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[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/25/2014 10:04 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>Yahoo! News doesn't capitalize the word in its headline:
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>"Jon Stewart takes a victory lap around Cliven Bundy's 'negro studies' debacle

"The Week" didn't either (and earlier?):
http://theweek.com/article/index/260513/speedreads-jon-stewart-takes-a-victory-lap-around-cliven-bundys-negro-studies-debacle

Nor (once) does the Huffington Post, in quoting Bundy (presumably
from an oral utterance):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/jon-stewart-cliven-bundy_n_5210900.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics

but it does capitalize in:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/24/cliven-bundy-racist_n_5204821.html

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>On CNN, child-free Carol Costello notes that Bundy's "use of the word
>'Negro'"  was by itself "mind-blowing" and "reprehensible."
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>(Bundy said today he thought that people of all colors should be able to
>sit anywhere on the bus they wanted.)wart cliven

Can someone do a riff on Cliven's cognate* Al, of "Married with Children"?

* Employing A. adj. 1. "Descended from a common ancestor; of the same
stock or family."

But Cliven is probably also an evolution-denier, and doesn't believe
he's descended from an ape.

Joel

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