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CALLER: How about the N-word? So, the N-word’s been thrown around —

[LAURA] SCHLESSINGER: Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO, listen to a black comic, and all you hear is nigger, nigger, nigger.

CALLER: That isn’t —

SCHLESSINGER: I don’t get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it’s a horrible thing; but when black people say it, it’s affectionate…

CALLER: So it’s OK to say “nigger”?

SCHLESSINGER: — and not enough sense of humor.

CALLER: It’s OK to say that word?

SCHLESSINGER: It depends how it’s said.

CALLER: Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?

SCHLESSINGER: It’s — it depends how it’s said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it’s OK.

CALLER: But you’re not black. They’re not black. My husband is white.

SCHLESSINGER: Oh, I see. So, a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can’t do much about that.

CALLER: I can’t believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the “nigger” word, and I hope everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: I didn’t spew out the “nigger” word.

CALLER: You said, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.”

SCHLESSINGER: Right, I said that’s what you hear.

CALLER: Everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: Yes, they did.

CALLER: I hope everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: They did, and I’ll say it again —

CALLER: So what makes it OK for you to say the word?

SCHLESSINGER: — nigger, nigger, nigger is what you hear on HB —

CALLER: So what makes it —

SCHLESSINGER: Why don’t you let me finish a sentence?

CALLER: OK.

SCHLESSINGER: Don’t take things out of context. Don’t double N — NAACP me. Tape the —

CALLER: I know what the NAACP —

SCHLESSINGER: Leave them in context.

– Right-wing radio talk show host Laura Schlessinger, speaking with an African-American woman who called in to her show last week. After the call was over, Schlessinger told her audience, “And what I just heard from Jade is a lot of what I hear from black-think — and it’s really distressting [sic] and disturbing. And to put it in its context, she said the N-word, and I said, on HBO, listening to black comics, you hear “nigger, nigger, nigger.” I didn’t call anybody a nigger. Nice try, Jade. Actually, sucky try.”.

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A guy is looking to buy an expensive car, tests it out, and comes back to the dealer to complain, “This is an expensive car, but the radio doesn’t work.” The dealer explains, “No, no, this is a high-tech state of the art car radio. All you have to do is say what you want to hear. Say ‘country music’ and country music comes on. Say ‘rock n’ roll’ and rock ‘n roll comes on.” The guy says, “Great, I’ll take it.” The guy is driving it off the lot and turns into the street when another motorist cuts him off. “Jerk!’ he mutters — and Rush Limbaugh comes on.

– Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wy.)

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You know, I’m a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.

– Nevada Republican senatorial candidate Sharron Angle, in a radio interview in January, suggesting that God plans sexual attacks on women.

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I feel she destroyed the culture of my father’s company … To be fair to Carly, the HP board should have known better when it hired her. If you have a pet bunny and get a pet ferret, you can’t really blame the ferret for eating the bunny. That’s what ferrets do.

– David Packer, son of a founder of Hewlett-Packard, describing Republican California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s tenure as HP CEO.