Never heard this recording before, but Rick Perlstein had it up on facebook. Pretty amusing stuff:
All my money and my knife it falls out. BELCH.
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Never heard this recording before, but Rick Perlstein had it up on facebook. Pretty amusing stuff:
All my money and my knife it falls out. BELCH.
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Fred
No doubt about it, Lyndon was a first class cracker.
Napoleon
If this is what I think it is it is pretty amusing. How many times do you get to hear a President say “bunghole”.
Linnaeus
You can hear the full-length episode here</a?.
Mike E
How does a megalomaniac put on his pants?
eta @Fred: a cracker who rammed through landmark anti-discrimination legislation, only to cement the “Southern Strategy” for generations to come.
Betty Cracker
OMFG. He sounds just like my father.
Punchy
Wasn’t LBJ the guy who, for his birthday wish, wished Kramer dead?
esc
A history professor in college played this clip in college for us to make a point about secondary sources, since the most complete transcript of the LBJ tapes at that time described the more colorful parts as unintelligible.
Baud
At least LBJ wore pants, John.
Amir Khalid
@Napoleon:
I’ve been told, if you listen to the audiobook of Dreams From My Father, you get to hear Obama say “motherfucker”.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@Amir Khalid:
This is true.
As a side note, playing LBJ was one of Bill Murray’s greatest roles. He was robbed of an oscar by weak filmmaking. Great job on his part.
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: I was really surprised that wingnut bloggers didn’t mash-up excerpts of the “Dreams” audiobook to, I dunno, create the ultimate Whitey Tape. Maybe they couldn’t figure out how?
Betty Cracker
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): What film was that?
Mnemosyne
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):
I think you’re misremembering when Murray played FDR, not LBJ.
TaMara (BHF)
@Baud: And with that, you win the thread and maybe the whole innertubes today.
Goblue72
@Mike E: THREE major ones – Housing, Civil Rights, & Voting Rights Acts.
Plus two minor ones – one varying age discrimination in employment and the other that was basically a pre-cursor to the ADA.
Plus the Immigration Act that let brown people into the country in large numbers for 1st time ever.
Dude basically recreated the entire country to let non-whites join in. And the right wing has been fighting it ever since.
BGinCHI
Where my nuts hang does take up a lot of my planning energy.
? Martin
@BGinCHI: It’s why men can’t do housework – testicle management takes way more time than women realize.
BGinCHI
@? Martin: Will our oppression never end?
The curve of history and hemlines is long, but it bends towards testicular roominess.
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: It should for a long bike ride.
WereBear
My attitude is very similar to Elaine’s in the Seinfeld episode, “The Hamptons.”
hitchhiker
Rachel Maddow played that tape awhile back on her show, I think on Valentine’s Day last year. It was her way of showing her love for all of us fans.
Great, great stuff. Robert Caro (LBJ biographer) discusses in some detail how much the president liked to talk about his own dick (its length, heft, circumference, etc) . . . but something’s missing if you don’t get to hear it in his own voice.
hitchhiker
Rachel Maddow played that tape awhile back on her show, I think on Valentine’s Day last year. It was her way of showing her love for all of us fans.
Great, great stuff. Robert Caro (LBJ biographer) discusses in some detail how much the president liked to talk about his own dick (its length, heft, circumference, etc) . . . but something’s missing if you don’t get to hear it in his own voice.
Hill Dweller
Maddow aired that clip a year or so ago, and completely lost it on air. She could barely finish a sentence without having a laughing fit.
PurpleGirl
I read the Caro biography of LBJ and one I came away with was his sincere desire to help minorities. Whatever else you can say about him, he did want to help poorer people and open opportunities for them.
hells littlest angel
@Hill Dweller: One of my favorite Maddow Moments. I can’t figure out why she hasn’t become America’s Lesbian Sweetheart.
I believe that conversation also made it into “All the Way,” the Broadway play starring
Walter WhiteBryan Cranston.West of the Rockies
I think NPR actually aired a bleeped-out version of this a few years ago, too…
And even though it’s a complete non-sequiter, didn’t a bunch of people send GWB bags of pretzels after his infamous choking on a pretzel experience during the Super Bowl some years ago? I wonder if they got phone calls from the SS afterwards. Still wish the pretzel had completed it’s task.
Liberty60
@PurpleGirl:
I think people like LBJ knew the Birchers and up close and personal, and hated them the way only a close relative can hate.
Keith G
@Goblue72:
We are still living in “LBJ’s Country”
For better and for worse (but more better) we are dealing with the aftermath of his presidency. And even though the Right is trying to erase it, there is no way they can make it all disappear.
One of these decades when this society gets a clue, the resultant healthcare reform will be referred to Medicare For All and not Obamacare For All. LBJ will continue to cast a long and significant shadow.
Mnemosyne
@hells littlest angel:
Because Ellen already holds that position.
As Fred Clark pointed out when the Million Moms tried to call for a JC Penney boycott because Ellen was the new spokeswoman, at least half of the women on their email list didn’t get to the email right away because they were watching “Ellen” like they do every day.
dp
That was awesome.
NCSteve
@Napoleon: If you worked for LBJ, I’m guessing quite often.