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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 12:03 AM Jun 2014

Not the Onion:Thad Cochran: As a kid, I did ‘all kinds of indecent things with animals'

In a campaign appearance on Tuesday, embattled Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran (R) raised eyebrows with what appeared to be an off-color joke about his rural boyhood.

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported that Cochran was addressing a group of donors and supporters at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg.

The senator explained his connection to the area, saying that his grandparents lived their whole lives in the area.

“I grew up coming down here for Christmas,” he said. “My father’s family was here. My mother’s family was from rural Hinds County in Utica.”

“It was fun, it was an adventure to be out there in the country and to see what goes on,” he said of his boyhood visits to Hattiesburg. “Picking up pecans, from that to all kinds of indecent things with animals.”


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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/13/republican-sen-thad-cochran-as-a-kid-i-did-all-kinds-of-indecent-things-with-animals/

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Not the Onion:Thad Cochran: As a kid, I did ‘all kinds of indecent things with animals' (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2014 OP
sociopath JaneyVee Jun 2014 #1
They're not called pig fuckers for nothin' Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2014 #2
Just call 976 BAAA Politicalboi Jun 2014 #3
DUzy shenmue Jun 2014 #10
Another reason to support Travis Childers. Dawson Leery Jun 2014 #4
Huh, defacto7 Jun 2014 #5
The Republican Party is getting stranger by the day aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2014 #6
Whaaaaa? southerncrone Jun 2014 #7
OMG -- he's not another Caver goat f*cker is he? Hekate Jun 2014 #8
Sex with animals is considered a joke in the south. McCamy Taylor Jun 2014 #9

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
5. Huh,
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 01:04 AM
Jun 2014

“And I know some of you know what that is,” Cochran said.

I know I don't. But I have an idea what some ignorant, badly raised, sociopaths might do.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
6. The Republican Party is getting stranger by the day
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 01:17 AM
Jun 2014

I guess he thinks some people will vote for him for saying that and maybe they will. Maybe that's how they have fun in some backwoods places. I honestly think someone in Mitch McConnell's distant family had sex with a tortoise.

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