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According to Vodkapundit and Instapundit, “Stuck on Stupid” is a brand-new catchphrase that has never been uttered before. Well, I suppose if you’ve never talked to a black person, that might be true. But even then, it seems to have made an appearance or two on the internets.
Ironic that the people who are truly “stuck on stupid” are jamming the gas pedals.
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you will find copious examples going back as far as 1991 here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22stuck+on+stupid%22&start=700&scoring=d&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=y&
No, clearly Vodkapundit and Instapundit have lived such sheltered lives that it is incomprehensible that they have ever met, much less, had a conversation with a black person.
Because, you know, all black people talk the same. Kinda how they all look the same, and vote the same, and think the same.
J.
Touché.
I would like to add that I don’t recall ever having read the expression “stuck on stupid” in a post by our black host. Oliver, tell us the truth: are you really a black man?
Actually, Oliver, having spent nearly 59 years in the company of black people, including numerous ex - cons and recovering substance abusers, I’ve never heard the term.
Looking at Rain Bo’s link, it look like a New Orleans (Deta, maybe?) term…
Not something a whole lot of people would be familiar with…
But what’s the point — we all think alike to you.
No, just the dumb right-wingers share the same brain cell.
Right wingers know Africans who tell them how lazy American black are …
FROM THE PEOPLE WHO WEREN’T SO BRIGHT THE FIRST TIME
HURRICANE RITA WILL POUND THE GULF [story]but asking a question of General Honore who gloriously captured a press conference will get a reporter pounded. The right is pounding itself on the back in self congratulation. ASKING HOW THINGS ARE
Damn, Oliver- I’ve been black all my life and this is the first time I’ve heard the phrase used by another black person.
Funny- but I am a part of several different black online communities, and read several different black bloggers on a regular basis (right and left) and I have never seen the expression before.
And if you look at the Google hits you got, most of them are white folks using it (as well as people referencing the good General.)
Another funny thing- I searched your site and this post is the first time you have ever had the phrase here too. Whassamatta Ollie? Not black enough to use the phrase?
But hey! Good job on trying to turn this into some sort of racial issue!
Oliver is a hateful demagogue, and not a very bright one, at that.
Case and point:
“but then I don’t have the same background as most black Americans”
Yeah, they’re actually black and associate with other black people. They don’t spend their time sucking up to David Brock.
Wayne Brady and Bryant Gumbel are blacker than you.
I don’t usually speak in slang on my site, nor in my personal life but then I don’t have the same background as most black Americans.
“.. and not a very bright one”
Don’t even start phile
PSU94:
Please don’t slander Wayne Brady like this. While I personally preferred and identified with Colin Mochrie, he was clearly the breakout star from “Whose Line Is It Anyway.”
And yes, we all do share the same brain cell. It’s the one that lets us think. Every single right-winger has that cell, and we use it to our great advantage. You could use that single cell.
But back to the point: Oliver says it’s an incredibly common phrase among black people, but never uses it himself and doesn’t cite examples of it.
OK, I think I get it… (ouch)
J.
Poor Jay Tea.
Flogging creationism was a dud. So now he’s branching out into eugenics.
Thinking. Right. Like a hamster on a treadmill.
Poor Jadegold. Can’t slam me honestly, so now just making up stuff.
I’ve never touched on the creationism/evolution matter. That was Paul.
And if I PayPal you a quarter, can you go buy a clue and learn to understand sarcasm?
J.
Yes, wizbang, where the sarcasm is so funny they have to label it. Maybe you guys can figure out how to add a laugh track, too.
Frank; (from Edwards thread-you-remember, don’t you?)
Dodging the discussion. I asked you for some basis for your pejorative use of the phrase.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,
What is wrong with the concept? I do not associate the idea with Marxism, I associate the concept with that of the early Christian Congregation. It seems you have a rather narrow view of ideas in general. I am not a marxist any more than you are a nazi. I have a spectre of Socialism in my bag of ideas because I am not afraid of names. I do not like to be cubby-holed as a this, or a that. I, like my genetic gene pool, am a combination of disciplines and dogmas that changes as I learn. How do you learn? I hope one of the reasons you visit this site is to learn about the other point of view. That is why I visit Powerline. Little Green Footballs and such. Is that why you are here Frank?
Just once I would like to hear a direct answer to a direct question without all the bobbing and weaving.
“Have Right Wing Bloggers Ever Met Any Black People?”
Yes.
“Yes, wizbang, where the sarcasm is so funny they have to label it. ”
Only for liberals like you, frame.
Zing. What a come back, Brandon.
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Well, Mr. Willis, I’m white, but I grew up in the South, an area of the country where the black percentage of the population is higher than the national average, so yeah, I’ve met more than a few blacks growing up.
As an adult, I’ve spent thirty years in the concrete industry, and have plenty of black co-workers. What I’ve seen is that my black co-workers are just like my white co-workers: some are good, some are average, and some shouldn’t be kept on the payroll. Some are smart, and some are not; some are honest, and some are not; some you’d be willing to have in your home, and some you wouldn’t.
So, yeah, at least one conservative blogger http://commonsensepoliticalthought.com has met some black people.