1987 Sean Connery "Just like a Wop to bring a knife to a gunfight"

[grasswire]

Movie: The Untouchables
Character: Malone

Is that the origin of the quote?

[WinkyDink]

1. Yes.

[marmar]

2. It is from that movie........is there a reason you're asking?

nt

[Uzybone]

3. this is another lipstick on a pig

the RW will make it sound as if Obama was the first to use a colloquialism if they can spin it to their advantage.

[htuttle]

4. The phrase 'bringing a knife to a gunfight' is a lot older than that

Wouldn't be surprised if it dates back to the American West.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Some legends say that ancient aliens uttered that same phrase to neanderthals. n/t

[Colonel Bat Guano]

6. "The Chicago way"

Much earlier in the movie, Connery lectures Costner about how tough he has to be for the job. "If they bring a knife, you bring a gun. They put one of yours in hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue. That's the Chicago way." Probably easy to find on YouTube.

Not a great choice for Obama to use a variant of that in a speech. I'm guessing in context, he might have been giving the speech in Chicago? Or flaunting his Chicago toughness or something?

[Uzybone]

8. context

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/obama-we-bring-a-gun/


Senator Barack Obama was fund-raising Friday night in Philadelphia. But he was talking about “the Chicago way.”

Channeling the mob drama, “The Untouchables,” Mr. Obama said in reference to the general election rumble with the Republicans: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”

[guitar man]

7. I remember my dad saying it

When I was a little kid, late 60s-early 70s

[grasswire]

9. I should note that no disrespect was meant to those of Italian descent.

The movie might have been disrespectful, but I meant none by quoting Connery's line here.