[mewzilla]

Note to pols...

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

[CertainInalienableRights]

Yet Hillary's FJB comment was met with indifference in the media.

[white trash redneck]

These uproar over these three "slurs" seem suspiciously like the uproar over the "RATS" ad in the 2000 campaign. It is nothing more than a kerfuffle manufactured so that the GOP will have to respond, and thus get off message.

[Question_Assumptions]

I would argue that Allen's comments were out of line, not because of the clumbsy "macacca" name but because of his "Welcome ot America" line. He can dance around his slang all he wants but the rest of what he said shows there was more to what he said than a slip of the tongue.

[lostlakehiker]

A tar baby is anything which when attacked just involves you deeper and ties you down. It's a brilliant metaphor. It comes from the classic literature of Joel Chandler Harris, and it is no more merely a childrens' story than your Aesop's fables.

Whoever uses this metaphor pays his respects to Harris along the way. How did we get to the point that a mention of an Aesop's fable implicitly pays homage to the genius of a Greek author, but a mention of a fable written by a black author is ---get this----racist? In a sane world, a compliment, heartfelt and well deserved, would be recognized.

[do the dhue]

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I like to be called PUC Politically Un-Correct

[marblehead17]

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