So how long before Congress declares that "tar" must be at least seven words away from "baby"?

/Porch Monkeys 4 life
//It's ok we're taking it back

As a lifelong conservative, I hope this knocks this liberal democrat (yes, he's a RINO) out of contention for the Republican nomination.

I've despised this media darling for a long long time now. I've never understood how he can have an R after his name.
"Gang of 14" my ass.

\\Oh, I don't care that he used a reference to Tar Baby. Political correctness gone crazy.

>>Hmmm, I would say his chance of election just went down, but can it really go below zero?

His odds...

https://www.intrade.com/aav2/trading/contractInfo.jsp?conDetailID=376101&z=117 4097210176

I never knew it to be anything other than a derogatory term.
I'd never heard it used as a derogatory term. (Reminds me of the "yard apes" story from 2005, I think. I'd only ever heard that refer to kids, particulary to the poor, and never to a race)

He was obviously talking about this tar baby.

John McCain talking about Iraq: "We wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives over there."

Dumb ass PC police: "Witch? That is insensitive! You should have said female pagan priestess! We demand an apology!"

/wants this John McCain, but doesn't know if he still exists..

Not_Engineered
A decent point, well taken. The two-party system sucks. However, it is there. And since I can only make one choice, I will pick the party that stands up for what most aligns with my views - I simply can't vote for a party that wants to legislate my morality or that of the gay couple across the street. And don't get me started on Iraq.

>>I never knew it to be anything other than a derogatory term.

Who has ever used it as a derogatory term? I've never heard it. Can you give an example of someone who said it and meant it that way?

Mccain cant go to rehab to be re-educated. Thats only for liberals silly wabbit.

When asked if he was going to appologize or not he thought for a minute and said: "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe..."

I hope to god everyone twists this around and makes him out to be a racist so the repubs can have a taste of how they acted when Kerry slipped up his little joke.

He clearly didn't mean it as a racist remark though, pretty stupid to say nonetheless.

At least he didn't mention Epaminandus.

/obscure?

Marshmallow Fluff Baby.

According to wikipedia, liberals (even white ones) can use it...

Not all recent usage, however, has occasioned popular outcry. Less controversy has greeted employment of the term by public figures on the American political left, prompting Boston Herald Columnist, Virginia Buckingham, and some conservative bloggers, following the recent Snow and Romney controversies, to argue hypocrisy:[8] [9] [10]

* John F. Kerry, Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, speaking of his staff's advice to not pursue an investigation into American POW/MIA's from the Vietnam War, was quoted on 10 August 1992: "Everybody on my staff, everybody I knew thought I was crazy, and said, 'Don't do this...' ... They said it's a no-win tar baby." [11]

* Molly Ivins, a nationally syndicated liberal columnist, wrote in October 2001: "It now looks, with 20-20 hindsight, as though he should have taken a few more deep breaths before smacking that tar-baby that is Afghanistan."[citation needed]

I have a copy of Song of the South. It has some great animation in it. I like it. I hope Disney releases it sometime...

I had not previously known Kerry had used "tar baby." I guess he really has made every possible gaffe.

STFU and have some candy!

>>If this had been a Dem it'd have been all over the news like black on tar.

Apparently not. I don't recall it making news when Kerry said it.

you know what pisses me off about this. the tar baby story is a great story and most of those uncle remus stories were about the downtrodden blacks using their smarts to get over on the white man. to turn this around and associate "tar baby" with racism is just plain stupid. it is not a racist term. get a farking clue you farking morons.

Scorpinock

politics killed that McCain.
Sorry

Uncle Remus surrenders....

considered by "some" as a racial epithet?!?!!? How about, "considered by EVERYONE WITH A sense of decency as a racial epithet.

Political correctness is a tar baby of the worst kind. I challenge anyone to show he meant the other deragotory meaning.

/think for yourselves, people!

WizardX: Tarbaby has racist connotations because enough people believe it has racist connotations.

Not people that matter, though. I won't be nubianrdly with my disdain for overly-sensitive dipshiats who make a full time job out of trying to be offended.

JabbaTheButt:

As a lifelong conservative, I hope this knocks this liberal democrat (yes, he's a RINO) out of contention for the Republican nomination.



That's a pretty funny joke. Mccain is about as hardcore right wing as it gets. You ever look at his voting record? He tows the republican party line as hard as Bush.

If you want 4 more years of Bush, you should vote for Mccain. He's your man.

You have to be farking kidding me. nubian-r-d-l-y gets filtered? (Hell, that'll probably be filtered as well.)


Fark, you officially suck.

the future McPresident (as he is most surely to become, thanks Rovie for learning the lesson from hw's presidency that "winning" the war will lose your party the election) already got busted years back for saying gook in public, people forgave that without so much as a harumph...

How about, "considered by EVERYONE WITH A sense of decency as a racial epithet.
fark you. I had never heard it referred to that way until Tony Snow got stuck with it.

Do you give no honor to intent?

Well how YOU doin'?

nubian-r-d-l-y gets filtered?

Why? Do you want them to have to filter out every possible combination of possible good/ungood words?

When you put the presidents name followed by the word "it", that's a filterin' too.

attractive and successful African-American

What struck me most was his failure to stand up for what he said, and not even bothering to point out that he obviously didn't mean it in a racial sense.

McCain: Militarist Can't Compete And Is Nuts

Tony Snow is an admitted racist, his views are moot.

ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!


Why the farking Hell is Fark filtering perfectly normal words that appear in any English dictionary?

Here, I'll ROT13 it:
Avttneqyl, lbh shpxvat ovgpu-nff Snex svygref.

Who is John Galt indeed.

Although McCain is not as stylish or fabulous as drag queen Rudolph Giuliani.










Actual pictures

Feh, it was a tempest in a teapot when Snow said it, it's a tempest in a teapot now.

Dear lady, folks. We've got to grow a thicker skin about some things.

Granted, I am pleased (I know you all care) that no one in the thread is actually supporting the side of idiocy.

fredcat: What's the big deal with saying tar baby?

DIA: None that I know of...other than implied meanings that don't exist.

Yea......

We just invented that other meaning today in Fark.

//that being said, McCain's safe on this one. Shouldn't have to apologize.

TrevorValentine
considered by "some" as a racial epithet?!?!!? How about, "considered by EVERYONE WITH A sense of decency as a racial epithet.

Thank you for looking out for the plebians. If it weren't for your enlightened intellect, we wouldn't know what to do.

Signed,
A dark skinned dumb motherfarker that needs your superior intellect and understanding of our people for help. Thank you Charlie.

Who is John Galt indeed.
If you are of Rand, you should be celebrating the website use of filter as an option available to a capitalist endeavor and that we aren't forced to remove filters and show valueless speech being passed off as free speech.

He should have been more nubianrdly with his use of words.

"Honky honky!!!"

stebain: If you are of Rand, you should be celebrating the website use of filter as an option available to a capitalist endeavor and that we aren't forced to remove filters and show valueless speech being passed off as free speech.

Or I can compare Fark to James Taggart: Painfully stupid and full of bad decisions.

we are getting into a tar baby of enormous proportions and I don't know how you get out of that.

McCain is doing Oprah?

Yes, I went there. But for the record. Tar baby refers only to the sticky trap. Oprah has not been fat for years. Song of the South is not racist because the smartest person in the movie was Uncle Remus.

Hi, I'm Whothefark Givesashiat? What's your name?

Stupid filter. I used a real word which means "sparse" or "scanty".

Or I can compare Fark to James Taggart: Painfully stupid and full of bad decisions.

Do what you like, but Drew is looking out for his customer and not just imposing PC.

stebain: Do what you like, but Drew is looking out for his customer and not just imposing PC.

Filtering out a word that is in common usage and is not considered vulgar in no way attracts me as a 'customer', and is certainly just stupid PC asshattery.

We Republicans were stolidly against Nelson Rockefeller because he was a divorcee. We only started to go down hill while letting Ronald Reagan, a divorcee, be a nominee.

/What's this debate about??
//The nation is ready for the least PC candidate.