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In reply to the discussion: Republicans: The number one reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous... [View all]Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)10. I hope this will make you feel better.
Having been called names, one looks back at one's own angry outbursts over the years, and I recall having once referred to Republicans as "hairy-backed swamp developers, fundamentalist bullies, freelance racists, hobby cops, sweatshop tycoons, line jumpers, marsupial moms and aluminum-siding salesmen, misanthropic frat boys, ninja dittoheads, shrieking midgets, tax cheats, cheese merchants, cat stranglers, pill pushers, nihilists in golf pants, backed-up Baptists, the grand pooh-bahs of Percodan, mouth breathers, testosterone junkies and brownshirts in pinstripes." I look at those words now, and "cat stranglers" seems excessive to me. The number of cat stranglers in the ranks of the Republican Party is surely low, and that reference was hurtful to Republicans and to cat owners. I feel sheepish about it.
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/deskofgk/2006/old_scout/05/23.shtml
It doesn't explain where and when it happened, but it does verify THAT it happened.
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Republicans: The number one reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous... [View all]
Playinghardball
Nov 2013
OP
Thank you! "it is a disservice to blindly take the word of the meme creator."
scarletwoman
Nov 2013
#22
That's all I ask. I just think it's wrong and dangerous to accept internet "quotes" when there's no
scarletwoman
Nov 2013
#15
I didn't attack the messenger, I explained why I object to internet memes.
scarletwoman
Nov 2013
#31
Thank you. The thing is, it's not that I personally doubted that Keillor actually said that.
scarletwoman
Nov 2013
#17