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Shannon Elizabeth comments on 2008 Colorado ballot initiative aiming to dismantle state affirmative action having survived a semantic challenge from affirmative action proponents

Elizabeth:  “I’m a bit torn on this one, honestly, because some of my best friends are black.  Dark black, too.  And of course, I’d really like to see Shaun Wayans continue to get work.

“But so long as we’re speaking about Colorado: did I ever tell you about the time Hunter Thompson said that my nipples were so perfectly fearsome that, should they ever strike a blind man, they’d actually make him blinder?

“Because that made me giggle.”*

22 Replies to “Shannon Elizabeth comments on 2008 Colorado ballot initiative aiming to dismantle state affirmative action having survived a semantic challenge from affirmative action proponents”

  1. TheGeezer says:

    He also objected to the use of the phrase “preferential treatment” in the measure.

    “Preferential treatment carries baggage. It carries a bad connotation in our society, and I’m concerned it will influence a vote in favor of this measure,” Ramey said.

    Indeed.  Heh.

  2. Dario says:

    Our new Democrat overlords in Colorado will have absolute fits about this one.

    God how I’ve missed Shannon Elizabeth takes on PW.  As Forest Gump would tell you Jeff, peas and carrots.

  3. Nuke 'm Hill says:

    She’s baa-ack!  Weeee.  Shannon’s nipples make a triumphant return to PW!

  4. Rob B. says:

    Denver attorney Edward Ramey said voters conceivably could be against discrimination but for preferential treatment if it serves as a remedy for past discrimination.

    So who decided which group is to be given perferential treatment, for how long, to what degree and what constitues as past discrimination? I only ask because depending on how long you want to rewind history name one group that hasn’t both discriminated and been discriminated against.

    On a side note, if Thompson actually said that he’d move up a peg on my list of Presidential hopefulls because that’s just “straight talk.”

  5. Dan Collins says:

    You’ll put your eye out, kid.

  6. kelly says:

    Hunter Thompson hasn’t officially declared.

    Which, to me, is just a savvy move.

    points89. Really.

  7. BJTexs says:

    Hunter Thompson hasn’t officially declared.

    Before he can, he has some holes to fill.

    and…

    We know he has the heart to be president but does he have the brain?

  8. Rob Crawford says:

    Denver attorney Edward Ramey said voters conceivably could be against discrimination but for preferential treatment if it serves as a remedy for past discrimination.

    Which just results in a see-saw of “preferential treatment” as group #1 is discriminated against in favor of group #2, followed by group #2 being discriminated against in favor of group #1.

  9. Andrew says:

    Well, c’mon. How else is someone like Ramey going to find work?

  10. Nanonymous says:

    Did HST actually say that? 

    Because if he did, I’m willing to forgive him some things.  Like the Aspen Wallposters and “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.”

  11. Pablo says:

    Led by Ward Connerly, chairman of the Sacramento-based American Civil Rights Institute, sponsors of the self-described “civil rights initiative” launched their campaign last April in hopes that Colorado would join other states that have passed it, including California, Washington and Michigan.

    Hmmm….that Connerly fella must be a racist. though apparently, he’s been getting too much sun. Still, I like the cut of his jib.

  12. MarkD says:

    If Mrs D’s family had been here during WWII, we’d be collecting instead of paying.  Timing is everything.

    I had better stick to pondering Ms Elizabeth’s protrusions.

  13. fletch says:

    We know he has the heart to be president but does he have the brain?

    That didn’t stop Jhimmi Carter…

    T/W: happened55– Actually, it “happened” in ‘76- my first (and last) ‘political cartoon’ was an illustration in our 6th grade paper with “peanut guy”(think Planter’s dude w/ Carters’s big lips/big teeth barely outrunning a “Jerry-faced” auto to the finish line)…

  14. JD says:

    Jeff – In case you are not aware, Mobile PW has been down all day.

  15. Barry White says:

    Oh baby, baby…

  16. Jeff Goldstein says:

    JD —

    It has?  Hmm.  Will pass that info along.

  17. CraigC says:

    But were they coke-glazed?

  18. JD says:

    Jeff – Yeah. I have to assume that it is a problem with PW Mobile, as it is the only one of my bookmarks that I have been unable to access.  I have, obviously, been able to access the main site.

  19. JD says:

    And … voila !  Mobile PW is back !!!  My Treo can quit bleeding power now.

  20. furriskey says:

    Connerly, who has spearheaded the national campaign to eliminate affirmative action, said the state shouldn’t promote discrimination and that this ballot measure “goes to the heart of who we are as a country.”

    He spoke about moving toward a colorblind society, and that the existence of affirmative action laws promotes race bias instead of eliminating them.

    I never heard of this Connerly before, but I agree with his position 100%.

    The notion that my son should be treated differently from any other boy in his year because of his colour (or lack of it) is abhorrent.

    It would be an official institutionalising of race discrimination.

    Nor does he need artificial aids.

  21. mojo says:

    Ward Connerly, Ca. Republican and black – though not to hear the libs tell it…

  22. JorgXMcKie says:

    Yeah, Connerly got a no-discrimination law passed here in Michigan.  Like to drove the Lefties nuts.  They challenged all the way to an appeals court on the theory that people who signed the petition didn’t know what they were signing and/or were lied to about what they were signing, since obviously no ‘person of color’ could possibly embrace a ‘color blind’ state where people would be judged by their character rather than the color of their skin (to paraphrase someone or other).

    They’re part of a group called BAMN (By Any Means Necessary).  Nice.

    It was pointed out that, even if *all* the signatures they attributed to African-Americans (regardless of whether or not they knew what they were signing and wanted to sign), there would *still* be enough signatures on the petitions.

    They also argued the wording, semantics, and everything else they could.  Polls claimed to show it wouldn’t pass.  Passed by 61-39.

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