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Suddenly Palin's botched Kouric interview is... still retarded

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:19 AM

OPPYH


Palin froze when interviewed by Kouric. And everyone laughed.

Obama was interviewed by Leno, and took a low brow jab at the mentally challneged.....silence.

You can't sugar coat Obama's mind set. When he says something, he means it. This power hungry tool of a president is in charge. To quote his favorite pastor
"God bless America..no...God damn America! The chickens will come home to roost"!




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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:26 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by OPPYH:
Palin froze when interviewed by Kouric. And everyone laughed.

Obama was interviewed by Leno, and took a low brow jab at the mentally challneged.....silence.

You can't sugar coat Obama's mind set. When he says something, he means it. This power hungry tool of a president is in charge. To quote his favorite pastor
"God bless America..no...God damn America! The chickens will come home to roost"!







Isn't your post kind of a low-brow jab at the Special Olympics, too? After all, aren't YOU calling all the contestants retards, by saying that they're ALL "mentally challneged [sic]"?

Last time I looked, I couldn't sworn that the Special Olympics were for the physically handicapped as well.

So in making your jab at Obama, you've just joined him in the "Ooooops! Aw, FUCK!" club by saying something really stupid that wasn't at all what you meant to say.

Are did you MEAN to say that all Spcial Olympics participants are retards?

Mike

A baby seal walks into a club...



The "On Fire" Economy -
The Dow closed at 10,587.60 on January 20, 2001, the day GW Bush took office. Eight years later, it closed below 8000 on the day he left office - a net loss of 25%. That's what conservatives call an economic "success".

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:36 AM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:

Isn't your post kind of a low-brow jab at the Special Olympics, too? After all, aren't YOU calling all the contestants retards, by saying that they're ALL "mentally challneged [sic]"?

Last time I looked, I couldn't sworn that the Special Olympics were for the physically handicapped as well.

So in making your jab at Obama, you've just joined him in the "Ooooops! Aw, FUCK!" club by saying something really stupid that wasn't at all what you meant to say.

Are did you MEAN to say that all Spcial Olympics participants are retards?


As I posted in another thread mentally challenged/physically impaired. Sorry if I forgot the physically impaired part this time around. That was an oversight....not a jab.


Hey, if your on the same page of Obama with the "special" people bashing then I really feel bad for you. It's in the same vein of Date rape, and cancer jokes. The poorest possible taste. You can defend his snide comment all you want, it just shows your character. With all of your "retard" talk it's pretty obvious. Good luck with your soul, your going to need it.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:56 AM

WASHNWEAR


Quote:

Originally posted by OPPYH:
Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:

Isn't your post kind of a low-brow jab at the Special Olympics, too? After all, aren't YOU calling all the contestants retards, by saying that they're ALL "mentally challneged [sic]"?

Last time I looked, I couldn't sworn that the Special Olympics were for the physically handicapped as well.

So in making your jab at Obama, you've just joined him in the "Ooooops! Aw, FUCK!" club by saying something really stupid that wasn't at all what you meant to say.

Are did you MEAN to say that all Spcial Olympics participants are retards?


As I posted in another thread mentally challenged/physically impaired. Sorry if I forgot the physically impaired part this time around. That was an oversight....not a jab.


Hey, if your on the same page of Obama with the "special" people bashing then I really feel bad for you. It's in the same vein of Date rape, and cancer jokes. The poorest possible taste. You can defend his snide comment all you want, it just shows your character. With all of your "retard" talk it's pretty obvious. Good luck with your soul, your going to need it.



Hey, Oppy, congrats! Word has it you're on board for the next regular Olympics, in the Standing Faux Outrage event.

I smell GOLD!



It was like that when we got here!

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:12 AM

PIZMOBEACH

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Quote:

Originally posted by WASHnwear:
Quote:

Originally posted by OPPYH:
Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:

Isn't your post kind of a low-brow jab at the Special Olympics, too? After all, aren't YOU calling all the contestants retards, by saying that they're ALL "mentally challneged [sic]"?

Last time I looked, I couldn't sworn that the Special Olympics were for the physically handicapped as well.

So in making your jab at Obama, you've just joined him in the "Ooooops! Aw, FUCK!" club by saying something really stupid that wasn't at all what you meant to say.

Are did you MEAN to say that all Spcial Olympics participants are retards?


As I posted in another thread mentally challenged/physically impaired. Sorry if I forgot the physically impaired part this time around. That was an oversight....not a jab.


Hey, if your on the same page of Obama with the "special" people bashing then I really feel bad for you. It's in the same vein of Date rape, and cancer jokes. The poorest possible taste. You can defend his snide comment all you want, it just shows your character. With all of your "retard" talk it's pretty obvious. Good luck with your soul, your going to need it.



Hey, Oppy, congrats! Word has it you're on board for the next regular Olympics, in the Standing Faux Outrage event.

I smell GOLD!




Yessir - that's an "I'm bored, let's start some sh*t" thread.

(I've NEVER done that!)

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:14 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!


Also, Wright never said this: "God bless America..no...God damn America! The chickens will come home to roost"!


***************************************************************

Silence is consent.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:19 AM

WASHNWEAR


Quote:

Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Quote:

Originally posted by WASHnwear:
Quote:

Originally posted by OPPYH:
Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:

Isn't your post kind of a low-brow jab at the Special Olympics, too? After all, aren't YOU calling all the contestants retards, by saying that they're ALL "mentally challneged [sic]"?

Last time I looked, I couldn't sworn that the Special Olympics were for the physically handicapped as well.

So in making your jab at Obama, you've just joined him in the "Ooooops! Aw, FUCK!" club by saying something really stupid that wasn't at all what you meant to say.

Are did you MEAN to say that all Spcial Olympics participants are retards?


As I posted in another thread mentally challenged/physically impaired. Sorry if I forgot the physically impaired part this time around. That was an oversight....not a jab.


Hey, if your on the same page of Obama with the "special" people bashing then I really feel bad for you. It's in the same vein of Date rape, and cancer jokes. The poorest possible taste. You can defend his snide comment all you want, it just shows your character. With all of your "retard" talk it's pretty obvious. Good luck with your soul, your going to need it.



Hey, Oppy, congrats! Word has it you're on board for the next regular Olympics, in the Standing Faux Outrage event.

I smell GOLD!




Yessir - that's an "I'm bored, let's start some sh*t" thread.

(I've NEVER done that!)



Oh, heavens - me neither! 'Sides, everybody here is so above that sort of thing...

The I'm Bored, Let's Start Some Sh*t Thread - says what it does, does what it says!



It was like that when we got here!

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:34 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:


Hey, if your on the same page of Obama with the "special" people bashing then I really feel bad for you. It's in the same vein of Date rape, and cancer jokes. The poorest possible taste. You can defend his snide comment all you want, it just shows your character. With all of your "retard" talk it's pretty obvious. Good luck with your soul, your going to need it.



Let me guess - you've never cracked a tasteless joke about... oh, I don't know... a Kennedy, maybe?

As for my "retard" talk - like Carlos Mencia says, if you're retarded, you're not offended by it, 'cause you don't get the jokes in the first place. And if you're offended, then you're not retarded.

And speaking of retards, what the hell is this supposed to mean?

Quote:


Hey, if your on the same page of Obama...



I don't know if I've ever been on the same "page of Obama", because I don't know what a page of Obama IS. But whatever floats "you're" boat, ya know what I mean? Oh. I guess you DON'T know what I mean... Are you a retard?

Mike

A baby seal walks into a club...



The "On Fire" Economy -
The Dow closed at 10,587.60 on January 20, 2001, the day GW Bush took office. Eight years later, it closed below 8000 on the day he left office - a net loss of 25%. That's what conservatives call an economic "success".

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:34 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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The I'm Bored, Let's Start Some Sh*t Thread - says what it does, does what it says!




Beauty.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:44 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Oh, and by the way, Hyppo, when did YOU get so politically correct?

I thought the right LOATHED political correctness. I guess that's only when Rush insults Michael J. Fox, and his "phony flailing his arms", huh?

Mike

A baby seal walks into a club...



The "On Fire" Economy -
The Dow closed at 10,587.60 on January 20, 2001, the day GW Bush took office. Eight years later, it closed below 8000 on the day he left office - a net loss of 25%. That's what conservatives call an economic "success".

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:50 AM

CHRISISALL


Mike....I think..you destroyed him....




The laughing Chrisisall

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:58 AM

WHOZIT


Quote:

Originally posted by rue:
Also, Wright never said this: "God bless America..no...God damn America! The chickens will come home to roost"!


***************************************************************

Silence is consent.

Yes he did RUE, they're played that tape over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. You never heard it?

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:58 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Can't a brother just finish his waffle ?

"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.



The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:01 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by whozit:
Quote:

Originally posted by rue:
Also, Wright never said this: "God bless America..no...God damn America! The chickens will come home to roost"!


***************************************************************

Silence is consent.

Yes he did RUE, they're played that tape over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. You never heard it?



He said " The Chickens.....are coming home .... to roost " per the 9/11 attacks.

Rev Wright's a dick.

"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.



The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:09 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:


Rev Wright's a dick.



Well, yeah. So what's your excuse?

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:27 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
Quote:


Rev Wright's a dick.



Well, yeah. So what's your excuse?



I've got one, I'm not one. He is.

At least I've never stolen another man's wife. Wright has. Does that seem right to you?

And a man of "god", no less.



"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.



The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:11 PM

FREMDFIRMA


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Can't a brother just finish his waffle ?



Some damn good waffles ain't they, Rappy ?

Taste a bit like crow, don't they ?


-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:26 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Some damn good waffles ain't they, Rappy ?

Taste a bit like crow, don't they ?


-Frem




Crow ? Crows are black. Are you trying to make some sort of RACIST remark ?



"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.



The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:44 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
I've got one, I'm not one.



Your opinion. On both counts.

Quote:

He is.


Well, yeah - like I already said.

Quote:

At least I've never stolen another man's wife. Wright has. Does that seem right to you?


So I take it adultery is something you'd NEVER accept, then? It's ALWAYS wrong and unforgivable?

Quote:

And a man of "god", no less.



Since when do you look to such men for leadership? I hear "man of god" and all I'm thinking is that I better hide the children.

You know how to get a nun pregnant?


Dress her like an altarboy!




Mike

A baby seal walks into a club...



The "On Fire" Economy -
The Dow closed at 10,587.60 on January 20, 2001, the day GW Bush took office. Eight years later, it closed below 8000 on the day he left office - a net loss of 25%. That's what conservatives call an economic "success".

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:50 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Some damn good waffles ain't they, Rappy ?

Taste a bit like crow, don't they ?


-Frem




Crow ? Crows are black. Are you trying to make some sort of RACIST remark ?



"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.



The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.



Touché.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:09 PM

SERGEANTX


Are there really people who watch Leno?

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:34 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by SergeantX:
Are there really people who watch Leno?

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock



I saw it on YouTube.

"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.



The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:31 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
Let me guess - you've never cracked a tasteless joke about... oh, I don't know... a Kennedy, maybe?

Why would I?
Quote:


As for my "retard" talk - like Carlos Mencia says, if you're retarded, you're not offended by it, 'cause you don't get the jokes in the first place. And if you're offended, then you're not retarded.

Classy.
Quote:

I guess you DON'T know what I mean... Are you a retard?

I'm not mentally challenged. Your words are as empty as your soul. Does this bother you? Are you a sociopath, because your wording indicates that sort of mentality.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:42 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
Oh, and by the way, Hyppo, when did YOU get so politically correct?

I thought the right LOATHED political correctness. I guess that's only when Rush insults Michael J. Fox, and his "phony flailing his arms", huh?


I'm not a republican.
Without Hillary, I switched sides in desperation.

The lesser of two evils. Well...it didn't work.
Now we have a president that is a complete tool, and a vice president that is a big jerk.

Any way you want to look at it, we lose.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:54 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Yessir - that's an "I'm bored, let's start some sh*t" thread.


Not really. More of an injustice thread.

If on the campaign trail Palin or McCain said the exact same thing as Obama, they would have been crucified.

Obama says it, and everything is just peachy. Hell, there are even people on this thread siding with him. That to me is complete, unbridled, blind devotion. In other parts of the country this could be viewed as brainwashing. If Obama ever starts a doomsday cult, these zombies would be the first in line to follow him down. There are a lot of weird people out there that ready to give their life for someone they have never met. Just glad I'm not one of those people.


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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:08 PM

OPPYH


You know what sucks? This thread is bulletproof. I am right, and if you disagree you are obviously wrong. You can't condone/defend the remark made by Obama. Well you can, but you'll just end up looking like a creep. I have actually pioneered a thread in the real world event discussions that isn't debatable.


I think a congratulations is in order.



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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:51 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

If I heard the clip correctly, Obama compared his bowling performance to the performance of Special Olympics competitors. He suggested that he was mentally or physically challenged. It seemed like a self-deprecating remark to me, making fun of oneself.

Did I hear it wrong?

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:06 PM

RIVERDANCER


I think you may be pushing it by implying making off-color remarks indicates a sociopath. Now, I'm fairly liberal, but I don't go much for a lot of politicaly correct hysteria. There are a lot of blanket statements that are offensive, and yet have a high percentage of truth to them. Not 100% truth, not very pretty truth, but truth. Do you censure the ones who embody the stereotype or the ones you think are tasteless for pointing it out? Do you deny the truth of anything that can be seen as offensive? Denied truth doesn't become a lie, and so that way is madness.
Sad to say, everyone has some prejudice. It might be slight, it might be almost unnoticable, it might be a guiding force in behavior, it might only be a guiding force when it comes to one group of people, it might be an ingrained and unconscious slip of a common expression, it might be fought off constantly and not always successfully, but I don't believe no one has it. When it comes to, say, the possibility of disease, there is actually a biological coding for it, the immune system sending a signal below the level of thought to avoid people who might have a disease it hasn't encountered and isn't equipped to deal with. It's true, there's been research into that very thing.
So it might not be terribly PC, but it's still true. Am I siding with him? Not particularly. Do I understand? Yes, I have slips myself, being human.

...At least the man can pick up a newspaper, perhaps even noting the name of it.

Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
If I heard the clip correctly, Obama compared his bowling performance to the performance of Special Olympics competitors. He suggested that he was mentally or physically challenged. It seemed like a self-deprecating remark to me, making fun of oneself.


An excellent point.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:08 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


The lesser of two evils. Well...it didn't work. Now we have a president that is a complete tool, and a vice president that is a big jerk.

Any way you want to look at it, we lose
.
-------------------------------------------

Hey, leave Bush and Cheney alone, they did the best they could. Besides Clinton only left them a $200 Billion-Plus surplus. Now really, what can you do with that? What are the rich gonna live on?
Now, I ask you, is that fair to the poor little rich people?

Wafflethisisall

Tawabawho?

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:16 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

If I heard the clip correctly, Obama compared his bowling performance to the performance of Special Olympics competitors. He suggested that he was mentally or physically challenged. It seemed like a self-deprecating remark to me, making fun of oneself.

Did I hear it wrong?

--Anthony


Self deprecating would be as simple as saying he is a very awkward bowler.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:18 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by RiverDancer:
...At least the man can pick up a newspaper, perhaps even noting the name of it.


Yup, and Obama not reading from a teleprompter is a recipe for disaster. I predict we will hear much worse from him when it comes to off the cuff banter.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:24 PM

RIVERDANCER


I love how everything else I said just slid right off you like oil from melting ice.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:24 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

I must confess that I have often done something stupid, or displayed incompetence, and said, "I'm such a retard!"

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:46 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


Hello,

If I heard the clip correctly, Obama compared his bowling performance to the performance of Special Olympics competitors. He suggested that he was mentally or physically challenged. It seemed like a self-deprecating remark to me, making fun of oneself.

Did I hear it wrong?

-------------------------------------------
Exactly. The next day when I heard there was a controversy I went to Hulu to watch the interview over again. What I heard was, as you say, a self-deprecating remark that, somehow, got blown out of proportion.

So who do you think benefits from making the president look bad?

SGG


Tawabawho?

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:52 PM

RIVERDANCER


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
I must confess that I have often done something stupid, or displayed incompetence, and said, "I'm such a retard!"


Ingrained and unconscious slip of a common expression! And, actually, not by definition an incorrect one. The word 'retard' means, essentially, slow. When you're not fast enough to get somewhere on time, you're tardy. When a substance slows the progress of something like, say, fire, it's a retardant. When you're not thinking fast enough and you do something stupid? Well. Now I understand that the word has slipped under the vast umbrella of slang, but technically the term came into being because the mentally handicapped can be... a little slow. Not pretty, not PC, still true.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:04 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


Yup, and Obama not reading from a teleprompter is a recipe for disaster. I predict we will hear much worse from him when it comes to off the cuff banter.
-------------------------------------------

You mean to say that Palin and McCain never read from a teleprompter?

Quel suprise!


Tawabawho?

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:13 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

I just noticed that the title of this thread inside the thread and the title of this thread on the main home page are different.

On the main page it says:

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 20:04 - 36 posts (36 today).
Suddenly Palin's botched Kouric interview is... kind of retarded


That's odd.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:31 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

I just noticed that the title of this thread inside the thread and the title of this thread on the main home page are different.

On the main page it says:

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 20:04 - 36 posts (36 today).
Suddenly Palin's botched Kouric interview is... kind of retarded


That's odd.


--Anthony

What are you talking about???

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:33 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by RiverDancer:

Ingrained and unconscious slip of a common expression! And, actually, not by definition an incorrect one. The word 'retard' means, essentially, slow. When you're not fast enough to get somewhere on time, you're tardy. When a substance slows the progress of something like, say, fire, it's a retardant. When you're not thinking fast enough and you do something stupid? Well. Now I understand that the word has slipped under the vast umbrella of slang, but technically the term came into being because the mentally handicapped can be... a little slow. Not pretty, not PC, still true.


Creep

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:35 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
You mean to say that Palin and McCain never read from a teleprompter?


Yeah, but they can also articulate coherent speech when they don't read from it....unlike Obama.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:38 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:

So who do you think benefits from making the president look bad?



No one. Just another black eye for the country.
When the president spites people with disabilities, it puts everyone in the United States in a bad light.

Glad you don't see it though. I wish I were immune to ugly comments from the frikkin president.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:42 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

I must confess that I have often done something stupid, or displayed incompetence, and said, "I'm such a retard!"

--Anthony

Hello,
you have outlived your usefullness on this site.
You can leave any time. You won't be missed.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:45 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by OPPYH:
You know what sucks? This thread is bulletproof. I am right, and if you disagree you are obviously wrong. You can't condone/defend the remark made by Obama. Well you can, but you'll just end up looking like a creep. I have actually pioneered a thread in the real world event discussions that isn't debatable.


I think a congratulations is in order.




So yeah, anytime. I'll be waiting.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:55 PM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

I must confess that I have often done something stupid, or displayed incompetence, and said, "I'm such a retard!"

--Anthony



So, I guess you don't realize how equivocating stupidity and the mentally disabled is insulting, then. In the first place, being mentally disabled is very different from being stupid; in the second place, stupidity is generally a negative trait, which adds to the way that people generally think being "retarded" is a negative trait.

I consider "retard" as pretty much on the same level with "cunt" and "n*gg*r" in terms of how ugly they are, whether or not most people recognize it.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:07 PM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.


Quote:

As for my "retard" talk - like Carlos Mencia says, if you're retarded, you're not offended by it, 'cause you don't get the jokes in the first place. And if you're offended, then you're not retarded.


Just what exactly is so hilarious about making fun of the mentally disabled? Seriously, I'd like to hear you (or anyone) explain that.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:22 PM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.


Quote:

Originally posted by OPPYH:
Palin froze when interviewed by Kouric. And everyone laughed.

Obama was interviewed by Leno, and took a low brow jab at the mentally challneged.....silence.



That thing about the Special Olypics was bad, but at least Obama realized what he'd said and apologized not too long after. Palin's interview isn't on the same level - comparing her remarks about Obama "pallin' around with terrorists" would be more apt. And, I don't remember hearing anything about her apologizing for that, although I could be wrong.

The fact that people are defending Obama's remark doesn't sit well with me, though. He recognized that what he said was wrong; why don't they?

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:50 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Obama didn't apologize for his remarks until the back lash had already started to come in, and his handlers told him he screwed the pooch.

Palin, despite the poor showing w/ Couric, was 100% right in describing Obama ' pallin' around w/ terrorist '. Because that's EXACTLY what he did with Ayers. I hope she never apologized for that, because she had no reason to do so.

Again, had he KNOWN it was wrong, he'd have known how it sounded, for the PRESIDENT on national t.v. to say such a thing, and quickly asked for forgiveness. He didn't, because he didn't have that kind of awareness, and doesn't actually see this as something for which he needed to apologize.

"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.



The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:45 AM

RIPWASH


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:
If I heard the clip correctly, Obama compared his bowling performance to the performance of Special Olympics competitors. He suggested that he was mentally or physically challenged. It seemed like a self-deprecating remark to me, making fun of oneself.

Did I hear it wrong?

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner



The way I took it is that he did, indeed, mean for it to be self-deprecating, but the wording he used was poorly chosen off the cuff. There is usually one reason to go on The Tonight Show and that is to joke around with Jay Leno. It may have been okay for Robin Williams or Matt Damon to say that kind of thing (I'm just guessing here, perhaps it wouldn't), but not the sitting President of the United States. Obama was trying to be funny and the joke fell flat. Whether or not he apologized after the furor started is beside the point. He apologized, so that's that.

But this is kind of why a current President has not gone on Leno; because it's unscripted and anything could go awry. And it did. Not a huge gaffe, but a gaffe nonetheless. It's not the kind of thing where he can sit around and get cozy on a couch with an interviewer and not know, for the most part, what he's going to say. It's the same thing, in a way, with the 60 Minutes interview where he was chuckling while talking about how serious the economy is. Gallows humor? I can understand that, but HIS job is to tell us what's happening and help us understand what's going on, not crack jokes on national television. It just didn't look good in a professional sense.

Zoe: "Get it running again."
Mal: "Yeah"
Zoe: "So not running now"
Mal: "Not so much"
- Out of Gas

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:16 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Obama didn't apologize for his remarks until the back lash had already started to come in, and his handlers told him he screwed the pooch.



That's an outright lie, once again. Or one of your less-than-true RapFacts™.

According to the BBC:

Quote:

President Obama has apologised for a remark he made about disabled athletes during his appearance on a late night talk show.

He compared his bowling technique to watching something from the Special Olympics.

But as soon as he was back on his plane home, Mr Obama telephoned the head of the Special Olympics, Tim Shriver, to say sorry.



AS SOON AS HE WAS BACK ON HIS PLANE. In other words, BEFORE THE SHOW AIRED.

Once again, you've been proven a liar.

Oh, and if you need more sources:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7129997&page=1

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/obamas_special
_olympic_apology.html


Even Fox News reported it:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/20/special-olympi
cs-bowler-offers-obama-bowling-tips
/


Kind of hard for the backlash to come in before the show aired...

Mike

A baby seal walks into a club...



The "On Fire" Economy -
The Dow closed at 10,587.60 on January 20, 2001, the day GW Bush took office. Eight years later, it closed below 8000 on the day he left office - a net loss of 25%. That's what conservatives call an economic "success".

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:05 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Were you all this outraged when Bush poked fun at the blind reporter?

Or when, as governor of Texas, he had retarded people EXECUTED by lethal injection?

Just curious.

I know for AuCoward, making fun of dead Canadian troops is all in light-hearted fun, and making fun of shooting pregnant Palestinian women ("one shot, two kills" is how I believe he phrased it) is all well and good. I'm just not sure I can properly gauge where the bar is in what's "funny" and okay to joke about, and what's off limits and worthy of outrage.

Or is this just so much more phony indignation?

Mike

A baby seal walks into a club...



The "On Fire" Economy -
The Dow closed at 10,587.60 on January 20, 2001, the day GW Bush took office. Eight years later, it closed below 8000 on the day he left office - a net loss of 25%. That's what conservatives call an economic "success".

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