(Audio) Lindsey Graham unfiltered: jokes about white men, Baptists

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Lindsey Graham unfiltered: jokes about white men, Baptists

By Peter Hamby, CNN National Political Reporter


http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/29/politics/lindsey-graham-private-club/index.html?hpt=po_c1%22%20target=%22_hplink

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Washington (CNN) -- South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is toying with the idea of a presidential bid, joked in a private gathering this month that "white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency," according to an audio recording of his comments provided to CNN.

In the meeting, the Republican also cracked wise about Baptists, saying "they're the ones who drink and don't admit it," a variation of a joke he sometimes tells in public.

Graham's folksy sense of humor and his shoot-from-the-hip style are part of his political appeal, and well-known to journalists and his colleagues in the Senate. But the behind-closed-doors remarks are a departure from the G-rated jokes he tells in public, and another reminder for politicians in the iPhone era that they are rarely far from a microphone, no matter how private the setting.

The audio snippets were provided to CNN on Wednesday by two separate South Carolina Democrats who received the recordings from a person using an anonymous Gmail address. Graham confirmed the recordings in an interview Wednesday with CNN.



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[csziggy]

1. Well, he's right about the Baptists and drinking!

My great-grandfather a traveling Baptist minister who also built churches all over central Alabama is reputed to have made moonshine. He stayed steadfast to the claim he never SOLD it though. The story is that he had a box on the side of the road where he'd put the jugs. If anyone wanted some they'd come by, pick up a jug and leave a "donation" presumably for his service to the church.

I just found the probate records for another of my Baptist ancestors. His wife and surviving children went through a LOT of whiskey according to the bills submitted to the executors. Gallons of whiskey!

[UTUSN]

2. R#1 & K for, yeah, Lindsey, RUN, please RUN!1 Your co-Rethugs will TEAR YOU APART!1 n/t

[customerserviceguy]

4. It would be glorious to watch

I'd bet someone on the Rethug side would actually try to out him.

[Politicalboi]

3. Is there a Mrs.Graham?

Besides Lindsay of course. He would have to come out of his closet to be president.