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floridablue Donating Member (996 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:10 PM
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Thanks MSNBC. For FINALLY telling me who I am
Whoever that "analyst" who just was talking to our favorite Andrea, referred to Edwards voters as "DOWN SCALE WHITES"...... Yep, I always wondered who/what I was. I used to be a WASP, but I stopped going to Church. Now I am happy again. Look in the mirror and say... "That guy looking back is a down scale white".
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:12 PM
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1. DOWN SCALE WHITES?
:wtf: is that supposed to mean?
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trueblue2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:13 PM
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5. why the world watch MSNBC??? Turn it on CNN!!
They are much better.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:46 PM
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13. I turned CNN off 8 years ago
Have not watched more than consecutive 10 minutes of it since.
MSNBC isn't much better.
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:12 PM
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2. Yes, me too. And thanks to Tweety for telling us there is "no way Obama can overcome Clinton". I'm
so glad to know my vote, for Edwards OR Obama, doesn't mean jack.
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SusanaMontana41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:02 PM
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18. I am so sick of him
He's so wrong so often. Shut up, Tweety!
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:12 PM
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3. sounds pretty much as offensive as Imus's stupid utterance
hope she gets a lot of flack, whoever she is
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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:13 PM
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4. What exactly is a "down scale white"?
I thought the trailer trash vote was sewen up by the Huckster so that can't be what she was talking about. I'm sick to death of the yapping heads on the 24 hour newschannels. They have too much time to fill and not enough vacuous morons to read the White House Press Briefings all day.
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floridablue Donating Member (996 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:01 PM
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17. Thats why I couldn't vote for tha Huck. No trailer.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:14 PM
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6. I just flipped over to CNN
MSNBC was pissing me off. These talking heads need to STFU.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:15 PM
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7. Andrea Mitchell has been using "down-scale whites" for weeks now.
Every time I hear this wealthy media know-it-all use that phrase, I cringe.

Does it occur to her for one moment how completely offensive and awful that is? I doubt Mrs. Greenspan troubles her beautiful mind with such things. :eyes:
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:22 PM
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8. Aw quit bitchin
Go back to yer trailer, make love to your sister, sit there in your wife-beater, drink beer, watch Jerry Springer, work on one of the cars up on blocks in your yard and act like the "down scale white" you are. You have an image to maintain for the dipshits in the corporate media.:sarcasm:

:hi:
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:23 PM
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9. aside from the slur, that's not what the data show
Edwards' was pretty spread out in all income categories as per most of the exit polls.
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islandmkl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:37 PM
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10. NO! NO! NO!
Downscale White is defined as a Caucasian Male or Female who has gone through a transformation during the past seven years; from having what is defined as a stable, moderate, middle-class income, job and lifestyle to now working more for less, fighting off foreclosure, paying so much for energy and food that the government no longer factors them into CPI, and has no real voice in the way things run, even though they are in the majority. Tell Andrea to ask Allen how all this happened. He might have an idea.
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bigbrother05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:44 PM
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11. I am writing MSNBC, how dare they refer to me as a
DOWN SCALE WHITE, what in the fuck does that even mean.
I"m so sick of this entertainment vs news.
I will not allow the MSM in my house
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lurky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:44 PM
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12. That's another way to marginalize Edwards.
Tell viewers that his supporters are all angry, unemployed trailer-park types. I mean who wants to be one of those? If they actually believe this, they are in big trouble. And if we have 4 more years of the same economic policy, I think his message will only grow in resonance.
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Rufus2007 Donating Member (32 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:54 PM
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14. Polling term?
I think it is a polling term, not a technical term. Not sure tho
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Rufus2007 Donating Member (32 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:54 PM
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15. Polling term?
I think it is a polling term, not a technical term. Not sure tho
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:55 PM
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16. I've heard that term before
I think it's incredibly condescending. It's also out of touch since half the country is "down scale".
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FlyingSquirrel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:05 PM
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19. Ah. I'm so glad to finally find out who I am.
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That wasn't too many, was it?

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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:27 PM
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20. I caught that too. I laughed because I'm pretty well off.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:28 PM
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21. what an insult that is.
Edited on Wed Jan-30-08 02:29 PM by alyce douglas
down scale whites, what kind of BS is that?
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