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masuki bance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:49 PM Original message |
Grayson Apologizes To Anti-Defamation League |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. a holocaust is not the same as |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I agree, but if it helps smooth some ruffled feathers, so be it |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Very well |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. C'mon. The notion that he wasn't referring to the Holocaust doesn't even pass the laugh test... |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. oh please - it's like the word "gay" - until the Nazi's made such grand use of exterminations, |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. (a) It's nothing like "gay", (b) The rest of what you said is pro-what I said, not you. lol! |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 12:38 AM Response to Reply #21 |
30. YOU are the one trying to condemn him for daring to use the word holocaust in this context... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. "laugh at it as a faux non-issue." - I don't think "condemn" means what you think it means. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. I know and Grayson probably |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:09 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. I agree with your take. n/t |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
2. For the contrast on how some - including the ADL - handle this, depending on who says it... |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. So the ADL had nothing to say |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
4. Since we cant use actual vocabulary words anymore, how about "Death-O-Rama?" |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
6. I have a book titled "Holocaust" that was published in 1959. |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:01 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. How about "Lotso Dead Folks." Has nice ring to it, no? |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
24. Definition of the word Holocaust |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. That's right. It can be used as a common or proper noun. The crazed |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. So we can use the word lynching now according to so many here? |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. If someone actually gets lynched, excecuted, etc. why not? |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. No, the holocaust was systematic...what you describe is genocide...n/t |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:07 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Insurance companies systematically & intentionally deny coverage and pull coverage. |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:09 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Well, for some people who lived through it and some people whose |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Fine, What WORD or words do YOU want me to use then? |
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masuki bance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. That's a lot of people. nt |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 06:52 AM Response to Reply #17 |
32. 44 million? eek. shows how much you don't know. not. even. close. |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
11. ".... some of his fellow Jews." How many is " some"? |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
14. NONTROVERSY - creating a scandal from something meaningless. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
16. I'm nominating the word Monocaust to describe |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
26. I'm sorry he felt the need to apologize for using a word |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:19 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Reactions to Rush Limbaugh's Obama/Hitler comparison |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. excellent ~ |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Thank you, I had done a little research and found Glenn Greenwald's |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
31. I would just say that I was "sorry if they were offended." |
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GivePeaceAchance (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
34. I don't feel he had any bad intent in using the 'h' word, but if the apology moves the focus back to |
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