August 30, 2010
— Ace In his spare time, Rick Sanchez enjoys colorin' books, picking his feet, and drooling.
But during the day, he's an esteemed member of CNN's Very Special Broadcasting Team.
So here he is, splitting atoms... with his mind.
Thanks to Exurban League (ExLg).
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Posted by: Casual Observer at August 30, 2010 01:08 PM (q08oe)
You ever say something, and you know right when you say it, it's like a really big mistake, and you try to pull the words back in even though they're already out... you sorta vapor lock, but you know there's no way to get them back?
No?
Ok, well just me and Rick Sanchez then.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at August 30, 2010 01:09 PM (WvXvd)
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 30, 2010 01:10 PM (wOGfT)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2010 01:10 PM (P9+0W)
Posted by: maverick muse at August 30, 2010 01:11 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: Dan Rather at August 30, 2010 01:11 PM (w9BEi)
Posted by: Groaty Dick at August 30, 2010 01:11 PM (gzjhZ)
Posted by: Hillary Rodehard Clinton at August 30, 2010 01:11 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Rick "Sportin' Life" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 01:11 PM (UgQVc)
I wish that were even remotely possible, so Sanchez could go off on a wild defensive "But Obama has no relation at all to American blacks!" rant, and give the ol' National Conversation On Race a kick in the pants (which are on the ground).
Posted by: oblig. at August 30, 2010 01:12 PM (x7Ao8)
Posted by: Dylan Ratigan, not a racist at August 30, 2010 01:12 PM (w9BEi)
Rick Sanchez says Obama clings bitterly to his cotton pickin' with antipathy for those who pick differently.
Posted by: maverick muse at August 30, 2010 01:13 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: buzz at August 30, 2010 01:13 PM (i27M5)
Posted by: Barack Obama at August 30, 2010 01:13 PM (xxgag)
Oh look, tweets from a twit.
Posted by: Penfold at August 30, 2010 01:14 PM (1PeEC)
Posted by: Hillary Rodehard Clinton at August 30, 2010 01:14 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Groaty Dick at August 30, 2010 05:11 PM (gzjhZ)
Probably because even they don't watch CNN anymore...
Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at August 30, 2010 01:15 PM (IkEhE)
Posted by: Pelvis at August 30, 2010 01:15 PM (LlaBi)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2010 01:15 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Rocks at August 30, 2010 01:16 PM (Q1lie)
Posted by: Rick "Dirty" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 01:16 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at August 30, 2010 01:17 PM (fuw6p)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at August 30, 2010 01:17 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2010 01:17 PM (P9+0W)
Posted by: Penfold at August 30, 2010 01:17 PM (1PeEC)
He's the cotton-picking President
He's the doggone President
He's the friggin' President
All about the same really.
It's not like he said that he was the watermelon-eating President. I mean I say things like "It friggin' sucks that that cotton-picking socialist is the doggone President" and I don't have a racist bone in my body. See what I mean?
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 01:18 PM (01RS2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2010 01:18 PM (T1boi)
Posted by: Rico Sanchez at August 30, 2010 01:18 PM (zgZzy)
Nothing will happen here. I mean, the guy fucking killed someone whie hammered and he get's a slot? And people think calling the President a cotton-picker is bad?
Sheesh.
Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at August 30, 2010 01:18 PM (c3i/K)
Posted by: Precedent Singer of Baritone Spirituals at August 30, 2010 01:19 PM (+FkcS)
Posted by: Barry the Assclown at August 30, 2010 01:19 PM (9cflz)
It's not like he said that he was the watermelon-eating President. I mean I say things like "It friggin' sucks that that cotton-picking socialist is the doggone President" and I don't have a racist bone in my body. See what I mean?
The point is that if someone from FOX said this, there would be Hell to pay. The trick is the hypocrisy.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2010 01:19 PM (zgZzy)
What's the big deal--Dan Rather has his watermelons and all.
Oh wait. He's unemployed too. Entirely different reason. Ah well, I'm sure Pure Man of Genius meant it in the nicest way possible.
Keep in mind Rick the Dick once asked, on air, what 'nine meters was in English'. You expect him to know this is offensive?
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 30, 2010 01:19 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Damiano at August 30, 2010 01:19 PM (PA722)
Posted by: Johnny at August 30, 2010 01:20 PM (aB5St)
Posted by: Rick Sanchez's Inner Filter at August 30, 2010 01:21 PM (UgQVc)
[producer whispers something in Keith's ear]
Olbermann: And now check out this video of a squirrel on water skis....
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 30, 2010 01:21 PM (IqfKc)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 30, 2010 01:21 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Dan Rather at August 30, 2010 01:21 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: denny crane at August 30, 2010 01:21 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: "Dirty" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 01:21 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Blackford Oakes at August 30, 2010 01:21 PM (w9BEi)
Posted by: Queefy Uberdouche at August 30, 2010 01:21 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2010 01:22 PM (FcR7P)
I don't know guys... I get the supposedly racial connotation, but I think we're reaching.
Not really. It's another case for the "if a Republican/FoxNews anchor had said this" file.
Besides, you should never pass up the opportunity to make fun of a self-righteous drunken manslaughtering douchebag leftist like Rick Sanchez.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2010 01:22 PM (P9+0W)
Posted by: Penfold at August 30, 2010 01:23 PM (1PeEC)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2010 01:24 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Dr. Laura at August 30, 2010 01:24 PM (+sBB4)
Posted by: Barry the Assclown at August 30, 2010 05:19 PM (9cflz)
Hey, that could replace "I'm trying to eat my waffle" or "We're buying shrimp".
Next time he gets a tough question.... "I'm trying to work this umbrella, OK?".
Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 30, 2010 01:25 PM (Oj/ob)
Cotton Picking is a pretty common term and I don't think it's ever been racial unless you were really stretching for it.
Are you fucking kidding me?
When and where was the last time you said "cotton picking" and how is it not racial?
Posted by: ErikW at August 30, 2010 01:25 PM (jXyj0)
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at August 30, 2010 01:25 PM (Cjcud)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 30, 2010 01:25 PM (h0RtZ)
Posted by: lowandslow at August 30, 2010 01:26 PM (nsWwp)
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Must have been a coincidence that Modern Marvels did an episode on cotton yesterday. MM is turning out to be one of my favorite shows.
Posted by: polynikesDistilleries was the bestest.
Posted by: Dang at August 30, 2010 01:26 PM (Chg7a)
Posted by: Chris Matthews at August 30, 2010 01:26 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Joe 'Master of Science' Biden at August 30, 2010 01:27 PM (MMC8r)
Cotton Picking is a pretty common term and I don't think it's ever been racial unless you were really stretching for it.
Surely, you jest?
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 30, 2010 01:27 PM (pLTLS)
72 Let's be fair, real black men make their bitches pick the cotton. Am I right? Am I right?
Correctamundo!
Posted by: Snoop Dogg at August 30, 2010 01:27 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Al Sharpton at August 30, 2010 01:28 PM (MMC8r)
When and where was the last time you said "cotton picking" and how is it not racial?
Please! I said that all the time!
Posted by: Bugs Bunny at August 30, 2010 01:28 PM (zgZzy)
[Clock bell chimes]
Crissy Matthew: What did he say?
Keith Blowmeman: He said the sheriff's near.
Gabby Johnson Sanchez: No, gone blame it dang blammit! The sheriff is a nig...
[Clock bell chimes again]
Posted by: Gabby Johnson Sanchez at August 30, 2010 01:28 PM (zqzYV)
Cotton Picking is a pretty common term and I don't think it's ever been racial unless you were really stretching for it.
Same with spear chucker...
what?...what's the BFD??
Posted by: not neo just a fucking retard at August 30, 2010 01:29 PM (AnTyA)
/ok, maybe that was too much, I'm self-flagelating or something
Posted by: Dirty Rick at August 30, 2010 01:29 PM (+sBB4)
He's the cotton-picking President
He's the doggone President
He's the friggin' President
All about the same really.
It's not like he said that he was the watermelon-eating President. I mean I say things like "It friggin' sucks that that cotton-picking socialist is the doggone President" and I don't have a racist bone in my body. See what I mean?
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 05:18 PM (01RS2)
Yeah sure. Now imagine Rush Limbaugh saying cotton picking President. These are the rules they want to play by, hold them to it.
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2010 01:29 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 01:29 PM (01RS2)
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at August 30, 2010 01:29 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Al notso Sharpton at August 30, 2010 01:30 PM (h0RtZ)
Posted by: Hillary! at August 30, 2010 01:30 PM (QKKT0)
Cotton Picking is a pretty common term and I don't think it's ever been racial unless you were really stretching for it.
Is cnn paying for concern trolls now, also? I guess they have to with Rick Retard on the air.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 30, 2010 01:31 PM (fx8sm)
Posted by: Robin at August 30, 2010 01:31 PM (VY112)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 01:31 PM (01RS2)
Please tell the class what 99.9% of all slaves were brought to America to do?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 30, 2010 01:31 PM (IqfKc)
jump down turn around pick a bale a day.
Posted by: Cotton Pickers at August 30, 2010 01:32 PM (fco8b)
but "cotton-pickin'" is a big part of Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies dialog with Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn - or was.
"He's the cotton-pickin' President" translates to "He's the mother-fuckin President" not "He's a black President therefore should be picking cotton"
at least to me.
.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 30, 2010 01:32 PM (Hj0nA)
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2010 01:33 PM (vMfkE)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 01:33 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at August 30, 2010 01:33 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 05:29 PM (01RS2)
You can't be this stupid.
I'm not even going to pretend that you're serious.
Posted by: ErikW at August 30, 2010 01:33 PM (jXyj0)
FTFY Ace.
Posted by: ghost707 at August 30, 2010 01:34 PM (BNk7G)
An' sick of pollin'
Ah'm tired of lobster
An' skeered of workin',
But o mah 'proval,
He jes' keeps droppin' along!
Posted by: Predominately.White.Sanchez at August 30, 2010 01:34 PM (gQLr2)
OT: But we'ver got major problems.
Michael Steele is going to Guam on September 7
Micheal Steele is trying to drown Guamians!
Posted by: Hank Johnson at August 30, 2010 01:34 PM (P9+0W)
This is an insult to cotton-pickers everywhere.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman at August 30, 2010 01:35 PM (okmLW)
but.....
Ask yourself one question, Mr Stickerist.
Would CNN allow us to get away with saying it? Imagine it on, say, a tea party sign. How would that get reported?
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 01:36 PM (0q2P7)
A made for TV movie by:
Rickshaw Jack
Act 1 Scene 1
Camera sweeps across a cotton field showing white tufts, and several African Americans in period garb slowly working the field.
Cut to shot of Rich Sanchez stooped over, with a heavy bag full of cotton strapped across his shoulders. Sweat pours form his brow and he wipes it with a dirty handkerchief.
Rick Sanchez begins humming melody, which slowly builds in volume until he bursts into song.
Rick Sanchez:
Well, me and my papy gonna
pick a bale of cotton,
me and my papy gonna pick a bale a day.
Me and my papy gonna
pick a bale of cotton,
me and my papy gonna pick a bale a day.
Hey, Lordie pick a bale of cotton,
hey, Lordie pick a bale a day.
Hey, Lordie pick a bale of cotton,
hey, Lordie pick a bale a day.
A little bit of speed.
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at August 30, 2010 01:36 PM (Cjcud)
and I hate to break it to you, but there's lot's of white people pick cotton
Really?? huh!!!
I'd a thunk that there might be some technology that may have come out that was a bit more efficient and cost-effective..
..(sigh) maybe I'm wrong
Posted by: not neo just a fucking retard at August 30, 2010 01:36 PM (AnTyA)
but "cotton-pickin'" is a big part of Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies dialog with Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn - or was.
"He's the cotton-pickin' President" translates to "He's the mother-fuckin President" not "He's a black President therefore should be picking cotton"
at least to me.
Unfortunately for the MFM, they have been making the rules about what is racist for about 40 years now. By their own standard, this is completely racist and Rick Sanchez and all of his co-workers and their next of kin should all lose their jobs.
They have been setting the precedents for this kind of reaction for years. Now it has blown up in their faces.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 30, 2010 01:36 PM (IqfKc)
I would add to the list of gaffes, the time he tried get a handle on "which side was represented the most" at the annual PRO-LIFE march on Washington.
The numbers broke out roughly 350,000 pro-life to 5 pro-abort counter protesters.
As Antoine would say: he is SO DUMB!
Posted by: Nice Deb at August 30, 2010 01:37 PM (YXKI4)
I find more odd that you and a lot of other people haven't heard that expression used more often. I thought it was pretty common.
Posted by: lowandslow at August 30, 2010 01:37 PM (nsWwp)
Posted by: Dogwhistle! at August 30, 2010 01:37 PM (+FkcS)
Posted by: Temper Tantrum at August 30, 2010 01:37 PM (bAL0J)
Schadenfreude and all that.
but if I were on a panel evaluating Sanchez's statement, I'd say that there was no racist element to it.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 30, 2010 01:38 PM (Hj0nA)
Posted by: nickless at August 30, 2010 01:38 PM (MMC8r)
and I hate to break it to you, but there's lot's of white people pick(ed) cotton
Like my dad and my grandmother.
Posted by: Dang at August 30, 2010 01:40 PM (Chg7a)
but if I were on a panel evaluating Sanchez's statement, I'd say that there was no racist element to it.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 30, 2010 05:38 PM (Hj0nA)
Let me explain it to you. Calling someone a cottonpicker was the same as calling them the N Word. It was code for it, it always has been.
Posted by: robtr at August 30, 2010 01:40 PM (fwSHf)
Posted by: dogfish at August 30, 2010 01:40 PM (fco8b)
Posted by: Sam at August 30, 2010 01:40 PM (Cxsey)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 01:41 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 01:41 PM (01RS2)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at August 30, 2010 01:41 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 30, 2010 05:38 PM (Hj0nA)
Too bad the MFM aren't fair. Ex: Bill Maher can twist something like Drudge abbreviating "negatives" into racism and then go on to call all blacks gang bangers a few weeks later.
Posted by: Blackford Oakes at August 30, 2010 01:41 PM (w9BEi)
Posted by: Josey Wales at August 30, 2010 01:41 PM (h0RtZ)
Posted by: Go Ray Nagin, go Ray Nagin at August 30, 2010 01:42 PM (fco8b)
>>> erm, not to be all not-against Obama
but "cotton-pickin'" is a big part of Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies dialog with Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn - or was.
"He's the cotton-pickin' President" translates to "He's the mother-fuckin President" not "He's a black President therefore should be picking cotton"
at least to me.
.
This is it in a nut shell. You can go there if you must with this term but geez it's a stretch. Now if a skin head is yelling at someone who is black and throws this out then yeah he kinda went there.
While I can't stand this douche for the most part it's just really, really unprofessional on his part.
Posted by: Roadking at August 30, 2010 01:42 PM (Tf6L4)
Posted by: nickless at August 30, 2010 01:42 PM (MMC8r)
Too bad the MFM aren't fair. Ex: Bill Maher can twist something like Drudge abbreviating "negatives" into racism and then go on to call all blacks gang bangers a few weeks later.
Posted by: Blackford Oakes
We're on to you, racist!!!
Posted by: Libtards at August 30, 2010 01:42 PM (zgZzy)
Let me explain it to you. Calling someone a cottonpicker was the same as calling them the N Word. It was code for it, it always has been.
Posted by: robtr at August 30, 2010 05:40 PM (fwSHf)
You're full of it. Merriam-Webster Dictionary
: damned —used as a generalized expression of disapproval <a cotton–picking hypocrite> 2 : damned —used as an intensive <out of his cotton–picking mind — Irving Kristol>Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 30, 2010 01:43 PM (Oj/ob)
link
Posted by: trying on a sock at August 30, 2010 01:43 PM (p302b)
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at August 30, 2010 01:44 PM (IoUF1)
Bitch please. It's obvious an allusion to slavery from the actual fucking context. Sanchez is saying that poor Obama is our bitch. He didnt' say it to insult obama, he said it to compare Americans who expect him to do his job to southern slave owners. He's major league douche and i hope he crashes and burns for this.
Posted by: Johnny at August 30, 2010 01:44 PM (aB5St)
Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2010 01:44 PM (FcR7P)
: damned —used as a generalized expression of disapproval <a cotton–picking hypocrite> 2 : damned —used as an intensive <out of his cotton–picking mind — Irving Kristol>
Again, I've been saying this about vamints for years!
Posted by: Yosemite Sam at August 30, 2010 01:45 PM (zgZzy)
But that....
No, I'm afraid that was a severe slip on Mr. Sanchez' part.
Will he be called on to resign? Or is that reserved for conservatives?
Posted by: Dianna at August 30, 2010 01:45 PM (qrFCz)
Posted by: Rick "Vodka" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 01:46 PM (zgZzy)
For your "always has been" to be true, then every instance of "cotton pickin'" used in Looney Toons/Merrie Melodies cartoons should be translatable into the N-word or some variation.
Having read Chuck Jones's autobiography I don't get the sense that Chuck is a racist - though some of the "Nature Boy" stuff approaches the line.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 30, 2010 01:47 PM (Hj0nA)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 01:47 PM (01RS2)
"God Bless that .1%"
- Things I Said
Posted by: T. Jefferson at August 30, 2010 01:47 PM (a0Jhx)
Posted by: Jean at August 30, 2010 01:48 PM (6I7cN)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 30, 2010 01:48 PM (IqfKc)
Oh yeah and I get the part about "but hey if Glen Beck said this........."
Really I got it. That shit will never end and any delusions of a level playing field are just that. If this guy worked for me I would chew his ass for being unprofessional but firing him being racist towards a president while simultaneously sticking his tongue in that same presidents ass would be difficult.
Posted by: Roadking at August 30, 2010 01:48 PM (Tf6L4)
Posted by: TheresaD at August 30, 2010 01:48 PM (K9XK2)
Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 30, 2010 05:43 PM (Oj/ob)
Try the urban dictionary when you are looking for derogatory terms about blacks. Not Merriam Webster idiot.
Urban Dictionary.
cotton-picker 134 up, 57 down A racist slur to represent a black person, or person of African heritage......this word is used because in the Age of Our Founding Fathers, when blacks were slaves, they were known to mostly pick cotton. "Stop picking on me you fuckin' cotton-picker!"
Posted by: robtr at August 30, 2010 01:48 PM (fwSHf)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 01:49 PM (01RS2)
Posted by: Anderson Rimslobber 360, NancyNews Cablevision's premier anchor at August 30, 2010 01:50 PM (YMIiL)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 01:51 PM (01RS2)
Posted by: curious at August 30, 2010 01:51 PM (p302b)
Posted by: George Allen at August 30, 2010 01:52 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Old grizzled gym coach at August 30, 2010 01:52 PM (QBQcg)
cotton picker and cotton picking have two separate meanings
Hmmm..so one who engages in cotton picking is NOT a cotton picker?
Posted by: beedubya at August 30, 2010 01:53 PM (AnTyA)
From Huff & Puff, so you don't have to link--
After a commercial break, Sanchez immediately apologized. He said that soon after he had used the phrase, people had started contacting him on Twitter, pointing out that he had just used it when referring to a black man — an insensitive reference, given the phrase's connections to slavery.
"You know I didn't even realize it?" he said. "I was just saying 'cotton picking' because it's a term I've often used because I grew up in the South...however, I apologize for using it, in case it was taken by anyone as an act of disrespect."
So Pissy Chrissy will go on one of his infamous Southerners are racists!!11!! screeds tonight, no?
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 30, 2010 01:53 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 05:51 PM (01RS2)
yeah technically you're right. I always have to ask, "what if Rush said it?"
Posted by: robtr at August 30, 2010 01:53 PM (fwSHf)
Ace gets a bit queasy when we have non-cowardly discussions about race.
So let's do ace a solid and not post over-the-top spleen venting stuff that will get comment trolled and held up by ass-hats as proof that ace runs the northeast Atlantic chapter of the CryptoKlan in his spare time.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 30, 2010 01:54 PM (Hj0nA)
Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton at August 30, 2010 01:55 PM (UK9cE)
After a commercial break, Sanchez immediately apologized. He said that soon after he had used the phrase, people had started contacting him on Twitter, pointing out that he had just used it when referring to a black man — an insensitive reference, given the phrase's connections to slavery.
but but but Meriam Websters says it's about hypocrisy!!
I'm Pocono Joe
Posted by: robtr at August 30, 2010 01:56 PM (fwSHf)
He's the doggone President
That's because they sent coonhounds after runaway slaves, dummy!
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 30, 2010 01:56 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 01:56 PM (01RS2)
Posted by: ingenus at August 30, 2010 01:56 PM (+sBB4)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 30, 2010 01:57 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Harry reid at August 30, 2010 01:57 PM (AnTyA)
I find more odd that you and a lot of other people haven't heard that expression used more often. I thought it was pretty common.
Posted by: lowandslow at August 30, 2010 05:37 PM (nsWwp)
Nah, hasn't been used in decades around here. I assume it's a southern thing. It's easy to see the racism angle but I think that when it comes to Rick Sanchez, he's just being an ignorant douchetool.
Posted by: ErikW at August 30, 2010 01:58 PM (jXyj0)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 01:58 PM (01RS2)
Posted by: nickless at August 30, 2010 01:58 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Rick Sanchez at August 30, 2010 01:58 PM (zgZzy)
But... but... his name is SANCHEZ... and thus he is a Minority!
And they keep telling us that Minorities CANNOT be RAAAAACIST! (note the obligatory 5 A's as denoted in the Race Screed Guildlines).
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 30, 2010 01:58 PM (H+oXM)
Posted by: Andy Griffith With an Important Message From Our Sponsors About Medicare at August 30, 2010 01:59 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Anderson Rimslobber 360, NancyNews Cablevision's premier anchor at August 30, 2010 02:00 PM (YMIiL)
So fuck Sanchez.
Posted by: nickless at August 30, 2010 02:00 PM (MMC8r)
Ace gets a bit queasy when we have non-cowardly discussions about race.
So let's do ace a solid and not post over-the-top spleen venting stuff that will get comment trolled and held up by ass-hats as proof that ace runs the northeast Atlantic chapter of the CryptoKlan in his spare time.
I've seen nothing posted that even comes close to that. For whom are you really speaking?
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2010 02:00 PM (vMfkE)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 05:56 PM (01RS2)
I saw what he said, I just didn't see where he backed it up with anything other than his opinion. Everyone has one.
Look I don't care about political correctness. Rick Sanchez has called Rush Limbaugh a racist for saying a lot less and gone on and on and on about it.
You can defend that race baiting fucker all you want. I don't care to.
Posted by: robtr at August 30, 2010 02:01 PM (fwSHf)
Great gooogely mooogely people. stop being so cotton pickin serious... have fun with it fercryinoutloud. He said it,, we should give him a raster of shit about it, It's funny... laugh love and drink hearty for tomorrow we might die.
I despair for some of you..
just kiddin, i could give a shit.
Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at August 30, 2010 02:01 PM (11Q7a)
Posted by: Helen Thomas at August 30, 2010 02:01 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: curious at August 30, 2010 02:01 PM (p302b)
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2010 02:01 PM (oVQFe)
Look I don't care about political correctness. Rick Sanchez has called Rush Limbaugh a racist for saying a lot less and gone on and on and on about it.
And the NFL blacklisted him for less than this.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2010 02:02 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 02:03 PM (01RS2)
206 Obama is more of a daisy picking President or a nose picking President.
Butt-picking president.
Posted by: Barry O at August 30, 2010 02:03 PM (zgZzy)
right - nobody's done that yet, but - inevitably - someone will.
ace has posted at least five essay-length versions of his "Guys ... c'mon guys" exhortation over the past three years on threads such as these.
Everything goes along swimmingly, and them some douchebag starts posting actual racist stuff and at least one other douchebag tries to out-douche the first douchebag.
Hilarity ensues.
.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 30, 2010 02:03 PM (Hj0nA)
Jimmeh cracked corn, and I don't care
Jimmeh cracked corn, and I don't care
Posted by: Rick Sanchez Gettin' All Folksy at August 30, 2010 02:03 PM (mHQ7T)
"Going off on what appears to be a racist rant,"
Dr. LauraÂ’s rant made it to primetime that night thanks to CNNÂ’s Rick Sanchez, who led his 8PM program with the story
Posted by: ingenus at August 30, 2010 02:05 PM (+sBB4)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2010 02:05 PM (HjPtV)
I just thing that all things racial all the time is cotton-picking tiresome.
No argument here. It'll be this way until he gets out of office, though.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2010 02:06 PM (zgZzy)
What an online open dictionary of modern slang. That's your source jerk? Lets try and actually be serious about language, actually look at historical record, and not use some BS random entry in an open dictionary to define the origins of a term that has been in the language for close to 100 years.
Etymology Dictionary entry.
Cotton-Picking
as a deprecatory term first recorded in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but a similar noun meaning "contemptible person" dates to around 1919, perhaps with racist overtones that have faded over the years. Before mechanization, cotton picking was the most difficult labor on a cotton plantation. I drove out to a number of the farms near Denison and found many very young white children working all day in the hot sun picking and dragging sacks of cotton. In one field the labor corps consisted of one woman and six children, one of them 5 years, one 6 years, one 7 years, one 9 years, and two about 11. The father was plowing. The 5 and 6 year olds worked all day as did the rest. The 7-year-old said he picked 50 pounds a day and the 9 year old 75 pounds. (A good picker averages several hundred a day.) School begins late on account of the cotton picking, but the children nearly all prefer school to the picking. Picking hours are long, hot, and deadly monotonous. While the very young children seem to enjoy it, very soon their distaste for it grows into all-absorbing hatred for all work. ["Field Notes of Lewis W. Hine, Child-Labor Conditions in Texas," report to U.S. Congressional Commission on Industrial Relations, 1916]
So no definite yes it was racist back then, maybe it was; it's not used that way anymore, and I doubt that is how Merrie Melodies and Looney Toons intended it.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 02:06 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 02:06 PM (01RS2)
I don't see how it's racist unless it's said by a conservative.
Posted by: National Association for the Advancement of Cotton Pickers (NAACP) at August 30, 2010 02:06 PM (qaOKJ)
Kinda like that valve they call a ball cock, I mean who the fuck thought of that one. lol
Posted by: Berserker at August 30, 2010 02:07 PM (gWHrG)
ace has posted at least five essay-length versions of his "Guys ... c'mon guys" exhortation over the past three years on threads such as these.
When discussing MSM douchebaggery, many times we have to repeat that douchebaggery. Besides, if Ace is so paranoid about it, why did he post this story to begin with?
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2010 02:10 PM (vMfkE)
Posted by: ingenus at August 30, 2010 02:10 PM (+sBB4)
Well, here is my two cents: Depending on where you come from in this country will determine how common or familiar with that phrase you are.
I got a bunch of Ohio/Michigan farm types in my family. So yeah, I heard the phrase "wait just a cottin pickin' minute." Used it myself a few times too. Mostly just for the fun of using a regional venacular that gave me some good lines.
And the meaning was basically, "wait just a damn minute." As far as Ricks use, "he's the cottin picking president of the U.S.", same general meaning. He's the damn president of the U.S.
No real racial intent behind it.
HAVING SAID THAT....
I know that if anyone on our side innocently used that phrase, the intent wouldn't matter a damn. The left would just use that as a bad faith cudgel to beat that person to death.
Fuckers.
So. Even though I don't think Rick Sanchez really had any sort of racial intent, as far as I'm concerned, he can go to hell. Since he'd happily destroy anyone on our side who innnocently said this, I'm happy to see him destroyed.
As people have said: "Let them live up to their own damn rules."
Or to paraphrase Proximo:
So Morons, we shall go to CNN together and have bloody adventures. And the great whore will suckle us until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more. And then, when enough men like Sanchez have died, perhaps you will have your freedom from bad faith race baiting.
Posted by: ed at August 30, 2010 02:11 PM (Zsqn4)
No, you're stupid! (See how easy that is?)
And, yes, as a matter of fact, "cotton-picking" is a fairly common expression. My mom used it whenever she was annoyed, (in the "wait a cotton-picking minute" variety).
And 99.9% of blacks didn't pick cotton. Cotton isn't the only agricultural product in the south. Tobacco also springs to mind. Geez, "Gone with the Wind" wasn't actually a documentary.
Posted by: Ella at August 30, 2010 02:13 PM (DmnMk)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 06:06 PM (0q2P7)
Yeah Jerk, that's my source. If you aren't happy with it I have a question for you.
Fuck you.
My other source is the fact the the Douchebag apologized for it after being called out by his views and the Huffington Post.
You can go back to licking Sanchez's balls now.
Posted by: robtr at August 30, 2010 02:13 PM (fwSHf)
Posted by: ErikW at August 30, 2010 02:13 PM (jXyj0)
I did. What's wrong with it?
Posted by: V.J. Jay at August 30, 2010 02:13 PM (fco8b)
Engineers are lazy with names.
Wow new valve!
It's like a cock valve but uses a floating ball actuator.
Hmmmmm what do I call it.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 02:13 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Aaron Nevil's creepy mole at August 30, 2010 02:14 PM (pLTLS)
link (click on the listen live link next to the michael savage show banner)
Posted by: curious at August 30, 2010 02:15 PM (p302b)
A Mississippi school has canceled "Cotton Picking Day" - a themed day for Black History Month where kids were invited to come dressed as slaves - after some parents were shocked to find the event on their children's Black History Month calendar.
One parent, Ray Coleman, said that it wasn't appropriate and called the planned day a "mistake" and was glad that Cotton Picking Day was canceled, saying "I believe it's something that should be taught in history, but it shouldn't be relived."
Superintendent Annie Wimbish met with Coleman over his concerns and consulted with the Black History Committee before calling off the theme. Wimbish said the committee had no negative intentions with the day and has since replaced it with Career Day.
How about Cotton Pickin' Presidents Day sometime between February 15 - 21?
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 30, 2010 02:15 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: gator at August 30, 2010 02:16 PM (aOKEC)
Posted by: not neo just conservative at August 30, 2010 02:16 PM (01RS2)
Yeah Jerk, that's my source. If you aren't happy with it I have a question for you.
Fuck you.
My other source is the fact the the Douchebag apologized for it after being called out by his views and the Huffington Post.
So your version of truth comes from an online open dictionary, and moonbats at Huffpo? Your right, this scholarly proof is locked up to the point it is assumed fact. Open online entry without cite and lefty blogs, the science is settled.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 02:18 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Ritz CRACKERS at August 30, 2010 02:18 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: ingenus
I don't see what she had to apologize for. Bill Maher says worse, and the audience cheers his "edginess."
Posted by: Dianna at August 30, 2010 02:18 PM (qrFCz)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 30, 2010 02:18 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Dr Spank at August 30, 2010 02:19 PM (xtAfO)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 30, 2010 02:20 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 30, 2010 02:20 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Damiano at August 30, 2010 02:21 PM (PA722)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 30, 2010 02:21 PM (mHQ7T)
And 99.9% of blacks didn't pick cotton. Cotton isn't the only agricultural product in the south. Tobacco also springs to mind. Geez, "Gone with the Wind" wasn't actually a documentary.
Posted by: Ella at August 30, 2010 06:13 PM (DmnMk)
Yeah, you're right. America's perception of slavery just now changed with the larnin' you gave me.
Cotton-picking is now an accepted form of lovey-doveyness.
Posted by: ErikW at August 30, 2010 02:21 PM (jXyj0)
Posted by: mr magoo at August 30, 2010 02:22 PM (uFokq)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 30, 2010 02:23 PM (eNxMU)
Aw. Gator loves his Maxwell Geico pig.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 30, 2010 02:23 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: The Jackhole Preservation Society at August 30, 2010 02:23 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Rick "the dick" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 02:23 PM (vMfkE)
Posted by: Maxwell the Geico Pig at August 30, 2010 02:24 PM (aOKEC)
Hell I remember hearing that phrase in the Bugs Bunny cartoons all the time.Boy is this generation sensitive.
Posted by: ziptie at August 30, 2010 02:26 PM (lLS3Y)
Posted by: Damiano at August 30, 2010 02:26 PM (PA722)
Posted by: Rick "Clear The Room" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 02:26 PM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Rick "Filthy" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 02:26 PM (9cflz)
But, you know, thanks.
Posted by: Ella at August 30, 2010 02:26 PM (DmnMk)
Posted by: New Hampshire Mud Jackers Union at August 30, 2010 02:26 PM (Cjcud)
I live in Dixie and have done so all of my life (except that brief Air Force gig in CA). Mechanical harvests now but often after the first two cuts manual picking still occurs. Machines cannot get all of the lint. If a person has a work ethic and is willing to endure the field conditions, they can make a little jack off of the cut fields. Hard work, low pay, but pay nonetheless.
Did he have a covert racist message? Probably not. But I just LOVE the predicament he is in and I hope it sinks his so called career.
Posted by: NuclearJim at August 30, 2010 02:27 PM (9M9xc)
Posted by: Maxwell the Geico Pig at August 30, 2010 06:24 PM (aOKEC)
Can we combine that commercial with the R. Lee Ermey one and have him shoot the pig with a sniper rifle and say "Alright, who wants some bacon"
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2010 02:27 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: gator at August 30, 2010 02:27 PM (aOKEC)
You're late on that one. This already happened a few years ago in Dallas, thanks to some nutcase city council member.
Really. I am not kidding. I am, however, too lazy to google for links
Posted by: Damiano at August 30, 2010 06:26 PM (PA722)
Don't forget NAACP vs Hallmark.
Posted by: Blackford Oakes at August 30, 2010 02:28 PM (w9BEi)
Do they grow cotton in Indonesia? I would think that pickin cotton would be a good skill for a communist radical? Really, when you make using carbon fuels too expensive for the mechanized pickers, someone is going to have to pick it by hand again. Who is going to pick the cotton for foot pedaled looms? It's all about being green and taking the country back to the 17th century. It was a compliment.
P.S. My father, at age 7, picked cotton all day in the rural south during the depression to get money to eat.
Posted by: dagny at August 30, 2010 02:30 PM (18UKv)
But, you know, thanks.
Posted by: Ella at August 30, 2010 06:26 PM (DmnMk)
My family is largely Appalachian so go piss up a rope. I have no time for whining.
Posted by: ErikW at August 30, 2010 02:31 PM (jXyj0)
Answer: The ownership of a few words and phrases and license to get righteously indignant at whites if they use them.
Question: In exchange for their political loyalty what have the Democrats given the blacks instead of jobs, an education, and a way out of the cities?
Think about it. The Democrats promise the blacks everything but all they have given them is more misery and shit and most useless of all...the benefits of political correctness.
Posted by: mr magoo at August 30, 2010 02:31 PM (uFokq)
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2010 02:33 PM (vMfkE)
Posted by: dagny at August 30, 2010 02:33 PM (18UKv)
My father, at age 7, picked cotton all day in the rural south during the depression to get money to eat.
Yep, my folks picked it when they were kids. Made my ass pick it a few times. That shit will jack the hands up.
I used to pick cotton candy when I went to the all-day skate-a-thons, too.
Posted by: gator at August 30, 2010 02:33 PM (aOKEC)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 02:34 PM (0q2P7)
Mr Magoo - you didn't read about the big fight last year at a Dallas City Council meeting because a black councilman, John Wiley Price, got mad when one of the other councilmen talked about a "black hole of spending".
He demanded to know "why ain't nobody never complainin' bout dem WHITE holes? Huh? Why Not?"
I'm serious, you can look it up!
He's a big pal of Eddie Bernice Johnson's, btw, the Congresswoman who got caught stealing the scholarship money today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2010 02:34 PM (T1boi)
I love being the talk police!!!
If somebody had said that about George Bush's second Secretary of State, we woulda been all over them...like white on rice. Really.
Posted by: ukuleledave at August 30, 2010 02:34 PM (netQx)
Posted by: Damiano at August 30, 2010 02:35 PM (PA722)
Posted by: toby928 at August 30, 2010 05:47 PM (S5YRY)
1. some opened them from the bottom so they won't fall out when
a. running
b. bending down to pick something up
2. some opened them from the bottom so that it looked like an unopened pack. (people are less likely to ask to 'bum' a cigarette if it's not an open pack) (no, I don't know why)
3. to protect the filter from scuzz in your pocket (I've knownsome black folks that were more sensitive to what they put in their mouth and didn't want to risk a cigarette falling on the floor)
Was Rick picking his feet in Poughkeepsie?
Posted by: jakee308 at August 30, 2010 02:36 PM (WZeLK)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 30, 2010 02:37 PM (Id8Tt)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:37 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:37 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: dogfish at August 30, 2010 02:38 PM (fco8b)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:38 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Ron Burgandy at August 30, 2010 02:38 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:38 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:38 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:39 PM (QoR4a)
He's a big pal of Eddie Bernice Johnson's, btw, the Congresswoman who got caught stealing the scholarship money today.
I didn't steal it. I inadvertantly overstepped some interpretations of the law to help poor minorities who needed the help.
Shit, I can't back that up. I stole it for my family and friends. Almost made myself laugh.
Posted by: Representative Johnson at August 30, 2010 02:39 PM (aOKEC)
Posted by: Helen at KVWN-TV Channel 4 Evening News at August 30, 2010 02:39 PM (swuwV)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:40 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Rick "Filthy" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 02:40 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Damiano at August 30, 2010 02:40 PM (PA722)
Because if anyone will go the extra kilometer and bend over double to accommodate these teabaggers, it's my colleague Mr Sanchez.
Posted by: Anderson Rimslobber 360, NancyNews Cablevision's premier anchor at August 30, 2010 02:41 PM (YMIiL)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:41 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Charles Johnsen at August 30, 2010 02:41 PM (YVZlY)
Heh. I remember that one.
He's not familiar with stellar phenomenon huh.
Let me answer that.
1. White holes are. Theoretical only, never observed.
2. If one was in your bank account spewing money everywhere non-stop in all currencies and denominations. Complaining is not what you'd be doing.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 02:41 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:42 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:42 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 30, 2010 02:42 PM (3phFo)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:42 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Rosie "The White Hole"O'Donnell at August 30, 2010 02:43 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Rick "Love Burrito" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 02:43 PM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:43 PM (QoR4a)
I'm tired of the same old black vs. white stuff.
I'd like to get into a discussion of brown holes, racists.
Posted by: Latino Barney Frank at August 30, 2010 02:44 PM (aOKEC)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:44 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:44 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at August 30, 2010 02:45 PM (wd0Iq)
Now wait just a riding a bike and looking like a fucking retard in your bike helmet minute!
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:45 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 30, 2010 06:42 PM (3phFo)
Question: Do you you know how you can tell if Rick is drunk?
Answer: He's driving!
Posted by: Dwight Schrute at August 30, 2010 02:46 PM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Rajiv Vindaloo at August 30, 2010 02:46 PM (BZ2Bm)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:46 PM (QoR4a)
Holy Shit, I just read upthread, is there really someone out there that hasn't heard that innocent phrase? It's not racist to anyone that's not trying to make it racist. PLENTY of white people picked cotton and many picked right along side blacks. Again, old movies and school text books shouldn't be your only source of information.
My dad always joked that he met my mother at the end of the cotton row. (Apparently that's where people shook down their bags, stretched and chatted). She never picked any but babysat while her mother worked in the fields during the depression. It wasn't but the very very poorest that would let their daughters into the fields. In fact, many white "cousins" would come from the "hills" during picking season and live in tents or in the barns to help bring in the harvest and make some cash.
Are there people out there who think that blacks did all the labor in the south and white people sat on their verandas sipping mint juleps and planning abuse? I suppose from what is taught in schools to the intellectually bankrupt, that they do indeed exist.
Posted by: dagny at August 30, 2010 02:46 PM (18UKv)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:46 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2010 02:46 PM (vMfkE)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:47 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Kanye at August 30, 2010 02:47 PM (w9BEi)
Posted by: Slow Joe at August 30, 2010 02:48 PM (Id8Tt)
Posted by: TheresaD at August 30, 2010 02:48 PM (K9XK2)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:48 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:48 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 30, 2010 02:49 PM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:49 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:49 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Judge Sotomayor at August 30, 2010 02:49 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:50 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:51 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Rajiv Vindaloo at August 30, 2010 06:46 PM (BZ2Bm)
Anything by Billy Joel would work too I think.
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2010 02:51 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:52 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at August 30, 2010 02:54 PM (9cflz)
I got a bunch of Ohio/Michigan farm types in my family. So yeah, I heard the phrase "wait just a cottin pickin' minute." Used it myself a few times too. Mostly just for the fun of using a regional venacular that gave me some good lines.
And the meaning was basically, "wait just a damn minute." As far as Ricks use, "he's the cottin picking president of the U.S.", same general meaning. He's the damn president of the U.S.
No real racial intent behind it.
HAVING SAID THAT....
I know that if anyone on our side innocently used that phrase, the intent wouldn't matter a damn. The left would just use that as a bad faith cudgel to beat that person to death.
Fuckers.
My thoughts and experience exactly. I'm from the Midwest and heard that term all my life; never thought there was racial intent behind it until I saw this thread.
I guess I was really sheltered, because I also never even heard of the term "porchmonkeys" until I saw Clerks 2, and "deigo" had to be explained to me when I was a sophomore in high school.
I think this is the case with some GenXers (I was born in '77)-- and I think that's fantastic, that in some social pockets, racial slurs are so far out of fashion that they aren't even heard anymore.
(Minor, isolated) case in point: I sang in a choir while in college-- about 35 women or so. The voice music majors, as a senior project, had to choose a choral piece and conduct us. One girl found an early American song she liked, "Shortnin' Bread". She told us to change "Mammy" to "Mama," which we did without question. So she distributed the sheet music, and 35 women from all over the country began nonchalantly harmonizing the word "pickaninny" until the director stopped everything and gently explained that this was, um, not the most sensitive of words. The voice major was mortified and apologized about a zillion times. It really was news to the rest of us, too.
Posted by: Filly at August 30, 2010 02:55 PM (/JOeE)
Or a unique brand of grassroots political analysis.
CNN makes HeeHaw look like a credible news service.
Posted by: ontherocks at August 30, 2010 02:56 PM (HBqDo)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 02:57 PM (QoR4a)
Holy Shit, I just read upthread, is there really someone out there that hasn't heard that innocent phrase? It's not racist to anyone that's not trying to make it racist. PLENTY of white people picked cotton and many picked right along side blacks. Again, old movies and school text books shouldn't be your only source of information.
I think most people realize its not really a racist term, you know kind of like 99% of the criticisms about the president are not racist. That sure hasn't stopped the shitbags like Sanchez from declaring them to be racist. So if they've declared it a weapon, why not use it against them. If they say they get to set the rules then they have to play by them too.
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2010 02:57 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Randal, a wranglin' at August 30, 2010 02:57 PM (d/dE7)
Posted by: Mad Dog Joe Biden at August 30, 2010 02:57 PM (vMfkE)
His mind was aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 30, 2010 02:58 PM (QMtmy)
Posted by: dagny at August 30, 2010 02:58 PM (18UKv)
Posted by: curious at August 30, 2010 03:01 PM (p302b)
I think most people realize its not really a racist term, you know kind of like 99% of the criticisms about the president are not racist. That sure hasn't stopped the shitbags like Sanchez from declaring them to be racist. So if they've declared it a weapon, why not use it against them. If they say they get to set the rules then they have to play by them too.
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2010 06:57 PM (oVQFe)
This is where the phrase hoisted on his own petard comes in.
Posted by: Randy at August 30, 2010 03:03 PM (zQKSr)
Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, left, and Hezem al Murisi
Saw some comedian the other night that said (paraphrase), "I have a clue for Homeland Security. If the name stretches from one side of the passport to the other, you might just have a jihadi on your hands."
Posted by: Public Service Message at August 30, 2010 06:58 PM (IhHdM)
Truer than fiction.
Posted by: NM Hick at August 30, 2010 03:04 PM (Avspz)
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2010 03:04 PM (vMfkE)
~ EricW
Well, I'm glad you have time for stupid. There's always time for stupid.
Posted by: Ella at August 30, 2010 03:04 PM (DmnMk)
Posted by: curious at August 30, 2010 03:06 PM (p302b)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at August 30, 2010 03:07 PM (9cflz)
But if his name stretches from one side to the other of the passport, and the guy's got box cutters and a cellphone taped to a Pepto Bismol bottle and $7000 in cash -- gee, whaddayu thing?
Posted by: NM Hick at August 30, 2010 03:07 PM (Avspz)
Quit lookin' at my woman with your dick in your hand!
Posted by: Uncle Ben Catches Chris Rock Masturbating To Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix at August 30, 2010 03:08 PM (mHQ7T)
There's more to that comparison.
Eli Whitney and his business partner Phineas Miller had decided to get into the ginning business themselves. They manufactured as many cotton gins as possible and installed them throughout Georgia and the southern states. They charged farmers an unusual fee for doing the ginning for them, two-fifths of the profits paid in cotton itself...
Posted by: maverick muse at August 30, 2010 03:08 PM (H+LJc)
4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 30, 2010 03:08 PM (0q2P7)
"Paul, a longtime critic of the Federal Reserve and U.S. monetary policy, said he believes it's 'a possibility' that there might not actually be any gold in the vaults of Fort Knox or the New York Federal Reserve bank."
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at August 30, 2010 03:08 PM (q+cc6)
Posted by: NM Hick at August 30, 2010 03:09 PM (Avspz)
Posted by: CAC at August 30, 2010 03:09 PM (Gr1V1)
Posted by: Miss Iowa at August 30, 2010 03:10 PM (J3jFV)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:10 PM (QoR4a)
Now wait just a getting some shrimp here, guys minute!
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:11 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:11 PM (QoR4a)
That's as good as money, sir! Those are IOUs!!
Posted by: Lloyd Christmas at August 30, 2010 03:11 PM (q+cc6)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:11 PM (QoR4a)
You know they tried to do a sitcom about that. It would have been really funny if they'd decided to make fun of PC, but they were just aimless.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 30, 2010 03:12 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Ella at August 30, 2010 03:12 PM (DmnMk)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:12 PM (QoR4a)
Aw! You're a good mom, Dagny. That means he learned to not-notice from you.
Posted by: Filly at August 30, 2010 03:13 PM (/JOeE)
Posted by: Miss Iowa at August 30, 2010 03:13 PM (J3jFV)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Posted by: maverick muse at August 30, 2010 03:13 PM (H+LJc)
Back in WV, we called Hee Haw "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous."
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 30, 2010 03:13 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at August 30, 2010 07:07 PM
I am sure there is an innocent explanation for it.....
(muffled laughter)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 30, 2010 03:14 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:14 PM (QoR4a)
O/T
Those were not real Canadian Geese at the Glenn Beck rally, but were robot controlled little birds navigating the reflecting pool with the aid of republican radar and voodoo.
-Rich Sanchez, CNN
Posted by: Fish at August 30, 2010 03:14 PM (v1gw3)
Posted by: Ron Paul at August 30, 2010 03:14 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:15 PM (QoR4a)
But if his name stretches from one side to the other of the passport, and the guy's got box cutters and a cellphone taped to a Pepto Bismol bottle and $7000 in cash -- gee, whaddayu think
Why the $7000? Were they planning on deplaning in Amsterdam? If they were, why were they carrying boxcutters and knives? This makes no sense.
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2010 03:15 PM (vMfkE)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:15 PM (QoR4a)
Yes, when my Hindu girlfriend asked me to return a pin she had given me, I called her an "Indian giver." I felt bad because I'm sensitive like that. But it was okay because that's a slur on the red man not the South Asian--you know, feather, not dot.
Posted by: Drinky Crow at August 30, 2010 03:15 PM (mAm+G)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:15 PM (QoR4a)
And you know, I'm just realizing that we haven't seen Monty in quite a while either.
Hmmmm.
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at August 30, 2010 03:16 PM (q+cc6)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:16 PM (QoR4a)
397 The Joos stole all the gold in Fort Knox and took it to the Joo Cave.
Did someone say Joo gold?
Posted by: Eric Cartman at August 30, 2010 03:17 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:17 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Warden at August 30, 2010 03:17 PM (QoR4a)
George H.W. had it beamed aboard his SR-71 when he went to visit the Illuminati, given to them as tribute money.
Posted by: Jefafa Rance at August 30, 2010 03:18 PM (YMIiL)
But it was okay because that's a slur on the red man not the South Asian--you know, feather, not dot.
Posted by: Drinky Crow at August 30, 2010 07:15 PM (mAm+G)
Have you ever peeled back and looked under the dot? Most have a lottery quick drawn for a 7-11 prize.
Posted by: Fish at August 30, 2010 03:18 PM (v1gw3)
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 30, 2010 03:19 PM (Gr1V1)
Why the $7000? Were they planning on deplaning in Amsterdam? If they were, why were they carrying boxcutters and knives? This makes no sense.
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2010 07:15 PM (vMfkE)
Yeah, I'm not sure what to make of the $7,000 in cash, except maybe he didn't want to be using a credit card. The rest of it sure smells a lot like a test run.
Posted by: NM Hick at August 30, 2010 03:19 PM (Avspz)
Posted by: Richard "Dick" Sanchez at August 30, 2010 03:19 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 30, 2010 03:20 PM (yQWNf)
Yes, when my Hindu girlfriend asked me to return a pin she had given me, I called her an "Indian giver." I felt bad because I'm sensitive like that. But it was okay because that's a slur on the red man not the South Asian--you know, feather, not dot.
So she was a Slurpee Indian?
Posted by: Dick Sanchez at August 30, 2010 03:21 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Eric Holder at August 30, 2010 03:21 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Dirty Rick Sanchez at August 30, 2010 03:22 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Donny Douche at August 30, 2010 03:23 PM (mHQ7T)
"Taco! Burrito! Chevy low-rider car!!!
Sanchez is not as dumb as you think he is!!"
he wrote that for them...
Posted by: Satan's short order chef, Hell's Karry-out Kitchen at August 30, 2010 03:25 PM (X67eL)
Posted by: Josey Wales at August 30, 2010 05:41 PM (h0RtZ)
Dyin' aint much of a living, boy
Posted by: Ombudsman at August 30, 2010 03:27 PM (c1oyg)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 30, 2010 03:27 PM (mHQ7T)
I won't kiss and tell . . . unless you first blow me. Oh, did I give that away?
Posted by: Drinky Crow at August 30, 2010 03:27 PM (mAm+G)
I won't kiss and tell . . . unless you first blow me. Oh, did I give that away?
So she definitely wasn't Jewish.
Posted by: Frustrated Jewish Man at August 30, 2010 03:29 PM (zgZzy)
So who are the Washington Racist Nicknames playing this week?
And why hasn't Lord High Cotton Pickin' President Obama done anything about that? He's got his nose in everything else.
Posted by: Meremortal at August 30, 2010 03:30 PM (7FgWm)
Yeah, it's probably unfair in this case, but fuck 'em it's small potatoes compared to the rapine Sanchez's idols are executing.
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2010 03:30 PM (BP6Z1)
I won't kiss and tell . . . unless you first blow me. Oh, did I give that away?
So she definitely wasn't Jewish.
Posted by: Frustrated Jewish Man at August 30, 2010 07:29 PM
I see what you did there...... well played.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 30, 2010 03:30 PM (yQWNf)
So she definitely wasn't Jewish.
Posted by: Frustrated Jewish Man at August 30, 2010 07:29 PM (zgZzy)
I always thought that was a stereotype
Posted by: Ombudsman at August 30, 2010 03:30 PM (c1oyg)
Posted by: Drinky Crow at August 30, 2010 03:31 PM (mAm+G)
Posted by: Rick Sanchez at August 30, 2010 03:31 PM (q+cc6)
434 Wyatt, were you the hipster douchbag earlier this year? If so, you, sir, were amazing.
Meh, I've never been hip.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2010 03:33 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: The Hipster Douchebag from Earlier This Year at August 30, 2010 03:34 PM (q+cc6)
And why hasn't Lord High Cotton Pickin' President Obama done anything about that? He's got his nose in everything else.
They probably haven't heard that expression either. But Obama is in some high cotton and M'chelle could hunt bear with a switch.
Posted by: dagny at August 30, 2010 03:35 PM (18UKv)
Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 30, 2010 03:36 PM (Oj/ob)
I think most people realize its not really a racist term, you know kind of like 99% of the criticisms about the president are not racist. That sure hasn't stopped the shitbags like Sanchez from declaring them to be racist. So if they've declared it a weapon, why not use it against them. If they say they get to set the rules then they have to play by them too.
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2010 06:57 PM (oVQFe)
I know I'm late, but that right there says it, buzz -- word!
Posted by: NM Hick at August 30, 2010 03:36 PM (Avspz)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 30, 2010 03:37 PM (L8kaT)
Meh, I've never been hip.
I think you're being too modest. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It was after some town meeting or some such bullshit. And there was some hipster douchebag on TV. And then "he" started commenting here and I was, like, in awe.
Am I making any sense? Sometimes I ramble after I have a few vodka gimlets.
Posted by: Drinky Crow at August 30, 2010 03:37 PM (mAm+G)
They probably haven't heard that expression either. But Obama is in some high cotton and M'chelle could hunt bear with a switch.
Posted by: dagny at August 30, 2010 07:35 PM
With her WHAT?
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 30, 2010 03:38 PM (yQWNf)
I think you're being too modest. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It was after some town meeting or some such bullshit. And there was some hipster douchebag on TV. And then "he" started commenting here and I was, like, in awe.
Am I making any sense? Sometimes I ramble after I have a few vodka gimlets.
I remember that, but it wasn't me.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2010 03:39 PM (zgZzy)
The Teleprompter has been drinking
My necktie's asleep
The corporate jet went back to New York, and left me all alone
The pressbox has to take a leak
Have you noticed that the carpet needs a haircut?
And the spotlight looks just like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes
As usual Helen Thomas on the make
And the Teleprompter has been drinking, heavily
The Teleprompter has been drinking
And he's on the hard stuff tonight
The Teleprompter has been drinking
And you can't find your morals
Even with the Geiger counter
The Teleprompter has been drinking
And the lightman's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the soundstage jerk's got a hearing aid
And he showed up with his mother
The Teleprompter has been drinking
My co-host is this Sumo wrestler
Kinda cream puff Casper milk toast
And the owner is just a mental midget
With the I.Q. of a fencepost
And The Teleprompter has been drinking
The Teleprompter has been drinking
And the bar stools are all on fire
And all the newspapers were just fooling
And the ash-trays have retired
And I've got a feeling that the Teleprompter has been drinking
It's just a hunch
The Teleprompter has been drinking and he's going to lose his lunch
And the Teleprompter has been drinking
Not me, not me, The Teleprompter has been drinking not me...
(apologies to Tom Waits)
Posted by: Satan's short order chef, Hell's Karry-out Kitchen at August 30, 2010 03:49 PM (X67eL)
(Minor, isolated) case in point: I sang in a choir while in college-- about 35 women or so. The voice music majors, as a senior project, had to choose a choral piece and conduct us. One girl found an early American song she liked, "Shortnin' Bread".
Posted by: Filly at August 30, 2010 06:55 PM (/JOeE)
Heh! I remember that song from when I was a kid. You can hear a pretty cool version of it here. Skip ahead to 3:15.
Posted by: ed at August 30, 2010 03:49 PM (Zsqn4)
Enjoy the pain, Sanchez... you sanctimonious prick. Let us all revel in the wisdom of Alinsky and the rules your industry has trafficked.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 30, 2010 03:50 PM (swuwV)
Posted by: Imam Rauf at August 30, 2010 04:05 PM (vBppj)
Posted by: Biggie Snails at August 30, 2010 04:11 PM (crDIp)
Will he be called on to resign? Or is that reserved for conservatives?
The rules are clear on this: not a conservative, not a foul.
Posted by: sherlock at August 30, 2010 04:17 PM (thr9V)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 30, 2010 04:22 PM (tJjm/)
Well, I guess I owe Dr. Laura an apology.
Posted by: Rick Sanchez at August 30, 2010 04:30 PM (LutGd)
Posted by: Bomber at August 30, 2010 04:41 PM (d88g9)
@170: "this word is used because in the Age of Our Founding Fathers, when blacks were slaves, they were known to mostly pick cotton."
Mostly? Not historically, no. Cotton was a small-time crop until relatively shortly before the Civil War. Most slaves in the New World worked sugar cane (Caribbean) and tobacco (US) crops.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at August 30, 2010 04:49 PM (xy9wk)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 30, 2010 04:53 PM (tJjm/)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 30, 2010 04:55 PM (tJjm/)
Perhaps there may be a typo in the text as displayed.
Do you mean to refer to l'il ricky "fled from the scene of hit and run murder, yet was never even charged" sanchez?
I would question anything that anybody says came out of his mouth. Birds of a feather and all that, you know.
Posted by: Blacksmith8 at August 30, 2010 05:09 PM (1mkE2)
probably already been said but I can't resist.
Sanchez should just relax, have a few drinks and take a drive...
oh yeah, he already did that.
Posted by: Liberal Media at August 30, 2010 05:20 PM (yCH89)
Posted by: JR at August 30, 2010 07:02 PM (ZH8bj)
Posted by: PaulDueck at August 30, 2010 08:30 PM (PlSKj)
Posted by: letitbe at August 31, 2010 01:27 AM (86PrP)
I agree with most posts. It's their rules, let Sanchez stew in it.
#330. dagny, thanks for that post. You are so right. Sometimes I think certain people get their ideas about the South because they saw a few episodes of "Roots". Of course "Roots" was fiction but they saw it on T.V. so it must be true. My Lord they need to get some smart about them.
Google has no idea there were white sharecroppers. Idiots.
ErikW. You are a jerk.
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