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- From: don@ocf.berkeley.edu (Don Bromley)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: thEwIndBag bashes Rev. Jackson, again
- Followup-To: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Date: 24 Nov 1992 05:01:04 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- In article <10094@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> joslin@pogo.isp.pitt.edu (David Joslin) writes:
- >Just to bring this thread back to the original topic, on his TV
- >show a few nights ago Rush explained that he pronounced Cuomo's
- >name "Coo-mo" because the Reverend Jackson (which Rush pronounces
- >"uh-REV-uh-rend-uh-JACK-son-uh") pronounced it that way one time,
- >and Rush doesn't want to be accused of making fun of Reverend
- >Jackson's pronunciation.
- >
- >Vintage Rush. He makes fun of Jackson's pronunciation (both when
- >pronouncing "Cuomo" and when pronouncing "Reverend Jackson"), then
- >denies that he is doing it, and then claims to be going out of his
- >way to *avoid* making fun of Jackson.
- >
- >Of course, every good Limbot knows that Rush was only joking, and
- >that this is not an example of Rush hiding his nastiness behind
- >empty disclaimers.
-
- Was it "nastiness" when the media went bonkers over Quayle's
- misspelling of potato? When comics make fun of conservatives
- it's hilarious, but when they make fun of a liberal like
- Jesse Jackson it's nasty.... makes lots of sense to me!
-
- >David
-
-
- "Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the
- sign that he wants all the truth."
- -Mark Van Doren
-
- -Don Bromley
- don@ocf.berkeley.edu
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