QOTY

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 6, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> If he'd said, "We need more hard work, rugged individualism, and personal
> reponsibility," few would have objected.
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> But that wouldn't be in the running for QOTY, would it?
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> Controversially phrased, off-topic, fascinating political observation:
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> Pundits say that by cannily declining to run, former small-town beauty queen
> Sarah Palin becomes "kingmaker" and "most powerful Republican of them all,"
> as candidates grovel for her coveted endorsement.
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> JL

Did anyone else click on the link below, which is the "Fox Nation" coverage of Cain's comment?  Of course, virtually everyone responding there was in complete agreement with the sentiment--but not everyone was fully ready to adopt Cain as standard bearer.  I was struck by what looks like a bit of orthographic euphemism in this response by Mike Hyland:

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Careful as no one knows anything about this b lacqman with absolutely zero experience in government. Sounds like voting for surprise number 2 whcih comes form trusting a bla cqman to rule a country the size of the USA. Show me where in history this turned out for the betterment of the people ruled or governed by a blac qman
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I don't want to focus on the obvious tension between the two…uh, narratives here (Black men in power is a Bad Thing; Blaming the victim is a Good Thing) but on the repeated use of "blacqman".  Does anyone know if this spelling is just Hyland's personal idiosyncrasy or a standard device on the part of fellow thinkers--a kind of right-wing counterpart to "Amerika"?

LH

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> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 10/6/2011 12:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>> Herman Cain: "If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame
>> yourself!"
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>> http://nation.foxnews.com/undefined/2011/10/05/cain-tells-wall-street-protesters-its-your-fault-you-dont-have-jobs
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>> Jon beat me to it.  (Do I have a vote?)
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>> Spoiler warning -- off topic political rant follows.
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>> Another Republican idiot who will soon be among the many who have
>> already faded from the polls?  (See, if you can find them, Gov. Rick
>> Perry and Sarah Palin.)
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>> Joel
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