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To: kjo

Did you ever read the ‘joke’? It’s disgusting and not postable here.


4 posted on 02/02/2008 2:02:03 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

It was a leak by John Dean writing in Rolling Stone, looking for an “October surprise” in the ‘76 elections, and it worked.


5 posted on 02/02/2008 2:04:56 PM PST by jmyrlefuller (NONE OF THE ABOVE IN 2008)
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To: Borges

I did. You’re right.

OTOH, it was supposed to be “off the record”.


7 posted on 02/02/2008 2:06:40 PM PST by wolfpat (If you don't like the Patriot Act, you're really gonna hate Sharia Law.)
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To: Borges

I do remember it. It was not said in public, it was a private conversation that was overheard and happily printed in the Washington Post.

Had Butz been a Democrat it never would have seen the light of day.


8 posted on 02/02/2008 2:08:17 PM PST by kjo
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To: Borges

These people have the ‘edited’ version

http://www.answers.com/topic/earl-butz


44 posted on 02/02/2008 3:52:13 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Borges
Did you ever read the ‘joke’? It’s disgusting and not postable here.

Not only read, I've told it! It is funny. Not for this forum, of course, but it was never intended to be. It was a bit of humor that did exactly what humor does best, high-light and defuse social tensions. Obviously I would never tell it in your presence, you are way to PC and quick to judge others without understanding context or reason. But I have told it in adult, multi-ethnic groups, that is men having fun being men, with some success. And I have laughed at similar jokes. Perhaps you can join a sewing circle and discuss 'disgusting' with the other women.

Poor Earl was slandered by this joke by his politcal enemies. When you want to beat a dog, any stick will do, and this PC mantra was used on Earl. He was a decent man and a pox on the people who brought him down.

45 posted on 02/02/2008 3:56:36 PM PST by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*)
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To: Borges
Let's be honest. It's not just the black guys. Most American males' needs would be satisfied by those three things.
51 posted on 02/02/2008 4:43:52 PM PST by RichInOC (...R.I.P.)
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To: Borges

Your skin is too thin.

It was the mildest of jokes.

My Sicilian brothers can come up with something more scathing anytime and it’s against ‘our’ ‘own’ group.

Priggishness is always risible.


56 posted on 02/02/2008 5:31:14 PM PST by x1stcav (If you continually have to say you support the troops, you probably don't.)
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To: Borges
The joke was quite mild compared to what you see on MTV these days.

I remember the hatred the leftwingnuts had for him ~ pure unadulterated bigoted hatred.

Fortunately Earl isn't going to have to deal with any of them in Heaven.

59 posted on 02/02/2008 7:17:15 PM PST by muawiyah
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