I’d say the GOP is grasping at straws but they’d probably take that as some kind of insulting hay reference. ;-)

I used to live in the central mountains/hills of Appalachia as well as the mid-west and now live in Florida.  I was born in Canada and have immediate family in Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Canada as well as the US.

I’m a hick and a hillbilly…possibly even a redneck.

Regional differences should mean nothing these days unless the politician is trying to pander to a base.

Wait just a minute here: So when Scott Brown makes a joke about Warren, it’s all over the media and it’s a travesty and he’s attacking her and so on and so on. But Warren makes a derogatory statement and it’s just silly humor and her opponents are hyperventilating? I’m sorry I missed Warren’s defenders’ dismissal of Brown’s quip as just a joke. Such a double standard.

Brown can’t find an edge, so he’s trying to create one.  How dare she call herself a hick!

Obviously, the difference between insulting another person and being self deprecating is utterly lost on you.

The Massachusetts GOP is worried that Warren is going to draw all the hicks to her side, leaving no one to vote or the Republicon Party in the state!!

Self-deprecating or not, “hick” is offensive to some people. What if a black candidate had said he was going for the n—- vote? You can’t stereotype a block of voters without expecting some backlash.

At the end of the day, the title is appropriate. Everyone should lighten up on both sides. Both Brown’s & Warren’s comments were kind of funny.

Tommy, was the rest of YOUR mainstream media “humor challenged” as well, in questioning Herman Cain’s remark? – or is it the ubiquitous Liberal Double-Standard AGAIN?

An elite liberal candidate from Mass. calling people (like herself) from the South “hicks”???  Nothing offensive there.  What planet do liberals live on?

WHy doesn’t she run for a political seat in Oklahoma if she is such a country girl?  Because she isn’t.  She’s a left-wing liberal ELITIST.

I love the faux outrage.  When scandals break such as Solyndra, that do have merit and should be investigated, no one will do it because its the same outrage used as over Arugula, deli mustard, FLOTUS burger and shake and so on.  So now its a self referential comment to being a “hick”.  God forbid we act like people on some stories, and like political hacks on others. 

/this is acting like a political hack, by making “hick” a nontroversy(to quote Mr. Christopher)

Elizabeth Warren is the very opposite of an elitist. If anyone can claim to be for the people, it is she She does have a very sharp wit and a wonderful self deprecatring humor. Republicans have a deficit of both and are indeed the party of the economic elite.

Obviously, she’s a RACIST, no other reason is needed to explain this vile womans remarks!
Boy, it’s always fun when you can spin the Liberal crap back on them.

Just silliness when a Democrat/Lib says something stupid, but outright offensive when a Republican/Conservative says something stupid.

Gottcha, Tommy.

She mannish like Maddow. Worst hair in America.

Lets just take a look. 

Elizabeth Warren referring to herself as a hick and going for the hick vote.  Said in passing in a humorous way to the interviewer.

Herman Cain, I’m going to put alligators, barbed wire, and an electric fence with a sign that says this will kill you.  And not only once, but as evidenced by other stories on the front page, he continues to repeat it, not as a joke but as actual policy.  But when called on it by actual reporters, not supporters, he has to take the defense, its just a joke.  And then goes back on the stump and uses it to garner support. 

/yep, you’re right those are exactly the same.
//Not sure who this says more about, the candidate for continually using the fence in speeches; or the supporters who dont find it as a joke. 

Welcome to the world of Liberal Logic.

You’re referring to Cain’s “joke” about electrocuting Mexicans?  Yeah, that was a real knee-slapper….

Your moniker starts out correctly, just falls a little short. Should be ca ca.

I don’t think she meant anything bad by it, but it does get endlessly tiresome seeing the hypocrisy come from the left on this. They bitch and whine if a Republican says anything even akin to this, but give passes all day long when a Democrat does this. Why is it ok to disparage one set of people but not another? Should southerners be subjected to constant ridicule because they aren’t “blue blood New Englanders?” Alot of those “hick” people include Mexicans and Blacks as well. Should they be disparaged as well? 

One other thing…I know the perils of calling someone a “hick” or a “hillbilly” in their neck of the woods unless you are totally comfortable with the results.

People take offense when they are pigeon holed.

Yes… we all know how thick-skinned the left is when someone on the right uses a term THEY don’t like. Totally let it slide don’t they???

I’d say old Lizzie has stepped in “it” again.  She just can’t keep her big mouth shut.

PRAY THAT SHE DOESN’T TAKE HER CLOTHES OFF!!!

Wawoo is about as funny as a fart in a diving bell.

Yeah…she has a sharp wit, but when it is tossed back to her she wilts. 

Wow. Here on mediaite: Herman Cain is NOT joking about electric fence, but Elizabeth Warren IS joking about calling others “hicks”? Un-’f'n-believable. You cannot EVEN make this stuff up! Oh, and to quote the Sarandan slander of the Pople, the leftist sheep? They”ll act “predictably”. At least we can point out your bias, Tommy, Alex, Nando! Your sheep? Predictably, they cannot! LOL.

Sounds like Lizzie has an edge…and she is using it to cut her throats! (That’s plural)

Nothing is as “mannish” as Maddcow…the longest neck in the biz.

I’m a Tea Party member and I joined the 99% movement because I was tired of the government and corporations causing this country to go down the drain. Both are responsible for the reason why we find ourselves in this terrible situation. I’m asking all my Tea Party brothers and sisters to join the movement.  

Lesbian looking Tommy Christopher defends “humor” from liberals. Keep going on Russia Today, an anti-American non-journalistic Kremlin run joke. Unbelievable what kind of anit-American garbage comes out of that channel and this “guy” goes on there.

“Hick” is as offensive as the term “honkey” which is to say, not at all.

As someone who grew up in rural Kansas but educated at Northwestern University, I know exactly what Warren is talking about. But hey, good luck trying to make something out of this. It should be in the news cycle for, oh, about 5 minutes.

Your moniker starts out like a whine, and continues into to a full throated whine into your liberal drivel.

I know, this baord is laughtastic in their complete and total biases.  It is so funny to do the compare/contrast of stories when a republican is the subject versus a democrat. 

Journalism is pretty much dead, we have known that for some time now, and this baord just reminds us all just how biased the liberal media really are.

get a life.

I found that rather odd myself – the least they could have done is held on to one of the “they don’t get the joke” stories.  

I guess neither party gets it – lol

Logic-challenged Tommy Christopher can’t figger why the opposing party is emphasizing a throwaway semi-joke that can only make their opponent look even more risible. Warren is not a viable candidate (any other Democrat could beat Scott Brown next year, lucky for him you all love the blond beast) but it seems as if you Manhattanite fishbowling bloggerati will need to learn that the hard way. As usual.

I’m sure if someone said Obama was going after the crack vote, liberals would think it was hilarious. 

I hate to break it to the Mass GOP spokesperson, but Massachusetts has its hicks, has this person ever been outside of Boston?

I hate to break it to the Mass GOP spokesperson, but Massachusetts has its hicks, has this person ever been outside of Boston?

KoreanTrevor = Crazy A$$ Truther…..

Well, Cain said he was joking, but then said he wasn’t joking. We didn’t make that up.

Really bobby?  She makes a good point.  I think she is doing a great job.  If being called a hick is all you have then it will be a shoe in for Ms Warren. You go girl.

Thank God that ugly hag kept her clothes on, as Scott Brown has stated.

If your offended by the Warren comment, then you must be a hick.

I searched high and low, I can find nowhere where he says he “wasn’t joking”. Actually you did make it up. He never says anywhere: “I was not joking”.

TC: Well, Cain said he was joking, but then said he wasn’t joking.

A bald faced lie.

Oh, and, Tommy, ask Nando if your mediaite followers acted in predictable ways to Warren’s “joke” and Cain’s “joke”. LOL.

Ask Nando if he expected “people” to react like the peaceful Muslims and burn down churches and synagogues while rioting with 0bama burning in effigy this time that the Pope and Christians were mocked and slandered by the enlightened Hollywood crowd.

Elizabeth Warren scares the living hell out of conservatives … and she should. She’s a new breed of liberal that’s willing to give as good as she gets. Hence, the vitriolic reaction from the right to her candidacy.

Mr. Cain was joking about electrocuting brown people, and ms. Warren was joking about her rural up bringing. I guess they are equal in the mind of a tea bagger.

Some would say a joke is a joke, but in the mind of a leftnut clown, some jokes are more equal than others.  As are all things liberal. Huh, leftnut? That is what we call hypocrisy, after all, sweetpea.

And speaking of tea bags, do you prefer yours shaved or au naturel?

Yep she’s scary alright, if there were more Elizabeth Warren’s out there enriching themselves lavishly on the public dole as she has her entire life, and will until her death, America will be like Greece faster than you liberals can say hope and change.

I’m making one of those OWS hand signals now. You can’t see it but I can tell you its not “twinkles” .

Of course not. You wanna talk weirdos, this woman hasn’t been outside of Cambridge. You only gotta take the red line for a few stops to find a place in Boston where they’re gonna hate Warren: Southie.

I recently read a book by Jim Goad.  “The Redneck Manifesto.”
I’d say he had this whole discussion pegged about 15 years ago.
Self-deprecating?   Try” I’m going after the ni**er vote.”

DOPE

give me your address and I will send you a bottle of Cristal if you are correct

Are you sober?

are you notsofast/stonepark3?

He has the same homoerotic fantasies.

OH SWEET FOR YOU
leftnut 3 times gets you gets you Tommys

too bad
only 49 words in that last sentence
Tommy is giving out candy today

do another line – you might make it

NOWHERE?
are you challenged?
among the MANY links, how about one from one of your favorite sites

Cain: Actually, maybe I’m not joking about an electrified fence on the border

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2011/10/18/cain-actually-maybe-im-not-joking-about-an-electrified-fence-on-the-border/

My google skills are available for a fee
Call me

The right sure like to make fun of the gays

My moniker says I cry like a baby and claim I’m going to leave weeks ago

You are ripping people off.

Halfway through the question about the electric fence, Cain butted in with “it was a joke!”

“Let me first say it was a joke, and some people don’t think that it
was a good joke, and it’s probably not a joke that you’re supposed to
make if you’re a presidential candidate,” Cain continued. “I apologize
if it offended anyone. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa.”

Only, it might not be a joke, he later said, before finally saying he just doesn’t want to offend anyone.

“I don’t like to offend anyone…however, I don’t apologize for using a
combination of a fence. And it might be electrified — I’m not walking
away from that,” Cain backtracked. “I just don’t want to offend anybody.
It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views of that speech,
but in terms of what we need to do, I fully intend to do so because I’m
more sensitive to our citizens being hurt.”

Please highlight where Cain says I’m not joking. Or I wasn’t joking, or anything of the sort. In fact he reiterates twice that it was a joke. Poor reading skills to match those honed google skills for a fee??? Wow.

Your moniker is no longer worth replying to. LOL.

Yes, she’s going to keep stepping all the way into the Senate. Bet that.

No, you give me your address and I will send you a complimentary OFA bumper sticker and Change.gov T shirt when I am right. Deadline’s Tuesday the next Sept. 18th but I’ll spot you a couple of hours after polls close due to the time difference. Offer void in Puerto Rico or in the event the blond beast drops out before Memorial Day

I am from Oklahoma and I remember her.  She used to strip at the Red Dog Saloon, down on tenth street.  Really lowlife biker bar, but a lot of fun.  I forgot how many dollars I have stuck in her panties, but enough.  Now she wants to be “somebody”, lol!  Well, she is about over the hill, so her stripping days are way over and a woman has to do something, ya know!

Macaca anyone?

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38197

There will never be a “macaca moment” for anyone on the Left because
the lame-stream media has put up blinders to the tiniest infraction
from anyone in the Democratic Party. They had no problem singlehandedly
bringing down Senator George Allen’s political career, but when
Democratic members of Congress assault people on a public street,
disregard their sworn oath to protect the Constitution or fabricate
claims of racism to push the lights off their disastrous stewardship of
this country, you can only hear crickets.

you mean like

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/21/nation/na-obama-special-olympics21

Not bowled over by Obama’s Special Olympics joke
Despite the president’s apology, athletes and others say they are disappointed with his remark on Jay Leno’s show.
March 21, 2009|Stacy St. Clair and John McCormick
CHICAGO
— When she met Barack Obama two years ago, Caitlin Cox proudly wore the
two bronze medals she had won at the Special Olympics. The
then-Illinois senator grinned as she showed him pictures of her
signature bubble-gum-pink bowling ball and posed for photographs with
her.
Cox, who has Down syndrome, excitedly recalls that meeting
each time she sees Obama’s photo on a magazine cover or hears him
mentioned on TV. Her ears perked up again Friday morning as her parents
discussed the president at breakfast.
Her mother, Suzanne Thompson, told her that Obama had made a joke
about the Special Olympics on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on
Thursday and that it might have hurt a lot of people. Cox, 21, dropped
her head on the table and, after a brief silence, said the news made
her sad.
Thompson tried to console her daughter, telling her sometimes people do disappointing things.
But
as a mother and special education teacher, Thompson said, internally
she was crushed by the president’s insensitivity. She knows how
destructive such stereotypes can be, and it infuriated her that an
organization dedicated to empowering millions of people with
developmental disabilities would be reduced to a late-night punch line.
“My
heart just sank,” she said. “To have the president make a comment like
that when we’re working so hard to change hearts and minds is just
devastating.”

yep just like when cain said he would build a moat with alligators on the boarder everyone thought he was 100% serious….sure ;)

or a  moat too..right

a knee slapper from obama.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWhs8GOYK8 

cant make that joke ;)

or like the
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081400589.html

You see when a Democrat is a bigot, its “just a joke” and Timmothy Christoopher will ride to your defense. Anyone else notice all the mediaite stories running to the defense of Democrats lately? Do you EVER see them dong that for Republicans?

Why do you support and even promote the us of anti-white racial slurs? Does it make you feel good about yourself? 

What?

What?

“Hick”, denotes a backward, uneducated person to stupid to learn! I don’t find anything self-deprecating about that!!

We don’t need luck to point out just how reprehensible the use of derogatory names are, we need only look at what your socialist Liberal says. If your not going to apply the same rules to your socialist candidates that you push on on Conservative candidates, then get ready to start hearing the vitriol pushed back in your face!  

Don’t go down that road, it might lead right back to you!

What kind of “hick-ass statement” is that?!

She is a socialist, which of course, is not human! She wants to “defecate” on our way of life, and you want to protect this cow?!!
Of course, I say that tongue in cheek….self depracating….un-offense way????? Except, the part about her being a Socialist!

Of course, you meant that in a self-deprecating way, didn’t you?

Nope, just deprecating.

I hope for his sake you guys aren’t related.

Didn’t Martha Coakley make a similar goof by saying something about going after Red Sox fans?

Perhaps, but only if they’re also liberals.

Warren doesn’t seem to fit the old right left paradigm neither does Brown.

Meanwhile, Cain has “joked” that we should build an electric fence to kill Mexicans trying to get into the USA to pick lettuce for crap wages.

Meanwhile, Huckabee has “joked” that Republicans should do “whatever it takes” to keep Democrats from voting.

But Warren calling herself an “elite hick” is just too much for those poor, sensitive souls in the GOP to tolerate.

The planet where Warren doesn’t come “from Mass.”
Did you miss the part where it says she has “Oklahoma roots?”

My dad served 30 years in the military and I refer to myself as an “Army Brat.” Am I insulting the military with that reference? 

Cuz she doesn’t want to run for a political seat in Oklahoma? 

Since when did a “country girl” have an obligation to run for office in any particular state? 

Dislike her all you want, but please don’t use stupid arguments to defend your dislike. Of course, if that’s all you’ve got, I guess you have to play the cards you’ve dealt yourself…

When has there been any sharp wit tossed at her and any evidence that it made her “wilt?”

It may be fun, but this example makes you look pretty stupid. 

Weird that citizens are so upset about a woman who wants to make it easier for average people to save money, buy a home, and live a life that isn’t constantly at the mercy of Wall Street speculators and mega corps whose only interest is turning a profit. 

I guess that whole “We the People” thing was just a joke, too. Those Founding Fathers. What a bunch of jokesters.  

Not just “the gays,” but women in general who don’t meet their idea of sexually attractive… 

… unless, of course, it’s one of their women who aren’t quite so fine, in which case any dismissive comments are proof that liberals are sexist. 

Who CARES what anyone looks like unless you’re in a relationship with them? 

BTW — Warren is a perfectly decent looking woman, so this whole line of conversation is just stupid.

I dunno about journalism, but spelling appears to be dead… 

It’s “board.”

So… it was a joke… except that Cain also said “I don’t apologize for using a combination of a fence. And it might be electrified — I’m not walking  away from that…”

It’s all about context, superduper.  Allen was dissing somebody he considered unlike himself, whereas Warren’s comment was self-deprecating humor.  By embracing the term “hick”, she was really poking fun at those detractors who, on the one hand, slam her as an elitist for teaching at Harvard, and, on the other, deride her folksy Okie lack of sophistication.  Elite hick sums it up.  It’s sort of like when the right wing was attempting to sell us an image of Obama as a excessively cool and aloof terrorist, or as a liberation theology-spouting socialist Muslim fundamentalist.