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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts) Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:35 AM Apr 2016

"America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat..."

The late-night hosts are having a lot of fun with that Ted Cruz quote.

He also said:

“This is the year of the outsider. I am an outsider, Bernie Sanders is an outsider. Both with the same diagnosis, but both with very different paths to healing.”

Source: NYDN

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"America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat..." (Original Post) Algernon Moncrieff Apr 2016 OP

Boxing metaphor, edited to find something, sex? braddy Apr 2016 #1

Not everybody is hip on boxing metaphors Quantess Apr 2016 #2

The editing leaves out the words mat, and the final count. braddy Apr 2016 #3

This is the first I'm hearing of this deutsey Apr 2016 #4

Or candidates discussing hand size at a policy debate. LanternWaste Apr 2016 #5

Trump and his tiny fingers is an almost 30 year obsession for him, Spy mag, first started it, braddy Apr 2016 #7

The actual quote isn't much better. sofa king Apr 2016 #6

braddy

(3,585 posts)

1. Boxing metaphor, edited to find something, sex?

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:56 AM

Apr 2016

Quantess

(27,630 posts)

2. Not everybody is hip on boxing metaphors

Reply to braddy (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 01:03 AM

Apr 2016

or wrestling metaphors, or whatever, when taken wildly out of context.

I think it happens to sound VERY sexual, by accident.

braddy

(3,585 posts)

3. The editing leaves out the words mat, and the final count.

Reply to Quantess (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 01:24 AM

Apr 2016

"You may have been knocked down, but America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat and the crowd has given the final count. It is time for us to get up, shake it off and be who we were destined to be."

I cringe when the media finds anything that they can turn into a junior high romp about sex, as though we are all junior high boys.

If I wasn't tired I would elaborate on how juvenile the media is about body parts and secretions, you can practically hear the giggling because the scientist brought up 'pee pees', or 'poop' or tee hee, hee, 'girl parts', or sex, I find it bizarre.

deutsey

(20,166 posts)

4. This is the first I'm hearing of this

Reply to braddy (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:47 AM

Apr 2016

If that's the full quote and some in the media are trying make it sexual, then they truly are making up the news as they go along.

There's no way in hell you can construe that full quote as some kind of leering sexual innuendo.

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

5. Or candidates discussing hand size at a policy debate.

Reply to braddy (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:58 AM

Apr 2016

"I cringe when the media finds anything that they can turn into a junior high romp about sex..."

Or candidates discussing hand size at a policy debate-- because sometimes, those actually involved really are little more than junior high boys giggling about sex.

braddy

(3,585 posts)

7. Trump and his tiny fingers is an almost 30 year obsession for him, Spy mag, first started it,

Reply to LanternWaste (Reply #5)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:57 AM

Apr 2016

it drives Trump nuts.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)

6. The actual quote isn't much better.

Reply to braddy (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 10:49 AM

Apr 2016

One can easily add to the end of it, "It's time to get up and be who we were destined to be: concussed, violent, and still trying to fight after the match is over."

The crowd, after all, has already given the final count, see?

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