You know, when I was a teenager I absolutely abhorred my first name: Shannon. I hated that all of my school stuff had “Shannon” on it instead of “Nicki.” One year I absolutely insisted that my records be changed to reflect my …

Then what is it?

AprilOrit on February 27, 2008 at 3:40 PM

Red flag. To be considered or not.

Go ahead and have the last word.

Mcguyver, Big Orange, & Sultry Beauty want a presidential candidate who burps, farts, & uses immature language. Most of the USA wants one who is a role model & a leader.

jgapinoy on February 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM

No I was simply pointing out the hypocrisy around here on the name calling. I also think I can speak for McGuyver and Sultry Beauty when I say I would like to have a conservative for a president, not someone who wants to “reach across the isle” and compromise everything we’ve worked our buts off for.

Juan McCain loves to throw people who try to support him under the ole “straight talk express” and reach over and give you and other liberals a big kiss. How about this: Try winning the White House without us sunshine. It ain’t gonna happen.

HAH! GOP needs a real house cleaning of late.

God if I was a Southern, Christian, White Man I could rule the world.

Mcguyver on February 27, 2008 at 4:19 PM

I haven’t laughed out loud that hard over here in a while. I’m usually pulling on my beautiful, long hair, cussing, or crying.

Big Orange on February 27, 2008 at 6:01 PM

That’s so Spot On. Thank you for saying that. It’s okay for AP to make all sorts of snide remarks about Fred Thompson’s Southern speak but anything else is beneath us and juvenile? What’s so strange about that is that’s taking the lefts ‘perceptions’ and hold them as our own. Is it true that the only people worthy of ridicule is Southern, Christian, White Men because they’re racist, bigoted, macca hating, homophobes? Maybe that’s the REAL PROBLEM. We conservative right wingers DEEP DOWN believe the left’s tripe and that’s why we feel like we need to bend over backward to accomodate them. Reminds me of a skit on The Late, Late Show with Craig Kilborn showing a bullseye on Bush with the words, “Snipers Wanted”. Class Act, and when our guys go on Bill Maher they agree with him. HAH! GOP needs a real house cleaning of late.

Muslim panic. Panic. PANIC. That is so funny.

RushBaby on February 27, 2008 at 5:08 PM

I am not intetrested in being rendered stupid by the likes of Bill Cunningham quite frankly. It what does he mean by Chicago type? Where did that come from??

I thought the 9/11 Truther Movement was bad, now we have The Far Right making us believe a 1960s Rockwellian-like conspiracy theory about Barack Obama, and the yahoos who somehow found their way into the GOP are insulted.

I can see a 50s style cartoon postcard with an outhouse and a shack and a still up on the porch…

Run Grandpaw, them thar mooslims are a comin’ up yonder, red up the ruum and git grandmaw and the kids down yonder to da cellar to safety…them thar turbin wearin’ varmits are goin’ git us

So hilarious.

He was evoking his real name to riducule him and to instill Muslim panic in the hearts of minds of the mindless across America, which is obviously believes the GOP is full of, and you know that.
AprilOrit on February 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM

Muslim panic. Panic. PANIC. That is so funny.

- Tweedle Dee (John McCain)
- Tweedle Dumb (Hillary Clinton)
or
- Tweedle Dumber (Barack Obama)

Cunningham didn’t say anything different than he has for the months leading up to his appearance and TV or his radio show, yet he got ripped for say “Barack Hussein Obama”. Why is it sin to say Barack’s full name, yet it was never a proble for the following ex-Presidents:

Ronald Wilson Reagan
George Herbert Walker Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
George Walker Bush

or the following candidate:

John Sidney McCain
Hillary Rodham Clinton

It’s also funny how some piece of third rate gossip from 10 years ago about McCain can make the front page news of the NY Times, yet no one can bring up Obama’s dealings with a slum lord in Chicago without being castigated.

This electon has taken a twist for the truly weird.

DaveS on February 26, 2008 at 5:02 PM
You, sir, are a freaking idiot. Moderate this. There are many politicans that are referred to with their middle name included: George Hurbert Walker Bush, or HW Bush for short, or George Walker Bush, or Dubya for for short, or William Jefferson Clinton. Now I can see differentiing between the Bushes but why the heck does they media use Bill Clinton’s middle name? Dude, if he doesn’t like his middle name, he should have changed it before he entered politics. People are gonna use it and not for the nefarious reasons everyone keeps stating.

But he did use it for nefarious reasons. Once everyone gets it, then we can move on.

I don’t need to peruse this RINO, wussy, castrati rat infested blog anymore.

It’s been two weeks since I even clicked on this damn cesspool.

I did today, just to see if anything has changed, but lo and behold… it’s the same ole shit, just another day!

I have graduated from the HotAir University with a major in snark!

So better congratulate me now, because in only a few minutes I will check out – as soon as my laundry is done – never to return for all I care.

Have a nice life “rotting in hell” you wusses, and oh, by the way…
Screw you!

DaveS on February 26, 2008 at 5:02 PM

You, sir, are a freaking idiot. Moderate this. There are many politicans that are referred to with their middle name included: George Hurbert Walker Bush, or HW Bush for short, or George Walker Bush, or Dubya for for short, or William Jefferson Clinton. Now I can see differentiing between the Bushes but why the heck does they media use Bill Clinton’s middle name? Dude, if he doesn’t like his middle name, he should have changed it before he entered politics. People are gonna use it and not for the nefarious reasons everyone keeps stating.

Conservative men, the new pu$$y-metro sexual males of my generation. If this is sling mud at your candidate then we might as well just pack it up and start agreeing right now with the left: No matter what you say and how you say it, if you’re on the right you are a racist, sexist, bigoted, macca hating, homophobe.

Can we move on now?

to demean or shame
I don’t think the purpose was to demean or shame.

Connie on February 27, 2008 at 3:17 PM

Then what is it?

to demean or shame

I don’t think the purpose was to demean or shame.

But intentionally trying to demean or shame someone whether it be Barack Obama or the Duke LaCrosse players or someone who is different than us is wrong across the board.

Little Black Sambo

hicsuget on February 26, 2008 at 10:58 PM

I had the book “Little Black Sambo” when I was a child. It was one of my favorites. I never heard the term “sambo” used as reference to anything. It was a good story. Oh well.

The problem here is you are trying to say he – Bill Cunningham – was making fun of his name, when he was just calling him by his real name.

Oh come on, regarding just calling him by his name – even Captain Ed said that wasn’t the case.

He was evoking his real name to riducule him and to instill Muslim panic in the hearts of minds of the mindless across America, which is obviously believes the GOP is full of, and you know that. Even Neal Cavuto called Coulter on the carpet for doing it.

Let me ask you this – by reciting his real name over and over – what do you want and expect to achieve? And don’t tell me freedom of speech….

If you think being free means acting like you are back in high school making fun of someone’s name, so be it. LOL

AprilOrit on February 27, 2008 at 2:41 PM

The problem here is you are trying to say he – Bill Cunningham – was making fun of his name, when he was just calling him by his real name.

But don’t expect castrati like you to know the difference.

It’s only castrati like you that are offended by the truth, cry foul and accuse others of bigotry, racism, fear/hate mongering and bully tactics when it’s spoken.

I agree that freedom is first and foremost the reason America is exceptional. But there’s another thing which is born of freedom that makes America exceptional. America is the greatest collection of ass-whooping warriors the earth has ever seen, from a ragtag bunch of drunks, old men, and youth, the Continental army defeated the greatest empire in the world, at the time to earn independence. We repelled the nation a second time in 1812.

The story goes on over and over the same way until the 1960s and the rule of liberalism. World War I, World War II, you name it, we are a nation of warriors

William F Buckley applauded warriors, not wusses who made fun of someone’s middle name or bigots who ran amuck screaming fire in the hall. That’s not fighting for freedom, that’s acting like high school allover again.

If you think being free means acting like you are back in high school making fun of someone’s name, so be it. LOL

What’s the raw truth?? Can you at least tell us what this fear based truth is?

AprilOrit on February 27, 2008 at 2:30 PM

Right there you have just exposed yourself for the ignoramus that you are, whether you asked it in snide, jest, or out of real curiosity.

What a pathetic piece of shit cesspool collection of antique castrati this blog has become. There was a lot of hope for this blog originally, but now it’s as rat infested as a New York RINO alley, before a conservative principled mayor cleaned it up.

What a pathetic waste of bandwidth this is now.