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Hillary Clinton apologises for Gandhi joke
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| 7 December 2003
Posted on 01/07/2004 12:14:13 PM PST by demlosers
NEW YORK (AFP) - New York Senator Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) has felt obliged to apologise for making a joke about Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi having worked as a gas station manager in Saint Louis, Missouri.
"I have admired the work and life of Mahatma Gandhi and have spoken publicly about that many times," the former US first lady said in a statement.
"I truly regret if a lame attempt at humour suggested otherwise," the statement said.
The apology followed Clinton's remarks at a weekend fund-raiser, where she joked that Gandhi once "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis" -- a stereotypical job for South Asians in the United States.
At the time, Clinton had qualified her joke by adding that Gandhi was a "great leader" of the 20th century.
TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apology; hillary
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It looks like she's going to show her lizard tongue.
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:14:13 PM PST
by
demlosers
To: demlosers
Arrrg. The date should be 7 January 2004
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:16:28 PM PST
by
demlosers
(Light weight and flexible - radiation shielding is solved.)
To: demlosers
But, bill assured us that she could never have called anyone a f**king jew b@$tard because she doesn't even tell ethnic jokes, let alone use ethnic slurs. It's just not in her nature. This must all be some big misunderstanding.
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:18:30 PM PST
by
VRWCmember
(We apologise for the fault in the taglines. Those responsible have been sacked.)
To: demlosers
Sort of reminds me of Trent Lott's lame effort at praising Stom....Surely she'll have to resign....:-)
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:19:35 PM PST
by
BlessedAmerican
(Pray for our President and those who are fighting to preserve our freedom!)
To: demlosers
I saw the "joke". I didn't get it. It was too stupid to remember, too stupid to repeat. She is, by far, one of the world's stupidest people.
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:20:41 PM PST
by
samtheman
To: demlosers
"I truly regret if a lame attempt at humour suggested otherwise," the statement said.The "statement" said, interesting. Not a live apology.
How many television shows,CNN, BET, etc. did Trent Lott apologize on? Live & in person? And, that STILL wasn't good enough for the rats, yet...surprise! A written statement is just fine for good old Hitlery.
That reeks!!!
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:20:57 PM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
To: demlosers
She's been watching old Simpson reruns. Bart called all c-store clerks "Ghandi".
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:25:02 PM PST
by
bayourod
( Dean's anti-terrorism plan: "treat people with respect and they will treat you with respect"12/1/03)
To: Puppage
Did anyone catch Mike Gallagher's radio show this morning? I thought I heard a woman defending Hillary, and I believe she ID'd herself as an African-American. Can you believe the can of worms this opens up, if members of one racial/ethnic group defend Hilliary's making racist jokes about another group?
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:27:16 PM PST
by
mewzilla
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To: demlosers
To: Puppage
I just heard her! comments replayed on Rush. She made the stupid remark, and then just kept digging herself in deeper. For the Smartest Woman In The World, she sure does act dumb sometimes...
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:29:37 PM PST
by
gridlock
(There's no such thing as idiot-proof, only idiot-resistant. The ingenuity of idiots knows no bounds)
To: VRWCmember
I was thinking the very same thing!
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:30:42 PM PST
by
ladyinred
(What the heck happened to 2003?)
To: mewzilla
Can you believe the can of worms this opens up, if members of one racial/ethnic group defend Hilliary's making racist jokes about another group?Yes, but you have to remember.....Indians are not a protected species.
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:33:24 PM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
To: demlosers
Don't y'all feel hypocritical? If any conservative was caught telling a distasteful ethnic joke, everyone hear would be whining about political correctness and oversensitive minorities.
The joke's real crime is that it wasn't funny.
To: demlosers
The only way I would ever have respect for the hildabeast is to go in front of the nations capitol and douse herself with gasoline and preform and act of self immolation in a show of remorse for her life.
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:40:19 PM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(G.W. Bush in 2004)
To: demlosers
What has she got to appologize for?? PravdABDNC is not going to hold her accountable for this. That has got to be the stupidist joke ever. Talk about having NO sense of humor or sense?? Now if she said that Ghandi was a clerk at McDonalds, that would have been funny. A gas station owner, what's so funny about that??? She's political toast!
Pray for W and Iraqi Democracy
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posted on
01/07/2004 12:40:49 PM PST
by
bray
(The Wicked Witch of NY and Her 9 Flying Monkeys are Burning!)
To: demlosers
"It was a lame attempt at humor and I am very sorry that it might have been interpreted in a way that causes stress to anyone..."
She doesn't apologize. She puts the blame on us dummies who interpreted it the wrong way.
To: BlessedAmerican
Trent Lott was MUCH more sincere in his apology. But the degree of sincerity expressed by Herself is immaterial. Herself was only making a joke, you understand, and only small-minded boorish people will make anything of it.
And besides, those various people from the Middle East and Far East are only fit to work in menial jobs in this country anyway, aren't they? Aren't they? And they must always, ALWAYS, walk with their eyes averted from Herself.
To: Right_Handed_Writer
Being a dumocrat means never having to say you're sorry.
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posted on
01/07/2004 1:04:25 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: gridlock
I just heard her! comments replayed on Rush. She made the stupid remark, and then just kept digging herself in deeper. For the Smartest Woman In The World, she sure does act dumb sometimes...
And doesn't that voice of hers give you the shivers!! sounds like gravel running down a rusty pipe
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posted on
01/07/2004 1:27:29 PM PST
by
RaginRak
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