Youseff wrote:is Rick "Obama [is an] anti-war, Government Nig-" Santorum really going to run again? lovely party the GOP has got there.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Youseff wrote:is Rick "Obama [is an] anti-war, Government Nig-" Santorum really going to run again? lovely party the GOP has got there.

Of everything you could hit Santorum on you pick something made up

jerseyhoya wrote:

Youseff wrote:is Rick "Obama [is an] anti-war, Government Nig-" Santorum really going to run again? lovely party the GOP has got there.

Of everything you could hit Santorum on you pick something made up

jerseyhoya wrote:Generating fake outrage by seeing/hearing what you want rather than what happened

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:I hear your version, but it sounds more like "governmentnik," which really doesn't make much sense but at least isn't racist.

Monkeyboy wrote:Just out of curiosity, if he wasn't going to say the N word, what was he going to say? Maybe there's another way to interpret it, but I haven't seen any. I know jh says it was made up or misinterpreted, but what then is the correct interpretation?

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:Just out of curiosity, if he wasn't going to say the N word, what was he going to say? Maybe there's another way to interpret it, but I haven't seen any. I know jh says it was made up or misinterpreted, but what then is the correct interpretation?

As I posted, it sounds like "governmentnik" to me... trying to make some type of communist smear against him, which is in line with the Tea Party nonsense.

Monkeyboy wrote:There's definitely a "g" sound on the end, not a "k" sound, at least to my ears. I listened about 5 times. There also seems to be too long of a pause for it to be part of the word government that comes before it. He also seemed to get a little flustered, which I don't think he would be if he was just using a tea party word.

Youseff wrote:http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q= ... 12m&cmpt=q

Monkeyboy wrote:Just out of curiosity, if he wasn't going to say the N word, what was he going to say? Maybe there's another way to interpret it, but I haven't seen any. I know jh says it was made up or misinterpreted, but what then is the correct interpretation?

jerseyhoya wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:Just out of curiosity, if he wasn't going to say the N word, what was he going to say? Maybe there's another way to interpret it, but I haven't seen any. I know jh says it was made up or misinterpreted, but what then is the correct interpretation?

Any word (or in the case of nik, suffix) that begins with the letter N. He spoke off the cuff for the entire campaign, and changing directions in the middle of a thought was the rule not the exception. In the minute before the clip td posted, he randomly stops in the middle of another word (ethnicity) and accidentally says Ovama instead of Obama. In the minute afterwards he has a long pause before going into a digression about the defense budget (repeating the phrase "the defense budget" three times in the same sentence as he collects his thoughts), and stops himself halfway through saying 'which' to say 'that'. The average Santorum speech, in his zeal to prove himself the authentic anti-Romney and anti-Obama candidate, was a stuttering mess. Him saying something and stopping isn't evidence that he was about to say something offensive. Operating from that assumption and extrapolating his stutter to mean he was going to drop the N word seems tremendously off target to me.

Youseff wrote:that people have never said the word "governmentnik," and as the link demonstrates, outside brief blip where people were trying to figure out/justify what he said it's never shown up on the web.