We sure are a sensitive bunch. I was under the belief some people use the phrase 'cotton-picking' in lieu of cursing. I guess I'm wrong. But to put it in context anyone remember this exchange?
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So certainly if "cotton-picking" is racist "You Bow-Tying White Boys" has to be right?
Apparently not. Shamu was never suspended for a minute and still appears on FOX.
Bugs Bunny is gonna be next:
"The euphemism was used in early Western films and Bugs Bunny cartoons, especially in the form ‘wait a cotton-picking minute!"
Get a rope.
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Bugs Bunny is gonna be next:
"The euphemism was used in early Western films and Bugs Bunny cartoons, especially in the form ‘wait a cotton-picking minute!"
Get a rope.
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Fox News has suspended a former staffer from President Donald Trump’s campaign over his remark that a black panelist was out of his ‘cotton-picking mind’.
David Bossie, who is white, was suspended from appearing on the network for two weeks over his comment to black Democratic Party strategist Joel Payne on Sunday morning’s Fox And Friends, the Daily Beast reported.
Host Ed Henry had invited two guests on Sunday to debate Trump’s policies toward migrants and the fallout from the separation of families who cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
The discussion grew tense over accusations that those criticizing Trump by comparing him to Adolf Hitler and his supporters to Nazis crossed the line.
A Fox News Channel host, Ed Henry (center), apologized on air to viewers after a segment in which a pro-Trump white guest, David Bossie (left), told a Democratic Party strategist, Joel Payne (right), who is black, that he was ‘out of his cotton-picking mind’
Bossie and Payne were vigorously debating when Bossie raised a controversial tweet by General Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency, which compared family separations to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz.
Bossie criticized Hayden’s tweet, which prompted Payne to reply that Hayden was not a liberal.
‘You’re out of your cotton-picking mind,’ Bossie told Payne.
Payne was furious.
‘Cotton-picking mind?’ he said.
‘Brother, let me tell you something, I got some relatives who picked cotton and I’m not going to sit back and let you attack me on TV like that.’
‘Attack you how? You’re out of your mind,’ Bossie said.
‘This is ridiculous, this is what’s gone on in America.
‘This is what we’re about.’
Bossie made the remark in response to Payne’s suggestion that General Michael Hayden (above), the former head of the National Security Agency, was not a liberal
Hayden, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, raised eyebrows last week when he tweeted a photo of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in response to the news about family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border
After the segment, Henry returned to the air and distanced himself from Bossie’s comments.
‘Bossie used a phrase that clearly offended Joel Payne and offended many others,’ the Fox and Friends host said.
‘But I want to make sure that Fox News and this show, myself, we don’t agree with that particular phrase.
‘It was obviously offensive and these debates get fiery, that’s unfortunate.
‘We like to have honest and spirited debates, but not phrases like that, obviously.’
Bossie also apologized later on Sunday.
‘During a heated segment on Fox & Friends today, I should have chosen my words more carefully and never used the offensive phrase that I did,’ Bossie tweeted.
‘I apologize to Joel Payne, Fox News, and its viewers.’
Over 2,000 migrant children were separated from their parents by federal agents after they crossed the border from Mexico, sparking national outrage. U.S. Border Patrol agents are seen above checking passports at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso, Mexico this week
The network released a statement saying: ‘David Bossie’s comments today were deeply offensive and wholly inappropriate. His remarks do not reflect the sentiments of FOX News and we do not in any way condone them.’
The use of ‘cotton-picking’ as a euphemism for certain curse words did not originate with specific ties to slavery but has caused racial rows in recent years.
The phrase arose in the 17th century to describe something onerous or difficult, according to essayist Heather Michon as cited in the Globe and Mail.
At the time, before the invention of the cotton gin, cotton-picking was a household activity not associated with slavery or industrial-scale production.
The euphemism was used in early Western films and Bugs Bunny cartoons, especially in the form ‘wait a cotton-picking minute!’
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