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Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 9:17am.
1. Recently, Rush Limbaugh repeatedly used the word "spade" with special emphasis when speaking of political activity on the part of Barack Obama - "he needs to SPADE more information on the Clintons" 2. John McCain, several years back, made a comment about Chelsey Clinton, asking the rhetorical question "why is Chelsey Clinton so ugly?" His answer - Her mother is Janet Reno. This was reported in the Arizona Republic |
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This is the closest to the Rush quote I can find.
Submitted by Tschida on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 9:35am."I wonder how well Mrs. Clinton would hold up if the shoe was on the other foot. That is, if she had to run against an ex-president and a senator. I think she'd cry and complain about the unfairness. For all of her BS about being a victim and piling on, Obama is holding his own against both of them, doing more than his share of the "spadework," maybe even gaining ground at the moment, using not only the spade, ladies and gentlemen. But when he finishes with the spade in the garden of corruption planted by the Clintons, he turns to the hoe. So the spadework and his expertise, using a hoe. He's faring well."
This is from a transcript of the Rush Limbaugh program, read the entire transcript here.
Larry, if you have a different source will you share it?
C.
One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.
Thomas Sowell
I LISTENED to the tape
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 9:46am.transcripts can be altered, as we all know. He said SPADE at least 10 times in a paragraph
Can you please put the emphasis on the word SPADE, the way that Limbaugh did instead of trying to sterilize it?
FYI - the "quote" I used was not verbatim, but for the point of emphasis.
Huh?
Submitted by Ehver Green on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 9:59am.Why are you asking someone to format in a particular way to be identical to your thoughts? This is crazy!
That's pretty funny after asking Tsch... to modify his actual quote.
Come on, EG....
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:00am.Are we going to play ignorant on this subject?????
Read my original post about voice inflection. Tschida responds with some sterilized version for print?
I thought we all agreed to intellectual honest in our social contract.
Who, me, ignorant?
Submitted by Ehver Green on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:36am.Read about voice inflection? OK, I
hearread ya, but can't possibly take it seriously when you specify the word spade and in a couple of places the word was actually spadework. A commonly used term in politics (and other professions) to describe preliminary or initial data gathering.Just paste the entire quote next time.
EG
Submitted by Guglielmo on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:43am.I never said anything about
Submitted by Ehver Green on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:52am.Wasn't it you Larry who suggested the transcript was altered,
Submitted by Tschida on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:39am.One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.
Thomas Sowell
You can listen if you like...
Submitted by Tschida on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:19am.One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.
Thomas Sowell
"why is Chelsey Clinton so ugly?" cuz, her mother is Janet Reno
Submitted by JT on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 9:40am.that's funny stuff! But we all know it's untrue. Heck, I think it's likely that Janet Reno is the only gal Bill "didn't have sexual relations with......"
“America passes the critical gate test. Open the gate and see where people go – in or out. This is still the country people flock to.” George Will
Would you post a photograph of yourself, please, JT?
Submitted by rainy gray on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 9:30am.Just listen to the damn tape
Submitted by Guglielmo on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:09am.what are you blind???
Submitted by a.future.with.n... on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:10am.black as a spade! it's a freaking racial slur! That junkie asshole was using a RACIAL SLUR. A hateful racial SLUR. My grand father sits around every christmas shouting about the "niggers and spades" and more recently the "towel heads" an epithet i'm sure the likes of rush limbaugh has no problem with.
If you think you can come to olyblog and defend that type of behavior you've got another thing coming. you think it's funny do you JT? do you also enjoy jokes about rape? how about gas chambers? are these things funny to you? are they reconcilable? can you make an excuse for their use?
your tolerance of this kind of hatred insults the entire olyblog community.
A black person.[161] recorded since 1928 (OED), from the playing cards suit.
WOW!
Submitted by JT on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:27am."you think it's funny do you JT? do you also enjoy jokes about rape? how about gas chambers? are these things funny to you? are they reconcilable? can you make an excuse for their use?"
"your tolerance of this kind of hatred insults the entire olyblog community."
Me thinks someone needs to take a timeout before they hit the post button.
How do we go from the alleged McCain comment to rape and gas chambers? I don't see a link.
“America passes the critical gate test. Open the gate and see where people go – in or out. This is still the country people flock to.” George Will
you're right
Submitted by a.future.with.n... on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:34am.I didn't know a "spade" was a referrence like that
Submitted by Norm on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 5:29pm.Norm...
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 5:45pm.At the age of 56 - almost 57 (I expect a nice gift), I've heard that slur since I was a child.
We may be dealing with a cultural/geographical issue. I grew up in Tacoma, you grew up in a more rural setting.
My ex-wife spent time in Kansas where "jigaboo" was an accepted term, although totally a racial slur.
Jigaboo?
Submitted by Norm on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 5:48pm.Again, geo-cultural differences
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 11:13pm.You and I could probably write a book of the differences in colloquialisms: urban versus rural
I've definitely heard
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 2:04am.I've definitely heard "jigaboo."
JT,
Submitted by Tschida on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:34am.Clearly it was not a racial slur as suggested by Larry and "A future". So they make this bogus assertion, then accuse others of being hateful, accepting of hate and racism, and then make generalized statements like it insults all of Olyblog. Its a bunch of clap trap.
What is insulting to people at Olyblog is wontonly taking something out of context and then accusing someone of hate and so on. You are right that some people need to think a little harder before hitting the post button.
C.
One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.
Thomas Sowell
unless he's an idiot...
Submitted by enpen on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 2:26pm.Rush (or his writers) were doing some very intentional wordplay meant to provoke precisely this sort of vaguely defensible use of the language. Who knows, this may have been an indirect salvo at the Clintons for Bill's lingual play back in the Oval office.
Regardless, I'll steal one of your plays: this says a lot about the character of Rush and his fandom.
I haven't seen such tap dancing since
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 10:49am.Star Search
And I am quite certain that Rush's
Submitted by Guglielmo on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 5:33pm.I've come to realize...
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 11:17pm.While reading this thread and then hearing the tape of Ed Schultz and Bill O'Reilly's conversation on The Factor - where Bill tries to deny any serious problem with homeless veterans - that there may be an attempt to set the stage for ratings with these provocative statements.
Let's face it, Imus got lots of exposure for his "hoe" statement. Pandering to the element can create enough chaos to activate ratings.
Sigh...
Submitted by Tschida on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 8:59am.One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.
Thomas Sowell
It get's real old, Chris
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 9:23am.I hear recordings from the programs and you tell me what wasn't said that I heard.
O'Reilly CHALLENGED Schultz to produce a vet "living under a bridge". I heard it with my own ears.
By "the Breck Girl" I assume you are using a childish euphamism for John Edwards.
"O'Reilly in an interview with Ed Schultz expressed skepticism about Edwards' statement that 200,000 veterans go to sleep homeless each night."
Ok, I will accept your statement as truth.
Submitted by Tschida on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 9:39am.One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.
Thomas Sowell
Ok, I will accept your statement as truth.
Submitted by Tschida on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 9:45am.One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.
Thomas Sowell
No, Schultz has not produced a vet living under a bridge
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 10:13am.There are none. Bill O'Reilly said so.
Let's check the mailing address and phone numbers for bridge locations.
The truth of the matter, in typical O'Reilly fashion, is that when homeless vets were produced left and right by Schultz and listeners of his show, O'Reilly wanted proof that they LIVED UNDER BRIDGES, anything less would not qualify. No euphamisms for Bill - unless he can call someone The Breck Girl.
By the way, a falafal IS a loofah.
"His experience with hoes?"
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 9:42am.Yeah Gug...
Submitted by Tschida on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 9:48am.One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.
Thomas Sowell
Dude, you are suffering from a pretty nasty
Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 9:57am.All of us sometimes pull a
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 8:39am.The spin......LOL
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 10:15am.nt
OK.
Submitted by Rob Richards on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 10:19am.