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

[TeyshaBlue]

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.

[Stringer_Bell]

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

Strange how Dr. Laura is a creepy old 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.

[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.

[Spurminator]

Oh, and he apologized immediately after the commercial break.

[George Gervin's Afro]

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..

[Drachen]

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.

[Wild Cobra]

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?

[Winehole23]

You'd point and laugh at fellow partisans.

[Winehole23]

You already do.

[Darrin]

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.