Dems slam McCullough for racist joke

That's what you get when you pick a right-wing wacko over a moderate like Frank Blee.

Your in a competitive race: Here's something not to do:

Shove your foot in your mouth

Tell a Racist joke..

Its not too hard people...

Politicians, regardless of party, make some of the worst comedians in the world.

I couldn't agree more. Members from both sides should have learned by now! I hadn't read that quote by Hillary before, and I am thoroughly disgusted by it (though I wasn't going to vote for her in the primary anyway...) Joe Biden completely lost my respect when he crowed last year about how Delaware used to be a slave state...the man, along with Jim Bunning and Norm Coleman, is among the least eloquent members of the Senate (especially now that Conrad Burns and George Allen are gone) and yet his motor mouth never stops running. Same goes for Tommy Thompson...what a fatuous gasbag, and his remarks about Jews, while made in jest, were certainly not the kind of ribbing you want to unleash on people you are trying to get to vote for you. Ultimately, the worst (and, ironically, the funniest) parts of these comedic routines are after the fact, when the offending politico has to self-effacingly try and explain away the ill-conceived joke and twist themselves into ever tighter locutionary pretzels...happens every time. 

Suffice to say, McCullough's putridly racist comments will deservedly cost him the election (not that he was probably going to win anyway). We certainly do not need somebody of his ilk in Trenton. Biondi was quick to apologize; let's see how long it takes Sonny.

 should be something to behold.  The best attempted apologies are the ones where you know the guy has no idea why what he said was offensive, but he has to try to make amends for it anyway.  If Sonny's apology fits into this category, we may have, as PQ puts it, a bona fide pretzel moment.  While outside the realm of politics, one of my favorite "I don't really think what I said was so freakin' bad so what the hell am I doing up here" mea culpas was Bill Parcells. 

The Tuna was addressing a throng of sports reporters and shared the fact that he had some "Jap plays" (trick plays such as an onsides kick designed to catch the other team off guard) he was thinking of using in the next game.  Of course the term "Jap play" echoes back to the days of Pearl Harbor and the surprise attack.  Making it worse, there was a contingent of Japanese reporters at training camp covering the cowboys when he made his comments.  The expression on his face was priceless as he made his apology.  You know in his mind it was still December 1941 and he was one rendition of Lee Greenwood's "I'm Proud to be an American" away from going John Wayne on the unsuspecting scribes from the land of the rising sun.  But, to his credit, he sucked it up and offered his regrets for his phraseology.  

Maybe, just maybe, Sonny can provide us with one of those halcyon moments. 

 "KNOWLEDGE IS GOOD" - Emil Faber

Well, I don't think you'll see much outrage on this, because its really pretty stupid. The outrage will come when Sonny loses because of many reasons. One being the stupidity of him to tell a racist joke to a reporter while he's in the midst of a competitive race that he already looks like he was losing. His fault for shoving his foot in his mouth.

Was it really that bad of a joke though?

I've seen it, and really I don't think so, but that's the sort of thing you learn not to tell a reporter and keep inside your head if you have logic.

Sonny obviously doesnt.

A lot to do about nothing. Get a life. If this was a joke about a" Kraut or a mick" this would be no big deal. However Mc Collough should know better that every word out of his mouth is fair game for the PC types that dominate the media thought process

I read with great interest the comments about the article. My favorites are the one where the reader cannot find anything "wrong" with clearly racist comments. Perhaps it's because you are not ethnic, and have never been the victim of racist jokes. I cannot help but wonder why racist jokes, and it seems jokes against Asians and Asian Americans, are still acceptable and just written off as "joking around." Put yourself in someone else's shoes for once, such as someone who is the race or ethnicity of the "joke." This so-called "senator" doesn't even realize that he made a mistake!!!! He wants to make an excuse and say that he's from another era, and he thought it was funny, it wasn't meant to hurt anyone? Well, maybe my vote won't help then either. I'm much too young to cast a vote for him. His only regret is that someone he thought was a "buddy" turned him in. I am glad to have read this article, because it speaks of his true character. The true test of character isn't when people are watching and listening, it's when you think no one is around. He thought he could get away with it. Who knows how his personal views have affected his decisions. Folks, he's a public elected official. He does the people's work. If he clearly has views that are not favorable toward a particular part of the population, can you really trust him? For people who are ethnic, jokes like this are not funny, nor are they taken light-heartedly. We don't view them as simply being "politically-incorrect" either. They are part of our daily life. Get educated for heaven's sake, if he doesn't understand what he said was wrong, he has NO BUSINESS BEING IN PUBLIC OFFICE. He's right, he's from another era. An era that has come and gone. Good-bye Senator McCullough!

We here in EHT sit back, slack jaw that "Sonny" gets re-elected all the time.  We try our best to educate our town in the matters of the real world, yet we fall short.  The fine people who read these pages are well familiar with NJ's checkered past and we do understand that we bear the brunt of the nations jokes.  This time however, we feel that we cannot add anymore information than the "true" Sonny McCullough has already provided.  We let the facts speak for themselves and perhaps if we let slack with enough rope....???!!!