"It's Like, Touching a Tar Baby"

[osoab]

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Congressman Doug Lamborn (http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/08/01/republican-congressman-refers-to-president-obama-as-a-tar-baby/) (R-CO) has equated negotiating with President Obama to ‘touching a tar baby’.
Hear the audio of Congressman Lamborn here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URAAfREIRGA&feature=player_embedded


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URAAfREIRGA&feature=player_embedded

[Plastic]

Ummm.. gonna sound stupid here... but... wtf is a tar baby? a turd? :dunno:

[osoab]

Ummm.. gonna sound stupid here... but... wtf is a tar baby? a turd? :dunno:

From Wiki. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_baby)


Although the term's provenance arose in African folklore (e.g., the gum doll Anansi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anansi) created to trap Mmoatia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mmoatia&action=edit&redlink=1), the dwarf), some Americans now consider "tar baby" to have negative connotations revolving around negative images of African-Americans.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_baby#cite_note-1)

[ximmy]

I had to look it up too... this could prove to be a sticky situation...

[Plastic]

Thanks osoab.. annnnnd... LOL!!

[jimswift]

This brings back memories of watching this when I was a kid...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk0u9ygrCYQ&feature=related

[DMac]

LOL

At first I thought this was going to be a reference to the Gulf.

Congress:
http://newauthors.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/baby-foot-in-mouth-200px.jpg

[Spectrism]

Some of you niggardly offer racist explanations. An uneducated populace makes good idiocracy.

[osoab]

Some of you niggardly offer racist explanations. An uneducated populace makes good idiocracy.


Look at the whole wiki entry. They use the Brer Rabbit as the primary example/source for the term.

Unfortunately, racial or sexual connotaions can be used for most terms. It's how the media and other blubber mouths like to spin things.
I can hear Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson ranting right now.

What other spin would expect to used for his choice of words?

[Olmstein]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6341HeJDgU

Interviewer: Alright, Mr. Wilson, you've done just fine on the Rorshact.. your papers are in good order.. your file's fine.. no difficulties with your motor skills.. And I think you're probably ready for this job. We've got one more psychological test we always do here. It's just a Word Association. I'll throw you out a few words - anything that comes to your mind, just throw back at me, okay? It's kind of an arbitrary thing. Like, if I say "dog", you'd say..?

Mr. Wilson: "Tree".

Interviewer: "Tree". [ nods head, prepares the test papers ] "Dog".

Mr. Wilson: "Tree".

Interviewer: "Fast".

Mr. Wilson: "Slow".

Interviewer: "Rain".

Mr. Wilson: "Snow".

Interviewer: "White".

Mr. Wilson: "Black".

Interviewer: "Bean".

Mr. Wilson: "Pod".

Interviewer: [ casually ] "Negro".

Mr. Wilson: "Whitey".

Interviewer: "Tarbaby".

Mr. Wilson: [ silent, sure he didn't hear what he thinks he heard ] What'd you say?

Interviewer: [ repeating ] "Tarbaby".

Mr. Wilson: "Ofay".

Interviewer: "Colored".

Mr. Wilson: "Redneck".

Interviewer: "Junglebunny".

Mr. Wilson: [ starting to get angry ] "Peckerwood!"

Interviewer: "Burrhead".

Mr. Wilson: [ defensive ] "Cracker!"

Interviewer: [ aggressive ] "Spearchucker".

Mr. Wilson: "White trash!"

Interviewer: "Jungle Bunny!"

Mr. Wilson: [ upset ] "Honky!"

Interviewer: "Spade!

Mr. Wilson: [ really upset ] "Honky Honky!"

Interviewer: [ relentless ] "Nigger!"

Mr. Wilson: [ immediate ] "Dead honky!" [ face starts to flinch ]

Interviewer: [ quickly wraps the interview up ] Okay, Mr. Wilson, I think you're qualified for this job. How about a starting salary of $5,000?

Mr. Wilson: Your momma!

Interviewer: [ fumbling ] Uh.. $7,500 a year?

Mr. Wilson: Your grandmomma!

Interviewer: [ desperate ] $15,000, Mr. Wilson. You'll be the highest paid janitor in America. Just, don't.. don't hurt me, please..

Mr. Wilson: Okay.

Interviewer: [ relieved ] Okay.

Mr. Wilson: You want me to start now?

Interviewer: Oh, no, no.. that's alright. I'll clean all this up. Take a couple of weeks off, you look tired.

[LuckyStrike]

Some of you niggardly offer racist explanations. An uneducated populace makes good idiocracy.

IDK what part of the country you grew up in but black babies in the South are niglets, pickaninnies or tar babies.

[ximmy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeHGfinBsXQ