Oh, That Rush! He's Such A *Kidder!*

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Haggridd" 
<jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:


> This is 
> as laughable-- and as sad-- as the Washington, D.C. city government 
> official (an African-America, FWIW) who was forced to resign 
because 
> he characterized a budget line item as "niggardly".  Hs sin was not 
> allowing for how the ignorant would misinterpret hs statement as 
> using th "N-word".

Actually, I live in DC, and I remember this incident quite well, and 
your facts are wrong.  The official who used the word "niggardly" 
was, in fact, a white guy, not an African-American.  He was not 
forced or even asked to resign.  He offered to resign rather than 
work with people whom he was clearly having trouble communicating 
with, and was moved to another position on the Mayor's staff.  And, 
yes, the incident was idiotic.  But the main reason it got a lot of 
press was because it was so idiotic.  I don't remember any 
implication by anyone, other than the idiot who didn't know the 
meaning of the word "niggardly," that anything racist had taken place.

JMC