Yeah. Right.
Posted on 05/25/2012 10:12:28 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) -- D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry says he misspoke when he referred to the Polish community with the disparaging term "Polacks."
Barry made the remark when he was meeting with Asian-Americans.
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Oh brother...another group upset. Big Deal. People from Poland, buck up. Sheesh what a country full of weaklings.
It’s not Barry’s fault. He was probably high on crack at the time.
“Asian b******s set me up!”
I am sure the media will be all over this.
Barry is getting old. Folks should just lay off. This is not the Marion Barry we’ve known in years past.
So, will he now hold a meeting with Polish-Americans, and refer to the Asians as “Chinks”? Or maybe he’ll start in on the “Wops” this time?
He’s a walking ethnic gaffe machine.
Turn your brain on.
It's called "holding them to their own standard". You know perfectly well what would happen to Senator Lisa Murkowski if she (for example) were to accidentally say "nigger". She'd be pilloried, assaulted, hounded from office ... all for offending the perpetually offended ...
Like, for example ...
Perpetually Offended Councilman Marion "you're all racists" Barry.
I think it's absolutely hilarious that Ol' Crackpipe Barry can't seem to help making racially derogatory comments ... including using racially derogatory words ... and he's being held (sort of) accountable for it.
I love the term ‘misspoke’ that politicians seem to be using a lot more these days. I would like to go in and tell my boss what I really think of him and then the next day when I am on the verge of being fired simply say, “I am sorry I misspoke.” Everything would then go back to normal in a couple of days right?? Right?
Careful... The MEDIA is reporting that Barry’s words are somehow offensive to Polish people.
Please do not get tricked up by this, and think that Polish people are somehow all worked up by the crackhead’s comments.
(That being said, I did hear on the radio one D.C.-based Polish “spokeswoman” declare how awful it was that Barry used the term Pollack. )
I’m sending Marion a copy of the book DIVERSITY FOR DUMMIES.
Bullcrap. It's exactly the Marion Barry we've all known, loathed, and laughed at for decades. He's just as stupid, racist, socialist, incoherent, inarticulate and incompetent as he has always been, and he's still the perfect representative of his constituency.
~ Larry Elder, "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America"
“...He was probably high on crack at the time...”
Must be nice to go through life stoned all the time.
Must be lefty Pollacks - us conservative Pollacks ain't so thin skinned. When growing up, and Polish jokes were the rage, I had the biggest repretoir of anyone I knew. How many Pollacks does it take to screw in a lightbulb - three, one to hold the bulb and two to turn the ladder.
What did the Pollack say when picking up a dime - I thought my relatives had married all these off; a ten-cent piece...
One thing my Father taught me was that if you couldn't laugh at yourself, you were severely lacking in life skills and were likely to be humorless and bitter (kind of like Dims). In fact, he was willing to laugh at anyone until they developed the habit for themselves - some never did, but no great loss...
I am part Polish and PROUD of it. I don’t mind being called a polack one bit!!! I am still an AMERICAN first!
I’v had a few polish friends in my life and they never were offended if I called them a Polack. I’m sure Marion calling them Polacks was in a derogatory way. I very much resent you calling all the people of Poland a “country full of weaklings”.They are not. Just like the United States, the Polish people as a whole don’t agree with what their politicians do.
He no longer has his prostate gland ~ and just doesn’t “get around” like he used to. We see the guy on local news more often than you do and he’s simply burned out ~ BTW, he used to be the sort of guy you’d want to throw a party. Hasn’t been that way for a good 15 years, and now he’s clearly in his end times.
I am part Polish. A gradndfather (mother’s side) was originally from Poland. And who tells the most Polish jokes? Us Polacks!
I’m Polish and I don’t mind being called a “Polack”....call me a “Russian” though, and you’ll have a fight on your hands.
DC councilman is one of the few jobs you can perform competently day in and day out while high on crack ... I wonder if the crackhead even knows what day it is most days ?
ROFL!!!
In INDIANA???
My 'local news' is on WUSA TV-9 and WTTG Fox-5 ... if I pick up a newspaper from the vending machine on my way to work, it's the Washington Times. I listen to 105.9 WMAL "Washington's Mall: Where Washington comes to talk".
You?
A two-seat plane crashes in a polish cemetary - 487 bodies have been recovered...
On the other hand, Europe would not exist but for the Poles on 9/11.
“When growing up, and Polish jokes were the rage,...”
I’m guessing you also remember the barrage of Polish jokes when John Paul II was elected Pope. People that never told jokes in the office at all would seek me out to tell me the latest one they had heard. It never bothered me.
Your right....The American people whose ancestry from Poland are the weaklings....there fixed....feel better Mr. Offended? Sheesh. You are one of the biggest problems in America we have...people and their feeeeeeelings....grow up for goodness sakes.
I remember all the Polish jokes on “all in The Family”! Rob Reiner’s character, Meathead, even told a few:
Why are there so many flies in Poland? Because it’s against the law to kill the national bird...
Yeah. Right.
The thing is “Stivic” is not a Polish name, sounds more Serbo-Croatian.
As marylander I always loved going to baltimore and getting a Pollack Johnny’s .
Damn I miss them.
The FBI paid for it too!
She offered him sex in exchange for puffing on a pipe.
I meant a real party ~ not a government financed dope festival.
Barry is one of the diverse individuals that are closely tied to the Memphis, Tennessee group, as are Van Jones, Harold Ford, Jr., and many others. Keep your eyes open and see the connections.
well I wonder what would happen if this here pollack “accidentally” called him a n*gg**..... would he accept my apology???
Inquiring minds want to know..
and it is not that we pollacks mind being called this, it is the major double standard involved here
I am half polish and my wife is half polish..
a half and a half make a whole..
my children are pure polish.. :)
"Bitch set me up."
So ... if some individual of your preferred sex offered you sexual favours in return for puffing on a crack pipe you would ... what? I trust that your answer would be "tell them to pound sand".
Marion "Mayor for Life" Barry sucked on the crack pipe. His entire political career has been marked by political corruption, socialism, administrative incompetence, drug abuse, racist accusations against his opponents, whining self-pity and petty crime. He has not accomplished ANYTHING of value in his entire professional life.
He is, as he should be, an object of derision. That his constituents continue to elect him is as damning of them as Fat Drunk Ted Kennedy's and KKK Bobby Byrd's constituents voting patterns were of them.
BTW, I had the pleasure of voting against Bobby "I won't serve with a negro" Byrd ... never was a DC resident, so couldn't vote against Snort Barry.
Every day is fry day when you’re all cracked up.
You’re probably right. I just Googled the name and most of the hits were to the characters on “All in the Family,” but there was a soccer player in Australia with that surname who has dual Australian and Croatian citizenship. Some surnames are found among both Croats and Serbs but I don’t know if this is one of them. There are also surnames ending in -ic among Slovenes (Louis Adamic, the Slovene-American writer and activist, being one example). I don’t know if there are any examples of Poles named Stivic outside of that TV show.
DC gets the government it deserves in this buffoonish lout.
His problem was always sex. He'd go jogging in the morning and ladies would invite him in and he'd be seduced. Then, he'd take a "nooner" ~ old friend of mine was once invited to go do a Barry interview and there he was at his desk, and he didn't get up the whole time ~ and yet my friend could see the bottom of someone's upside down high heel pumps under the front of the modesty panel in the desk.
His frequent afternoon jogs were better known.
He was hardly your ordinary mayor.
Just reading about DCs teenage unemployment situation this summer. http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc-news/2012/05/dc-tops-list-teen-unemployment/627471 ~ 51%.
Barry used to take an interest in that problem ~ which could be even higher ~ and he got it down into the single digits many years.
People remember that ~ and compare him to the current regime ~ and he looks pretty good.
As far as "socialism" is concerned, I don't particularly recall Barry having much interest in ideology. And "racist accusations" against his opponents ~ and he had a lot of opponents locally ~ all of them somewhere other than Ward 8, and most of them were black.
So, what do you recall him saying about his "opponents" that wasn't true?
You have to remember he was an educated man with a degree in chemistry ~ hardly an affirmative action field of study.
Keep digging you pussy
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
Seriously ... stop before you get any further behind.
The man has a legacy of corruption and incompetence that beggared belief. Maybe you don't remember the lat 1980s and early 1990s ... I do. Remember "murder capital of the US"??? I do. Remember hiring police officers with felony records? I do. Remember the unending parade of corruption investigations and financial mismanagement during the Barry Regime? I do. And I saw it from Maryland. Prince George County. Not Indiana.
So, what do you recall him saying about his "opponents" that wasn't true?
His standard answer to any opposition was that those who opposed him did so because of him being black.
You have to remember he was an educated man with a degree in chemistry ~ hardly an affirmative action field of study.
And??? That means he wasn't an incompetent, corrupt, socialistic idiot as a Mayor? Nonsense. His horrid record is well known. Quit trying to cover it up.
"“Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” -Marion "What, me worry?" Barry.
Through that entire period of time you had essentially the same big dogs at the FBI and they liked to mix it up in these high profile arrest situations.
Is that local enough for you?
The current DC mayor is just like PG's most recently arrested PG County Board Chairman (and his wife) ~ except he's not under arrest yet ~ but he's going there.
Nothing that happened under Barry can hold a candle to what goes on in Monkey County and PG on a daily basis!
Is English your native language? Are you capable of reading? Are you capable of comprehending what you read?
So ... you live in Fairfax.
Bully for you.
You should know better than to defend the incompetent idiots, Barry included, who mismanage our Nation's Capitol.
It's just like Maryland!~
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