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[Jonathan Lighter]

None, except that believing that the word was "-house," at least two GOP
senators can angrily insist that 45 "did not use that word" (i.e., "-hole,"
the version quoted by Durbin and Graham).

But if "-house" was really uttered, nobody has so attested in public. So
it's all pretty magical.

BTW, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, under senate questioning by Durbin,
Graham, and others, claimed under oath that while everyone in the room was
using "tough language," she certainly didn't hear either "-hole" or
anything like it. Could she name even a single offensive word of the "very
tough language" that she did hear?

Nope. Just couldn't remember. Nor was Nielsen entirely sure if Norway was a
"majority white" country.

JL

JL

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > he referred to Haiti and the African states not as “shithole countries”
> but as “shithouse countries”.
>
> Say what, now? I understand the architectural distinction between a
> "shithole," which is found under a "shithouse," but what is the semantic
> distinction between the two as insults?
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > It was “Shitholegate” on either Daily Show or Colbert, I forget which.
> > But now the Republican senators are claiming the it was all a fabrication
> > on Durbin’s part and that Trump’s language was entirely different from
> what
> > Durbin claimed—he referred to Haiti and the African states not as
> “shithole
> > countries” but as “shithouse countries”.  I guess that means it has to be
> > “Shitho_(_)egate”, not too catchy.
> >
> > LH
> >
> > > On Jan 17, 2018, at 7:50 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > MSNBC:
> > >
> > > "Ess Hole Gate."
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > > --
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