Comments on: White Men Can’t Talk

By: Steve Finne

Steve Finne — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:36:15 +0000

Pure bunk… English is a ‘mongrel’ language which absorbs all words of utility. Check a dictionary sometime — it’s full of “russ” and “Hindu” and other notations of origin, for words which enter our ’slang’ with daily regularity.
Who is the official leftwing version of the French Academy? Who grant ‘permission’ for anyone outside the Original Group to use a term of slang?
This is LEFTWING FASCISM, but fortunately in this rare instance, it stung a lefty journalist for once. A mixed review here: he used a phrase which was absolutely perfect for the occasion, but got stung by his own PC view which he never condemns.
sometimes the Gods Laugh Loud at these numbskulls, but greater numbskullery is that which excuses the notion that ‘pipm’ an dother terms are limited in any way.
how about “Diss” and other terms which have been borrowed by non-blacks for two decades? Where do we whitey boys go to get ‘permission slip’ from the teacher to practice that normal dictionary freedom?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:24:17 +0000

What is the relationship of Chelsea to the campaign? Is she a volunteer, using her own (or her parent’s) money to travel, set up speaking engagements, etc.? Is she a paid campaigner? Does she collect speaking fees?

Did she take a leave of absence from her day job? Is it a paid leave of absence? Does that count as a campaign contribution from her employers to the campaign under current campaign finance laws?

These are the sort of things a REPORTER should be reporting.

By: RE

RE — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:10:28 +0000

Mr Rourke,

Are you going to write a complementary article ‘Black men cannot communicate complex ideas’ for balance?

This article is equally as juvenile and foolish.

By: ken

ken — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:20:33 +0000

LOL! ya gotta love white ppl! you can’t even reach denial mode that the little cable mouth called chelsea clinton a whore without getting into…vanilla ice of all people! i just love it. you so desperately want it to be ok to call the clintons names- but you need an excuse when it happens- some back door vagueness or alternative meaning. the daughter of a first lady- chelsea clinton- was called a whore by a television professional without even speaking to her- with her picture on the screen- and you so desperately want it to be… OK…if it’s OK- it’s OK- you don’t need vanilla ice. (i can’t believe you know less about thug life than vanilla ice lol)

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:08:14 +0000

Ok Hill is upset that she pimped out her daughter? I don’t see bill beating his chest and pounding the table over this nonsense!
What if china calls her daughter a name ? Is she gonna “George Bush” the “Button” on them. As far as the MSNBC debate threat..Ob is sick of the debate nonsense….he may not even agree to do it. Hill needs to WOMAN-UP! I don’t remember her putting chel on the “strole” for other campaigns …why now? Oh yea desperate times call for desperate measures!

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Here is the funny thing….Clintons own Press Sec did not even know what the term “Pimped Out” meant!

Riddle me this…How can you be upset about a term that you don’t understand???

If the Press Sec googled the term the 1st hit reads…….

From-Urban Dictionary: “pimped outpimped out cool pimp awesome tricked out nice phat pimpin ride … By the amount of bling-bling he was flashing, we knew he was pimped out. …”

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pimped+out ”

“cool” “awesome” does not sound bad to me….

Now we all know there are other connotations but why take the low road? Maybe Hill wanted to play the sympathy vote??

Original Message–
From: Philippe Reines
To: David Shuster
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 7:14 p.m.

David – how hard is it for someone, anyone, in the vast MS/NBC universe to contact any one of us at the campaign for comment about Chelsea before going on air and saying that she is being “pimped out” ? It’s absurdly offensive. And what the hell does that even mean?
I just don’t get MSNBC – does GE not allow you to make toll calls? What’s the problem.

Philippe Reines
Press Secretary
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

By: Tom W.

Tom W. — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:36:08 +0000

Why is it okay for whites to imitate blacks, but blacks are accused of “tomming” if they don’t dress, speak, and act like illiterate thugs?

The most subversive cable channel is HGTV (Home and Garden TV). You regularly see successful married black professionals living in mansions and speaking standard English, with nary an African cultural object in sight.

My favorite was a couple who had a spare room converted into a Scottish pub, complete with snooker table, to honor where they spent their honeymoon. They were huge fans of the moors and heathers.

I’m sure lots of people would criticize them for “trying to be white,” and I’m just as sure that this couple is too rich and happy to care.

By: Nan

Nan — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:29:17 +0000

I would vote for David Shuster for president before I would vote for Hillary Clinton. The Clinton’s will use anyone to get ahead including their daughter. Why all the righteous indignation? So boycott MSNBC who cares. That move would be more damaging to the Clinton campaign anyway but I guess it’s never too late to stand on principle – no matter how shaky the principle.

By: d king

d king — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:15:46 +0000

This was a great article. This was the kind of great writing one could expect to see in The Rolling Stone. When strolling through the gutter it is important to have a comprehensive grasp of both current teenage and criminal cant. Those hip enough to hang with those upwardly mobile drug users need to be aware of the waves and eddies of criminal code speech in order to have sleaze and slime credibility. Making a reference to someone’s daughter and using the word pimp in the sentence is about as appropriate as referring to someone’s successful college kid as a Ho’. It is not who said it, of how it was said, it is what was said. Please make an all out effort to get real.

By: Dave_Violence

Dave_Violence — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:04:26 +0000

You know what? Using language like that (”pimped out” – that is: pimping their daughter…) on a nationally televised news (meaning: “serious, adult, etc.”) would’ve been equated with using the profanity of the uneducated, unwashed masses as late as maybe five years ago.

Personally, I wouldn’t be using that kind of language unless I had been drinking a lot. Man, all those people who called me a bore during my college days in the 1980s owe me an apology!

By: JSinAZ

JSinAZ — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:44:06 +0000

It was the street lingo that crossed the line. Instead, just think of this as more Clintonian campaign pandering, which as a familiy trait has a long history.

In case anyone needs reminding:

pan·der -noun Also, pan·der·er. 1. a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.