Bobo thinks the real villains in CainGate are the women he harassed:
If you are the victim of sexual harassment, and you agree to remain silent in exchange for a five-figure payoff, should any moral taint attach to you? In the old days, somebody who allowed a predator to continue his hunting in exchange for money would certainly be considered a sinner. I’m reluctant to judge people in these circumstances, but I’m inclined to agree. Am I missing something?
In the old days, the women would have been labeled sluts who were asking for it. They wouldn’t have even dared to make the complaint.
Cacti
So, when did the old days end?
Calouste
A brain? A moral compass?
The Moar You Know
What Bobo is missing here, besides the entirety of his cortex, is that sexual harassment is not a crime. Either the woman can collect some cash, or she can’t, but either way the guy walks free to do it some more.
And they always do it some more.
MeDrewNotYou
Conservatives blaming the victim? Especially when the victim is a woman? I am shocked, shocked I say!
Gin & Tonic
If you are the victim of sexual harassment while working at a low-paid office job which you really need so as to help feed your family, and the only way out of a bad situation is to take a severance package that at least holds you through for a while, but the employer who holds all the cards insists you don’t get a penny until you sign a confidentiality clause, to whom does the moral taint attach, exactly?
Villago Delenda Est
People have complained about this from me in the past, but the world really would be a better place if the broken, beaten body of David Brooks were found in some back alley.
Lester
See, if a women agrees to remain silent for $, that’s bad for society (per Bobo), I’m guessing he’d feel differently re: a giant multinational corporation ‘buying’ the silence of a consumer harmed by said corps’ product (as part of a discreet, confidential settlement), well, that’s just the freedom to contract and the free market working its magic….. or not….it’s all so confusing…
Shinobi
Many women I know hesitate to report sexual harassment for fear of being seen as a risky employee. The fact that these women did means it must have been pretty bad. Shut up BoBo.
Mark K
In the old days, someone like me would beat that “insufferable twat”s ass.
These Republicans pundits/columnists job always boils down to 2 things:
1.) Defending the indefensible.
2.) Smear anyone who disagrees.
Michael
Wait…is this a real question, or just another variation of the stupid/evil axis?
Hoodie
Bobo should know all about taint, since he dines on it nightly.
Svensker
Now that pisses me off.
Dear Bobo, I hope your favorite daughter moves to Mississippi where she is convicted of murder for her unexplained 8 week miscarriage.
Signed,
Freya, Goddess of Viking Wimmins
Hunter Gathers
A con artist is the toast of our political culture a year from a presidential election. The Full Fucking Retardation of America has begun. My son is going to inherit a nation populated by idiots, morons and people who just plain don’t give a fuck. High unemployment, wars, massive inequality don’t mean squat. What matters is whether or not a con artist that was accused of sexual harassment 15 years ago is the real victim, and all women are just filthy lying whores anyway, so how will this play out in the polls?
This entire situation is just completely unreal.
America.
Has.
Gone.
Full.
Fucking.
Retard.
Marc
Is this is the same David Brooks who said the following: “I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here” but refused to identify who that Senator was?
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/07/10/50226/brooks-republican-senator-thigh/
gumbo
And of course there are no comments allowed at the NYT for this particular piece. Not that Brooks would actually learn anything from them. It’s so much easier to just make up the Applebee’s salad bars/immoral sluts that one needs to “prove” one’s arguments.
Violet
For reference, is Bobo on record as having an opinion on sexual harassment when Clinton was president? How about when Clarence Thomas was going through his Supreme Court nomination hearings? Did he “get it” then?
RalfW
The great American experiment continues to devolve. I hope the beings observing us in their cosmic lab coats are getting good data. But wow, i think the psychological testing is starting to really warp us test subjects.
gogol's wife
Should any moral taint attach to Bobo? Why yes, yes it should.
eemom
Is he missing something?
Where does one begin?
Punchy
Uh….what? Can I get this translated? Who exchanges hunting for money? Is the sinner the person doing the allowing, or the hunter?
Paris
Victims are guilty, especially if they have received restitution. Did I interpret that correctly?
PhoenixRising
Wait, whut? Oh no he didn’t.
Seriously, David f’ing Brooks needs to be placed in Barbara Ehrenreich’s body and made to work at Sprawl-Mart for 90 days. I’d settle for the right to beat him unconscious with a hardback remaindered copy of ‘Nickled and Dimed’. Which I will auction off online, all proceeds to benefit NOW.
“Remaining silent” about being harassed at work is a requirement if the victim wants to work ever again, because no company wants to hire anyone who says they have been victimized in the past, because you can’t believe one side of that story.
Let’s imagine how egregious and humiliating these repeated one-off acts of harassment must have been, to cause the victims to complain, lawyer up and get a settlement instead of just finding another job.
Here’s a clue–he MUST have done it in front of witnesses if they got paid at all, and my guess is that $35K was cheaper than a class action under Title VII because he was a frequent flier.
So yes, David F’ing Brooks, the victims certainly should have done more than complain. They should have gone straight-up Lily Tomlin on his a** and filmed it for a remake of “9 to 5”.
Failing that, apparently what would have really made the working environment better for future young, single women at the NRA was putting a contract hit on him with the settlement money.
MeDrewNotYou
@gogol’s wife: I’m going to ruin your day, but your comment made me think of Bobo’s taint. I’m going to go cry in the corner now. Thanks a lot!
Chyron HR
I think Moral Taint is too busy looking for the President’s secret Kenyan birth certificate.
gogol's wife
@MeDrewNotYou:
Well, don’t look at comment #10 then!
Ozymandias, King of Ants
Am I missing something?
Why, how much time do you have
Ozymandias, King of Ants
Why, how much time do you have, Bobo?
Yevgraf
Did anybody say that it was the victims that were revealing this? I tend to think it was NRA insiders spreading it around.
FlipYrWhig
@Paris: Well, sure. It’s kind of like how if someone totals your car, then later on totals someone else’s car, when you really think about it it’s mostly your fault.
Martin
Ah, the good old days when the only solution to a moral sin was a good, healthy stoning by the townfolk. This civil law bullshit is clearly the end of civilization.
Shinobi
@PhoenixRising: This.
Roger Moore
@Gin & Tonic:
Obviously you are for being poor. If only you were upstanding enough to be
born with a silver spoon in your moutha member of the idle richa job creator rather than a moocher, you wouldn’t be making such an immoral choice. Poor people deserve what they get and should be punished for trying to rise above their station.Bill E Pilgrim
Yes we know.
No, because out of the some 300 million people in our country and the millions among them who meet the requirements to run for President, let’s be sure and select someone as creepy and sinful as possible.
That’s just it with people like him, “sin” means you can always just confess whatever behavior you want to away, then start up again the next day.
Stopping just short of illegal, that’s Presidential!
FlipYrWhig
@Martin: Weregild ruined everything, man.
soonergrunt
@Villago Delenda Est: my only complaint with that is that we don’t necessarily need to find the body.
@Paris: That’s pretty much what I got from it.
IM
@Calouste:
A brain, a heart and courage.
The Moar You Know
@Hunter Gathers: Better teach him how to use a gun. Or better yet, emigrate.
David in NY
God, that is an awful exchange. Is Brooks always so overbearing in these things? I rarely read them. It’s like he’s giving Gail Collins the Third Degree — or really, like he’s a pompous ass putting her down for the fun of it … Oh. Yeah.
drkrick
Cain’s position on this is clear – if you’re not rich enough to walk away from the job without a second thought, blame yourself.
ThresherK
@Gin & Tonic: Yeah, Bobo’s always been willing to pimp the idea of someone walking out and getting another job. I think this covers everything from coal miners to Karen Silkwood to Triangle Shirtwaist to the Natl Restaurant Assn.
Exactly like he
has had toimagines he can, at any point. He can quit being a kept hack anyyyyytiiiime, he swears!MeDrewNotYou
@gogol’s wife: I think I had subconsciously repressed that comment until now. Can I get your address? ‘Cuz you’re getting my therapy bills.
gbear
I wonder if Bobo’s bosses ever wince. Are any of his bosses women? Do they just think it’s funny when Bobo walks around the office trailing a piece of toilet paper?
scav
We’re up to three now. The unamused ones are all over.
ETA: Pretty soon they’ll be a WalMart Voting Block.
Roger Moore
@soonergrunt:
It is if we want to make sure it serves as an object lesson for the rest of The Village. Maybe some messages scrawled in blood about what will happen to other purveyors of false equivalence, radical centrism, etc.
jibeaux
Some people might think that if you paid out a five-figure settlement for sexual harassment, that might be something of a “sign” or a “clue” to stop fucking harassing people. Some people might perceive something of a deterrent effect from such things. But then you’d probably have to be smarter than someone who worries that China is developing nuclear weapons.
Jim C
And here I thought he was going to condemn them for breaking their compensated silence.
Hoodie
@MeDrewNotYou: Let me help. I’d like to ask Brooks if durf sticks between his teeth after a session with John Thune or Paul Ryan.
David in NY
@gumbo: Not true Gumbo. Comments are enabled (some of the time). I’ve taken the liberty of plagiarizing one or two of the better comments here and dropping them in. Also of demanding Brooks be fired. We’ll see. I have low expectations (about whether my comments will pass moderation).
Eric
We are one news cycle away from “she was asking for it”
Brachiator
Are we discussing Ben Roethlisberger again?
No.
But I don’t think the question is entirely out of bounds.
A settlement does not always mean guilt. Sorry. It just doesn’t.
@PhoenixRising:
No, let’s not. If we don’t know the facts of the case, we can make it as horrible or as trivial as we want, which doesn’t mean anything.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Old days a women who didn’t scream for help when raped was considered guilty of a capital crime. Way to go Bobo.
Amir Khalid
Bobo:
Of course it’s harassment, you purblind fool. It’s already harassment when the boss first brings up the improper invitation. I remember that from when HR at my little tabloid newspaper in Malaysia made all us staff go through awareness training on sexual harassment. Don’t they do that at the New York fucking Times?
aimai
This is totally full of crap. In the old days every injury was paid for with some form of were-gild up to and including murder and other major crimes. The payment reflected the social status of the person offended, the social status of the offender, the liklihood of reoffense and the strength of the kin networks involved in negotiating the price. If you were lucky enough to have sufficient social status to be paid a price, that price was considered deterrent of the next round of crimes–it wasn’t hush money at all.
Plus, also, too, after the arrival of the state everything didn’t change.
What a fucked up apology for a human being he is.
aimai
Hunter Gathers
@The Moar You Know: I’m currently working on an interstellar communications device. Hopefully in a few years I’ll be able to contact someone to transport him off this insignificant rock populated by psychotic apes.
catclub
@Svensker: I will take the anti-abortion loons seriously when they actually propose this.
If you contract for a murder you are MORE at fault than the contract killer. UNless you are a woman who has an abortion.
Then the evil clinic is prosecuted but there is never any prosecution of the woman. So much for considering women as moral actors.
Michael
@Marc: Thanks. Had almost forgotten about that make-me-throw-up-in-my-mouth-a-little moment.
Roger Moore
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
A woman who nobody heard scream for help when other people were around to hear was assumed to have consented. That’s in the Bible. The woman was only put to death if she was already married so that the sex was adulterous. If she wasn’t married, she was married off to her rapist.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Marc: LOL, so Brooks is speaking from personal experience about being sexually harassed by conservative men? He’s just projecting on these women. hahaha.
So how many times did Bobo have to service a source? One wonders,..
ThresherK
@Hoodie: If he can, uh, summon durf and yet not get it to come off his teeth afterwards, isn’t he doing something wrong?
Marc
No, seriously. Brooks has admitted that he sat through a dinner party with a Senator’s hand in his lap the whole time and said nothing even though he claims to have been disgusted by it. To this day won’t name the Senator, presumably out of a desire to protect himself from some kind of retaliation. And this same David Brooks is claiming that women who settle harassment claims by signing routine NDA’s (that are part of every settlement in every civil case) are morally tainted? What an asshole.
scav
Seriously, how dare there be behavior that they can’t buy their way out of the consequences of? Jesus Forgives and for those instances where it’s iffy, Use Master(Class)Card.
gogol's wife
I just realized this is DougJ’s third show tune reference in recent weeks, after Rodgers & Hammerstein (“Surrey with the Fringe on Top” from Oklahoma), Jerome Kern (“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” from Roberta), and now Gershwin. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
catclub
@gogol’s wife: I am just glad it was not an orly Taitz thread.
Catsy
I nominate “Moral Taint” as Bobo’s new nickname.
soonergrunt
@Roger Moore: There are places in the world where its a capital crime for the woman whether she screams and is heard or not. Many women keep silent in parts world because they know that no matter what happens, they’ll be killed or forced to marry the guy or pay a dowry or some such. Here in America, we shame the little slut and force her to apologize in front of the church when she’s repeatedly molested by the deacon, complains, and turns up pregnant.
TooManyJens
Obviously not.
MeDrewNotYou
@Amir Khalid: All of these guys pretending to fret over whether or not something is sexual harassment piss me off. It’s pretty damn simple: Would you mind someone doing this to your sister? If yes, then you probably shouldn’t do it. It isn’t rocket surgery.
PhoenixRising
@Brachiator: Sorry to bring a harsh note of reality into this slugfest, but employers don’t pay for ‘trivial’ acts of harassment. They just don’t. Employers pay when their counsel suggests that it’s the cheapest way out for them.
If there had been a way to interpret Cain’s abuse of his subordinates differently than the victims did, a way that would have persuaded the victim’s lawyers* that their clients would be best off going away quietly with nothing, they would have taken that road.
*Assuming that the victims got lawyers, which they may not have–they may have let their employer’s counsel tell them what kind of case they would theoretically have in the event that they lawyered up. In which case I don’t want to imagine what Cain, still unable to see from anyone else’s perspective, must have done multiple times.
patroclus
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m beginning to believe that Herman Cain has a history of sexually harassing women.
Lolis
It is the company’s fault for not making this a firing offense, not the women.
David in NY
@Marc: I’ve a comment pending on the Times thread using your point. Hope you won’t mind the theft.
IM
@patroclus:
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is …
Suffern ACE
@Paris:
Nope. And there really isn’t any other way to interpret that. If I didn’t know any better, he’s calling them whores.
singfoom
Wow, Bobo is beyond out of touch there.
“You were harassed at your job and took a settlement?”
“Slut.”
Wait, WTF?
How does accepting a settlement for a crime committed AGAINST you attach any moral taint to you?
Fucking justice, how does it work, Bobo?
pete
@David in NY: Good luck with that. Do tell us if it gets accepted.
PhoenixRising
Obviously a settlement doesn’t always reflect guilt. In harassment cases, a settlement most often reflects the firm’s desire to control what the claimant says in public. (Whether the HR flacks believe the claimant or not, the purpose of the money is to keep her from repeating the claim. That is just as important if she’s an effective witness as it is if she’s a flake with no credibility.)
My guess is that the NRA offered the second through Nth women payoffs to keep them from entering into discovery and getting their hands on the file from the first complaint.
Keep in mind that the NRA had HR staff and lawyers on their books already as a cost center. So the incremental costs of responding to discovery requests, pertaining to their internal investigations, were pretty minimal as long as they could be sure that there was no substance to the claims.
Bottom line, and of course I’m speculating here, is that Herman Cain is at best a philandering lout and at worst a serial abuser–but one thing we know for sure is that he doesn’t listen to the specialists who get paid to advise him.
Because I guarantee you that after the first complaint, someone with expertise in Avoiding Litigation We Will Probably Lose had a meeting with Cain, in which s/he attempted to communicate some of that advice. To no apparent effect.
Jay in Oregon
Since when? Since two days ago, when you shat out dribble such as this?
fasteddie9318
Is there some horrific thing that happened to Bobo in his childhood that turned him into the living pustule that he is, or should I just chalk it up to basic sociopathy? Or am I missing something?
kc
@Marc:
Brooks withheld the Senator’s name in exchange for more dinner invites, not actual cash, so you see the moral taint did not attach.
Brachiator
@PhoenixRising:
Parse this one for me. A recent news story.
I honestly don’t know where the truth is in this one. Do you? I’ll wait.
But let me again emphasize the key quote, even after a lot of money has been paid all around.
“The parties emphasize there were unfortunate misunderstandings that may have led to ill-considered allegations that they now regret, and for which they apologize.”
I’m in the tax business. I have seen and have given advice on confidential settlements. The funny thing here is that I cannot, would not, even hint at what I may know, so I can’t play the “trust me” authority card (and hell, this is the InterTubes, so I could be a congenital liar). The only thing I can say is that life is complicated, and I think I have a pretty good idea of the harsh realities behind some of these issues.
I also don’t won’t to be confused as being a Cain defender. But I get exasperated with the expressions of certainty here, especially when facts are not known. Some people never learn.
Gregory
Bobo:
Yeah, right. Pull the other one, Brooks.
Nutella
OK, but the sinners here are not the women who complained. They did not allow a predator to continue. They made formal complaints about the predator’s behavior which should have led to sanctions against the predator. The fact that the predator was not punished in any way is due to NRA letting him get away with it. If there’s a sinner encouraging a predator to ‘hunt’ again then the sinner is the NRA.
Jay in Oregon
@Catsy:
“Moral Taint” is the name of my next band.
Jenny
I blame fat people, hicks, and bristol palin’s libido.
IM
So Cain was falsely accused three times in a row?
David in NY
@Brachiator: A good deal of the excoriation of Brook here has nothing to do with whether the allegations are true or not. Brooks has assumed that they are true and that, nonetheless, the victim is the sinner. So really, Brooks is a shithead.
Jenny
This is the same Bobo who was sexually harassed by a republican Senator and Bobo refused to name him, allowing the senator to continue his predatory behavior, which thus, makes Bobo the sinner he just denounced.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/07/10/50226/brooks-republican-senator-thigh/
Nellcote
Bobo is just taunting Charles Pierce now.
David in NY
@pete: My comments at the NYT seem to be being held up longer than others. It is entirely possible that they think that calling for Brooks’s head or bringing up his failure to rat out the Senator who caressed his thigh is “abusive.” Usually I get away with fairly sharp remarks, but maybe not these.
David in NY
By the way, the shit is flying among Cain, Perry and Romney over who started this. Fun.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@fasteddie9318:
Going by Brooks story of hide the senators hand it sounds like he was raped for the betterment of his carrier. As always, it’s projection with a conservative.
singfoom
@Brachiator: I think we can be pretty certain that in general, victims of sexual harassment are not in general, responsible for said harassment.
What I took from Bobo’s piece is that since they took the settlement, they are at fault somehow.
And that’s just fucking crazy.
As for your story, that’s messed up. Perhaps both are true? The black officer harassed women and the white male officers harassed the black officer.
I think the case with Cain and the women is not nearly as muddled as the one you’ve brought out here.
ABL
@Marc: nice catch!
PhoenixRising
@Brachiator: Can’t speak to that, as I’ve never represented a public entity. What I can say really definitely happened there, no doubt, is that the city of San Leandro acted as if they have a strong aversion to discovery about questions of racial discrimination.
Cities, counties, states, fire departments, and especially law enforcement entities have a complex set of variables they have to take into account when deciding what’s worth fighting in court, versus taking the cheap way out. Those variables hinge on questions about how the community (i.e. jurors) might react to the specific accusations, how the community (i.e. taxpayers) might react to the accusers and the accused, and more I’m not thinking of.
But if your point was that it’s hard to suss out the truth about accusations of sexual harassment, it would have been much more strongly supported by an example of a settlement that didn’t involve a public entity or allegations of racism. Because both of those factors certainly muddy the waters.
Liberty60
For Bobo, a five figure amount= “trifling”;
For the woman in question it was a fucking years income.
Brachiator
@singfoom:
In general, this is a meaningless statement.
But the question is not about the alleged harassment, it’s about getting paid, agreeing to confidentiality, and then coming back to make allegations again. I don’t necessarily even have a problem with this, and clearly answered that I do not think that a person in this situation does not have any moral taint. Do I need to say ANY again? But I don’t think it stupid to ask a question about this.
The black officer’s lawsuit said that he had been unfairly targeted by the female officers. The apology tends to support that conclusion.
I ask again, do we know any facts?
Svensker
@catclub:
They are proposing it, in Mississippi. The law in question makes a fertilized egg a person, so that most forms of birth control would be illegal. And any miscarriage would have to be reported by the doctor and investigated. This is what I was referring to.
RobinDC
I wish brooks would die from autoerotic asphyxiation, you can tell he is the kind of asshole who loves the smell of his own farts.
Brachiator
@PhoenixRising:
Life is muddy waters. I think the example I offered is a great one, although I do note the many valid points you raised.
cynickal
Fucking binding arbitration, how does it work?
Jenny
@David in NY: gotta a link
Kola Noscopy
As per usual, although no one here knows what really happened between Cain and these women, that little technicality isn’t stopping you from assuming that he actually did sexually harass them or anyone else.
Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t. You have no idea. But don’t let that stop your gloriously masturbatory BJ dance of tribalism. It feels so good in the moist places.
singfoom
@Brachiator: We know there are multiple instances of the NRA settling with accusers of Cain.
That’s all the facts I got.
Sorry if I misunderstood your position. You’re not attaching any moral taint to the victims, I get it.
According to this story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lawyer-cain-accuser-wants-to-talk-but-is-barred-by-agreement/2011/11/01/gIQA0bOIdM_story.html
one of Cain’s accusers is having her laywer talk to the NRA to remove the gag order.
Comrade Dread
Well, if they didn’t want to be sexually harassed, they would have chosen to be born a man instead.
DougJ
@Kola Noscopy:
It was funny at first, you are starting to annoy me.
Your next comment makes a point or is vaguely amusing or it is time out time.
Maude
In the first place, the women didn’t remain silent. They complained. The company settled by paying financial compensation and obtaining non disclosure from the women that complained.
If the women had been silent, there wouldn’t have been a payment.
The company is trying to protect itself.
Sexual harassment is serious and it is threatening to the person it happens to.
Roy G.
Brooks kept his mouth shut when he received his payoff from Senator Horndog (Lieberman?), so of course, his morals are shiny and pure. It’s the whores who kiss and tell that the more conservative whores hate the most.
Pamoya
@Kola Noscopy: You’re right, I do assume he sexually harassed them. I don’t know for a fact, but I think it is a valid assumption to make. There are now three women making these claims. At least two of the women were paid by the organization to keep their mouths shut. In misogynistic fantasy world, making a sexual harassment claim is so easy that unethical women are doing it all the time to get payouts. Here in reality world, I know that most women who are harassed never complain, because by far the most common reaction to a sexual harassment complaint is getting yourself fired in retaliation. Since there are three women who complained and at least two of them got paid, I think the most likely conclusion is that he did harass them.
SiubhanDuinne
@Catsy:
And that will make Ross Douthat’s new nickname “Chunky Moral Taint.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Nellcote:
“Another brandy, please.”
SiubhanDuinne
@DougJ:
Thanks.
Jennifer
Personally, I’m more concerned about moralistic taints – you know, like Bobo or Douthat – attaching to me.
Kola Noscopy
@DougJ:
oooh…DougJ, you are so butch.
Please reference where in Cole’s time out/banning policy it states anything about not “amusing” you or “annoying” you as a basis for time outs or banning, and then get back to me.
Man, you are one increasingly weak-ass, thin skinned jerk. Which is of course, a trait quite common to bullies with a little perceived power…always goes to their heads.
Samara Morgan
trying to figger out the post title….Gershwin paraphrase?
It ain’t necessarily so
It ain’t necessarily so
The t’ings dat yo’ li’ble
To read in de Bible,
It ain’t necessarily so.
Li’l David was small, but oh my !
Li’l David was small, but oh my !
He fought Big Goliath
Who lay down an’ dieth !
Li’l David was small, but oh my !
Wadoo, zim bam boddle-oo,
Hoodle ah da wa da,
Scatty wah !
Oh yeah !…
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale,
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale,
Fo’ he made his home in
Dat fish’s abdomen.
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale.
Li’l Moses was found in a stream.
Li’l Moses was found in a stream.
He floated on water
Till Ol’ Pharaoh’s daughter,
She fished him, she said, from dat stream.
Wadoo …
Well, it ain’t necessarily so
Well, it ain’t necessarily so
Dey tells all you chillun
De debble’s a villun,
But it ain’t necessarily so !
To get into Hebben
Don’ snap for a sebben !
Live clean ! Don’ have no fault !
Oh, I takes dat gospel
Whenever it’s pos’ble,
But wid a grain of salt.
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years,
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years,
But who calls dat livin’
When no gal will give in
To no man what’s nine hundred years ?
I’m preachin’ dis sermon to show,
It ain’t nece-ain’t nece
Ain’t nece-ain’t nece
Ain’t necessarily … so !