Remember the trouble Don Imus got into with the MSM for his speech where he made a few jokes about X42? I saw this morning that David Corn was whining that her jokes were too risque. Typical leftist hack. No sense of humor. They're too self serious for that.
Who is David Corn? Seems I should recognize the name but can't this morning.
Willie Nelson made a movie with Robert Redford many years ago. Willie had some lines that were really Hillbilly risqué. I wondered why the film did not get an x rating.
I was watching the biography channel this weekend. On the show they were discussing that film with the producer. Who said that Willie just ad-libbed all those lines. He said the lines got by the film ratings board because the educated types that rated the film did not know the meaning of what Willie was saying.
The joke Laura told about the horse is a very old joke often told about city slickers. I heard it when I was a small boy. Trying to milk a male horse was an example of a city slickers ignorance. It did not have a sexual connotation other than the city slickers not being able to determine the gender of a horse. The joke said a city slicker did not know as much as a 6 year old youngster raised in the country.
The same is true when someone was described as being worthless as teats on a boar hog. The meaning was that a boar hog could not nurse piglets. Just as the skills or more likely advanced education of the city person did not qualify them to do even simple tasks well.
Up until the 1950s being educated was not an advantage. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got gentleman's 'C's in college. He was afraid that if he got A's people would look upon him as a brain... And brainy people were impractical people who were not to be trusted with responsiblity. Thus the term 'Gentlemean's Cs'.
Untill after World War II a 4 point college student was considered an impractical brain who resided in an ivory tower and totally out of touch with the real world. Such brainy people were considered impractical and were not put in charge of anything important.
I still remember a short story that was assigned reading in my Freshman English Class at OU. It was a story that tried to make the case that getting good grades did not mean you would be an impractical failure in life.
Many of the media elite do not understand the heartland of America or its humor. And those that do .. are afraid to admit it.
David Corn really whined in his article today. It was annoying and irritating. President Bush has mentioned military personnel almost unceasingly and how much he appreciates them and is proud of them. Corn is such a wimp.