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Think about it. If you’re trying to say Martin Luther KING JUNIOR, and you get a little ahead of yourself on the JUNIOR part…you’ve got the K from KING and the OOO vowel in JUNIOR…
Let’s stop being so sensitive. And I’m black, so that makes me even more qualified to say that! [/sarcasm, with a wee bit of truth to it]
Sorry, just wanted to say that… and we need that “sarc” punctuation thingy.
Actually, krappy has a point. Before I read hi/r post I was going to say that I try to be extra careful about assigning a “negative” to someone’s rare misstatements. English across the US and Canada is not an hom*geneous language, and phrases or word usages that we think objectionable are not necessarily so in certain regions or among certain age groups.
What the guy said sounds bad, but he does deserve the benefit of any doubt. If I had a microphone recording hours of my words every day I know I’d be in big trouble…. although I have called the hospital medical director a “bald headed fart” right to his face so I’m in trouble anyway.
The thing that mitigates against it is that that word is not exactly common-usage these days. Certainly not in his age-group. Of course I don’t get out much.
It’s as accidental as Dick Armey calling Barney Frank ‘Barney F@g’ – something he’s used to saying and it slipped out, like you forgetting to censor yourself and saying ‘sh!t’ in front of your mother.
I can imagine a prompter rolling by a little too fast or a Power Point script changing pages at just the wrong moment so that I’m suddenly reading a word ahead of where I should be and something like that comes out of my mouth.
I would be inclined to give the ‘slip of the tongue’ theory more credence if the phrase were in common usage in certain segments of society. Google it in quotes. Be warned – some sites will be offensive.
January 18, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Yar. There’s a slip that just rolls off the tongue.
January 18, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Well, he’s now qualified to be the Majority Leader of the US Senate.
Is that a promotion up from this gig or down?
Oy.
January 18, 2010 at 4:19 pm
The show is going to be -1 Mark by the end of the week.
January 18, 2010 at 5:08 pm
I’m trying really hard to give him the benefit of doubt and to imagine a scenario in which I might make a similar verbal gaffe…
.. haven’t come up with one yet, and that’s even if I’d been drinking.
January 18, 2010 at 5:16 pm
There’s no way that accidentally rolls out if it’s not ‘in there’ somewhere. I’ve never “accidentally” called Elvis The Coon of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
January 18, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Accident.
Think about it. If you’re trying to say Martin Luther KING JUNIOR, and you get a little ahead of yourself on the JUNIOR part…you’ve got the K from KING and the OOO vowel in JUNIOR…
Let’s stop being so sensitive. And I’m black, so that makes me even more qualified to say that! [/sarcasm, with a wee bit of truth to it]
January 18, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Bunch of krap!
Sorry, just wanted to say that… and we need that “sarc” punctuation thingy.
Actually, krappy has a point. Before I read hi/r post I was going to say that I try to be extra careful about assigning a “negative” to someone’s rare misstatements. English across the US and Canada is not an hom*geneous language, and phrases or word usages that we think objectionable are not necessarily so in certain regions or among certain age groups.
What the guy said sounds bad, but he does deserve the benefit of any doubt. If I had a microphone recording hours of my words every day I know I’d be in big trouble…. although I have called the hospital medical director a “bald headed fart” right to his face so I’m in trouble anyway.
January 18, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Didn’t one of the dayside ladies make a similar error a few months ago? I think Kyra Phillips but it could have easily been some one else.
January 18, 2010 at 7:36 pm
The thing that mitigates against it is that that word is not exactly common-usage these days. Certainly not in his age-group. Of course I don’t get out much.
January 18, 2010 at 7:45 pm
I went back and checked. It was Contessa Brewer calling Jesse Jackson Sharpton. These things happen.
January 18, 2010 at 7:55 pm
It’s as accidental as Dick Armey calling Barney Frank ‘Barney F@g’ – something he’s used to saying and it slipped out, like you forgetting to censor yourself and saying ‘sh!t’ in front of your mother.
January 18, 2010 at 8:23 pm
I think Krap has a point (there’s a phrase I never thought I’d say). I didn’t think about the King-to-Junior segue.
January 18, 2010 at 8:53 pm
I can imagine a prompter rolling by a little too fast or a Power Point script changing pages at just the wrong moment so that I’m suddenly reading a word ahead of where I should be and something like that comes out of my mouth.
January 18, 2010 at 10:41 pm
I would be inclined to give the ‘slip of the tongue’ theory more credence if the phrase were in common usage in certain segments of society. Google it in quotes. Be warned – some sites will be offensive.
January 18, 2010 at 11:43 pm
whoops, typo – if the phrase WEREN’T in common usage…
January 19, 2010 at 12:47 pm
I’d give him the benefit of the doubt. We’ve all mangled words before.
January 19, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I watch Mike and Mike (or listen), when I can. “Greenie” has never come across as racist, but you never know.