it. God knows New York has gotten by without a decent (homegrown) Democrat since Pat Moynihan. And most of them suck.

If it's the latter, then no big whoop either way. Changing a conservative for a conservative in the great sweeping redneck belt won't make that much of a difference, party affiliations notwithstanding.
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Mediahohoho
03/02/09

@crimsonlaugh: That's a good point, too. I hadn't really thought of that. Perhaps they'll mandate substituting memorizing the gospels by rote for the math cirriculum. It makes as much sense as creationism.
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uninspired
03/02/09

@Mediahohoho: I think it matters. As mentioned above, a Gov. in a red state can get away with a lot. For senators, it takes the Democrats further away from 60, which means more concessions need to be made to the GOP in order to pass laws.
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CaptainFantastic
03/02/09

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"Abortions for all!"
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BadUncle
03/02/09

@CaptainFantastic: A round for my friends, and those people in the back, too.
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hatey
03/02/09

@CaptainFantastic: No, it's goes, "Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
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hatey
03/02/09

@hatey: "
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CaptainFantastic
03/02/09

@hatey: Actually, I believe it goes:

Alien: Abortions for all!

Crowd: Boo!

Alien: [quietly] Very well.

Alien: Abortions for none!

Crowd: Boo!

Alien: Hmm. Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!

Crowd: Yay!
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
03/02/09

@CaptainFantastic: I couldn't agree more. Because now it's "Abortions only for rich/non god-fearing ladies who have not been sold a bill of goods by the life nazis that they will get breast cancer and have PTSD forever if they abort and then the 24 hour waiting period and the one or two clinics left in Mississippi and Alabama which you have to drive to-perhaps hundreds of miles from your home in a car you might not have and having to get childcare for your other children and taking a day off work because of the waiting period and having to hide your head in shame on the clinic sidewalk."

I like your idea better.
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hatey
03/02/09

@CaptainFantastic: TRUE.
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