Comments on: Not so Funny

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:52:31 +0000

If anyone made race-based “jokes” of that caliber about Hendon, he would scream like a stuck pig.

By: NW burbs

NW burbs — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:08:09 +0000

Hendon says sorry.

By: NW burbs

NW burbs — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:00:12 +0000

I wasn’t defending Hendon. I was pointing out the right’s hypocrisy.

By: ArchPundit

ArchPundit — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:50:10 +0000

I don’t doubt that Hendon’s race helped the story take off, but think about that behavior in any other professional setting. It’s a lawsuit and mandatory sexual harassment training for everyone. So, yeah, I think race made the matter worse, but even if a white guy said it, it’s still inappropriate.

By: NW burbs

NW burbs — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:46:28 +0000

Rich Miller makes a good point: does this have more to do with race than the actual comments themselves?

(Which led me to wonder if it boils down to cynical election year politicking and media manipulation… Democrat Dan Kotowski got a good boost of name recognition and a proven ground game in the 33rd thanks to the primary while Axley was reduced to tagging along at GOP events since she was unopposed in her primary.)

By: ArchPundit

ArchPundit — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:32:10 +0000

And not to minimize that, but my expectation of a State Senator is at least, just slightly higher than behavior on the Leader bulletin board.

If the Senate is going to do something studid, can we at least have a good fist fight?

By: NW burbs

NW burbs — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:29:19 +0000

Can’t find it now (no longer in Google cache) but the right-wingers made a few comments about Axley’s looks a while back in the now-defunct Illinois Leader discussion boards. They more along the lines of “She’s a good sight easier on the eyes than __insert crusty ol’ conservative guy here__” … not nearly as crass as Hendon.

(I think it came up in a thread about replacing then-State Sen Dave Sullivan. Can’t recall specifically.)