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Mar 5 2010
11:58:am
Wow. Unbelievable. And the guy is unapologetic. Maybe the Tennessee Hospitality Association board will be unapologetic when they fire him.
UPDATE: Swell. Story goes national. AP: E-mail compares first lady to Tarzan's Cheeta
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Disgusting! He should be
Disgusting! He should be ousted.
I thought
I thought when I first read the report that someone had highjacked his email account to get him into trouble (see Karl Rove dirty tricks operator manual) but I see the guy admits that he sent it! Wow!
This guy should watch his
This guy should watch his backside!
He's just a maverick against political correctness
What a piece of s____
This ridiculous a-hole had better watch his back when approaching back alleys in the future. This stupid jerk must have had pigs for parents. How else are you allowed to have a mind bent in the direction his is?
I hope he's not only fired, but will not be able to find work for years to come. Let him find out first hand how the poor in this nation have to live.
Excuse me, I have to visit the toilet and wipe this guy off my butt.
Can the sane people of this state...
secede from the backwater jerkistan that Tennessee has become and rejoin the United States of America? I mean, COME ON! Enough already with the racist "bubbleheads" (and that's a nice way of saying what I really think of them...) in positions of representation for our state. Can we gather them all up and fire them off in a rocket towards Jupiter or something?
Apples to Apples
http://www.mrsockmonkey.com/topics/Pictures-Where-George-Bush-Looks-Like...
Is this OK and that not? Why?
Everybody knows there's a
Everybody knows there's a long, racially-linked history of rich, Connecticut-born white guys being compared to apes, don't they?
Don't they?
And rich white guy/watermelon jokes? Right?
On March 8th, 2010, the
Firing archived here.
Firing archived here.
Chimp e-mail could hurt
Chimp e-mail could hurt Tennessee tourism industry