Haley Barbour Press Secretary Dan Turner Resigns After Japan Joke

RamboLiberal

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Mon Mar-14-11 11:12 PM
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Haley Barbour Press Secretary Dan Turner Resigns After Japan Joke

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's press secretary has resigned after "dark humor" remarks he made about Japan and Janet Reno in a daily e-mailed news digest became public.

Barbour is a likely candidate to run for the Republican nomination for president.

About Otis Redding's posthumous gold record for "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay," Turner wrote "(Not a big hit in Japan right now.")

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/haley-barbour-press-secre_n_835737.html

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tularetom

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Mon Mar-14-11 11:14 PM
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1. Actually that seems fairly tame considering the source

I expected something a lot more, well, um, racist?

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notesdev

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Mon Mar-14-11 11:18 PM
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2. Check out Gilbert Gottfried's

they are too tasteless and awful for me to reprint here, but they did get him fired from his job voicing the duck for AFLAC.

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