Earl Butz, agriculture secretary sunk by racial joke, dies at 98

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I know Butz mainly from reading Wendell Berry who completely loathes/ed him

Hurting 2, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, SNL riffed on it for like three Weekend Updates in a row!

Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:12 (sixteen years ago) link

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying,
But I didn't see that the joke was on me, oh no.

I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing,
Oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me.

gershy, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Sn-A7D76o

Three Word Username, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link


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