"stuck on stupid"

[Brenda Lester]

I'm trusting my memory on this one. In Spike Lee's recent documentary about the Katrina debacle, an outraged survivor said that the government was "stuck on stuck."


Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
  The anniversary of Katrina reminded me of General Honore's remark in its wake that emergency management was "stuck on stupid."

Not only do I find over a half million Googlits, Usenet has it back to 1995.

Does it have some kind of anecdotal or pop cultural origin ?

JL


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