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― Dan (And So On) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

"It was my dream job," he said. "Ratings were going well. It kind of stinks."

Yeah, you'd think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Aw, kike the guy some slack.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

You're making it sound like he was gypped.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Dago his job!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I honestly completely misread that as "Watch your black, Condi!"

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Wop are you talking about?

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

sucks to be him. I mean, what about his money, what about his ching chong?

― rory@, Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Seppose he were to apologise? Or would that seem niggerdly?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

did you really need to misspell that

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Yes. You see, we're making jokes where we're replacing regular words with racial insults!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

i see

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Very clever. Well done, everyone!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I think we just went through the looking glass.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Her name is Condoleezza. Why doesn't everyone call her "Condo"?

― Lando Calrissian, Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Is your name Landoleezza?

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Call me Landi.

― Lando Calrissian, Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Maybe if he wouldn't have apologized so profuesley but instead, corrected himself and moved on he would have gotten away with it.

She wants to run the NFL?!?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Cunnilingus Rice

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. Someone's watched Any Given Sunday one too many times or something.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Someone's watched Any Given Sunday one too many times or something.

That would be once, then.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

(Sorry, I just wanted to join in. Manxmen! Taffies!)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

dude can now get diagnosed with the special racial version of Tourette's & sue employer for medical discrimination

also +++ how you can take offense at that one post and, say, not the one that says "ching-chong" must make you very limber, good work

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

If not NFL commish, then what jobs are former Secretary of State/Advisor-types good for?

― kingfish da last ubermensch (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Getting kidnapped by Alan Rickman or John Malkovich.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

"Oh No, Not the one that says "ching-chong""

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

That's a job?

― kingfish da last ubermensch (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

john do you really believe that "ching chong" is a racial slur on the same hurtful level as the n-word or are you just that desperate to point out hypocrisy? apparently its more offensive than 'kike' as well?

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

President

xxx-post

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

john do you really believe that "ching chong" is a racial slur on the same hurtful level as the n-word

How offensive does a racial slur have to be before it stops being funny, +++?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't think any of these things are actually funny, FWIW.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

eth note the use of "say" in my post which means first "wow, here's something that seems to get a pass from you, big shocker there eh" and second "here's one of many at which you might have taken offense, instead of arguing for bullshit Special This-Racism-Is-More-Important-Than-Other-Racism Status, which affords the questionable epithet extra power and trivializes/condescends toward the pain & suffering of other historically-disenfranchised-by-Xian-white-people ethnicities in the bargain"

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Sam that if he hadn't been so overcompensatory himself, nobody would have given a flying fuck.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

AWWWW YEAH IT'S A RACISM THREAD -- LET'S GET DOWN TO SOME STERN MORALIZIN'!!!!

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Sam is OTM on that, most people might not have even noticed had he not kept saying it and freaking out.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

lenny bruce on lbj to thread.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

i found the original story funny cuz it actually happened & dude fucked up in a ridiculous, self revealing way

the slurs in the thread were not so funny, mostly just cuz they were labored puns, not "offensive"

jokes about racial slurs can be very very funny. i was posting about what i think is an overarching ilx trend, in threads about racism & not, where white ppl get hard at the first excuse to type the word "nigger" out, for any imaginable reason (cf an endless number of ilm arguments about censorship or the industry or something else altogether where, without fail, some corny indie fuck breaks out the "what if i called you a nigger" line as soon as possible). when i asked mark if he had to spell it that way, even though his corny joke wouldve been clear with the original spelling, i was thinking about this phenomenon

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Can we go back to where someone called Condi a big coon on live radio and just laugh at that?

― Dan (Thank You, White Guilt) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

OK for reals there is a person in the world who exists whose name is "S4ge C00n" and I know this because I helped him place an advertisement.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

omg

― Dan (Ow My Sides) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Dare I ask what was being advertised?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm just waiting until ethan finds Markelby's other joke.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

works for University of Arkansas but not in their online directory because he's not a professor and it seems to only list profs.

I have to admit it I immediately imagined I was speaking with Morgan Freeman.

xpost something about biology, Ned, I don't really remember exactly.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

apologies ethan I just get really sensitive about how it (always) seems to me that you (and for that matter lots of American progressives with whose stances I am otherwise in general accord) are willing to blow shit up over white-on-black racism but won't rep out loud for any other disenfranchised group, and will even advocate for outright racists (Ann Coulter is who I have in mind here) as long as the races or groups being targeted aren't non-black

however Dan otm, when I first read this I had the idea that Condi was a guest on the show at the time and I was like "omfg, omfg, omfg"

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I mean it's bad enough to have a last name like that but a first name like that??? I pitied him but still, wtf with his 'rents???

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

wait I got way caught up in my double negative there - are other-than-black is what I think I meant

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

where white ppl get hard at the first excuse to type the word "nigger" out

I composed a post in which I claimed I got a nice gleeful hardon from using the N-word but then I thought no, not even Ethan's going to bring up that old chestnut.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

do you honestly think im advocating ann coulter's racism?! ever read kipling or listen to ice cube? how can you advocate outright racists!!!!

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

That's a slightly different thing than what he actually said.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

ima get my chief on
while she suck my ding dong
eyes like a ching chong
hard on like king kong

putcha dick in her mouth
gimmie head til im dead

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

^^ john didnt you tell me you enjoy music by those outright racists 3-6 mafia

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget "G4y Lens3s"

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

aight goin to lunch everybody stop talkin for the next 29 minutes

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha oh yeah I forgot about that one. G4y Lens3s and S4ge C00n should form a superhero team.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Don't make me repost the screenplay

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Can I nominate M4jur Diksh1t to join that team?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha there was also a guy with the last name L0xtercock.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

The loxtercock and the electroplankton are of course natural enemies.
The only thing that stopped the constant warfare between these two
raging species of deadly venomous flaming angry death was the
intervention of the Sage Coon.
Now the time of the Sage Coon is at an end...

BUM BA DUM DUMMA DA DUM BUM DUM!!!!! BA DA DA DUM DA DUM BADA
DAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!11!1

THE INTERIOR OF A BLACKSMYTHE'S SHOPPE:

Gay Lenses:
OH BUT IF ONLY I WERE NOT A BORING AND WIMPY SON OF A COMMON BLACKSMYTHE

Blacksmythe Lenses:
SILENCE, GAY LENSES

Gay Lenses:
WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THIS ANYWAY

Blacksmythe Lenses:
LASERS IN YOUR MOUTH IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP

BUM BADA DUM BAD DUM DOOT DOOOOOooooooo!!11!

Next week: "Why We Fight"

you mean this screenplay?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

or this one?

[BUM BA DUM etc. (U.F.BLOW remix)]

THE EXTERIOR OF A BLACKSMYTHE'S SHOPPE:

Gay Lenses:
MY FATHER THE BLACKSMYTHE FINDS ME LACKING IN THE CRITICAL SKILLS

Unkempt Verloren:
LIKE NOT BEING BORING AND NOT BEING WIMPY

Gay Lenses:
YES, ALSO, WHINING A LOT. I MEAN NOT WHINING A LOT. I MEAN OH FUCK IT

Unkempt Verloren:
YOU SHOULD JOIN US IN THE ORDER OF THE HIDDEN SECRETS ABOUT LIFE GANG,
WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT SHIT, BORING AND WIMPY IS LIKE HOW YOU GET
AHEAD

Gay Lenses:
EVEN WITH THE NAME GAY LENSES

Unkempt Verloren:
CHANGE IT TO GAY RAGEBLASTER MAYBE

Gay Lenses:
I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPELL THAT

Unkempt Verloren:
IT'S EASY, P-E-Y-T-O-N M-A-N-N-I-N-G, GAY RAGEBLASTER

Gay Lenses:
SO WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

Unkempt Verloren:
WE FIGHT FOR SECRETS. WANT TO KNOW ONE?

Gay Lenses:
OKAY!

Unkempt Verloren:
THE SAGE COON IS ABOUT TO DIE AND THERE IS NO-ONE TO REPLACE HIM

Gay Lenses:
THE WHOLE VILLAGE KNOWS ABOUT THAT. WE'RE FUCKED, LOXTERCOCKS AND
ELECTROPLANKTON AND ALL THAT. THAT'S NOT A SECRET AT ALL.

Unkempt Verloren:
OH, WHOOPS. WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER ONE?

Gay Lenses:
OKAY!

Unkempt Verloren:
THERE ACTUALLY IS SOMEBODY WHO COULD REPLACE THE SAGE COON AND I'M ON
A MISSION TO FIND HIM.

Gay Lenses:
OH MY GOD

Unkempt Verloren:
YEAH

Gay Lenses:
WHAT'S HIS NAME?

Unkempt Verloren:
PEYTON MANNING

[BA DA DA DOOOOOOT DOOOOOOOT etc.(Ice Cremix)]

Next Week: "Who Are We Fighting"

You never told us who are we fighting ;_;

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

update: the dude was also fired from his job as an anatomy professor (!!) at a chiropractic college.

They had this guy on the local news last night, apparently he also had hopes of going into politics someday, like he wanted to be a senator? Radio people are so fucking weird. Also st louis people seem to get exceptionally bent out of shape about race but unfortunately it's often because there's a lot to get bent out of shape about.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

an anatomy professor (!!) at a chiropractic college

Somehow none of this surprises me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I want to act in Ally's screenplay.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

It's a work of art.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

the new dog latin

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh please.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Dude, this is kind of over the top. It was an obvious flub, it was clear what he meant to say, it didn't even make sense, he immediately apologized. Yeesh, people.

― Mitya (mitya), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

OTM Mitya, like none of us have have ever made a weird slip. Remember when Condi referred to George W as "my husband"??

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Now that is everyday creepy behavior.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

roffle @ that movie script

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard anyone use the word "coon" as a derogatory racial term, except perhaps in old movies. It always seemed fairly archaic to me.

I think the radio announcer made a mistake by repeating the word and calling attention to it, as if for comedic effect. If he'd just immediately corrected himself and gone on, instead of trying to milk it for laughs, then I doubt there would have been any uproar.

There's a tie shop that's been in Penn Station in NYC for years called "Tie Coon" - which I suppose is a pun on the word "tycoon". They have a big sign which thousands of people walk past every day. As far as I know there's never been any protest about it.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

update: the dude was also fired from his job as an anatomy professor (!!) at a chiropractic college.

Did he wonder why bones are white?

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

theres a thai restaurant in north atlanta called THAI COON

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

You have to be so careful how you spic nowadays.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

you're all acting like self righteous freudian fuckwads - a slip of the tongue leads to a very embarassing very serious & very public racial slur & he's wrong to call attention to its magnitude (and to 'try to milk it for humor' - no irony there i guess)?? i feel sorry for the guy. although maybe less so if he's in chiropracty.

― maine coon, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Keep on thinking that's what this thread is about, cat fan.

― Dan ("Maine Coon") Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Which national american sports league should Condi run?

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

this weekend I am going to meet a family relative who's in the Secret Service and is reportedly a regular member of Condi's security detail.

So post any questions you think I should ask about her...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

1. Is her hair really a helmet?

― Dan (For Starters) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I had to go get dental work done now I'm back to be all boring about stuff again! - to be honest ethan "Death Certificate" was the last Cube album I bought new, precisely because I could sorta make myself ok with the misogyny in his stuff up to that point (Cube's persona seemed at least self-aware & somewhat self-critical about that issue) but "Black Korea" & "Horny Little Devil" were too much for me: I didn't buy the then-current collegiate-lefty postion that racism is only & always about power & that therefore a disenfranchised minority being racist was somehow un-racist. As for Coulter, her racism is part & parcel of her ideology, so when you advocate for her shit (as you have, by excusing it on the grounds that it's funny, "provocative," whatever), the racism comes with the bathwater, and that what yr reppin by big-upping Coulter, just as if you hear somebody praising Kipling to the skies without at least mentioning his virulent racism, yr bullshit detector maybe oughta chirp a little

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

(Death Certificate is a totally amazing album - but its true I usually skip Black Korea and Horny Lil Devil. Cave Bitch off Lethal Injection is also a bit much to take.)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I love the fact that the man responsible for Death Certificate is also responsible for "Are We There Yet?"

― Dan (Two Great Tastes!) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

when have i avoided mentioning ann coulter's racism?

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

i mean yeah american conservative mag is pretty interesting too but i wont deny buchanans a nazi

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

ditto kipling, celine, wagner, etc

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

you don't avoid mentioning her racism, you've just claimed it's "funny" on a lot of occasions so I guess that's where the confusion comes from.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

where have i claimed her racism is funny? you mean the anti-arab stuff right? can you show me?

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

the new pinefox

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Wow this thread suddenly got awesome.

― Dan (Pistols At Dawn) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

more movie scripts, plz

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Please, even in sarcasm, don't say stuff like that.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I have no more movie scripts right now :(

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Chill Dom, i was just asking for some fucking movie scriptz.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

fav coulter post ever-

"Welllllllcome to the Crrrrypt! I hope you find the accomodations TREASONABLE! Eeee-heeheeheehee!"

-- Nate Patrin (natepatrin550...), August 28th, 2003.

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

i really think ann coulter is usually being alot funnier and cleverer than most of her boring detractors will give her credit for so they 'stoop to her level' in a really cringey unfunny way and the whole thing just comes off really bitter and unpleasant. look at her posing at mccarthys tombstone up top- yall dont think she knew that was funny? in the midst of all the dem blog shrieking about her being the skinny hideous bitch antichrist cunt blah blah blah in reality shes just a sarcastic right-moderate who discovered she had a knack for comedy writing and constructed a sexy blonde archie bunker persona to cash in
-- _ (...), October 12th, 2005.

...I mean, if there were some other outright racist whose work you routinely parsed & praised while ignoring, or soft-pedaling, the big ol' non-white-hating elephant in the room...but here, a person who would publicly call an Arab a "towelhead" gets recast as a "sarcastic right-moderate who discovered she had a knack for comedy writing and constructed a sexy blonde archie bunker persona" which is sorta like saying "he took on a traditional southern gentleman persona" when what you mean is that the guy you're talking about is actually the Grand Wizard

I'll have you know I hadda comb through a whole lotta really divisive threads to grab a bit from which I could extrapolate something constructive instead of just argumentative/incendiary, so gimme love

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

But no. You don't specifically defend her racism, which is right there on the surface for all to see. You just ignore it, which is uncharacteristic for you, since normally, if there's even a hint of racism, you home in on it like smart bomb.

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.voccoquan.com/SteveR/images/condi%20rice.jpg

― Dan (NO LOVE FOR YOU) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

...also, you boldfaced & id'd as "roffles" some of her most racist writing ever (on the "Ann Coulter Is Pretty" thread). It was very rofflicious, the way she fucking dismisses entire cultures for laughs from her position of white privilege.

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Dan that was a low blow, Condi is way prettier than that

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

holy shit that picture is terrifying

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

haha that patrin post is awesome as hell

ethan yr anne coulter love came up in a conversation BIZARREly enough yesterday! i just figured you like them bony indie rock white chix types. anyhow you going to the games tonight? keep an eye peeled for me there if you are, i'll buy you a pretzel or something. thomas i'm sorry but i'm going to be booing the hell out of yr bluedevils.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

she looks like a goddamn komodo dragon in that pic

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

This is the most revealing (and hilarious) part of that story to me:

He said he never uses the slur he uttered...

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

we can at least support her Condi-boots, right?

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Duke 32-3
LSU 25-8

Louisiana's gonna need your support jb! And a hell of lot more defense

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

dude blount he's right.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

i rep NC too

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

& john i hate to say this cuz i hate everybody else who ever does but my ignoring coulters racism was for the sake of "trolling" not an actual oversight

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

GAMES

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

ethan we know, we just wanted to hear you say it.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

allysayid

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

This is really weird! Okay because "coon" is both (a) seemingly too archaic to be right in the front of your mind, plus (b) a pretty short common sound, the sort of thing that could easily plop out of your mouth by accident. Okay BUT: look at the words he's saying! It really is pretty weird for him to have made that mistake! I mean, if he were trying, for some reason, to say "tie coup," then the mistake would make total sense. Or if he were trying to say "rack coup." But saying "big coon" is actually sort of harder and more tongue-twistery than saying "big coup!" So I can see why it might seem totally Freudian.

I think the other thing to remember is that given the personalities and rhetorical techniques of a lot of "provocative" broadcasters, it's not surprising that the station would go zero-tolerance about this sort of thing -- it basically saves them the trouble or having to adjudicate the issue every time some DJ shoots off some "accidental" meanness and then plays innocent about it. It also fits with broadcast standards in general -- e.g., if you curse on air, the FCC fines you whether it was an accident or not. Part of the job description of being an on-air personality is that you're responsible for content and can't make big problematic slips.

Sucks for this guy, though, even if it really was some subconscious slip.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

"She's been chancellor of Stanford," Lenihan said on the air. "She's got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon. A big coon. Oh my God. I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that."

― Dan (GIGGLETITS) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I got about halfway through the story before I realized that the link said said "djfired.rice" rather than "djfriedrice", assuming that was his on-air moniker.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

In other news, carpenter Ron Alvarez lost a racial discrimination suit against his employer. Lawyers for Alvarez, who is Mexican-American, described the decision as a big wetback -- I mean setback! Sorry, I meant setback!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

BIGOT!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh hey by the way, while we're at it we should totally talk about this incident in -- is it New Jersey or Staten Island? Can't find any info on it, suddenly. The gist is that some city official is speaking in a meeting of some sort, and she's listing people she's wants to do something or other, and they both have Italian names. Someone jokes: "Do you hate Italians?" Everyone laughs.

Later on, the woman's husband is talking about something else, and someone asks him why he's said something or other and he jokes: "It's because I hate Italians." Everyone laughs again.

Shortly thereafter, local Italian-American groups are calling for the woman to resign.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Dan is OTM, I can't stop laughing about that shit, it really is like the dude's inner obnoixious sixth-grader took over his brain for a fatal sixty seconds

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I love that he said it twice!

"A big coon. Oops, I meant a big coon. Oh crap, I keep saying 'coon' when I meant to say 'coon'. OH SHIT; French is hard :(."

― Dan (Sorry, I Meant "Porch Monkey"... DAMMIT!) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

The funny thing is is that the guy only has about three years radio experience, all at this kind of low-rent AM job--he got this high-profile gig two weeks ago when this station (recently bought by the cardinals) blew out most of their old talent to go in an 'edgier' direction.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha. Got what they paid for!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

This thread is bringing back a lot of stupid O.J. jokes from my memory.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

well I mean that's the other funny thing. The main funny thing is what Dan said.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I work with a J0e C00n who is definitely white. I'm also told some family friend took my dad to some place (in Nebraska?) called "Coon's Chicken" where they threw leftover chicken outside, letting customers see the rather large (and obese) raccoon population come eat.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

"where they threw leftover chicken outside, letting customers see the rather large (and obese) raccoon population come eat."

Nebraskans might need to raise their entertainment standards, methinks...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

"you should have a hat hard on. what am I saying?! I mean a hat hard on. I've said it again!"

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Now that IS a doglatin script!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/8453/niger25wj.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

NUH-UH!

― Dan (O.M.G.) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

he didn't 'say it twice'. he repeated his mistake to call attention to it because he realized he fucked up terribly. whatever, i don't know the guy & maybe he really is a racist ass or something but it seems perfectly natural & human & a shitty way to go.

― joykilller, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Innis

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Of course naming your child 'Niger' is a great idea and not problematic at all.

― elmo, holy helper (allocryptic), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Um. Do I really have to point out that if he repeated the mistake, he said it twice? I mean, really.

That Niger Innis incident is (hopefully) an amazing example of The Revenge Of The Spellchecker.

― Dan (To Err Is Cracker. Cracker. Oh My God.) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

do i have to point out that that's not what you were pointing out before? i mean just supposing it WAS an innocent slip, how the fuck would anyone honestly handle that? just bypass it as if it wasn't the least bit charged like ppl are suggesting upthread? i don't think so. [i liked the 'that isn't what this thread is about' tack better]

― joyk, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

My basic point right now is that if you're going to be a pedantic ass, it would best serve you to do so in a manner that didn't actually contradict stated facts as you would then look like you had a point or aim beyond being a dumbass.

― Dan (I Bet Niger Has A Brother Named Dirkie) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

ignore tactics.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

who the fuck is being a pedantic ass, here, dude?

― joyk, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Your momma.

― Dan (OH SNAP) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

As a 'professional' broadcaster, I think he should have known enough NOT to draw excess attention to his mistake. He should have finished what remarks he had prepared, and then interject a brief apology for the slip up and NOT harp on it.

― elmo, holy helper (allocryptic), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Dan (To Err Is Cracker. Cracker. Oh My God.) Perry

rofflesauce

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

No but that's the thing, there's definitely two ways this went down:

Dude makes the mistake, is so amazed at what he just said that he says it to himself again, only out loud.

Dude makes the mistake, quickly decides to say what he was going to say and hope no-one notices, but the speech bit of his brain is still going "Dude, did you see that?" and he says the same thing again. Shortly afterwards, he realises that his career in broadcasting is over.

Obviously I'm hoping for the second scenario (known to scientists as the "Homer and the Toaster") for hilariousness reasons.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

it takes strength to be gentle & kind, dan.

it seems clear to me it's the first & elmo i think that ignores how talk radio actually works (there's a pretty good chance there weren't much in the way of 'prepared remarks' right?). anyway carry on, it's a pain to be bothered i know but i just think this would be funnier if dude hadn't lost his job over it.

― awful troll, Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Darwinism in action, dude.

― elmo, holy helper (allocryptic), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

quickly decides to say what he was going to say

By this I mean he's tring to say "big coon, uh, big coup and..." which possibly isn't that clear.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2733/koonmichaelthumb1qd.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Wait, dudes, I think I figured it out: COUP + BOON?

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 24 March 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/03.06.02/gifs/coup-0210.jpg
http://www.ready-steady-go.org.uk/boon1.JPG

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

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