"He's the 'cotton-pickin' President"

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08-30-2010
Yonivore

"He's the 'cotton-pickin' President"

So, I can assume there'll be calls for Rick Sanchez's head...or, at the very least, his resignation from CNN. Right?
08-30-2010
clambake

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i think he was trying to use a description that southern knuckledraggers could relate to.

what do you think?
08-30-2010
clambake

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did you find it offensive?
08-30-2010
Yonivore

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Originally Posted by clambake

i think he was trying to use a description that southern knuckledraggers could relate to.

what do you think?

I think there's a double standard on offense and indignation.
08-30-2010
Winehole23

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Just a cotton-picking minute! This doesn't look like the Coachella Valley to me.

http://files6.fliiby.com/images/_thu...pwrts2ctp1.jpg
08-30-2010
fraga

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08-30-2010
jack sommerset

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Hell no it's not racist but I get the double standard. We will see if his comments gets much airtime.
08-30-2010
LnGrrrR

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At the least, it was pretty tone-deaf.
08-30-2010
DarrinS

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That's fucking hilarious.
08-30-2010
Darrin

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Originally Posted by Yonivore

So, I can assume there'll be calls for Rick Sanchez's head...or, at the very least, his resignation from CNN. Right?

He should be fired for not being very good at his job. Poor choice of words. I haven't heard "cotton-pickin'" since 1992.
08-30-2010
DarrinS

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Originally Posted by Darrin

He should be fired for not being very good at his job. Poor choice of words. I haven't heard "cotton-pickin'" since 1992.

I fucking hate this line of thinking. Anyone who says something with even a sliver of racism suddenly needs to be fired.

Does anyone really think Rick Sanchez is a racist?

All my life I've heard people say shit like, "wait a cotton-pickin minute", but I NEVER related that to slavery. Never crossed my mind.
08-30-2010
Darrin

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I fucking hate this line of thinking. Anyone who says something with even a sliver of racism suddenly needs to be fired.

Does anyone really think Rick Sanchez is a racist?

All my life I've heard people say shit like, "wait a cotton-pickin minute", but I NEVER related that to slavery. Never crossed my mind.

I don't think Rick Sanchez is good at his job. I wanted him fired before this, it is unrelated to this incident. I have heard it all the time as well. But it is a poor choice of words considering the President's ethnicity (even though his father was the first-generation). By the same token, I have heard "(n-word)-rigged" as well. It's just a poor choice of words. He's a little too "man of the people." Newscasters should be competent. He's not my cup of tea.

I'm not calling for his head for any reason related to this.
08-30-2010
DarrinS

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Originally Posted by Darrin

I don't think Rick Sanchez is good at his job. I wanted him fired before this, it is unrelated to this incident. I have heard it all the time as well. But it is a poor choice of words considering the President's ethnicity (even though his father was the first-generation). By the same token, I have heard "(n-word)-rigged" as well. It's just a poor choice of words. He's a little too "man of the people." Newscasters should be competent. He's not my cup of tea.

I'm not calling for his head for any reason related to this.

If you fired all the incompetent people in the MSM, there wouldn't be enough people to run the Democ... I mean MSM.
08-30-2010
Darrin

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If you fired all the incompetent people in the MSM, there wouldn't be enough people to run the Democ... I mean MSM.

Shall we go over the hairdos and push-up bras on Fox News?
08-30-2010
Spurminator

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Whoopsie.
08-30-2010
EmptyMan

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Originally Posted by Yonivore

So, I can assume there'll be calls for Rick Sanchez's head...or, at the very least, his resignation from CNN. Right?

lmao
08-30-2010
LnGrrrR

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

All my life I've heard people say shit like, "wait a cotton-pickin minute", but I NEVER related that to slavery. Never crossed my mind.

I didn't realize it either until I was watching a Looney Tunes, and realized what "cotton-picking varmint" must've referred to.

However, a newscasters has to be careful with what he says, for obvious reasons. I think that they're held to a slightly higher PC standard.
08-30-2010
Darrin

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Originally Posted by LnGrrrR

I didn't realize it either until I was watching a Looney Tunes, and realized what "cotton-picking varmint" must've referred to.

However, a newscasters has to be careful with what he says, for obvious reasons. I think that they're held to a slightly higher PC standard.

Not with Rick Sanchez. He's that midwest neighbor who tells it like it is. Another way for CNN to dominate the stupidity market.
08-30-2010
ChumpDumper

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Stupid thread.
08-31-2010
DMX7

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Yoni living up to his usual standard.
08-31-2010
Stringer_Bell

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

All my life I've heard people say shit like, "wait a cotton-pickin minute", but I NEVER related that to slavery. Never crossed my mind.

Then what exactly did cross your mind? Cotton picking has some other connotation?

No one will call for Sanchez's job, he's just a goober that might as well end every statement he makes with "amiright, u guyz?" He should have never been upgraded to a desk job - go back to getting hit by flying fish, tazed, and testing out escape methods for submerged cars.
08-31-2010
George Gervin's Afro

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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

Stupid thread.

the village is missing yoni today..
08-31-2010
DarrinS

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Originally Posted by Stringer_Bell

Then what exactly did cross your mind? Cotton picking has some other connotation?

No one will call for Sanchez's job, he's just a goober that might as well end every statement he makes with "amiright, u guyz?" He should have never been upgraded to a desk job - go back to getting hit by flying fish, tazed, and testing out escape methods for submerged cars.

Strange how an "off color" remark is a career ender for some, but not for others.
08-31-2010
George Gervin's Afro

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

Strange how an "off color" remark is a career ender for some, but not for others.

But it's not an off color remark...
08-31-2010
hater

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I hate that guy. Racist white hispanics are the worst kind

oh and he and his show sucks.
08-31-2010
TeyshaBlue

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Originally Posted by Stringer_Bell

Then what exactly did cross your mind? Cotton picking has some other connotation?

Actually, it had no connotation whatsoever for me until I read this thread.:depressed
08-31-2010
Stringer_Bell

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

Strange how an "off color" remark is a career ender for some, but not for others.

Strange how Dr. Laura is a creepy old cunt and Rick is harmless compared to her giving "advice" to people.

I still think Imus was unfairly persecuted, but that's just my humble opinion.
08-31-2010
Spurminator

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Yeah there's a double standard. But it's better than everyone being consistently over-sensitive across the board. As long as both sides keep trying to one-up each other on finding racism in innocent remarks, political over-correctness is here to stay.
08-31-2010
Spurminator

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Oh, and he apologized immediately after the commercial break.
08-31-2010
George Gervin's Afro

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Originally Posted by Spurminator

Oh, and he apologized immediately after the commercial break.

darrins didn't mention that.. oversight by the right wing blog he used I'm sure..
08-31-2010
Drachen

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Originally Posted by Darrin

He should be fired for not being very good at his job. Poor choice of words. I haven't heard "cotton-pickin'" since 1992.

And that was on a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon made in the 60's right?

As far as the poor choice of words, yes, in this ultra sensitive time, absolutely.
08-31-2010
Wild Cobra

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

If you fired all the incompetent people in the MSM, there wouldn't be enough people to run the Democ... I mean MSM.

Who would we laugh at?
09-01-2010
Winehole23

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You'd point and laugh at fellow partisans.
09-01-2010
Winehole23

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You already do.
09-01-2010
Darrin

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Originally Posted by Spurminator

Yeah there's a double standard. But it's better than everyone being consistently over-sensitive across the board. As long as both sides keep trying to one-up each other on finding racism in innocent remarks, political over-correctness is here to stay.

His name is Sanchez and he's given leeway to ad-lib on-air (no way that ramble and stutter is scripted). Yes, there is a double-standard. Whitey says that and isn't CNN's "street cred" with middle-America, he'd be out the door. Wolf Blitzer would be suspended because he's a reporter. Sanchez is horrible. Horrible. Fire him, but not because of this.

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