The Secret Service is under fire for racist and sexist e-mails, including one aimed at Chicago's Rev. Jesse Jackson...
The Secret Service e-mail, CBS 2 obtained from a court filing in Washington, was titled "The Righteous Reverend," and jokes about the deaths of Jackson and his wife when a missile strikes their plane. The e-mail ends with, it "certainly wouldn't be a great loss and probably wouldn't be an accident either."
Interesting all around--first to note the Good O'Boy Roundup mentality is still alive and well among fed LEOs, to wonder if the Secret Service would be so tolerant of death jokes by a non-"Only One," and also to observe how the miserable hypocrite Jackson is not averse to armed defense as long as it's his precious hind end being protected--and the people he wants disarmed are picking up the tab.
Anybody going to the NRA Meeting want to substitute "John and Cindy" for "Jesse and Jaqueline," and try that "no great loss" joke out on the attending security detail--just to see if you can get them to crack a smile--as opposed to your skull?
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"Hey, don't start that "constitution" crap with me."
-- Secret Service agent, to protestor outside a Laura Bush speech.
"Hey, don't start that "constitution" crap with me."
-- Secret Service agent, to protestor outside a Laura Bush speech.
That's a good one. Gimme a cite.
From the article:
"But suffice it to say that if supervisors at the Untied States Secret Service are passing around racially explicit e-mails and sexually explicit e-mails, there's a problem at the highest ranks of the Unites States Secret Service that deserves all of our attention," Jackson Jr. said.
There are three uses of the word "United" in the article. Two of them are misspelled. Both the mispellings are contained in Jesse Jackson Jr. quotes.
I wonder why.
Best case scenario: Could be that the writer, and/or the proof-reader (if there is a proof-reader) is a public school graduate.
Two things: 1) those are not misspellings and 2) that's not how "misspellings" is spelled.
My guess is the writer wants to make Jackson look bad, which is just too damn easy to do without such tricks. Or the "proof" reader just used "spell check" which does _exactly_ that: it checks the spelling -- not weather you used the correct word or not.
Public school "graduate" sounds pretty plausible though.
(That's a joke folks: the correct word is "whether" ;-). Maybe "mispellings" is a joke too: it is in the same sentence with Jackson's name.)
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