What a Maroon!

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This is too funny: Congressman Kucinich Officially Drops Out of Presidential Race

[Donutboy 0]

   This is too funny:  Congressman Kucinich Officially Drops Out of Presidential Race

Gee, National Public Radio putting down a Democratic candidate on the air.... What's this world coming to? It probably happened, but I wouldn't believe anything that National (Re)public(an) Radio said. Perhaps what Kucinich said makes sense. He brought the pie chart for some of his Democratic rivals. After all, a few of them seem to share the same fairy tale views as Bush, that unbridled spending, along with tax cuts, will miraculously balance the budget.

BTW, I'm sure you meant moron instead of maroon. :roll:

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You've got to be kidding. Have you ever listened to NPR? No way they can be described as Republican friendly. Quite the opposite -- the Republicans have been trying to eliminate the funding for NPR.

Hey Donutboy, you've got to admit: bringing a visual prop to a radio-aired debate is STUPID!

[Donutboy 0]

You've got to be kidding. Have you ever listened to NPR? No way they can be described as Republican friendly. Quite the opposite -- the Republicans have been trying to eliminate the funding for NPR.

Hey Donutboy, you've got to admit: bringing a visual prop to a radio-aired debate is STUPID!

Only if he had planned it for a visual aid for his radio audience. Was there a live audience as well? If so, wouldn't the visual make sense for them? He stated he made it for his opponents. Wouldn't that make sense in helping drive home a point?

[Jenny AU-92 0]

BTW, I'm sure you meant moron instead of maroon.  :roll:

No he did NOT mean moron instead of maroon. Don't you ever watch Bugs Bunny cartoons? He says "What a maroon!" a LOT. So here's an eye roll right back atcha :roll: :roll: and a link to hear Bugs actually say the words What a maroon! You have to scroll down thru the list but it is here.

And in case you were wondering about the actual origin of the word, I got this from Snarkout.

January 19, 2003

What a maroon! What an ignoranimous!

Occasionally I see someone online make a particular insulting comment: "What a maroon!" When I am particularly lucky, I will see another person put forth an indignant defense (thanks to Dan of Tinyblog for the illustrative example) of the term "Maroon". Maroons, we are reminded, were free blacks who formed communities throughout the Carribean and Americas, most notably in the Great Dismal Swamp and Florida. These people were bravely attempting to set up a parallel existance to antebellum American society! They fought in the Seminole War, the only Indian war that ended without a peace treaty! How can we use the term "Maroon" as an insult? The problem is that while all these things are true, they have very little relevance to someone quoting Bugs Bunny mangling the English language. It's a case study in how associations are not always apparent to one's audience. Language drifts.

Bugs is also apparently responsible for a semantic transformation I've always wondered about. The Book of Genesis states that Nimrod was "a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD." For a variety of historical and linguistic reasons, Nimrod, the founder of Nineveh (best known as Jonah's destination when he had his unfortunate run-in with the whale), came to be associated with tyranny in medieval traditions. He appears, cast as a babbling giant, in Dante's Inferno and as a symbol of tyranny in Paradise Lost.

If "nimrod" meant "hunter" or "tyrant", how did it come to mean "dingbat"? (The insulting meaning of "dingbat" is itself a recent invention, taken from a comic strip by George Herriman of Krazy Kat fame; Herriman borrowed a word for typographic decorations as the family name for the hapless protagonists of his pre-Krazy work.) There's some dispute about the answer, but reputable sources attribute the meaning to Elmer Fudd; Bugs called the poor little nimrod a poor little nimrod, and people realized what a wonderful term of opprobrium it would make. The word doesn't seem to have been intended as a malapropism -- Bugs said things like "nin-cow-poop", but he used "nimrod" with the correct meaning. It's just a happy accident that it was taken up as a synonym for "numbskull", the perfect word for when "A nice kid, but a little dumb" doesn't convey the proper depth of feeling.

Kucinich - What a maroon!!!!! And so are you for thinking NPR is ANYTHING but openly liberal. Several examples: LINK

NPR Admits a Liberal Bias

by L. Brent Bozell III

October 21, 2003   

National Public Radio is properly understood, even by the media, as radio by and for liberals, not the general public. As Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz puts it, the media landscape stretches "from those who cheer Fox to those who swear by NPR."

The only ones who seem not to know that the left has a massive, taxpayer-funded radio network of 700 affiliates are the liberals trying to sell investors on their own private-sector talk-radio network. A recent PBS "NewsHour" story on talk radio turned ridiculous when reporter Terence Smith allowed liberal-network booster Jon Sinton to proclaim: "Every day in America on the 45 top-rated talk radio stations, there are 310 hours of conservative talk. There is a total of five hours of talk that comes from the other side of the aisle."

Don’t buy that for a minute. The key word in that sentence is "top-rated" stations. Sinton’s upset that conservatives apparently dominate "top-rated" talk. That doesn’t mean NPR doesn’t have hundreds of hours of liberal talk shows, not to mention liberal "news" shows. It’s just not "top-rated."

Last week, NPR’s own official ombudsman, Jeffrey Dvorkin, admitted a liberal bias in NPR’s talk programming. The daily program "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" – a 60-minute talk show about the arts, literature, and also politics – airs on 378 public-radio stations across the fruited plain. Gross recently became a hot topic on journalism Web sites for first having a friendly, giggly interview with "satirist" Al Franken, promoting his obnoxious screed against conservatives on September 3, and then on October 8, unloading an accusatory, hostile interview on Bill O’Reilly. She pressed the Fox host to respond to the obnoxious attacks of Franken and other critics. Dvorkin ruled: "Unfortunately, the [O'Reilly] interview only served to confirm the belief, held by some, in NPR's liberal media bias....by coming across as a pro-Franken partisan rather than a neutral and curious journalist, Gross did almost nothing that might have allowed the interview to develop."

The news reports on NPR should be cause for greater public concern. Under the guise of "objective news," reporting, the left is actively advancing its political agenda. On the October 17 "Morning Edition," host Bob Edwards launched into a long "news" report on the flaws of the Bush foreign policy, observing: "Overall, the policies of the United States are still very unpopular around the world. The Bush Doctrine, a preference for unilateral military action and a disdain for multinational diplomacy, is under scrutiny more than ever." The Middle East "road map" was "in tatters," Iraq and Afghanistan were "highly unstable." NPR may as well have suggested it was time for a different president.

Reporter Mike Shuster was intent on driving home the theme that the Bush foreign policy may (read: we hope) one day be analyzed as an utter failure. His three primary, supposedly nonpartisan "experts" were Ivo Daalder, a member of Clinton’s National Security Council; Michael Mandelbaum, a foreign policy adviser to the 1992 Clinton campaign; and John Mearshimer, a regular critic of Bush foreign policy who argued in Foreign Policy magazine that Iraq should have remained under "vigilant containment," which we could also describe as maintaining a murderous tyrant in power. Their controversial views and Clinton connections were not developed by NPR.

Perhaps the biggest public-relations problems for NPR come when its liberal reporters hit the weekend talk-show circuit and let their opinions fly wildly. On October 18, NPR legal reporter Nina Totenberg pronounced from her regular panelist perch on the TV show "Inside Washington" that General Jerry Boykin, who sermonized in Christian churches with the shocking, less-than-Unitarian message that Christianity is true and other creeds are false, should be fired.

Well, that’s not the way it came out. First, Totenberg said Boykin’s remarks were "seriously bad stuff," and then she said, "I hope he’s not long for this world." Host Gordon Peterson joked, "What is this, The Sopranos?" Withdrawing to damage-control mode, Totenberg said she didn’t mean she hoped he would die, just that he shouldn’t last long "in his job."

But it’s Totenberg who ought to fear for her job with these outbreaks of hate speech. Totenberg used this very same TV show to wish in 1995 that if the "Good Lord" knew justice, Senator Jesse Helms will "get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it."

It’s awfully ironic that a woman who has spent thirty years saying outrageous liberal things on the taxpayer dime is now attacking a general on the grounds that there ought to be some things government officials cannot say and keep their jobs. The concern over these Boykin remarks should not be about the separation of church and state. It ought to be about the separation of National Public Radio from the state.

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BTW, I'm sure you meant moron instead of maroon.  :roll:

No he did NOT mean moron instead of maroon. Don't you ever watch Bugs Bunny cartoons? He says "What a maroon!" a LOT. So here's an eye roll right back atcha :roll: :roll: and a link to hear Bugs actually say the words What a maroon! You have to scroll down thru the list but it is here.

Sorry, but I'll be 50 years of age on my birthday. I do NOT watch Bugs Bunny cartoons!!! ......I prefer the older ones, Deputy Dawg, Huckleberry Hound, Ricochet Rabbit, etc, etc, etc....!!!

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Hey, Kucinich is a very funny guy. Dry, but funny. On the debates the other night he was asked what he thought about the perception that he was un-electable and his reply was hilarious. He said, "Well, if you vote for me I'm not un-electable!"

It may not come across so well here, but, it was really funny when he said it. The audience cracked up and so did he.

Donutboy, 50??? We'll have to rename you Donutoldman soon!!! Kidding!!! I don't have much room to talk because I'm hitting 40 in May.

[Donutboy 0]

Hey, Kucinich is a very funny guy. Dry, but funny. On the debates the other night he was asked what he thought about the perception that he was un-electable and his reply was hilarious. He said, "Well, if you vote for me I'm not un-electable!"

It may not come across so well here, but, it was really funny when he said it. The audience cracked up and so did he.

Donutboy, 50??? We'll have to rename you Donutoldman soon!!! Kidding!!! I don't have much room to talk because I'm hitting 40 in May.

Donutboy is actually an OLD nickname....like me. When I was single, my breakfast was usually Krispy Kreme donuts. I still love 'em today. One of my friends stuck me with the nickname..... Don't you want anything to eat but donuts? You're gonna turn into a donut. We'll have to start calling you donut boy. It stuck.

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The name of thgis Forum: "All Things Considered" is actually a swipe at Nina Totenberg and Show of the same name on NPR.

Just thought you guys ought to know.

[AUloggerhead 2,516]

Kucinich - What a maroon!!!!!  And so are you for thinking NPR is ANYTHING but openly liberal.  Several examples: LINK

I'm glad somebody caught that reference. Thanks Jenny, for the link with the WAV files of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons. Great site. I've always been a fan of Foghorn Leghorn: "You're way off, I say you're way off this time, son!" {directed at Donutboy }

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Around my house growing up, whenever we got lost, someone would ALWAYS say - "I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque..."