In a just world... well, it doesn't matter.

They're consciously trying to stretch the definition and usage of the word "uppity" out so that they can use it freely and in the open to discuss Obama. Next stop, Rush & Hannity. Every day.

They make me sick.

Maybe now the O campaign will come out swinging with some devastating attacks?? Hmm? Maybe?

I grew up in segregated times and in a segregated place. "Uppity" was mistly used in racial contexts I believe.

But even if that weren't true, it is still inappropriate to apply to any journalist.

Uppity as I remember it had connotations of insubordinate or pretenses above one's "station".

I thought we were a classless society?

How can a journalist be insubordinate or be pretending to a standing beyond his/her station in questioning ANY American, rich or poor, powerful or powerless, famous or unknown?

So the use of that word is highly offensive no matter how you take it, racist, or classist.

These people are despicable -- and transparent. It's only a matter of days before the right wing commentariat (Rush, Hannity, et al.) start sprinkling their shows with periodic "uppity" references that only become more and more prevalent as we move toward November. Sickening.

How do journalists sleep with themselves at night knowing that the elevate "stories" like "lipstick on a pig" and "elitist" while they ignore blatantly obvious racist code language?

Sarah Palin makes me shudder like a badly tuned diesel engine. Also, it seems as if it is a dark and stormy night...pigs are out wearing lipstick and old fish are wrapped up in the current events.

Jake Tapper on Nightline just called Palin "a mirror image" of Obama in terms of experience. Unbelievable.

Does anybody remember a memo or an article or something that karl rove wrote where he suggested that one way for the GOP to take on Obama is to use low level surrogates to directly inject race in the campaign and to see how far they could go with it?

I've been looking for it but can't find it.

Anyway, i might be paranoid, but this is the second time in a week that the word "uppity" has been used by a Republican and they both explained it away with that lame "websters defines uppity as" defense.

Could it be their softening us up on the idea??? or am i paranoid and seeing things that aren't there?

Continuing his rudeness to women, Obama today unmistakeably trashed Governor Palin in a boorish manner that should be offensive to everyone, without exception.Obama poked fun of Palin today.

“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”
“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”

So Oilbama, the the most Sexist jerk in the history of politics calls Palin a Pig that smells like a Fish today and you want to talk about some guy no ones ever heard of calling a reporter "uppity"?

Oilbama reached lower heights today than even the day he voted for Dick Cheney's Energy Bill.

Oilbama is a Sexist Pig who smells like an Pigs ass.

Guys and gals, it may not really be my place to say it. But I will.
I'll restrain myself and not scream it out all in caps:
Please, please do what you must to save your republic, your democracy and your constitutional form of government.
If not for yourselves, for the rest of us.
I really fear this is your last chance.
We're pulling for you.
Some of us, even us agnostics and atheists, are praying for you.
It would be a terrible thing to waste the world's last best hope.
'Cause that's where we stand.

These idiots are not doing themselves any favors. By using the passe word "uppity" they not only show themselves to be racists but old and out of touch racists. Not exactly the agents of change most people are looking for. I expect one of them to say Palin is the "bee's knees" next.

NBC/PMSNBC is in the tanl for b. Hussein Obama. Allen and the rest of the MSNBC crowd (except for Joe S and Pat B) are far left loonies and assholes.

Can we stop with this. I don't see anything racist about the term "uppity." I thought maybe it was just me, so I asked all my hipster friends what they thought, and it was 6-1 in agreement. There's legitimate shit to be talking about, like another outright lie from McCain in this new Sex-Ed ad, or whether the media is finally coming around to calling McCain/Palin out on these lies. We don't need to go around making up racism charges. Let's move on...

DRinOH,

For all their faux sophistication, your friends are dangerously ignorant of the world around them. For folks who look like me, being "uppity" was/is grounds for a lynching or some other form of retribution.

How long before they just say anything that crosses their small minds? They are trying to make it easier to send out the code words. That is what they are all about. How about other perjoritives like 'Sambo'? The repugs don't have a bottom to hit. They will just keep lowering the 'Political Correctness' bar until we return to the 'good old days' of raw racism and hate.

Don't let them continue. We must call them on their transgressions loudly and often. And never give up or accept defeat (which is what we should have learned from the repugs by now.

Still fighting the Civil War. Pathetic.

Until the Southern Whites are willing to burn the Confederate flag, this will always be an issue.

Until the Southern Whites are willing to burn the Confederate flag, this will always be an issue.

Something is hanging up. Or did I stutter?