Comments on: More cheap shots http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/31/more-cheap-shots/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:53:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Neil the Ethical Werewolf http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/31/more-cheap-shots/#comment-49040 Neil the Ethical Werewolf Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:18:16 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/31/more-cheap-shots/#comment-49040 I don't see editorial cartoons that often, and I miss my Tom Toles. I don’t see editorial cartoons that often, and I miss my Tom Toles.

]]> By: Kyso Kisaen http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/31/more-cheap-shots/#comment-48855 Kyso Kisaen Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:36:14 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/31/more-cheap-shots/#comment-48855 It's too bad the cop had to put the racial spin on it, because probably a better metric would have been age - you expect young, stupid kids (off all socioeconomic backgrounds, if my time in the suburbs is any example) to think they can make things better by handing the cop a swift lie. Adults, and especially senators, should know better than to lie to an officer. Grownups know to shut up and call their lawyers. And that goes double for rich grownups who know their lawyers will be good ones. He's rich, white and very influential - the whole thing could have gone away if he'd just shut his mouth. It’s too bad the cop had to put the racial spin on it, because probably a better metric would have been age - you expect young, stupid kids (off all socioeconomic backgrounds, if my time in the suburbs is any example) to think they can make things better by handing the cop a swift lie. Adults, and especially senators, should know better than to lie to an officer. Grownups know to shut up and call their lawyers. And that goes double for rich grownups who know their lawyers will be good ones. He’s rich, white and very influential - the whole thing could have gone away if he’d just shut his mouth.

]]> By: JasonC http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/31/more-cheap-shots/#comment-48854 JasonC Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:15:41 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/31/more-cheap-shots/#comment-48854 <em>So, it’s okay to bust working class black guys for hooking up in washrooms?</em> i picked up on that line, too, when i listened to this. but if you read the transcript, he was referring to the senator's blatant lying, not insinuating that he expects guys "from the hood" to engage in bathroom-cruising. still doesn't excuse it, but puts it in a slightly different context. So, it’s okay to bust working class black guys for hooking up in washrooms?

i picked up on that line, too, when i listened to this. but if you read the transcript, he was referring to the senator’s blatant lying, not insinuating that he expects guys “from the hood” to engage in bathroom-cruising. still doesn’t excuse it, but puts it in a slightly different context.

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