"stuck on stupid"

[Mullins, Bill]

>
> >The earliest I find it in ProQuest is in a 1996 headline from the
> >Michigan Chronicle (an African American newspaper).  Most of
> the other
> >cites are also from Black sources (Chicago Defender,
> Afro-American Red
> >Star, etc.).
>
> From 1992:
>
> -----
> St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 23, 1992, p. 1A (Nexis) "This
> country has been SOS for 12 years, and by that I mean Stuck
> On Stupid," said Knies, a computer programmer downtown, who
> lives in Ballwin.
> -----


>From Factiva

"Mayor scores with youth unit" BY Pam McClintock and Vincent McCraw
THE WASHINGTON TIMES  11 August 1990 PG A2

" "We're talking about a government with hate in its heart coming after
one person using millions of dollars. We need to start letting {U.S.
Attorney General Dick} Thornburgh know that he shouldn't get stuck on
stupid and try this again. He needs to let it go," said Ms. Hughes.  "
[Cathy Hughes:  Cathy Hughes Show on WOL-AM radio]

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