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nucular option.
I've said it before, but I forget if I did so here:
The term "Politically Correct" was last used without irony on June 23, 1993.
Since then, it's been used to justify every hateful, petty, racist, bigoted, short-sighted and close-minded statement uttered through human lips.
"It may not be (finger motion)Politically Correct(more wiggling fingers), but killing Tutsis makes damn good sense to me.
Hey, I'm just telling it like it is!"
Finally, someone expressed it in a way I appreciate:
The rest is here:
http://bobanddavid.com/david.asp
I don't know if I've ever seen either LtCG or David Cross perform, but this makes me want to see both.
The term "Politically Correct" was last used without irony on June 23, 1993.
Since then, it's been used to justify every hateful, petty, racist, bigoted, short-sighted and close-minded statement uttered through human lips.
"It may not be (finger motion)Politically Correct(more wiggling fingers), but killing Tutsis makes damn good sense to me.
Hey, I'm just telling it like it is!"
Finally, someone expressed it in a way I appreciate:
"Okay, here's what I said in the RS interview: "He's good at what he does. It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor -- which people like in America - all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel, selling-ring tones-act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride."-David Cross, in an Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy
The rest is here:
http://bobanddavid.com/david.asp
I don't know if I've ever seen either LtCG or David Cross perform, but this makes me want to see both.
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I've been wrong before, though.
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The paragraph in particular just struck me :)
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Gotcha. Keep me posted. I'd rather cry on Phaedra than Tom - she smells better.
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If someone uses a nonoffensive vocabulary that person is considerate, not PC. If someone has a heavy-handed agenda that person is narrow-minded, not PC. Unless you mean Providence College, PC is as meaningless as the president's apology for slavery. Maybe PE should be on the radio and not just in the African-American Norton Anthology.
--MC Paul Barman, "Anarchist Bookstore Part 1"
/joe
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LtCG I could take or leave from the stuff I've seen. I'm usually irritated or bored within 10 minurtes.
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Right on! oh sorry,
left on, and for my fellow libertarians,
fence-sitters unite!
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But it's definately worth your while to screen Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
I know they were showing it in HBO a lot.
Though Larry is annoyingly funny Hue and I much prefer the dude who's always drinking whiskey.
I can't remember his name, but he made us laugh.
Oh and the crass comercialism of LTCG is obnoxious: In Valdosta you couldn't find a gas station or convienience store that *didn't* have some shit that said Get-Er-Done or whatever.
I don't even know what that means but apparently my red-kneck associates do...
whiskey-drinkin' mofo
WOO HOO!
Caught him live a couple of times.
Funny as hell, he is.
Re: whiskey-drinkin' mofo
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Come watch Lori attempt to remain standing while she shoots it. (Scott, you too?)
Barring that (out of the house is GOOD), is tonight's shindig private?
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