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[Joel S. Berson]

I meant to add -- Back to the first half of the 19th century.

Joel

At 4/25/2014 12:33 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 4/25/2014 10:04 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>>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
>
>><http://hsrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KLtUc5aVpTZEEBWhibvZx4;_ylu=X3oDMTNtM3ZpajVwBGJwb3MDMQRjY29kZQNnYQRjcG9zAzQEY3QDMQRnA2MyZGJmZjc5LWM2YWUtM2FhMy1iOGYwLTJkNjE0N2Q2NGJhYQRpbnRsA3VzBHBrZ3QDMwRwb3MDMQRzZWMDdGQtc3RybQRzbGsDdGl0bGUEdGVzdAMyOTc-/RV=1/RE=1399643706/RH=aHNyZC55YWhvby5jb20-/RO=2/RU=aHR0cDovL3RoZXdlZWsuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaW5kZXgvMjYwNTEzL3NwZWVkcmVhZHMtam9uLXN0ZXdhcnQtdGFrZXMtYS12aWN0b3J5LWxhcC1hcm91bmQtY2xpdmVuLWJ1bmR5cy1uZWdyby1zdHVkaWVzLWRlYmFjbGU-/RS=%5EADAiCWytwLUFCBVirKlAroEtbIGOmg->
>>"
>>
>>On CNN, child-free Carol Costello notes that Bundy's "use of the word
>>'Negro'"  was by itself "mind-blowing" and "reprehensible."
>>
>>(Bundy said today he thought that people of all colors should be able to
>>sit anywhere on the bus they wanted.)wart cliven
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>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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