Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado was very frustrated last Friday, about the debt ceiling. So he did what any reasonable Republican congressperson would do, which was to use some creative language to complain about President Obama on a local radio show. Specifically, he said that being associated with President Obama was like being stuck to a “tar baby.”
“Even if some people say, well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that, they will hold the President responsible,” said Lamborn said Friday during an interview on a Denver radio station. “Now I don’t want to even have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar baby and you get, you get it, you know… you are stuck and you are part of the problem now and you can’t get away.”
Now critics are questioning his use of that term and are calling it highly offensive to the president.
The term “tar baby” is a reference to 19th-century Uncle Remus stories about Br’er Rabbit but has taken on a negative connotation towards African-Americans.
But really everyone else is just racist, because they’re the ones who came up with this negative meaning. Rep. Lamborn just spent his childhood learning vocabulary from Uncle Remus stories.
Lamborn spokeswoman Catherine Mortensen said the comments were a misunderstanding and he apologizes.
“Congressman Lamborn regrets any misunderstanding. He simply meant to refer to a sticky situation or quagmire,” she said.
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Yeah, sure he did. He's just worried that the black might wear off on him. Fucking teabagger racist fuck.
Remember when they pretended that they were not racists?
(Halcyon days compared to now.)
What makes me especially angry is this racist fuck will not have to resign, although what he did is head and shoulders above Anthony Wieners cock up, pun very much intended.
You're confused.
While Doug Lamborn was just having a mature discussion about race, Anthony Wiener is a pervert.
The congressman was sorry you were offended by his offensive remarks.
They were not intended to be factual statements.
Are any of them?
I'm sure you meant "The congressman was sorry that some over-sensitive individuals took offense at his perfectly harmless, kumbaya remarks."
I thought the victim was supposed to apologize.
Given his moral weakness, Obama will apologize for being black.
If you were offended. You forgot the ever-important if.
Meet your next President.
The comments on this same story at gawker are kinda precious.
http://gawker.com/polidicks/
You're welcome. ;-)
Hard to believe I was once proud of having a star on my handle there.
Does the Congressman also believe that Roe v Wade means that there a lot fewer tar babies now then there should be?
More likely he thinks it's a description of your only two options should you flip your canoe in shallow water.
Who cares? The important thing is to protect tar fetuses.
Less tar, but more flavor!
Is this Lamborn's favorite song?
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh my what a wonderful day!
Plenty of sunshine heading my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Perhaps not, but it is mine!
Great — now imagine that with John Boehner's singing voice. It's only 42 seconds, but it feels like an hour.
Perhaps "Stuck on You."
/ shakes pelvis and throws scarf to crowd.
Gosh Doug, you sound kind of like David Duke; but I don't mean you are a KKK Fuckwad or anything…
Wait till you have to deal with Santorum.
Which one, the person or the effluent?
Yes.
There's a difference? Coulda' fooled the hell out of me.
I am overjoyed to report that Mittens used the term, too.
Here's the Time article:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,12…
Maybe we can stick them to each other? Santorum, anyone?
Charming as always. Nothing like ignorance, racism and a limited vocabulary.
"But some of my best friends are tar babies."
Why do I have to keep making this kind of joke? God these stupid fucks are so awful.
Hey–he's just taking it back, like Randal.
Why don't we change it?
Wouldn't want to get stuck with Michelle's husband, now would we?
Too long.
I had to upfist that for referencing the best scene in Clerks II!
That's not part of the Donkey Show!
I am probably of the same generation as these fucks and I have never used the term "tar baby". I don't think I have ever heard anyone use it. The only reference I have is the Disney cartoon of the Uncle Remus stories on TV when I was very young.
How is it that "tar baby" occurs so quickly to various GOP functionaries?
I think they probably are thinking "debt ceiling blah de da I'm gonna say n-word, wanna say n-word! Quick brain say something else, anything…" TAR BABY! "whew… good job brain. hurp de derp derp."
I readily imagine that scenario as being true.
It could be worse. He could have said "pickaninny".
Oh, hey, listen, I fully expect him to say that within the week. Any day now, he'll say, "If I had to pick a ninny I didn't want to work with — Wha'd I say to make you mad THIS time, baby?"
Or "spear chucker" perhaps.
Wookies has compiled quite a nice compendium of these words, upthread.
I remember hearing it in connection with the Viet Nam War, but not used like this. Once or twice I've used it to explain bad relationships (or why I didn't want to get involved with a certain woman), but he should know this kind of rhetoric in these circumstances is going to lead to trouble.
Must be the same way that term "macaca" was just a friendly nonsense word, you know, despite the long history of its use as a racist term by people of the exact same ethnic background as the mother of the stupid fuck who first popularized it.
I'm sure the Party of Lincoln has a perfectly credible explanation for all their tar baby talk. Most likely Br'er Fox dun fooled 'em into tetchin' it and dey ain't been raht since.
What I don't get about the prez is how he keeps expecting these wannabe Klansmen to be honorable, reasonable people. I mean, the bin Laden thing showed he knows how to be a ruthless motherfucker when he sees the situation calls for it. So why can't he see the situation calls for it?
I'm not saying he has to send SEAL Team Six to shoot these people in the eye (although at this point I wouldn't complain a whole lot, either), but surely there's some good middle ground between eye-shooting and folding: He likes finding middle ground, doesn't he?
Rep. LetUsBray (D-Wonkett) spokesman Haight Themoor later told press that the Representative regretted the fact that some panty-waists are whining about the fact that he advocated the murder of political opponents by US military forces.
Besides, that's a LIE. I'm not advocating it; I'm just saying it wouldn't bother me much.
Rep. LetUsBray (D-Wonkett) spokesman Haight Themoor has called a hastily scheduled press briefing for 11:30 p.m. CDT, the second such briefing she has called today. Reports indicate that she will announce that the Representative is having emergency oral surgery at this hour in a rare procedure known as Second Foot Extraction.
Am I wrong in believing these people mean us harm (and not just "with votes")? If I am wrong, I'll be delighted to hear it.
Anyway, I'll take what I said back when even one person on Fox takes back any of the violence-inciting stuff they've said.
"But Uncle Remus said…"
Screw it, let's get something to eat at Denny's.
Not Sambo's?
Not Little enough or Black enough for these motherfuckers.
DZ: Sambo was Indian, not African. Remember – there are no tigers in Africa. Folks "adopted" Little Black Sambo as being, well, Black, and then objected to it.
That was my childhood intro to "race card".
Like the book Nappy Hair, it gets hysteria from people who have never read it and are having a Book Bannin' Title Freakout.
CD: Speaking of books. Have you read about a book titled "Rove-ing Her Way to the White House" about Dee Dee Benkie? Apparently it wasn't very flattering. In short order it isn't for sale on Amazon, B&N, et. cal. – and the website of the same name has been shut down.
Most book banners never read the book they want to ban. Probably most of them don't read anything but seriously, the articles almost always say the banners have not read the book but object to a few words or a "scene" in the book.
Ummm…no. While, yes, the kid was supposed to be Tamil or some other dark-skinned subcontinental person, when you see those pictures, you don't think "Black is Beautiful! Power to the People!" http://www.sterlingtimes.co.uk/sambo.htm
And I say this as someone whose grandmother used to read her this book and had a black Lab named "Sambo," because Grandma loved it so much. And we're black. How effed up is that?
We shouldn't be niggardly in giving this guy the benefit of the doubt. I certainly won't be the first to chuck a spear at him, nor will I sic my coon hound on him. After all, there are plenty of other bunnies in the jungle.
Lamborn's views are not colored by racism, he's just callin' a spade a spade.
If only you'd work "monkey" in there somehow…
And Colorado certainly wouldn't want to pick a ninny when it comes to representing them in Congress.
Fuckitall. Didn't we already go through this once? I'm so very tired of this.
Sarah Palin, Our Lady of Retard Bad! Nigger A-OK! Approves of Doug Lamborn.
Rep. Lamborn just spent his childhood learning vocabulary from Uncle Remus stories.
Well, to be fair, he is from south Colorado.
p.s. Day One = success.
Huzzah! You'll give old Johnny Cravings a sound thrashing, I daresay.
Oh, you remembered! On my birthday! How sweet!!
Happy Birthday, Don Bujo.
I came back here to get away from the madness of the masses, and so we don't throw wet blankets on their snark.
I was having a sort of non-specific feeling of anxiety, the kind that used to result from the old point-scoring kind of spousal antagonism. I felt resentment creeping back in. Granted, there are some "her side of the bargain" things that were discussed upon my readmission to Chez Dewey, that haven't really come to pass. For the most part I have been able to let these things go. One of those things was that Dewey would like to have some time to himself in the house once in awhile. Some time to shout at the walls or play loud music (loud music being one of the entries in her list of grievances) or whatever. In two months I've experienced about 30 minutes of Dewey time. Don't get me wrong — most of the hours after I get home from work are spent cooking dinner, which I love to do, and playing with little Susie. After she goes to bed, I retire to the room with the L-shaped sofa and either do some grad work or type on the wonket. <con't below>
Where were we? Oh yes. Resentment.
Other arrangements were discussed, as well, few of which have come to pass. I have been assured that "very soon, very soon" and so forth. Whatever. I was sitting out back in a faux Adirondack chair, chain-smoking and watching the lightning; anxiety was mounting. Old triggers were presenting. The minute little Susie went to bed it culminated in a FUCK I NEED TO GO FOR A FUCKING BIKE RIDE RIGHT NOW, which I did. 4 miles, about 30 minutes. It had the dual effects of (a) injecting the endorphins and whatnot into an anxious brain, and (b) forestalling the insane behavior just long enough that I was able to act deliberately and calm myself down.
I feel really awkward about the idea of discussing marital sexytime stuff with PsILF. It's already rather tensioned and weird in there and she does that deep, long, quizzical Gaze of the New-Agey Mental Health Professional when we're talking about even the most mundane of stuff. On the other hand, resentment.
Pff and Guh simultaneously — that's how I'm doing. Thanks for asking! : ) And congrats on the 4 weeks. You've probably already saved yourself several hundred dollars. Go splurge and treat yourself to some Fancy Ginger Ale. The expensive stuff.
Owls needs some support, over on the Dominionism page. Bring Kid Zoom, if you can. It sounds urgent.
Really? Any fallout?
Not so far…pretty calm actually. My brain mechanic says days 3-4 are often when the physical stuff kicks in. Any data from the front lines?
Most of the "OMG I'm gonna die!" stuff was gone within about 48 hours. Have you ever done "poppers" (amyl nitrate)? It felt like that for the first two days. The effects of amyl nitrate, by comparison, last about 20 seconds. In fact, by the time of my initial confession, the worst of the physical stuff was almost over.
The next week could best be described as a general malaise.
Keep busy by day, Lorazepam by night. Keeps the jitters away. I trust that your brain mechanic has plenty of "tools" on hand… (failing that, knock yourself out with Tylenol PM. It will help ward off the killer insomnia.)
Haven't seen someone with scrip authority yet, will be soon, so not Ativan for owls yet. But I have been on Trazodone for many years now for the chronic insomnia I've seemingly had all my life, and with that stuff, "a little dab will do ya." Glad, in a way, to hear your 48-hour experience, somewhat lessens my dread of days to come. There's also growing suspicion that your very own hooter has two poles, so to speak. Which is unsurprisingly closely related to dipsomania, the latter being de facto OTC treatment for the former. Believe it or not, this was actually rather encouraging once I digested it, as it indicates that a fairly easy and successful treatment is out there for at least some of the underlying causes. Ok, believe it or not, I'm actually sleepy! Back to work tomorrow! Take care good friend.
I just did week two with booze. Though that comes with other risks.
Thanks for watching his back, and more importantly, for getting yourself to a place where you could.
As Dewey says, you might find vicious insomnia strikes you. When I went through something similar (I've relapsed, but not nearly to the same extent) I was told by a wise man not to substitute one for another in the form of prescription sleep aids.
It gets a lot better by the end of the first week.
Good luck to you sir.
Good advice from your wise man. That's why I stick to the benadryl, now.
I don't want to downplay the difficulty that you're going to experience this next week. It's not all puppies and flowers. The first week was characterized by a lot of crying. There was a lot of shame and guilt that surfaced, much of which I haven't even begun to deal with. At the first meeting I went to (which I strongly encourage), they had me read the AA Traditions, which I couldn't do without crying. I've only been going once a week, which some people would say is not enough, but just knowing that they're there has given me hope, and the weekly visit with them has been keeping me centered.
As far as scripts go, the very first day I walked into my doctor's office and said "here is what I am trying to do, and I don't think I can do it without medical help." The antabuse has been a useful straightjacket, a substitute for self-control in those moments when I had none. I've got about another week of that, and I don't think I need it anymore. The ativan was useful for the first 3-4 nights, when sleeping would have been a problem. I'm not using that anymore.
Most importantly, KEEP POSTING FUNNY THINGS TO WONKET. We want to hear from you, and the humor will do you good.
And vitamins. Don't forget to take your vitamins.
Quitter.
Alright, with that cheap shot out of the way, I'd just like to add that I'm straight-up fucking pulling for you, my fine feathered friend, and eagerly awaiting the unpickled wit that you're poised to uncork.
And if it weren't for this here damn tar baby on the rocks, I'd be right there with ya.
Good luck…
Extemporanus
My favorite Ox.
I didn't know, Owls, but I'm very serious when I say I'm pulling hard for you. Wish I had more to offer than a kind word on the interwebs.
You know who else is a quitter?
(Damn, I hate myself.)
ME ME ME!!
No haz hate albino, iz be ok!
I'm speechless, truly. I am generally fairly apt with words, but I have none that can adequately convey how deeply, profoundly touched I am by the solidarity, support and yes, even love that I've found here. I wish I did have the words, but I suspect you all get a sense of my feelings (oh yes, of course I am weeping while typing…WWT?).
At the risk of being obnoxious, I will keep you up to date, I feel I rather owe it to my Wonkett family.
Now that I know my back is covered by a sea of good souls, I can turn forward and move toward the light. One. Step. At. A. Time.
We want to know how you're doing, too–I have nothing but admiration for you and Dewey as you confront this shit.
OK, admiration and bad puns.
And buttsex jokes.
Admiration, bad puns, buttsex jokes, and pop culture references, some obvious, some obscure, and a fanatical devotion to the Pope.
And this paddle game.
What about that piece of lint? You got that, too, right?
Owls, Dewey…read you guys all the time. Not smart or snarky enough to post much, but I'm pulling for you and wishing for a peaceful beautiful transformation. But not too beautiful, don't want you to lose that bite.
You're going to have to do something about that zero p. Apparently, not-posting is not working out for you. I suggest posting. Feel free to make lots of mistakes — I know I did — we don't really hold grudges, unless you're a troll, in which case you'll be mercilessly mocked. We'd rather laugh than not laugh. And, as you can see, the Wonketariat protect their own.
Welcome to the Wonkette Group Home/Liberal Policy Think Tank.
Thanks Dewey! I'll try.
From Wiki:
Really? Either way, was this ever a popular term?
I would check the edit on that. Probably from 5 minutes ago by someone named LouSarah I'm guessing.
It was, and is still quite popular among teabaggers and crackerheads everywhere.
Gee, I wonder why.
Maybe the "n" word is too obvious, even for these TP'ers and confederate flag displayers.
Radiotherapy, I got a $20 that says one of them is gonna slip up and say it before 2012.
Until I was twenty-four, I thought tar-baby had no racial — or any real — denotation, except as a nonsense expression (like "cat's pyjamas") to bring levity to a situation. I quite truthfully imagined a Kewpie Doll getting dunked in an inkwell filled with tar, then two or more people playing "hot potato" with it.
"“Now I don’t want to even have to be associated with him. It’s like taking out the white trash and you get, you get it, you know…white trash all over you."
White trash?
"I don’t want to even have to be associated with him."
Well, if you leave Congress, and never return to government, that's one way to disassociate yourself…may I suggest you look into that alternative?
“Congressman Lamborn regrets any misunderstanding. He simply meant to refer to a sticky situation or quagmire”
Yeah, because being in the House of Representatives was *nothing* like a quagmire before Obama became president…riiiight…
Asshole.
Thanks, Lame-born spokeswoman. Because we know the obvious terms "sticky situation" or "quagmire" would not have conveyed the meaning he was looking for.
Oh sure, easy to say, but can you imagine the screams from the Bulimics Against Thin Epithets or the Dignity for the Qu'aag Peoples Coalition if he's used those two terms?
And the British Defense League has already sent a letter threatening him with legal action if he uses "sticky wicket."
Not to be taken as a factual statement
He regrets using a term that is generally meant as a racial slur while giving an interview on hate radio. I would find it a bit more credible if I was stupid, but then I would be a teabagger.
I'm just glad he didn't say something truly offensive, like 'putting lipstick on a pig.'
WIN
What he meant to say was: "Obama is a Marxist community organizer with a radical agenda, replete with raising taxes on the job creators, who is a complete failure and in over his head and was only elected because he is a tar baby — that is to say, anointed by the liberal media."
Plus, he has an Afro! Did you know that?! A president with an Afro?!
And he probably uses Grecian Formula. Get it? Like the failed euro-socialist path he put us on.
I would really like it if the President would grow out his hair in a big giant Angela Davis Afro. Or better yet, if he were to grow out a Don King fright wig. Now that would make the non-urbans just about shit straight up their backs.
hell no- we need dreads!!
Ah, now you're reminding me of the good ol' days!
Last week. When I could still laugh at their ridiculous antics. Now I just want to cry.
Hey, Representative Lamborn meant nothing racist by his remarks. Take note that he's from Colorado Springs, home of Ted Haggard, Focus on the Family and a host of other evangelical ticks sucking at the lifeblood of the US Air Force, wrapping the flag around their comic-book worldview and claiming Jesus endorses whatever molecules of thought their little lizard brains are capable of emitting.
So I believe him when he says that, out of pure ignorance, he used the term tar baby. But if he had really meant to be racist, Rep. Lamborn would've said he doesn't negotiate with Hottentots, Pickaninnies, octoroons, creoles, porch monkeys, spades or nigras. Really, all you professional liberals should be ashamed of yourselves — you're the racists. You probably hate tards, too.
That's exactly it! We're the racists for even thinking of racial connotations, whereas evangelical white representatives have lots of black friends and sometimes even tip them more than a dollar. Liberals are racist.
And we're intolerant.
Hey, didn't Ted Haggard get Rocky Mountain Spotted Gay Meth Fever?
I don't so much hate them as fear them. I've spent most of my life among these dopes and know that they'd shoot me in a ditch or hang me as soon as they could.
I'm shocked at you. You actually accused the Colorado Springtails of having brains.
Here's the scene from the Disney movie. Needless to say, in the comments section someone compared the tar baby to Obama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk0u9ygrCYQ&fe…
and before the good representative
heennnngggghhhh, as Walnutz might say
My eyes grew wide as I read this. I suppose you could see the whites of them.
Honkies be trippin'.
If Obama's a tar baby, Mr. Lamborn, you're a big, diapered, Vittered shittybaby.
That just means he's a federally elected Republican, right? You meant no disrespect.
#fullyintendedasaninsult
No snark; I'm honestly fucking disgusted how overt racism just gets a pass relating to this President.
But whatever, I guess.
Hey, what's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
No snark whatsoever. I'm amazed that he hasn't leapt across any intervening furniture and attempted to strangle some of these shitbirds with their own intestines. Because, truly, the constant drumbeat of the racial hatred has worn me down to the point that I dare not associate with anything resembling teabaggers in a public place for fear I'll rip their tongues out and tie them to the nearest post before assfucking them to a shadow of their erstwhile selves.
For people that claim that they aren't racists, they sure know all the terms. And the most inappropriate times to use them.
Loose lips make bad quips, sink re-election, uh, bids.
So, what, he's not compos mentis enough to say "it's a sticky situation or a quagmire"? Jeezus, how many racist dog whistles do we have to listen to from these dawgs?
All of them, Pristine.
Since the 70s the southern strategy, i.e. "let's cut government programs like social security", has been code for "let's do over the darkies"
To quote the odious Lee Atwater, Republican strategist and Chair of the RNC:
You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."
Jezus. Even reading this is hard. Is it OK to chain the rotted corpse of Lee Atwater to Karl Rove and beat them both to a lardy, chunky, blood-filled paste?
More than adequate, I'd say. Hearing GWB invoke "states' rights" as part of the 2004 campaign made me nauseated.
I sent that interview to my mother recently. She was a "Reagan Democrat", whatever the hell that means. Her reaction was "OMG! How could we not have seen that!?!?"
Really?
The REAL GOP tarbaby is their own record of unbalancing the Clinton balanced budget, starting a pair of unwinnable wars, etc.
In that economic environment, how can you raise taxes??!?
I'm not a big fan of Lyndon Johnson, but he did pay for the Viet Nam War with a surtax on income. He was the last pres. before Clinton to balance a budget. Bush the Younger could probably have done this, too. It would have been better to avoid war altogether, of course.
7-8 years ago, it was not hard to look at Bush reducing the national income, increasing the national expenses, making up the difference with loans, and judge that this would lead to trouble. But when I tried to talk with self-styled "fiscal conservatives" about the dangers, they refused to consider them. Bush was captain of their team and their team could do no wrong! Deficits didn't matter! The _Financial Times of London_ (not a liberal outfit) said the lunatics were running the asylum in the US, and they were right.
“Now I don’t want to even have to be associated with the Tea Partiers. It’s like having toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your shoe and you get, you get it, you know… and the toilet paper is smeared with shit and you are stuck and you smell like shit and you are part of the problem now and you can’t get away.”
There. Fixed.
FYI to teabaggers: Terms we're on to:
tar baby
uppity
reverse discrimination
states' rights
vouchers
interest groups
special rights
Really, you ought to check up and see what the non-FoxCriminalEnterprises and WND places are covering about you. And don't worry about exposure to points of view that differ from your own — I have great confidence in your imperviousness to ideas.
Forgot: urban.
Also too: reparations
don't forget:
Pigford
voter fraud
entitlements
ACORN thugs (no, really. this is from a Breitbart headline from yesterday!)
Why do liberals always attack our cherished heritage. This kind of political correctness forced the south to totally change long standing and profitable labor practices.
It's so lovely that US representatives have graduated to using actual literal -if rather obscure and old-timey- slurs to talk of Obama, instead of code. At this rate, they'll be openly calling him a nigger by November.
Can you imagine what they call him amongst themselves?
If only Disney would release Song of the South from the deepest darkest part of the vault so that the world can understand where these colorful metaphors come from.
I am still kind of disappointed it is not on DVD myself. Also, that half the WWII Disney collection is warnings about the racial comments is pretty amusing too.
Warner Brothers has savagely edited so many of the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies, for political correctness. Its criminal.
You remember that cartoon from the 20s or 30s, with the two magpies or crows that were obviously ne'er do well black men, they sounded like Amos and Andy?
Heckel and Jeckel. Brought to you by Paul Terry.
Liberals are always playing the racecar.
If you ask me, there's a nigger in the woodpile.
Liberals are always playing the racecar.
I've always been a Matchbox guy. Never really got into the whole flashiness and hype of the Hot Wheels.
All I know is that Tyco shit sucked.
So Friday, my (white) husband and I were driving in Appalachia and we passed a house with this great outbuilding filled with about three cords of neatly stacked firewood. I pointed it out to him and said, "That's what WE need!" because we go through about a cord of wood each winter and it's only under a tarp and could be neater. Tom says, "As long as you don't hide in it."
This is also the guy who points out that upon close reading of our benefits page, as NAACP members, we get a discount at Cracker Barrel. http://store.perkscardnetwork.com/ProductDetails….
I hope that Barack didn't get all "uppity" when he heard about this.
Rep. Doug "Goodraceman" Lamborn of Colorado wants to be your US Senator.
Congressman Lamborn is a dumbass. However, I want you to know that my use of that word was unfortunate and I really meant no offense to the Congressman.
I learned this word from Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor. (Yes, "SNL" and "comedy album" are applicable here) And I learned that Richard Pryor did not like it. Even as a fairly young child I figured if RICHARD FUCKING PRYOR didn't like it, it must be a pretty damn bad thing to say. Also, Colorado is my one-day-I'm gonna-flee-to state, so GREAT. Where am I going to go NOW???
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=richa…
That Chevy Chase / Richard Pryor routine was the first thing I thought of when I read this story.
I would love to see Obama call Lamborn "HONKY!"
Canada.
I'm sure he has one black friend (probably the guy who delivers his pizza), which unequivocally proves he cannot be racist, so even if he uses terms which have a racist connotation because they are only really ever used by racists to mean racist things, he cannot be racist, since he refers to that one guy as his friend (and, hell, he pays his Mexican gardener pretty fair wages, so there's that), and really, YOU all are the racists for reading racist meaning into a racist term used by racists to mean racist things. Because black friend.
Dear Doug, just to be clear, I'm intending to offend when I say you are a fucking asshole. See how easy that is? Just fucking own it.
Does this mean Lamborn is endorsing tar baby Mittens?
No wonder our history books refer to the Vietnam War as America's great tar baby.
When are we applying that sage term to Afghanistan and Iraq? Or a Koch-funded operation?
They could. I mean, the tar baby from Baer Rabbit isn't racist, it's actually a traditional story told by slaves, isn't it? If you're making an applicable allusion to it, it's not a slur. If you just say black people are tar babies that's not cool.
Weeeee Doggie a congressman from the south is a racist asshole.
My favorite line from the Uncle Remus stories is, "Br'er Rabbit, he laid low." Might even have been from the Br'er Fox an' de Tar Baby story.
Br'er Lamborn missed the moral of the story, though. See, Br'er Fox, he punched the tar baby and his fist got stuck. So he punched with the other hand, and that fist got stuck. Then Br'er Fox tried kicking the tar baby, first one foot then the other. So … punching de tar baby: bad idea. Keep punching de tar baby: just plain stupid.
It's obvious to me now that Lamborn is a child molester. Who else would want to punch babbys?
It's actually a telling metaphor for the current state of national politics.
It's really too bad that that "tarbaby" has such racist connotations, because it's from a really instructive story about foolish presumption, vanity, and violent overreaction.
Tea Party, anyone?
I often wonder where these fuckers come from…then I realize that they are Amerika! Makes me want to puke.
I was just joshing when I called Barack Hussein a nappy-headed little pickaninny. Why that skinny ole mulatto jitterbug, he's just a scamp is what he is. Why he is so well-spoken, and I say this with respect, he's no field negro, he is a polished house negro. We're not racist at all in the south, we love our nigras, and coloreds, too.
“Now I don’t want to even have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar baby and you get, you get it, you know… you are stuck and you are part of the problem now and you can’t get away.”
Are we sure he wasn't talking about touching Boehner?
"Quagmire"?
Indochina Libel!
Obama is Kool Light, now with 40% less tarbaby…
Another GOP attempt at 'Does this bug you? Does this bug you? I'm not touching you.'
Where's Trent Lott these days?
This is one of many reasons why we Coloradans refer to this dumbshit backbencher as Congressman Lamebrain.
stupid cracker
Teasing, amigo, teasing. When I saw your first reply I misinterpreted it to indicate you were playing along…sorry 'bout that!
Sen. UserOfOwls (D-Trees) spokeswoman Assof Youenmi has just arranged an emergency press briefing…
Yeah, sorry (I really am) about that; for some reason I've been feeling kind of testy these last few days.
Spokesterrorists for Sens. User-of-Owls (D-Trees) and Sen. LetUsBray (D-Wonkette) said the lamestream media was making too much of their calls for FEMA death camps, armies of indoctrinated children and enslavement of registered Republicans, blaming it on a mix of Ambien and the fresh fetus smell from the abortion clinic next door.
Why did you feel the need to bring up your private parts?
SEXIST!
<sincere>He appeared, rather unexpectedly, at exactly the moment that I needed him most. He brought me hope and confidence when I had very little of either. I'm not going to forget that. And thank you. </sincere>
Snarking, healing, and ridiculing republicans and fools, one day at a time.
Our friend could really use your help right now, over on the Dominionism post
http://wonkette.com/451310/there-is-a-new-fancy-w…
Look for a thread that I started that's about 46 comments long. And hurry.
Whilst Rep Dingus up there gives me teh sadz, reading you fellas gives me the hopes.
I like the hopes better.
Word.
Or "Middle East in general"?
No more fucked up than this one. Or this one. Or any of these.
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