Coburn Evokes Ricky Ricardo While Speaking To Sotomayor: "You'll Have Lots Of Splainin' To Do"

[sarah553807]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Coburn evoked a 1950s TV show Wednesday in a quip responding to Sonia Sotomayor's scenario about what he might do if she - hypothetically, of course - attacked him.

"You'll have a lot of 'splainin' to do," Coburn said, to laughter from the crowd and Sotomayor. What he said - and how he said it - was a riff on a Hispanic television character, Ricky Ricardo, whose accent is now widely considered a broad parody.

In the famous 1950s TV show "I Love Lucy," the Cuban bandleader Ricardo (played by the equally Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz) would often admonish his scatterbrained wife, Lucy, by saying she'd have some "'splainin'" to do. The phrase, "Lucy, you have some 'splainin' to do," has since become part of the popular culture.


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[GodlessBiker]

1. He is a digusting individual.

[AspenRose]

2. Assholes. They're all assholes.

[Tansy_Gold]

5. You stole my line!

But that's okay. :hi:


'Cause they are assholes. All of 'em. All assholes, all the time.

[scheming daemons]

3. Imagine if a Dem Senator used ebonics during Clarence Thomas' hearing

Coburn is disgusting...

[JBoy]

4. File this under "WTF was he thinking?"

[Hepburn]

6. He wasn't....

...but then, he IS a Pubbie and that IMO is par for the course.

[WeDidIt]

7. What a racist fuck. n/t

[Chorophyll]

8. There is nothing as grotesque as

a Republican senator trying to be "humorous." Un-frickin-believable. :banghead:

[Odin2005]

9. They aren't even trying to hide the bigotry. Disgusting!

[Karenina]

10. I'm surprised he didn't call her Maria...

And WHO was that shit stain who brought up an internet site where lawyers had critisized her? Imagine that! A white male lawyer who has experienced her telling him to cut the crap... Damn, ain't THAT some hot grist for the mill. YEE-HAAA!!! :eyes: