U.S. Congressman from Colorado catches heat for 'retards' comment

[prontospyder]

Winning the election must of gotten him alittle too pumped up:

"The Democratic Party offers nothing. It is bankrupt," Tancredo proclaimed to those gathered at the Marriott Hotel in the Denver Tech Center.

"There is nothing, nothing about this Democratic Party that calls itself the party of the future. But what does it present but mothball candidates, old retards, retreads that they bring back over and over again?" Tancredo said.

Denver Post

 

[StageLeft]

What a retard!!

 

[Vic]

In the article it says that it was most likely a slip. Freudian slip perhaps 😉 but still a slip.

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
What a retard!!

Ditto 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Viper GTS]

Some people seriously need to extract the proverbial stick from their ass.

Viper GTS

 

[Amused]

William Mutch, Tancredo's campaign manager, said Wednesday that the word "retard" was clearly a mistake.

"It was just a gaffe, a slip of the tongue," Mutch said. "He stopped in the middle, corrected himself halfway through and tried to make a joke of it."

It's obvious from the context that he meant to say "retreads."

 

[yowolabi]

that's what too much champagne will do to you. Remember, give the victory speech, then get buzzed out of your mind.

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
What a retard!!

-=bmacd=-

 

[udonoogen]

that's funny. =)

 

[PistachioByAzul]

TYPICAL CONSERVATIVE BLAME THE VICTIM

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: EngineNr9
TYPICAL CONSERVATIVE BLAME THE VICTIM

Huh?

 

[tcsenter]

While it was clearly a slip when attempting to enunciate "retreads", I'm not sure that retards is all that offensive or inaccurate? Since when did calling names become "taboo" in politics?

Oh, ok, its a Republican doing the name calling this time, I see. Nevermind.

 

[Shantanu]

It's funny... cuz it's true!

 

[SuperTool]

The guy is a disgrace. Such complete lack of professionalism is only amusing to the retards who listen to hate-talk radio all day.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
The guy is a disgrace. Such complete lack of professionalism is only amusing to the retards who listen to hate-talk radio all day.

Are you a fscking idiot? Did you even READ the story? He was using the word "Retreads" (not retards) more than once in a sentance and made a verbal slip. How does a simple, unintended and easy to make verbal slip make someone a "disgrace?"

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: SuperTool
The guy is a disgrace. Such complete lack of professionalism is only amusing to the retards who listen to hate-talk radio all day.

Are you a fscking idiot? Did you even READ the story? He was using the word "Retreads" (not retards) more than once in a sentance and made a verbal slip. How does a simple, unintended and easy to make verbal slip make someone a "disgrace?"

OK, retard. I mean retread. oops, verbal slip.

 

[Kadarin]

They should fire that guy for being politically incorrect, or at the very least send him to emotional "sensitivity training". As a minimum, he should have said "intellectually challenged". Retards everywhere need to unite and exert their political force, to let their voices be heard in this great nation of ours.

We will smoke the evildoers out of their caves...

 

[LAUST]

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