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@ 2008-09-06 00:16:00
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Republican Comedy Hour
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Republican Comedy Hour! You're going to hear some fine comedy from our guests tonight, but let me just take a moment to remind you that there's a eight house two drink minimum. Please tip your lobbyists waiters, they work hard bringing you all expense paid golfing trips to Scotland drinks all night, and the only thing more tired than their feet are the jokes you're about to hear! Okay, okay, I'm kidding! Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for our first act, the comedy stylings of Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin!

"How many saw her speech a couple of nights ago? Wasn't it fabulous?" McCain said Friday during a campaign stop in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. "You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was purchased by her predecessor and sold it on eBay — and made a profit."

But it turns out the twin-engine Westwind II was a tough sell on the Web — and the state eventually pulled it offline and sold it through an ordinary brick-and-mortar brokerage, for a loss, a spokeswoman said Friday.

When putting it on eBay failed, aircraft broker Rob Heckmann was called in to sell the jet. Businessman Larry Reynolds bought the five-passenger jet for $2.1 million. And Reynolds is now seeking another $50,000 from the state for unexpected maintenance issues with the aircraft.


Hahahahahahahaha! Wasn't that great, folks? Now you're in for a treat. We have a very special guest with us tonight. Please put your hands together for the Republican Representative from Georgia, Lynn Westmoreland!

“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity,” Westmoreland said, according to the Capitol Hill Newspaper the Hill.

Westmoreland's spokesman, Brian Robinson, insisted the congressman did not know the word has been used with a racially derogatory intent against African-Americans.

"When describing the Obamas as part of an elite class, Congressman Westmoreland also used a synonym for elitist: uppity. He was using the dictionary definition of the word, which is having 'an inflated self-esteem' or 'snobbish.' He stands by that characterization and thinks it accurately describes the Democratic nominee. He was unaware that the word had racial overtones and he had absolutely no intention of using a word that can be considered offensive," Robinson said.


Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! *claps* And now, please show some love for the Republican chairman of the Alaskan House Rules Committee, John Coghill!

Key Alaska allies of John McCain are trying to derail a politically charged investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner in order to prevent a so-called "October surprise" that would produce embarrassing information about the vice presidential candidate on the eve of the election.

In a move endorsed by the McCain campaign Friday, John Coghill, the GOP chairman of the state House Rules Committee, wrote a letter seeking a meeting of Alaska's bipartisan Legislative Council in order to remove the Democratic state senator in charge of the so-called "troopergate" investigation.


Hahahahahahahahahahaha! WOOO! YEAH! *wipes tear from eye* Because the state senator in charge is a Democrat! Get it? Only the Republican Party can police the Republican Party without bias! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

Good night, everybody! Drive safe! And remember, if it's not a lie, mind-bogglingly ignorant, or completely fucking corrupt, it's not the Republican Party! Good night!




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[info]alexkaufmann
2008-09-06 07:14 am UTC (link)
It's a sad commentary on the polarization of America. No one believes that anyone in the "other" party is capable of honesty or of putting the facts ahead of partisan interest.

Considering, however, that the vast majority of people identify with one party or the other, we are reaping what we've sown.

The founding fathers saw political parties as a potential disaster for the republic for exactly the reasons we're seeing today.

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[info]k_dunlap
2008-09-06 01:44 pm UTC (link)
The founding fathers would cry if they saw the state of things today...

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[info]nick_kaufmann
2008-09-06 01:51 pm UTC (link)
Yup! George Washington himself said political parties "serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community."

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[info]vee_ecks
2008-09-06 11:36 am UTC (link)
Because the state senator in charge is a Democrat! Get it?

To be fair, they're attempting to have French removed because he's been going around saying inappropriate shit to the media since Palin's candidacy was announced last week. The person leading an investigation against the governor should not be cackling and rubbing his hands together in public and telling people he's SO gonna get her. Not helping, Senator French.

Here's the article they're complaining about, BTW:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5702697&page=

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[info]nick_kaufmann
2008-09-06 01:54 pm UTC (link)
They're obviously trying to stack the deck, so they're using his Judge Ito-sized press mistake as an excuse to lobby for his removal. But make no mistake, if he were a Republican going after a Democrat, the same people who want him out would be praising him as a fierce guard dog today.

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[info]vee_ecks
2008-09-06 03:58 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, sure they would, and they pretty clearly want that investigation scuttled somehow, and are trying freaking everything they can think of to make that happen.

I'm just saying they've got a legitimate complaint, here, no matter how they'd act if the shoe was on the other foot. I dunno if it's an investigation-stopping complaint. We'll see, I guess.


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[info]nick_kaufmann
2008-09-06 04:21 pm UTC (link)
Oh yeah, I'm not saying it's all smoke and no fire, I'm just suggesting the fire was a stupid mistake most likely meant to garner press attention for this guy (hence my comparison to Judge Ito) and not necessarily an indication of malfeasance.

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[info]admnaismith
2008-09-06 10:06 pm UTC (link)
And did the same people raise Hell when Ken Starr was put forward to be in charge of bringing down the Clinton Presidency? Boo Friggin' Hoo.

See how YOU like it, Republicans! French should widen his investigation to see if Coghill should face charges as well, for obstruction of justice.

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[info]jeffstrand
2008-09-06 01:40 pm UTC (link)
I had no idea "uppity" was now racist. Fortunately, I rarely feel inclined to use the word even with its traditional definition.

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[info]nick_kaufmann
2008-09-06 01:57 pm UTC (link)
I had no idea "uppity" was now racist.

Now? It's been used against black people (or any minority, really) for centuries! Especially against those who "speak back" to the white establishment.

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[info]jeffstrand
2008-09-06 02:21 pm UTC (link)
Wow. My ignorance surprises even me!

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[info]nick_kaufmann
2008-09-06 02:35 pm UTC (link)
Well, it's not used very often anymore outside of racist slander. People seem to prefer the word "pretentious" now instead of "uppity."

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[info]glamberson
2008-09-06 04:10 pm UTC (link)
Yes, and "uppity" didn't come into fashion as a seemingly innocuous word again until the Obamas started connecting with all those people the talking heads keep telling us they aren't connecting with. Oddly enough, only Republicans use the word.

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(Anonymous)
2008-09-06 04:11 pm UTC (link)
Well, it's not used very often anymore outside of racist slander.

Actually, it's barely used that way at all, anymore. The word was also applied to *women* who didn't know their place, back in the day, and modern American feminists have adopted it in an ironic sense. I can't even begin to count the uses of "uppity" I've seen and heard over the years, self-applied to women's music, art, writing, theatrical stuff, etc. (Just do a Google search - every return that isn't about this story or Clarence Thomas' hilarious "high-tech lynching" claim is pretty much going to be a group of women artists or dancers folk singers or what have you.)

It's still a pretty fucking stupid thing to say about black people, and it's a little hard to believe Westmoreland was unaware of the baggage the word carries.

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[info]vee_ecks
2008-09-06 04:12 pm UTC (link)
That was me. Somehow I got logged out of LJ.

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[info]nick_kaufmann
2008-09-06 04:19 pm UTC (link)
An excellent point about it being applied to women now even more than ethnic minorities.

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[info]admnaismith
2008-09-06 10:11 pm UTC (link)
I thought the female equivalent was supposed to be "strident".

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[info]vee_ecks
2008-09-07 12:51 am UTC (link)
I dunno. I just know I've run across a lot of women who took great pride in that word, "uppity."

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[info]admnaismith
2008-09-06 10:10 pm UTC (link)
It's the keystone of the Republican attack. Every time they call Obama "elitist" or "presumptuous" or "ambitious", it's just another example of looking in their thesauruses to communicate "the Boy don't know his place and oughta be taught some manners."

How else do you explain that "Obama shouldn't be throwing stones about McCain's eight houses--he's got a pretty fancy mansion himself!". Just one house to McCain's eight, but that one house seems a bit much for someone like, you know, Obama. It's better than what a lot of white people have.

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[info]stephen_dedman
2008-09-07 05:19 am UTC (link)
it's just another example of looking in their thesauruses to communicate "the Boy don't know his place and oughta be taught some manners."

Which was exactly what I understood 'uppity' to mean: not an elitist, but a put-down of someone in an oppressed minority (usually blacks or women) demanding equal rights.

BTW, Nick, have you noticed that the story about the jet, that you linked to, has been taken down from cnn?

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[info]nick_kaufmann
2008-09-07 05:31 am UTC (link)
Thanks for the heads up. They changed the URL for some reason, but I fixed it so the link works again.

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[info]possumqueen
2008-09-06 03:00 pm UTC (link)
LULZORZ!!!! God, how I love you.

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[info]possumqueen
2008-09-06 03:25 pm UTC (link)
Har! I don't want to ruin this image by hinting:

http://community.livejournal.com/montypython/933370.html

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[info]nick_kaufmann
2008-09-06 03:29 pm UTC (link)
Funny!

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