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[Demit]

Just FYI: John Kerry never said "Who among us doesn't love Nascar" .

I just found that out from today's Daily Howler http://dailyhowler.com/, and I thought there might be folks here who didn't know that either. Here's a snip that starts off with a quote from Maureen Dowd's column, where the myth started:


"...Even when he puts on that barn jacket over his expensive suit to look less lockjaw—and says things like, “Who among us doesn't like Nascar?”—he can come across like Mr. Collins, Elizabeth Bennet’s pretentious cousin in “Pride and Prejudice.”
Dowd clued us to Kerry’s “smugness” and “stupidity” this day. She was the first to savage his statement—the stupid statement that, alas, John Kerry may not have made.

Yes, according to the Nexis archive, this statement seems to start with Dowd. There is no prior record of Kerry saying “Who among us doesn’t like NASCAR” or “Who among us doesn’t love NASCAR,” the variants which have floated around among the Times’ witty scriveners. If Kerry actually made this statement, no one ever told them at Nexis. But my dear Mr. Bennet! A month before Dowd’s column appeared, Kerry did make a NASCAR remark. On February 15, Bush had traveled to Daytona, where he pretended to enjoy the big race. The next day, Kerry sagely rebutted. Tape of Kerry’s statement was played on that day’s Inside Politics:

KERRY (2/16/04): George Bush went down to Daytona yesterday to do a photo opportunity at NASCAR. Now, I happen to like NASCAR, and I'm particularly pleased that Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race, for a lot of reasons that many of you who follow it will understand.

Let me tell you something, we don't need a president who just says, “Gentlemen start your engines.” We need a president who says “America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.”
“I happen to like NASCAR.” According to the Nexis record, that’s the closest Kerry has come to the comic locution they’ve flogged at the Times. Who knows? Maybe Dowd, Stolberg, Tierney, Egan and Rich have some other moment in mind. (For a partial Times explanation, keep reading.)..."


Sorry if there might've been a thread on this already, but It's a revelation to me, and I've been doing a bloody lot of online reading the last few months...

[Xipe Totec]

1. It was news to me too!

Thanks for sharing the link. :thumbsup:

[MadcityRock]

2. But the shroob's funny comments are forgiven

Like when Boosh babbles some aside like, "Pickles and I can't wait to adopt Lynndie's baby." but the pundit kool-aid drinkers let it slide.