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Lindesy Graham white men joke

You know you and other conservatives would be singing a different tune if Obama said the same thing but with black people. Christmas would come early for Fox News

Not like y'all do. Man, you guys have turned this crap into an art form! ;)
 
You know you and other conservatives would be singing a different tune if Obama said the same thing but with black people. Christmas would come early for Fox News

Er, no. Obama in fact, made a joke just yesterday or so about how "You can only vote once, this isn't Chicago." It was obviously self-depreciating, obviously playing off of the stereotype. Conservatives somehow managed (as near as I can tell) to fail to explode onto FOX with protestations about can you believe he said......
 
What he said wasn't self-deprecating humor.

:shrug: sure seems that way. Reminds me of one of Bush's jokes to a crowd "Now some [Democrats, at the time] [/i]will call you a room full of millionaires and billionaires. Some will call you a room full of fat cats. I would never do that. Heck, I call you my Base.[/i]"
 
Uh-huh, but, so? How did he follow up? Immediate apology? Immediate "no, I meant..."?

He corrected himself, and then, as I understand it, later called his opponent to apologize.

He may have meant to say whore, it just doesn't look that way on the video.
 
They can't. It's no wonder that the thinnest book in the world is 'Great Right Wing Comedians'. Of course, they are often unintentionally hilarious, which I guess counts for something.

Hm. Who would you say is the best among Democrats at self-depreciating humor? I can think of a few on the conservative side whom I've seen take up that schtick, but I admit, I watch Democrats less closely. However, I can't recall outside of a single individual any Democrat politicians that I've ever seen poke fun of themselves - and he was an explicitly "Centrist" Democrat.
 
LOL...As much as you would like this and Romney's 47% comments to be simply a joke......you can't be so naive as to believe that there isn't a strong element of truth to this type of "humor".

I don't think Romney was joking. I'll have to look it up, I think he was stating what he believed to be a fact.
 
The Libbos are so desperate to smear Conservatives, they'll latch onto anything.

Yeah, I latched right onto it didn't I?

Oops....
 
I don't think you do your own party lean any favors when you purposely distort something. It makes everyone who agrees with it, look kind of gagoots.
 
I don't think you do your own party lean any favors when you purposely distort something. It makes everyone who agrees with it, look kind of gagoots.

What is a "gagoot"?
 
Seriously, this is breaking news? How would my day have gone out with this gem of a Mickey Mouse story.
 
No I haven't and you damn well know it, nota bene!

No, I don't. The OP morphed a Lindsey Graham remark into "these clowns" plural, and then you overgeneralized about "these Libbos" plural.
 
No, I don't. The OP morphed a Lindsey Graham remark into "these clowns" plural, and then you overgeneralized about "these Libbos" plural.

It was one of those if the shoe fits, wear it comments. And, I didn't say, "these" libbos.
 
If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it.

Then why did you try and shoehorn that shoe onto me, and all the rest who it did not fit on?
 
It was one of those if the shoe fits, wear it comments. And, I didn't say, "these" libbos.

You routinely paint "libbos" in a broad sense, like everyone else on these forums.
 
You routinely paint "libbos" in a broad sense, like everyone else on these forums.

Like when you paint Conservatives with a broad brush?
 
I'm not offended....just pointing out that it was an incredible stupid thing to say...especially if you have any aspirations of running for higher office. I question the judgement of these people more than the content of the statement.

Of course we do not have the context in which the comment was made. We do not have the benefit of body language or voice inflections or any other clue as to whether this was just pure humor appropriate for the setting or something that was offensive. I am NOT a Lindsay Graham fan and have not been for a long time now, but I get angrier and angrier at these remarks taken out of context and then played over and over and over for days, weeks, months to achieve as much mileage aka personal destruction out of them as possible. I don't care whether it is Lindsay Graham or Billy Graham, Harry Reid or Mother Teresa, Nancy Pelosi or Ghandi. Everybody deserves to be represented honestly and fairly. They all say enough legitimate stuff that can be criticized honestly and fairly without having to take what was intended as an innocent sound bite and blowing it all out of proportion.
 
Guilty concience much?

You where the one who made the broad generalization, so don't even try and pass that off. "Libbos" did not latch onto anything here, any more than "connos" latched onto the idea of using this to attack "libbos". Only you did that...
 
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