Clark 'Jokes' Southerners Are 'Stupid'

NewsMax ^ | 11/9/03 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Yet another Democratic presidential candidate has put his foot in his mouth while trying to appeal to Southern voters, and this time it's a Southerner himself, Gen. Wesley Clark.

"All Americans, even if they're from the South and 'stupid,' should be represented," Clark told the New York Daily News on Thursday, in a quote first reported in Sunday editions.

Clark was commenting on ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's attempt to reach out to Confederate flag carrying Southerners - and he prefaced his "stupid Southerners" comment with the qualifier: "This is a joke."

Who knew Gen. Clark was such a comedian.

What's next? Will the Arkansas Rhodes scholar follow his quip about stupid Southerners with more "humorous" stereotyping about Irish drunkards, cheap Jews and lazy blacks?

That would surely spice up the campaign trail.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Is Clark including himself among the "stupid southerners"?

[Porterville]

Well, Clark is out so I guess that means Dean will be the challenger... unless Hillary dykes her way into the race.

[Nataku X]

Good grief, are the Democrats racing to see who can fall off the cliff first?

[TommyDale]

I can see that Clark's IQ is well below 100. That speaks volumes.

[steplock]

On the Lighter Side
Date: Friday, February 07 @ 10:45:58

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Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing only one letter and supply a new definition.

Here are the 2002 winners:

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

Giraffiti: Vandalism painted very, very high.

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

Glibido: All talk and no action.

Dopeer Effect: The tendency for stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

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And, the winner of the Washington Post's Style Invitational:

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole

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[tiki]

LOL The Dimocrats created PC and they are dying by PC. It serves them right.

[hflynn]

Is Clark including himself among the "stupid southerners"?

Only when he's talking.

[Lizavetta]

Here's another one:

Oyster = Someone who sprinkles Yiddish expressions into their conversations.

[TankerKC]

"All Americans, even if they're from the South and 'stupid,' should be represented,"

That's a stupid thing to say, but it should not be seen as offensive...unless you are from the South AND stupid.

He's not saying everyone from the South is stupid.

[Snickersnee]

Jes' keep diggin' Wes -- we won't be able to see y'all real soon.

[P-Marlowe]

He's not saying everyone from the South is stupid.

Maybe, but the implication is that everyone from the North is smart and therefore the only "stupid" people are in the South.

These guys are just reaping the political correctness that they sewed. This should be the end of Clark's run.

[DeFault User]

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole

Well, at least ignorant and an a$$hole. It can certainly apply to Dean and Clark. Shouldn't they know by now that Political Correctness does not permit any jests about any group. Even Southerners are now included. We have come a long way, baby!

Whaddya know, maybe even Christians and pro-lifers are next? Nahhh.

[ChadGore]

DNC to South: Drop Dead.

[GOPJ]

Dean didn't put his foot in his mouth. It's too calculated for that.

Are Dean's numbers up? Did every liberal media person play this story to the hilt? Wonder why?

Democrats know how to whip blacks and still get their votes. Racist code? Sister Soulja? Play'em for fools.

[WoofDog123]

"Is Clark including himself among the "stupid southerners"?"

If he cannot say 'this is a joke' and then make a joke about his own area of origin (some would call this self-deprecation), what jokes IS he allowed to make?

[billhilly]

This is all pretty clear. Democrats cannot depend on the white southern vote. They can depend on the black vote nationwide. Therefore the conundrum. The main problem is, however, the math in the equation. There are more white people than there are black people.

John Edwards and other candidates are now dredging for a new class of democrat voters. Convicted felons. These folks will take their votes where they can get them, and if some "dumb" southern hicks want to vote for them, well, that's their problem, not the party's.

[okie01]

He's not saying everyone from the South is stupid.

And he's not saying anything funny, either. So, if it's a joke, it's a bad one.

[TankerKC]

Maybe, but the implication is that everyone from the North is smart and therefore the only "stupid" people are in the South.

I don't read it that way. I guess I'm not sensitive to this issue.