Did you ever read the ‘joke’? It’s disgusting and not postable here.
It was a leak by John Dean writing in Rolling Stone, looking for an “October surprise” in the ‘76 elections, and it worked.
I did. You’re right.
OTOH, it was supposed to be “off the record”.
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.
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.
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.
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.