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

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3 hots and a cot

sexyDancer, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link

wonder if he and ron paul ever hung out

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link

I've always identified butz with being a big part of nixon's efforts to completely dismantle the new deal and helping us all get on the corn diet in the process, I didn't even know about the racist thing actually. anyway, fuck you, Butz, see you around.

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link

lol butz sounds like butts!

musically, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link

this is not the first time i have heard of an e buttez getting sunk by his own jokes.

estela, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link

tight pussy, loose shoes

wow that Alex Chilton album title makes total sense to me now

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link

there's an SNL ketch riffing on this line on the 2nd season box, which i spookily just watched this weekend.

stevie, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Earl Butz was just a good old boy from Indiana, which was a stronghold of the KKK in the 1920s. Indiana also produced Kurt Vonnegut and Ernie Pyle, two old boys who really were good. But Earl's kind of good old boy? Not so good.

Aimless, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link

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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