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'Time' Reporter: Biden Blooper No Prob, GOP Senator's Internet Description Is
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 07/07/2006 6:38:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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Biden, um, plug to Today show list ;-)
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:40:10 AM PDT
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
You cannot go into a Dunkin Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent.
Sounds like Biden has never been to Dunkin Donuts or 7-Eleven. Not good enough for him, no doubt.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:41:42 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Funny, didn't see any of this in the MSM.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
"The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material." Not prose for the ages, granted. But I don't think anyone believes Stevens was suggesting the internet is actually composed of tubes. Seems that he had the concept of a pipeline in mind, a first-in-first-out protocol. In any case, certainly nothing offensive, other perhaps than to some San Francisco techno geeks.
I'm a tech geek (though thankfully not from San Fran), and I actually think it's a reasonable analogy in trying to explain bandwidth capacity to non-technical folks.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:43:46 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(Posting snarky comments so you don't have to)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Biden told an Indian political activist: You cannot go into a Dunkin Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent.
This sounds like criticism (like: you can't enter blabla unless you're white). Was it critical?
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:43:50 AM PDT
by
AntiGovernment
(A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.)
To: Brilliant
Sounds like Biden has never been to Dunkin Donuts or 7-Eleven. Don't know about Dunkin Donuts, but you'd better have a Pakistani accent in a 7-Eleven.
Given tensions between India and Pakistan, one would think this would cause Biden more problems (among the Indian and Pakistani communities) than just the general "racist" nature of his remarks.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:46:13 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(Posting snarky comments so you don't have to)
To: kevkrom
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I actually think it's a reasonable analogy in trying to explain bandwidth capacity to non- technical folks. I agree. I see nothing wrong with it.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:46:27 AM PDT
by
BlessedBeGod
(Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
To: kevkrom
I think he was comparing the I'net to the tubes at the bank's drive-thru lanes that you put you check or deposit slip into where it's sucked up into the bank in line.............
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:46:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Follow an IROC long enough and sooner or later you will wind up in a trailer park..........)
To: Brilliant
Thank you, come again. ("Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle")
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:47:10 AM PDT
by
LS
To: Brilliant
That's pretty amazing . . . those three folks chattering in Spanish behind the counter yesterday at Dunkin Donuts were Indian?
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:47:24 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: kevkrom
Thanks, I understood the 'tubes' comment as my husband has used that same analogy to explain why my emails get delayed on occasion.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:48:49 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
To: Red Badger
Alaskan pipeline exposure?
Could be tubes, pipes, .... he (sort of) has the meaning.
Notice that she BACKS AWAY from the racist/Indian-Pakastani topic completely.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:49:21 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
You have to have an Indian accent?
"Me want 'em Marlboro and firewater. Give wampum."
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:49:21 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
![](http://kellyanncollins.com/site_files/misc_pics/4_jessica_cutler.jpeg)
The Wonkette of Time taking a note.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:50:31 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: AntiGovernment
No, he was trying to tell the guy that he had many "Indian-American" constituents and that they were a growing part of the Delaware population. It was not intended to be criticism, it was a condescending compliment. Kind of like telling Jesse Jackson "you know, I really liked that Sammy Davis, Jr.".
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:50:40 AM PDT
by
mak5
To: Brilliant
Am I a bad person because I laughed?
But seriously, screw Biden and screw Wankette. They're both about the worst of their respective class.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Nevertheless, Cox was of the opinion that Stevens' remark was more likely to prove damaging than Biden's to their respective careers.. OK, I give and I admit
I don't get why Steven's comments are damaging
As for Biden .. he's a Democrat and dems are awlays allowed to insult anyone they want and get away with it
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:51:27 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePb6H-j51xE&search=Democrats)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Isn't Cox Wonkette? If so, anything she says should be dismissed as irrelevant and ignored. She's 80% ego, 15% false bravado, and 5% unfunny dirty jokes.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:52:17 AM PDT
by
RabidBartender
(an ex-fan of the Dixie Chicks)
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