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203006http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q132/15/2008 11:39:34 AM2008-02-15T11:39:34+01:00202802http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q122/15/2008 3:04:25 AM2008-02-15T03:04:25+01:00202799http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q11
He referred to the bill as 'baby' and called it "black" and "a dark, ugly thing". He never mentioned a black baby, nor did he use any explicitly racial terms.

Just another example of mincing a quote and then blowing it way out of proportion. Makes for a good headline I guess.]]>2/15/2008 2:49:13 AM2008-02-15T02:49:13+01:00202795http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q10
kinda like when someone calls someone else "black" hearted...black-referring to someone's wicked disposition-not race]]>2/15/2008 2:25:27 AM2008-02-15T02:25:27+01:00202771http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q9
He didn't say, "this baby is African American." He said, "This baby is black. It is a dark, ugly thing." If you pop "black" into dictionary.com--oh, here I'll do it for you:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=black

You'll see that there are 19 adjectival definitions for black, of which I'd say six or seven are possibly fitting interpretations. And one of those 19 is "African-American". Now, I'm not saying Buttars isn't a racist son of a b***h; I'm just saying there is a completely legitimate, non-racist interpretation of what he said, and sometimes we need to give people the benefit of the doubt.

EDIT: thebluefrog is apparently a faster typist than me. But obviously we're on the same wavelength. If I'd refreshed my page and seen what you posted, I wouldn't even have bothered. You expressed my thoughts very well!]]>2/15/2008 12:41:21 AM2008-02-15T00:41:21+01:00202747http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q8
Now, to use the word 'baby' in place of something, especially something that you are creating, is commonly accepted. Now, 'black' not only refers to the color, or African-Americans. if one were to look up black in the dictionary, one would find that black can also mean something that is twisted, dishonest, dismal, stained, ill-boding, or immoral. In other words, something that is dark and ugly.

It seems rather more likely that Buttars made an unfortunate choice of words, especially seeing as other senators had compared to what they were doing to Solomon splitting babies.]]>2/15/2008 12:21:22 AM2008-02-15T00:21:22+01:00202714http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q7« germz:Im so confused, what the f**k were they talking about black babies for?My guess is that he was actually thinking of the term "tar baby", which is used in politics to describe a sticky situation, although it isn't used much anymore because of its racist connotations.

But whatever he was trying to say it definitely wasn't appropriate.]]>2/14/2008 11:28:42 PM2008-02-14T23:28:42+01:00202709http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q6
Maybe he didn't mean to have the racist insinuations everyone is interpreting from his comment. Black can mean a number of things outside of describing ones race. Maybe you're all racist by automatically assuming black refers to people of African descent considering the term black can be seen as derogatory.]]>2/14/2008 11:20:55 PM2008-02-14T23:20:55+01:00202663http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q5« germz : Im so confused, what the f**k were they talking about black babies for?The bill was about splitting school funds or something, so throughout deliberations, they kept referring to it as a baby (cause of the King Solomon story of cutting a baby in half).

Douchebag Buttars just decided to take it an extra step with a completely uncalled for racist remark.]]>2/14/2008 10:49:40 PM2008-02-14T22:49:40+01:00202621http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q42/14/2008 10:30:51 PM2008-02-14T22:30:51+01:00202610http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q3
Dear Sen. Buttars,

Your efforts to make an apology seem blatantly insincere, and sounds like a hollow attempt at saving your ass. At least, in expressing your bigotry, you are being true to yourself.

Keep it up, Butthole Buttars.]]>2/14/2008 10:23:37 PM2008-02-14T22:23:37+01:00202565http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50637/1/xml_widget.rss#q2
Just what they need, this racist f**ker.]]>2/14/2008 9:39:38 PM2008-02-14T21:39:38+01:00