(MA state) Lawmaker reads crude Web posts at school

[deadparrot]

WRENTHAM, Mass. - A state senator used foul language in a talk to high school students in his district, but defended himself by saying he was just repeating what some students wrote about him on a Web site.

Sen. Scott Brown was discussing his stance on gay marriage during an assembly at King Philip Regional High School on Thursday when he decided to share the comments written about him and his family posted on a facebook.com page dedicated to a pro-gay rights history teacher at the school.

Brown, a Republican from Wrentham, opposes gay marriage.

"I hate scott brown" and "scott brown ascends from the underworld," were two of the tamer comments on the site. Others contained profanities

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_on_re_us/senator_bad_language

[Kagemusha]

1. I could repeat stuff said by the scum of the earth too, wouldn't make it right

State senators are expected to have slightly more dignity than a foul-mouthed teen posting on a web site, right?

[Jonathan50]

2. I read foul language here on DU, does that make the posters "scum of the earth"? n/t

[Kagemusha]

5. No, and no one should've assumed I meant that.

Take Nick Saban repeating some slur that Cajuns found offensive. Coon something or other. He said, he was repeating something a friend had told him. Yes, and that's how these things spread like virii. You need to be responsible for the words from your OWN mouth, which is why I'm very judicious about what expletives I use, since I want what I write to be generally respected. That respect must be earned independent of what anyone else says or doesn't say.

[youngdem]

9. Just a little FYI from a South Louisiana Native

NO ONE regards Coon Ass in a derogatory way on par with the 'n' word or any such slur.

In fact, many people celebrate and call themselves a coon ass when meaning they are resourceful in a self-taught way, or if someone is an amazing outdoorsman. It can also indicate someone may have an affinity for eating largely what they kill around the yard. And lastly, it can indicate particular ingenuity in solving a problem, often novel inventions or modifications of existing products to suit the particular needs of the swamp.

It is a term of endearment with a little ribbing, and is exactly as offensive as calling an A&M graduate an Aggie. Just calling someone simple or strange in a country way, but with affection.

Nick Saban only caught hell for it because he was a turncoat who left Louisiana with a story about going pro being his dream only to come back to coach a rival four years later and showed that it was all about being a carpetbagging money whore.

So, a carpetbagging turncoat can't make fun of Louisiana natives by calling them a euphamism for simple and country because it looks like he is bragging about getting one over on those Louisiana rednecks. Everyone else is more than welcome to call each other coon asses.

And only whites are coon asses , except in the rarest of circumstances.

The more you know (hand wave motion like the star on the NBC commercial spots)

;-) :hi:

[Kagemusha]

10. Um, thank you. I stand educated.

I myself am of Acadian descent mainly, but not from anywhere near Louisiana, so I've had no cause to get an explanation for it before.

I'm not at all surprised Saban got that treatment because of someone he's wronged. I didn't know his history before the Miami Dolphins job but um, this stuff seems hard-wired in him, heh.

[LiberalFighter]

13. My grampa's nickname was Koonie

It was a form of Conrad except back then the family still had a strong German background. And prior to the 1900's it would be Konrad.

[Joe Bacon]

3. Don't worry, Jesus will forgive him.

He is a Republican, after all. No matter what he does, Jesus will forgive him.

:sarcasm: mode now off

[enki23]

8. er... he *is* the scum of the earth

and that has absolutely nothing to do with one's choice to use, or not use, semi-taboo words.

[MethuenProgressive]

12. Not here in Mass...

There seems to be a significant lack of quality in the state senate, on both sides.

[boobooday]

4. They called us scum-sucking pigs, El Guapo

Us!

He couldn't wait for an excuse to talk like a high schooler, eh?

[BayCityProgressive]

6. hm..maybe

DU should start a letter writing campaign to him :evilgrin:

[BlueManDude]

7. I know this guy - he's an arrogant, amibitious RW asshole.

[Trillo]

11. Ah, here we have the censors tool --

Judgement of the nature of some language as "foul" and other language as "appropriate". Curiously, with a representative as the "appropriate" one.

Gotta wonder how this relates to the first amendment. Saying someone ascends or descends from the underworld seems like valid political speech to me. On the surface it sounds like a metaphor.

Curiously, once the kids make their own speech public, in turn it is subject to others' ridicule, just as each of ours is. That the kids were subjected to the ridicule from an elected leader needs to be remembered by them so they can vote their own minds.

There does seems something wrong with an elected official going after a group of kids who aren't yet of voting age. Kind of like picking on the little people.

Perhaps kids need the right to vote. Don't know.

Undoubtedly, this will be used by school administrators to impart additional "lessons" to the kids, while the kids have not yet been given legal tools to strike back at their oppressors (the vote). Perhaps this was the lesson. "We can pick on you, so we will".