Reply With QuoteWTF!? So this one trick pony isn't going away now?Originally Posted by Mr-K
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he could have said "house nigger" instead of "uncle tom" (though it would have disrupted his iambic pentameter) and sure we all really know he wouldn't really think obama's a house nigger but that wouldn't make the metaphor much more acceptable
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WTF!? So this one trick pony isn't going away now?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...373766&ps=cprs
Hey, crazy. Yoshi did an interview with NPR. (actually it's David Duke! so remember, when you hear about A.A., it is his Main Issue.)
Last edited by YellerDog; 06 Nov 2008 at 12:49 AM.
Rude B'Owl
I don't even see what's wrong with the metaphor. He's saying Obama's the first black president, but it depends on what he does whether or not he'll do the honor justice. Everyone is making a big deal out of the fact that he's the first black president, as they should be, but Nader's just saying he can be a good black president or a bad one. This is obvious enough to anyone.
I think his wording was obviously bad in that people will have a knee-jerk reaction to it whether they know what Uncle Tom actually refers to or not, because it's not PC and a marker for racism. He explains himself pretty well in that clip, but no one listens.
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he essentially questioned whether obama would be house nigger for corporate interests
do you think he would have questioned whether john mccain would be house nigger for corporate interests?
nader's point was valid - it's OBVIOUSLY his choice of words that he is properly getting stomped for
They even asked him SPECIFICALLY if he was sorry for his choice of words used.
That was his out right there, he could have said, yeah I should not have used Uncle Tom, that was stupid.
But no, he said he wasn't sorry in the least and continued right on.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
Rude B'Owl
It just really bothers me that he said something unwise, but not wrong. And most people wouldn't see it that way.
That knee-jerk offense and holier-than-thou attitude that those Fox News people (and surely any news people would do the same) took strikes me as really fake. If Chris Rock had made the same comment, would people care?
But yeah, I'm not really arguing with you. Ha.
He had an out, he didn't take it.
Anything from this point forward is his own fault.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
Rude B'Owl
That much is clear, he's a stubborn old dude.
so, anyone else catch the poly speak that equated to "mccain picked palin purely as a political move, not because he thought she would make a good vp" in there?
I did
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