Blue Nightowl Clips

Here we go with tonight's batch of the top political clips making their rounds on the blogs tonight:

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Listening to History | PBS

Brit Hume uses Racist Phrase

Dems Debate Genocide In Darfur (Video from Crooks & Liars)

Hillary Clinton on Cheney’s “Diplomacy”

Comments

[granny]

Racist Phrase?
Spear Chucker?
That's new to me. I grew up understanding a spear chucker to be someone who threw "spears", "barbs", lobbed upsetting things into the arena (whatever that might be)to upset the direction things might be headed. That appears to me to be how Hume is using it.

I have since looked it up in the Urban Dictionary, and clearly I'm out of date according to those contemporary definitions. Nonetheless, I am inclined to believe Hume had my definition in mind.

[Michel]

I agree. I don't think there was anyone to be racist toward in the context of that sentence. Fred Thomson and John Glenn are white.

[granny]

I stand corrected!!!

I discussed with my daughter the Brit Hume remark using the phrase "spear chucker" and her response was - I quote:

"Anyone with the job of political commentator who doesn’t know the modern definition of that phrase is a dumb-ass m* f*! And should get another job."

She's really quite lovely, just a little impatient with stupidity, and pretention.

In the meantime, I apologize to Tony, who, like poets, got it right the first time. ;)

[The Mexican]

He used the term buffalo'd and then spearchucker to talk about John Glen stiff-arming Fred Thompson's ability or inability to uncover more about a potential scandal. There's no racial usage here. More censoring from the liberty party.

[The Mexican]

However, spearchucker is a racial epithet, but as stated, there's no content to suggest he attacked someone of another race or same race through its usage--merely used estranged analogy to project some deeper insight, in the pseudo-intellectual way Brit Hume espouses.

[Michel]

These people are talking all day long, and let's say the kindest way I can spin Fox News' position on their anchor and news people is that they are very lax about language (I assume the only exception is on common swear words). Though your daughter said he "should get another job", my position is "he should get a job at fox news -- oh wait, he already does". :)