The Salt Lake Tribune
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Does Buttars have Tourette's?

Despite a firestorm over a speech that many saw as racist, Sen. Chris Buttars says he has no intention of resigning his seat or not running for re-election.

In fact, the irrepressible senator from West Jordan was feeling so good, he let himself spout more racially charged language to the Tribune.
"I thought once again the first couple days, 'Well you're getting beat up but you deserve it, you made a mistake.' But then they started getting meaner and meaner and meaner to the point it is just a hate lynch mob."
Lynch mob?
Didn't Buttars' hero President George W. Bush — not exactly a PC guy — less than a week ago denounce references to lynching and nooses as being "deeply offensive" to Americans, particularly black Americans?
"They are wrong. And they have no place in America today," Bush said.

Buttars, it could be argued, lives somewhere else. An America without noisy ethnic groups, visible homosexuals, uppity women or Democrats — sort of like Utah, 1847.

6 Comments:

At February 19, 2008 8:47 AM , Blogger Mike said...

They pay you to write this? What a joke. You spelled Tourette's wrong, and finally your analysis is completely off. How about you stop writing?

 
At February 19, 2008 8:58 AM , Anonymous Doug Humphries said...

Look, I'm no fan of Buttars, but you're really grasping at straws here. Can't we just want him out because he's an incompetent, bigoted moron based on historical precedent he's already set?

 
At February 19, 2008 10:06 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Buttars is being treated poorly. He is a true closet queen and can claim to have once shared a restroom stall at the Salt Palace with a US Senator from a neighboring state

 
At February 19, 2008 1:32 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is in reference to Mike's post. The joke is on you buddy. If you can't even spell the word, that was spelled correctly in the blog, that you are trying to correct, then you probably shouldn't be posting a correction. Secondly, Buttars is a joke. The fact that he is even in the senate is a black mark on all of Utah nationally. He is a racist bigot from another era that doesn't belong in a position of such power and prominence. No Mike, you should stop giving your assinine opinion about things you know nothing about.

 
At February 19, 2008 2:14 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

What are the demographics of his youth camp? If he is so pluralistic, I'm sure that his staff reflect the demographics of his youth population, are equally represented throughout the agency hierarchy, and are being paid fair wages/salaries.

 
At February 20, 2008 9:53 AM , Blogger Mike said...

anonymous 1:52,

First, no, it was spelled "tourrettes" when I posted, they obviously corrected it by the time you posted.

Second, you spelled "assinine" incorrectly you ass. It is spelled asinine. How about you learn the English language before you post?

Third, I am not a Buttars fan, but as much as I hate the comments he made I hate people who grasp at straws to deride other people even more. This blog was nothing more than a stupid hack job in an attempt to further fan the flames.

 

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