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Kerry: Oh, you mean the Latin No. 10 on your cap? (what a freaking nitwit)
Larry Elder show | 3-31-04 | dfu

Posted on 03/31/2004 8:21:35 PM PST by doug from upland

Edited on 03/31/2004 9:19:11 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Larry Elder played a clip of John Kerry in New Hampshire from the end of January.

A guy in the crowd, wearing a Malcolm X ballcap, asked Kerry to explain the icon on his hat.

Kerry responded --- The Latin? The ten?

He then said something about the X man or X men.

It had to be explained to him that it was Malcolm X.

Kerry then went into pandering mode about what he knew about Malcolm X.

The clip was really funny, and there was laughing in the crowd.

Will this ever make the mainsteam?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: larryelder; lyingkerry; malcolmx
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To: Al
Another report about the event ---

A man with an "X" on his hat asked John Kerry about resonating outside of New England, and he said that Kerry could prove it to him by explaining the relevance of the cultural icon on his hat. He was a white guy, and John Kerry didn't know what it was.

61 posted on 03/31/2004 8:58:09 PM PST by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper; doug from upland
So then, how was it a test of black pandering if it was a white guy surrounded by a bunch of white guys? I think the 'latin' answer was about as good as it gets, albeit vague, given the context here. "Xavier" and "Gen X" are two other guesses that would seem reasonable. This thread is wacko.
62 posted on 03/31/2004 8:58:51 PM PST by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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To: bayourod
X stood for his unknown African family name.
63 posted on 03/31/2004 8:59:17 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: cyborg
"Kerry really is a pandering idiot."

This sums up the point of this post in concise short sentence.

64 posted on 03/31/2004 9:00:07 PM PST by blackbart.223
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To: doug from upland
Not to give Kerry any credit, but because the incident occurred with a white person in a white audience, I'm surprised he got it even on the third try. I wouldn't have made the connection myself.
65 posted on 03/31/2004 9:00:37 PM PST by CedarDave (Kerry loves daylight savings time: He can set his clocks forward, then change them back in 7 months)
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To: the Real fifi
Campaign Trail FIRED UP IN FREEZING NEW HAMPSHIRE, KERRY LOOKS SOUTH
66 posted on 03/31/2004 9:01:44 PM PST by null and void (Don't worry about what people think; they don't do it very often.)
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To: krb
What an effing idiot!!! Of course this isn't carried on the lefty media...imagine the reaction if a Republican had said such a thing!;)))
67 posted on 03/31/2004 9:02:40 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: blackbart.223
Panders to anyone and everyone for votes, and is so smarmy about it. Sick sick sick.
68 posted on 03/31/2004 9:03:01 PM PST by cyborg (Frankenfreude radio death watch has commenced)
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To: null and void
Unfortunately that story is quite different than the Latin 10 remark posted earlier.
69 posted on 03/31/2004 9:03:25 PM PST by the Real fifi
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To: All
Another report --

At a firehouse in Hampton yesterday, a man told Kerry that he thinks it's unfair that people say a New Englander can't connect with people from varying backgrounds. And to prove that you can do it, he says, explain the importance of the icon on my hat. Kerry is mystified. "The Latin? The Ten?" he asks. Malcolm X, the man explains.

70 posted on 03/31/2004 9:03:46 PM PST by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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To: Howlin
That Navy jacket doesn't look like it has seen much action.
71 posted on 03/31/2004 9:06:20 PM PST by Ruth A.
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To: Howlin
I think his right shoulder.
72 posted on 03/31/2004 9:08:16 PM PST by July 4th (You need to click "Abstimmen")
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To: the Real fifi
I asked the Admin Moderator to redo the story and sent the correction. Unfortunately, I heard it in the car and missed some of the context that Elder may or may not have discussed.
73 posted on 03/31/2004 9:08:18 PM PST by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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To: the Real fifi
Closer...

Kerry Oblivious to Malcolm X

74 posted on 03/31/2004 9:08:37 PM PST by null and void (Don't worry about what people think; they don't do it very often.)
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To: doug from upland
"He used it instead of his given last name of Little when he came out of prison"

Can't say that I blame him. It must have gotten old hearing your name called three times a day at lockdown roll call as "Little, Malcolm."

75 posted on 03/31/2004 9:08:38 PM PST by bayourod (We can depend on Scary Kerry's imaginary foreign leaders to protect us from terrorists.)
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To: doug from upland
I heard it on Hugh Hewitt today and my understanding was:

1) "That Roman Ten?" ROFLMAO (the guy continually proves himself dumber than Ted Kennedy & Dukakis & 3 shots of whiskey combined)

2) Oh, the X-Men (or X-Man ie Xavier McDaniel, basketball player)

3) Then he was told Malcomb X

76 posted on 03/31/2004 9:09:03 PM PST by Steven W.
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To: doug from upland
Sheesh what is it with you people? Read the story it was a Jean F'Kerry Triumph < /spin>

And here. Not black, not Spike Lee fan, not even murrican, and I knew about the Malcolm X cap.

77 posted on 03/31/2004 9:09:56 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ("It is always tempting to impute unlikely virtues to the cute" - Reinstated Tagline)
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To: Steven W.
Wasn't X-men a recent movie? I definitely heard "Latin" in the clip played by Elder.
78 posted on 03/31/2004 9:10:46 PM PST by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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To: Oztrich Boy
Sounds like John F'n Kerry caught Quale's hot potato
79 posted on 03/31/2004 9:11:37 PM PST by spokeshave (It is, as it was)
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To: Oztrich Boy
I put up that same link earlier.
80 posted on 03/31/2004 9:11:59 PM PST by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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