{"id":2051,"date":"2011-11-07T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T16:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:21","slug":"things-stupid-people-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/11\/things-stupid-people-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Stupid People Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things only stupid people would say (but did):<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Our blacks are better than their blacks.\u00a0 Ours are more impressive, there is no question about that.&#8221; <\/em> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/ann-coulter-doubles-down-to-joy-behar-our-blacks-are-more-impressive-there-is-no-question\/\">Ann Coulter<\/a>, professional stupid person<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;[Herman Cain] is a Southern populist who &#8230; is an authentic black conservative.\u00a0 For this, he is being politically lynched by liberals in the media.\u00a0 All that&#8217;s missing is the noose and the tree.&#8221; <\/em>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201111060001\">Jeffrey Kuhner<\/a>, Washington Times columnist<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I do not see the same set of circumstances existing with the Hispanic  population here that existed with the black population.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve never had  Hispanic slavery, for example.\u00a0 We do not have institutionalized hatred  of this country being taught in Hispanic households.&#8221; <\/em>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/13\/don_t_pander_to_win_hispanic_votes\">Rush Limbaugh<\/a>, stupidity addict<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta.\u00a0 We need to see the next guy who tries to carjack you shot dead right where he stands.\u00a0 We need more dead thugs in this city.\u00a0 Let their mamas say, &#8216;He was a good boy.\u00a0 He just fell in with a crowd.&#8217; And then lock <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">her<\/span> ass up.&#8221; <\/em>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HI-4wY9ZOL8\">Neil Boortz<\/a>,<em> <\/em>radio hatemonger<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that   white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not   racist because they can like this guy&#8230; they like him because they think  he&#8217;s  a black man who knows his place.\u00a0 I know that&#8217;s harsh, but that&#8217;s  how it  sure seems to me.&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YmlgTS4vuWs\">Karen Finney<\/a>, left-wing strategist<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Herman Cain, if he became President, he would be the first black President when you measure it by &#8212; because he doesn&#8217;t &#8212; does he have a white mother, white father, grandparents, no, right?&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201110050020\">Laura Ingraham<\/a>, right-wing potshot artist<\/p>\n<p>Laura Ingraham also claims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauraingraham.com\/b\/Facebook-is-making-kids-stupid\/110202695959744149.html\">Facebook is making kids stupid<\/a>.\u00a0 And what&#8217;s her excuse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things only stupid people would say (but did): &#8220;Our blacks are better than their blacks.\u00a0 Ours are more impressive, there is no question about that.&#8221; &#8212; Ann Coulter, professional stupid person &#8220;[Herman Cain] is a Southern populist who &#8230; is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/11\/things-stupid-people-say\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}