Is Condi falling apart? Just saw her on Olbermann

[CatWoman]

and her hair was all over the place :rofl:

A chocolate Phyllis Diller, if you will :rofl:

I've NEVER seen her look so, um, er, out of place :rofl:

[babylonsister]

1. "A chocolate Phyllis Diller..."

:rofl:

[Rick Myers]

5. OMG, That is FUNNY!!!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[sarge43]

11. But an insult to chocolate. n/t

[alittlelark]

23. Also an insult to Phyllis n/t

[sarge43]

42. Almost any comparison to that pack is insulting.

They are, in their horrible way, unique.

[Snotcicles]

47. OT Phyllis Diller once said " I thought Roe versus Wade was about two guys and a canoe" nt

[Bonobo]

2. Too bad for her. The mask must be slipping...

[TwilightGardener]

3. She really should consider stepping down. Her Department was insanely

incompetent, if not criminal, in its security abuses.

[grannylib]

4. I've never thought she had it together. She's so lacking in credibility

and her manner is just...I don't even know the word for it, other than phony as hell...

[indepat]

6. Well at least Condi's always worn nice shoes

[CatWoman]

7. I agree, however, she did always manage to "look" the part

today she looked like she had stuck her finger into an electrical outlet :rofl:

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[CatWoman]

10. where;'s Brer Rabbit when you need him?

:rofl:

[JohnnyLib2]

14. Please note

"Tarbaby" is a controversial term.

[libnnc]

16. It's a racist term.

[JohnnyLib2]

18. That's my understanding.

Startling to find it here, literary reference aside.

[tachyon]

28. Your understanding obviously does not include American literature.

...

[JohnnyLib2]

32. Years ago, I was rebuked for using the word (from Brer Rabbit)

just like you did. I had unintentionally stepped on toes, so to speak. If you do a very quick Google search or look at a slang dictionary, you'll see why I said "controversial."

I'll drop this now.

[ThomWV]

19. It was a character in a childs story when I was a kid

And it taught the lesson to mind one's own business. The point of the tar baby was that if you touched it you got stuck in the tar and no matter what you did you could not disenguage yourself. At least that is how it was read to me as a child, back in the 50's.

[tachyon]

30. That is ALL it ever was. But leave it to a bunch of politically-corretness

thin-skinned whiny assholes to take HUGH umbrage at an innocuous piece of American literature and turn it into some idiotic icon of imaginary racism. This place sure has a bunch of dumb fucks at times.

[SpiralHawk]

38. Well, republicons get all snarly when you point out how many CHICKENHAWKS

they worship as leaders.

Thus, republicon homelanders whine not about 'political correctness, but about 'correctness' when people use the accurate term chickenhawk to describe them...

So, there you have it...

[Sabriel]

46. Some say "PC," some say "cultural sensitivity"

Care to guess which one is the conservative preference?

[tachyon]

49. It doesn't matter. "cultural sensitivity" is just another neologism adopted by

a group who can never find enough reasons to be oppressed or take yes for an answer.

[Gormy Cuss]

48. The dumb fucks who started using the term to describe black children are to blame

not some politically correct, thin-skinned whiny assholes. Thank racists for divorcing the term from the story.

[tachyon]

51. I guess I better not tell you who first started with that usage.

You wouldn't like it.

[Gormy Cuss]

54. Who started using the term as a racial epithet?

That is what you're not going to say, right? Because that's exactly what's under discussion.

[FloridaJudy]

34. Me too, though the lesson

I got out of it was about reacting in anger - the character attacks the tar baby for not doing what he wants, and gets stuck - and not thinking things through. Too bad it's now got racial overtones, because there's a valuable lesson there for the present Administration.

[Wizard777]

36. Disney even made it into a movie. Called Song Of The South with Uncle Remus.

Now Disney has that locked away in the vault never to be released again. Like they had named the Black Character Uncle Tom instead of Uncle Remus.

[tomg]

40. Actually, compared to Uncle Remus,

Uncle Tom was Nat Turner. I saw the movie when I was a kid, and then again in the late 60s ( that weird blend of cartoon and live action - we used to sing "Zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee ay / My oh my I am stoned today/ Ate too much sunshine, now I'm trippin away/ Zipa dee do dah, zipa dee ay - loved those bluebirds). Even from the beginning when it was made, there was quite a bit of controversy surrounding it.

It has been rated as one of the top 25 controversial movies at movies.com http://movies.go.com/feature?featureid=886352 and is right between "Birth of a Nation" #4 and "Last Tango in Paris" at #6, although whether it is controversial due to the content or the refusal to release it isn't clear.

[Wizard777]

55. It says Disney is mulling over a DVD release here in America and I hope they do.

Yes the movie shows a positive relationship between a slave and a slave owner. But Schindlers List shows a positive relationship between a Nazi and Jews in a death camp. Sometimes people can pull some good out of really bad situations. I think both movie show that.

Btw, I always thought it was zippity-do-dah. LOL

[libodem]

50. Yes

We were also read Little Black Sambo back then too. I think has been eliminated as well as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. My we are so PC that all cultural references to how the times were must be eliminated. I think it's foolish and overkill. Life was, as it was, back then and to deny it or rewrite it takes away the lessons from the past. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. I think denying reality is bogus and makes life an illusion. The damn tar-baby was a decoy to get people who touched it stuck on it. Are we going to get rid of all the old movies where African Americans are portrayed in roles as butlers and maids? It may not have been right but that's how it was. Should we pretend that they were not brought here in derogation as slaves. Oh, sure we invited them to tea and asked them if they would mind pouring. We better hide the bottle of Mrs Butterworths while we are at it. It's a damn hard job to be good at this flaming white liberal stuff. But, oh, how we try. Ban Gone With the Wind, I say, Topsy, acts like a fool!!!!

[tachyon]

26. Only to illiterate morons.

...

[tomg]

41. Not really.

While I would not say it is a racist term, as such, it does have a complex history to it. Words are not static in their conotations, contexts, or the intentions of the speaker. They evolve, accrue meanings, shed others. You are right that it begins with Uncle Remus stories, in fact it is in "The Wonderful Tar-Baby." When I've taught Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" I've had my students read that tale because of its conclusion - "born and bed in a briar patch" - and because of the complex place that some oral tales have as they are appropriated. Walker re-appropriates that tale brillantly in The Color Purple when Mary Agnes goes to the white sheriff.

Whether is is Joel Chandler Harris approrpiating slave tales ( many of which were coded methods of resistance or songs on how to escape), that were appropriated by Disney, that were reused by Walker; or the Marx Brothers in their "Who dat Man" sequence from a Day at the Races; or Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks - it really isn't about "political correctness." For me, it is one of the reasons that we go back and look at this stuff over and over again. Just sayin.

[tachyon]

27. Yeah, like "evolution" is controversial...because a few loudmouth assholes SAY

it's controversial.

[lonestarnot]

17. WTF? Not funny.

[tachyon]

29. I guess you're right. Chocolate Phyllis Diller is hilarious, though.

jeezusfuckingchrist...
:eyes:

[Kittycat]

9. But what brand of shoes was she wearing?

[CatWoman]

13. Bruno Magli?

:rofl:

[Neecy]

12. I noticed that

It was almost like the photographers caught Bush & Condi right after a major clutch sesssion.

[Clear Blue Sky]

15. Maybe more to this passport fiasco than meets the eye.

[peacetalksforall]

20. Privatization - loyalty to the politicians who gave the multimultimult million dollars contracts.

Screw the people.

You can bet that saying that McCain was snooped was an after word-after fact concoction. What crap transparency.

[kestrel91316]

21. GOT PICS? I gotta see this.

[Supersedeas]

39. is there a video link?

[CatWoman]

45. ....

http://news.google.com/news?q=condi+rice&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

click on: Condi Rice Puts End to Presidential Candidate "Breach Envy"

[Elidor]

22. DUzy!

"A chocolate Phyllis Diller..."

:omg:

:rofl:

Let that phrase live in the DU lexicon forever.

[Ilsa]

24. Condi has no where to go when this long gig is over. I heard that

her former university, Stanford, told her flat out they didn't want her back.

I'm hoping there is some small creepy university in Hellhole Texas where she'll get a gig teaching Russian language to 18 years old who don't give a rat's ass for only 38,000 a year.

Ilsa
Living in Right-wing Hell, Texas

[Divernan]

31. Maybe she can be W's personal assistant/secretary.

[Richardo]

25. courtesy of seemslikeadream

:rofl:

[seemslikeadream]

52. Had to do another one

:hi:

[Iwillnevergiveup]

33. Great Condi website

sparklepony.blogspot.com

HIE-larious!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

35. Does that make Dubya Fang?

weeeeeee

:rofl: :hi: :loveya: :hug:

[trumad]

37. I think Condi is banging the Juice?

They had a drunken weekend together.

[CatWoman]

44. ooooooooooooooooo

good one!!!

:rofl:

[arthritisR_US]

43. I've never thought of her as being together in the first place. n/t

[seemslikeadream]

53. IS THERE A PICTURE OF HER ON OLBERMANN??

[spanone]

56. i hope so, no one deserves a breakdown more.

you know, killin' feriners is hard werk

[Octafish]

57. They must've told her there's no room for her in Paraguay.

Rev. Moon says she'll have to marry who he says.