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Look who's "fancy" now
The Democrats turn the tables on a Republican attack.
Tim Grieve [2006-03-13]
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  • no fec.gov for www.veryfancyfrist.com?

    How come the people who made www.veryfancyfrist.com didn't cite the FEC?

    Is Frist so dull that he didn't spend money on anything that couldn't be hyped?

    -- Sum Guy
    Monday, March 13, 2006 03:01 PM

  • Who's the best site designer?

    Okay, now this is going a little too far, a little too close to the playground. When you get this infantile, the only that starts sticking out is each respective organization's ability to render HTML.

    Personally, I think Frist's site adheres better to the W3C standards.

    Yes, I am now ignoring the message and checking out the medium...

    -- oedipus
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    Monday, March 13, 2006 03:36 PM

  • I understand fighting fire with fire...

    Really, I do.

    But is this what it will take for Democrats to win more Senate seats? A strategy that relies on "I'm rubber and you're glue"? What's next, "I know you are but what am I?"

    Does anybody else find it depressing that Democrats have sunk to this level? And what if it's a successful strategy -- how depressing would THAT be?

    -- Serious Notebook
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    Monday, March 13, 2006 03:55 PM

  • Quick and dirty...mostly quick

    Cute to do a fast turn-around...but I find it hard to believe that there weren't more cutting examples for Frist. This isn't someone who has lived a...um, middle class life. Is someone hogging the oppostion research?

    --Anonymous
    Monday, March 13, 2006 04:29 PM

  • Look who's "fancy" now

    I'm glad the Dems are finally firing back, but a quick look at the web site shows how badly they need an editor. I'm embarrassed at the misspellings (paided?) and lack of consistency. Either use all initial caps in headings or don't, but don't mix them on the same page.

    -- Claire Carpenter
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    Monday, March 13, 2006 05:29 PM

  • fight absurdity with absurdity

    I love this! The Daily Show & Colbert Report have found a similar strategy that just works: fight the absurd with the absurd. Not only does it absolutely difuse the seriousness the inital agressors are attempting to make their point with, but it really drives the point home in a clever and ironic way; something uniquely liberal. This level of humor is just way too above the heads of conservatives to appreciate. That's why they stick w/ their Blue Collar TV, while we libs gobble up Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert.

    I think the above posters take themselves too seriously. Humor and irony are very useful tools, and we should use more of it to fight these unethical hypocrites.

    -- juneausmog
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    Monday, March 13, 2006 07:58 PM

  • Fancy Frist

    Too bad they did not include the genial diagnosis of Terry Schiavo through videotape.

    They should also have included photographs of tortured cats. As in the cats that Frist-the-Psycho "adopted" from shelters in order to have helpless subjects to practice his surgical skills. The creep never even even bothered with anesthesizing his victims. He enjoyed the screams of pain.

    So, in 2008, we'll have a quack and a psychopath running for president. What else is new?

    -- Manhattanite
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    Monday, March 13, 2006 08:01 PM

  • Fancy

    I wasn't aware of "fancy man" as a word for pimp, but I know the idea. During one of David Dinkins's mayoral campaigns here in New York, Jackie Mason dismissed him as "a fancy shvartza with a moustache."

    -- longtime
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    Monday, March 13, 2006 11:17 PM

  • Connotations of the word "fancy"

    I agree that there are probabaly some racist connotations in their use of word "fancy". I wasn't aware that the word was used to describe pimps either, but I do know that in antebellum slave markets, a "fancy" was an attractive, usually light-skinned, high-priced female slave who was basically sold as a sexual companion for the buyer. Of course, probably the more obvious connotations of the word are sexist/gender-related. It's about bringing Ford's masculinity into question.

    -- snazzqueen
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    Tuesday, March 14, 2006 07:35 AM

  • I love it!

    Despite the little mistakes on the veryfancyfrist site, I absolutely love this. This is a democratic tactic I can get behind: Sassy, Poignant.

    -- BabbleWorthy
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    Tuesday, March 14, 2006 09:56 AM

  • It's hard out here for a Frist

    Finally, the Dems fight back fast and hard without checking with a dozen consultants first. (If they did, they did it quickly.) The Mack Daddy of Medicare reform is as big a target as Tom Daschle was. By any means necessary you fight back.

    -- Mumrock
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    Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:00 AM

  • Connotations of "Fancy Man"

    I've only known "fancy man" as an archaic way of identifying a gay man, in fact, my granpa (b. 1899) used it. I've since seen it in print in some 1930s publications. As suggested above, a way of questioning one's sexuality or masculinity. Just a point of interest.

    -- Pete
    Tuesday, March 14, 2006 03:15 PM

  • Or you can schedule an abortion at one of his family's fancy medicial facilities in England

    http://www.theportlandhospital.com/CustomPage.asp?guidCustomContentID=0EA875BD-6248-4CE6-A711-2F862428BA3D

    Yes, he divested himself of the stock, but the company clearly owned this facility, the Portland Hospital for Women, before he divested.

    http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/000095014405002397/g93199e10vk.htm

    I think this deserves some attention, don't you?

    Dave in DC

    -- Dave in DC
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    Tuesday, March 14, 2006 08:28 PM

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