We now have the employee of the Tennessee legislature who circulated a racist e-mail. It in essence pictures Obama as a spook. The question arises whether such a person, paid with taxpayer funds, should retain her job. Her superior punished her by putting a reprimand in her personnel file. This is a tough question; i. e., do you destroy someone's career for sending out such an e-mail.
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There should be some strict laws against anyone who makes fun of or otherwise attacks the Presidency. I heard someone say-"I am not going to make a long speech. I will be niggardly. I cannot put up with someone who de nigrates the President of the USA."
dlowan wrote:Do you really think this a Palin publicity stunt?
I don't for a moment believe that anything was concerted between Letterman and Palin, but i do think Palin's handlers are attempting to milk this for all it's worth. There is precious little they can do, otherwise, to keep her goofy mug before the public.
We now have the employee of the Tennessee legislature who circulated a racist e-mail. It in essence pictures Obama as a spook. The question arises whether such a person, paid with taxpayer funds, should retain her job. Her superior punished her by putting a reprimand in her personnel file. This is a tough question; i. e., do you destroy someone's career for sending out such an e-mail.
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There should be some strict laws against anyone who makes fun of or otherwise attacks the Presidency. I heard someone say-"I am not going to make a long speech. I will be niggardly. I cannot put up with someone who de nigrates the President of the USA."
It was retarded enough the first time.
Setanta wrote:
dlowan wrote:Do you really think this a Palin publicity stunt?
I don't for a moment believe that anything was concerted between Letterman and Palin, but i do think Palin's handlers are attempting to milk this for all it's worth. There is precious little they can do, otherwise, to keep her goofy mug before the public.
Oh, I'd not considered Letterman in on it. I'd more meant the milking as the stunt...though...to be fair...is Palin doing a lot of ther milking, beyond saying she disapproved (which she had every right to do, I think), and her lunatical fans are doing the rest?
Quote:s Palin doing a lot of ther milking . . . and her lunatical fans are doing the rest?
That's probably a realistic assessment, but i suspect that her handlers are whipping up the frenzy of a tempest in a teapot as much as they can.
best analysis yet on slate. it ends:
Quote:I would be remiss if I didn't add that The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious teems with the kind of sexist humor that makes Letterman's foray into dirty jokes about sex with Alaskan teens seem tame by comparison. But the enduring point Freud would argue is that one guy's "just a joke" is a sucker punch to someone else's id. We can't ever resolve the question of when "just kidding" becomes bilious psychopathology, because jokes will never fit neatly into just one category or the other. Freud also has a lot to say about the differences between the intent of the jokester and the perception of the listener, something Letterman learned the hard way this week. But in the end, we may be forever doomed to read more into jokes than we do into other types of declarations precisely because jokes originate from—and are directed to—that part of us with no real sense of humor.
Were Freud alive today, he would also tell you that it's no accident the Letterman-Palin fracas ultimately bogged down in mutual self-righteous claims that jokes about sex with so-and-so are simply never funny. But, then, Freud would also be the first to insist that's why these are the funniest jokes of all
http://www.slate.com/id/2220710/pagenum/2
Mr. Senility wrote:
That's probably a realistic assessment, but i suspect that her handlers are whipping up the frenzy of a tempest in a teapot as much as they can.
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If we were talking about Obama, Setanta would say--I suspect that his STAFF is whipping up the frenzy--etc.
If we were talking about Schwartznegger, Setanta would say--I suspect that his cronies are whipping up a frenzy.
BUT, Setanta the senile, uses a pejorative when he talks about Palin--He said=
" I suspect that her HANDLERS are whipping up a frenzy"
Which Handlers? Does she have handlers? How do you know? Do you have proof?
We now have the employee of the Tennessee legislature who circulated a racist e-mail. It in essence pictures Obama as a spook. The question arises whether such a person, paid with taxpayer funds, should retain her job. Her superior punished her by putting a reprimand in her personnel file. This is a tough question; i. e., do you destroy someone's career for sending out such an e-mail.
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There should be some strict laws against anyone who makes fun of or otherwise attacks the Presidency. I heard someone say-"I am not going to make a long speech. I will be niggardly. I cannot put up with someone who de nigrates the President of the USA."
