So this morning I'm cruising thru the NY Post and I come across this throw-away line in an article about Dean:
He gaffed by vowing to court Confederate flag fans, and pro-Dean comics used the n-word for blacks at a fund-raiser in New York. An embarrassed Dean said the jokes were "wrong," but the incident could well come back to haunt him.
They used the N-word? I'd read about the f-word profanity at that event two nights ago, but this is the first I've heard of their using the N-word.
Good Morning!
Yup, it's us republicans that are mean and nasty...
December 9, 2003 -- Antiwar comedians raising campaign cash for Democrat Howard Dean last night blasted President Bush as a "piece of living, breathing s - - -"at an angry X-rated fund-raiser in New York.
"We have to get this piece of living, breathing s - - - out of the office," said comedian Judy Gold whose performance - like those of Janeane Garofalo and David Cross - was liberally larded with the F-word.
Aides said that Dean didn't authorize the X-rated attacks and that the Democratic front-runner found them so "offensive," he almost refused to come out and speak at the fund-raiser, one of eight New York events that raised close to $2 million yesterday.
The X-rated fund-raiser came just days after Democratic rival John Kerry used the F-word to attack Bush in Rolling Stone magazine.
Garofalo last night described the Medicare prescription-drug bill that Bush signed yesterday as the " 'you can go-f- - - yourself, Grandma' bill."
Gold ridiculed Democrat Joseph Lieberman for being unable to campaign on Jewish holidays.
Comedian Kate Lloyd pointed to Michael Jackson, now facing new child sex charges, and said, "Frankly, I'm far more frightened of Condoleezza Rice" - Bush's national security adviser - and referred to Cheney's wife, Lynne, as "Lon Chaney," a star of horror flicks.
When Dean came out after the comics, he made a vague reference to "some language that was used - I think it's wrong."
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/12972.htm
Now if a republican 'comic' had used this sort of vernacular, let alone the n-word would it be all over every news report or am I being cynical?