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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:21 PM
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WTF? Coburn: "you have splainin to do"???????
:wtf:

just saw that on Rachel.

How fucking DARE he say that to Sotomayor!!

:grr:

:nuke:

:grr:

:nuke:
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:22 PM
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1. I've been pissed all day -
the utter GALL of that prick, to say anything like that! And what else could Sotomayor do except to laugh?

I nearly went through the TV set, I was so angry.

And, of course, Desi Arnaz was Cuban, but you know how "those people" all look alike, don't they?

:sarcasm:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:22 PM
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2. Clue for the clueless please?...
:shrug:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:25 PM
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3. During questioning today, Sotomayor was talking about gun laws
using a hypothetical about shooting Coburn (who was questioning her), and that was Coburn's reply to her.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:28 PM
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6. You mean he used that cheezy phrase from I Love Lucy?
What a moron.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:30 PM
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8. yep
just found the video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/15/coburn-evokes-ricky-ricar_n_233555.html
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:26 PM
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4. Tom Coburn (Douche-OK) said, referring to a hypothetical on gun rights,
"You got a lotta 'splainin' to do," which was what Desi Arnaz, a Latino person, often said (in a strong Spanish accent) to Lucille Ball on the "I Love Lucy" show. It seems just a tad offensive to use that expression, given the circumstances...
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:33 PM
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12. Douches can be useful. He's more like a wet cigarette butt in a used styrofoam coffee cup.
That just takes a lot of typing, though.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:37 PM
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15. I'd go with
Tom Coburn (Cold Diarrhea In A Dixie Cup - OK).
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:44 PM
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18. Sums it up nicely indeed. Utterly useless AND disgusting. nt
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 09:18 PM
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23. yea well he has an inordinate amount of power being that he is
one of one hundred...

He says what ever he wants to because he is well regarded by a majority of voters in Oklahoma...

He could care less what you or I or anyone else not in the 50% + 1 that he has cobbled together.

And the media gravitates to him since he is bound to make an ass out of himself.
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:19 AM
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28. Actually, douches are NOT useful, and probably do more harm than good.
Thus, it's probably actually a good description of Coburn.
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Bigmack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:30 PM
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9. On the old "I Love Lucy" TV show....
Lucy's husband, Ricky, was Cuban. The show consistently showed Ricky as a hot-tempered Latin with a comical accent. One of his stock phrases was "Loooooocy.. ju got some 'splainin' to doo."

Tasteless of Coburn to use a mock-Latino ethnic comment directed to a Hispanic American.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:32 PM
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11. Especially since Ricky was Cuban and Sotomayor is Puerto Rican
A distinction lost on Coburn I suspect.

Thanks for the clue! :hi:
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 10:32 PM
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27. Coburn's Aide later whispered to his boss: "Sir, she ain't from Cuber"
"She's one o' them thar Ricans".

Coburn, recalling another TV personality said: "Well, Whoop-de-doo!"
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:27 PM
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5. Reminds me of an embarassing incident I witnessed.
Edited on Wed Jul-15-09 08:29 PM by no_hypocrisy
Many years ago, I was at a freethought/atheist event that featured actress Butterfly McQueen. She gave a talk and then received questions. After some thoughtful inquiries, one member of the audience requested, "Would you please say 'lawdy, lawdy, lawdy?'" A very uncomfortable moment of silence and Ms. McQueen answered, "I'd rather not, thank you. Next question."
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:29 PM
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7. This shows the true face of the Rethuglican party
They don't have the common sense enough to understand what is appropriate or what's not.

Very rude and very demeaning to Mrs. Sotomoyer.
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Diamonique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:30 PM
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10. That was pretty sickening.
But IMO nothing (so far) is as low as Graham telling Sotomayor that now might be a good time for her to reflect on her temperament problem.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:34 PM
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13. What a rude asshole.
Can't say I'm surprised though.

:mad: :grr: :argh: :nuke:
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:36 PM
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14. I guess they really DON'T give a damn about
losing the Hispanic vote.

DUMBasses.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:37 PM
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16. Vile. What's disturbing is he won't understand whay it IS vile. nt
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:42 PM
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17. Especially since Desi was Cuban!
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 09:22 PM
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25. Hey.. he only said it because all them brown people "look alike"
Edited on Wed Jul-15-09 09:22 PM by SoCalDem
to a cracker like him "rofl:
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:45 PM
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19. Hey Lucy...
Of course, Lucy was a redhead, so he must've been confused. :P
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RandySF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 08:51 PM
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20. To be fair
I do it all the time. I would cut him some slack and say that it was ignorant as opposed to intentional.
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Old Codger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 09:01 PM
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21. it may
Be ignorant but it is WILLFUL ignorance...pretty prevalent in the repug ranks lately...
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 09:10 PM
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22. So much for decorum, not to mention
manners. Who does he think he's talking to, one of his poker pals?
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 09:21 PM
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24. What would we expect from a guy who also thinks the pronunciation of inate, is
EYE-nate:rofl:
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 09:41 PM
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26. actually i enjoy their condescending attitude to sotomayor
why? because her replies to them are so brilliant. she`s has more experience than any nominee in 100 yrs and that is clear to anyone who watches and listens to her when she puts these racist pigs in their place.

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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-16-09 08:21 AM
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29. In 2004, Douche and Dickless endorsed this guy...
Edited on Thu Jul-16-09 08:24 AM by BolivarianHero
And yet they still got "re"-elected.

Back when he was a Congressman, this guy got trashed by Senator Al D'amato (R-NY) for comparing Schindler's List to pornography. From Coburn's perspective, this attack was quite logical, as naked Jews starving in overcrowded death camps is likely quite erotic to far-right wackos.
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