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Mon Mar-31-08 09:06 AM
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Racial healer-Lou Dobbs explains how he's sick of "cotton pickin'" leaders tell him how he can talk |
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Edited on Mon Mar-31-08 09:08 AM by kpete
Ooops Racial healer Lou Dobbs explains how he's sick of "cotton pickin'" black leaders tell him how he can and can't talk about race (he catches himself at the last minute -- sorta) ... VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y0W19-N3Ik&eurl=http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/186481.php
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:07 AM
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:rofl: :thumbsup:
His inner Pat Buchanan is showing!
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:07 AM
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2. LOL...quite the slip-up there, huh Lou? |
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Mon Mar-31-08 11:48 AM
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28. under the powdered face--there is a man ravaged by hate |
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Mon Mar-31-08 11:50 AM
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29. I wouldn't go THAT far. |
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I'd say he's more cynical and dismissive than hateful.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:09 AM
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:09 AM
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4. Sneering Lou will have a stroke when he's forced to say "President Obama" every day |
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:11 AM
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8. yeah, like he'll call him "President." |
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Lou has to fight to tone it down to "Nigra" in private, one imagines.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:09 AM
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5. Wow! what a terrible choice of words |
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All anyone has to do is watch loony toons to realize that Dobbs was probably just speaking in the parlance of his time but still... sheesh..
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:10 AM
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6. last time I heard that phrase was a Yosemite Sam cartoon |
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:19 AM
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the phrase. I come from a line of poor white folks who picked cotton.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:29 AM
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18. Go wash your mouth out with soap, young lady! |
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That is the most vile thing I've ever read on DU. I mean, what the fuck is up with you using the word ra*&**afr****in? Dammit to hell, I never want to hear you use that word again. Do you realize that TWICE in that word is the word a$$? What the fuck were you thinking? Why the hell does everyone on this board think they have to cuss up a shit storm to make a fucking point? :shrug:
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:11 AM
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7. Open mouth, insert ass..... |
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:11 AM
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His FACE was incredibly telling when he said "cotton-". Truly ugly thoughts showed up in his expression. :(
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:17 AM
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10. Guess What? Attacking a BLACK PERSON in the medias for things SAID and DONE......... |
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is NOT racist. Lou Dobbs is the GREATEST!!
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:20 AM
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13. I know - it's like black people get all sorts of SPECIAL rights! |
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It's not fair to white folks like us!
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:29 AM
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17. OH BROTHER, the race card is weak............ |
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:20 AM
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Repetez en anglais, s'il vous plait.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:25 AM
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15. Guess What? Attacking LATINOS in the medias for things SAID and DONE......... |
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Edited on Mon Mar-31-08 09:35 AM by Double T
is NOT racist!! Lou Dobbs, married to a Mexican Latina, is the GREATEST!!!
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:27 AM
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16. I was actually writing in French, but that's beside the point.... |
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.... and I'm sorry, Dobbs' marriage to a Latina doesn't make him any less of a xenophobic bigot. In fact, it makes the fact that he's a xenophobic bigot all the more pathetic.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:42 AM
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20. Guess What? Attacking FRENCH PERSONS for FRENCH fries and FRENCH toast............ |
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Edited on Mon Mar-31-08 09:43 AM by Double T
is NOT racist!! Lou Dobbs most likely eats ONLY FREEDOM fries and FREEDOM toast, making HIM the GREATEST!!!!
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:44 AM
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22. The "sarcasm" smiley would help. You should look into it. nm |
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:42 AM
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21. Even if you excused his foaming at the mouth bigotry |
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how in the name of all that's sacred could you call him the GREATEST?
With some work he might aspire to mediocrity but in his wildest dreams he could never be even OK.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:52 AM
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24. Lou Dobbs is one of the VERY FEW in the media addressing the......... |
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intentional EXTERMINATION of the middle class. I'm certainly NOT a ONE ISSUE person and IF YOU took time to listen to his show YOU might discover there is a different message having NOTHING to do with racism or racists.
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Mon Mar-31-08 02:50 PM
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35. the thread is about the racist language he used |
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Maybe that should be addressed?
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:14 PM
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37. The definition of racist language is debatable and subjective. |
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Mon Mar-31-08 02:26 PM
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34. "HE'S THE GREATEST!!! THE GREATEST, I TELLS YA!!!" |
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Good Sir (or Madam), I think you protest too much.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:12 PM
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36. I think TOO MANY people scream racism when they want to cutoff a conversation....... |
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or debate. I thought MOST here liked ENDLESS repetition.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:30 AM
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19. Are you serious? If so, why aren't you on ignore? YOUR racism is |
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:46 AM
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23. NOT a racist bone in my body. NOTHING should curb or stifle debate and discussion........ |
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Mon Mar-31-08 02:17 PM
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31. Except perhaps the fact that Dobbs is an unrepentant liar |
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Seen any leprosy lately?
Frankly, I can't imagine why anyone would watch his show... unless of course, they like being lied to.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:18 AM
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11. But white folks assure me there's nothing racial about it... |
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... So any outcry can only be black folks being oversensitive.
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:54 AM
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25. I loved it when he said no other country is as progressive as the U.S. |
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Uh, Lou? Ever heard of Europe?
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Mon Mar-31-08 10:21 AM
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26. interesting that you inserted "black leaders" when he said "ridiculous politicians". |
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Mon Mar-31-08 10:47 AM
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CNN Scrubs Dobbs’ Racially Charged Comment From Transcripthttp://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/31/dobbs-cotton-pickin/
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Mon Mar-31-08 02:08 PM
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30. "Cotton picking" is a Southern dialect marker. It is between "goldurned" and "hogswalloped". |
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"Now hold on one cotton picking minute!" is not a racist comment. Only when one would use it alongside "black leaders" could it even remotely be construed as "racially tinged."
Several idiomatic terms come from fiber: "fair to middling" for example is a grade of cotton when it is ginned. "Tow headed" from the color of unbleached linen. In the South, a burlap bag is still called a "tow sack."
Actually, probably about as many white and Hispanic people have picked cotton before WW II as have black! It is unpleasant: done in September usually in the SE and the fiber has to be pulled out of the bolls which are dry and hard and pointed at the openings, leading to dust, cuts, and bloody fingers, a stooped back and low wages when done by hand.
Cotton sacks and weights are at a premium price for collectors these days. My mother still has her child-sized sack from the early and mid 40s! It was made from flour sacks.
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Mon Mar-31-08 02:20 PM
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32. I use it all the time. I got it from a Bullwinkle cartoon. |
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Now, it coming from Dobbs may be a little more suspect than from an Aesop's Fable, but I still plan on using it. :shrug:
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Mon Mar-31-08 02:24 PM
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33. "Cotton pickin'"? Freudian slip? Showing his prejudice a little more? |
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