Rep. Brown Gradulates Gator on BS Title

Those of us who live in Florida are in no way surprised by this display by Rep. Brown.

I just checked the Wikipedia entry for Corrine Brown, and crrently, this is the first line:

"Corrine Brown (born November 11, 1946) is an American politician, and a fool. "

I have to agree with her, though… the Gators are superb to any other schools with the conferences that we play in.

Is this the kind of graduate the University of Florida allows to graduate?  Between her and Emmitt Smith I am scared especially if Free Shoes U is even worse.

This woman must have gone to school in Oregon.  She’s an idiot.

Mr. Hall,

If you are going to ridicule someone for an erroneous use of the language and an improper use of grammar, you should make sure you do not put your foot in the cow paddy….Check out your grammar in the following:

 "Ms. Brown, to paraphrase a man far more eloquent than me: what I just heard was one of the most insanely idiotic things I’ve ever heard…"

Shouldn’t that have been, "…far more eloquent than I:"?

Both are accepted as standard usage, brrushing, though using the comparative in a subordinate clause puts you in the middle of the savage conjunctionists versus prepositionists grammar war. Better men than me—er, I—have died in that ages-old struggle.

All I have to say, as a graduate of the University of Florida, is that if my beloved university actually granted that piece of work a degree, honorary or otherwise, I’m going to return my diploma.  What an abject EMBARASSMENT to our institution, our state and our nation.  Spencer Hall, however, described that far better than I.  Or me.

Go Gaters!

As a Georgia fan it is nice to know we now only have to worry about a singular gator.  How ’bout that dawg.

 Being born and raised in Fla., and graduating from UF, as did most of my family, I can not believe this assinine woman actually got a degree from G-ville….I’m with Texigator, I’ll return my diploma if I find out she did….I’d also like to know what district from Fla. elected her to a public office…..no wonder why this country is in as bad of shape as it is!!! 

While watching that, I just knew she was gonna break out the Chewbacca Defense and go all "that jury room deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation" or I’m not gonna speculum that any one team is complement enough on offense and defense to beat the Gators. Maybe the Rebels. Tim Tweebow is a masochist at beating a defense. I mean, he can put on a clinic. He has cervical precision! But he’s so old, his methods almost seem antidisestablishmentarianism at this point. He’s an anominee. And what if he makes mistakes? On offense, you have to ejaculate turnovers. HAVE TO! Otherwise, these Gators will bury you! Right in the ground! They’d need a gynecologist to dig you up! You take a look at a guy like Percy Harvey. He has the dexatrim to be able to get past that first level of the defensive line and masturbate the ball down the feel. That’s the key to winning the BCC, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO MASTURBATE THE BALL DOWN THE FEEL. I’m am very highly regarducated in my feel and in my districked, I am positivity I am correck in evra step of my way. I need you to put your hands on your tie-writers and practick the letter R-RA, r-ra, r-ra. I drive a Pontiac Bruick. I love my Bruick. Tigah Wurds drived a Bruick.

This woman did not receive a degree from the University of Florida.  She graduated from Florida A&M.  She also received a speech and communication degree from unaccredited school in Jacksonville.  She did, however, earn a "specialist degree" from Florida, which is akin to a earning a certificate of attendance at a continuing education seminar for a couple of hours.

"Let me be clear…"
What?

I thought I would watch this and did for 1 minute and 48 seconds.
This should prove what kind of sport I am.

I attended 8th grade in Sanford many years ago before going abroad. I do not remember anyone back then with those kinds of speech impediments. Times have changed.

Actually Corrine Brown seemed confused. Maybe she needs more mike practice time??? How long has she been doing that job, anyway?

My final take on the video? WOW!

SN SSchrager:

While I can certainly agree with your two-word message, one must ask (ahem), did you take the same grammar — and spelling — classes as Ms. Brown?

You’d better hire a good spelling Curch soon.

brrushing:

Touch a nerve with you, did Spencer? Feelin’ a little sensitive, are we? Hmmm.

Okay Corrine…Step away from the keyboard!

But seriously, what a disgrace that this woman could have EVER risen to the level that she has. Kinda reminds me of another current politician who has GREAT trouble speaking…unless, of course, he’s looking at a teleprompter!

You peolpe are just racist and bad minded.  I live in Uk and I understood every word she said.  If she was white with that accent what would you say?..duh nothing! 

It is happy minded people like her that will make the USA a happier and pleasant world, look at what your uppity intellects have done to this place, corruption, unnecessary wars, unequal distribution of wealth and brought the place to a near shut down. 

Stop your pettyness ALL OF YOU stop critisizing people of color and just feel the fun vibes they are feeling..it might HEAL YOUR SICK HEARTS… YOU PEOPLE REALLY DO HAVE A PROBLEM..pray to God for your Change orelse. 

If she has a diploma then she has earned it, throw yours away like the dark idiots you are..you think your puw puw dont smell like hers, who do you people think you are? Rid racism out of your sick hearts for God sake and lets move on.

A tired of you rednecks you have no place in this new creation of our world today.  Wake up and live! Put God in your hearts and you wont be so hypocritical…CHOOSE GOD.

THE FEAR OF GOD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM..BUT THE FOOL WILL SAY THERE IS NO GOD SO LET US CRITISIZE AND DOWNGRADE THE BLACKS AND EVERYTHING THATS NOT WHITE…THATS NOT RIGHT

P.S

What the hell is wrong with her reading?

I was waiting to see her stutter and re read / repeat herself, she did not so what is the problem…its not her, it is you.

What a sad reflection on who we elect to high office.

She is a direct reflection of the voting district that elected her. 

How can such a confused mind offer up any logical solution to the problems people face every day?  I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt; after all, maybe her communication skills do not reflect her intelligence and common sense.  So… 

After checking her political credits, it is apparent she is a socialist, a collectivist; not only that, but she is representative of the gullible sheep that follows the Judas goats of socialism like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Jeffers, Rangel, Kennedy, Dodd, Shumer, Waters, Carter, Gore, Clinton, ad nauseum. 

Just like the socialists and Marxists in power in our government today, we should view her as a distinct threat to our country in that she apparently has a gathering of devoted followers to her convoluted political thinking. 

Just like the rest of the traitors who are destroying our beloved country, we need to do whatever is necessary (and legal) to nullify their voice and influence in our nation’s affairs.

For one thing we can begin by reconstructing the Republican Party from within to rid it of the faux conservatives - the RINOs - like Bush, Steele, Specter, Collins, Snowe, McCain, et al.  I am sick and tired of voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’ yet I don’t want to abstain and lose my voice at the ballot box.

And, just as importantly, we need to get our currency out of the hands of the Federal Reserve System and back into the gold standard.  The current Fed system of fiat currency is wrecking not only America, but every other nation that has adopted it.

I may have to switch to the Libertarian Party in order to voice my despair and angst.

Let me know what you think.

empressc, you really are an idiot. Unequal distribution of wealth? What the heck are you? You want your share of somebody elses hard earned money; that’s what you’re talking about. Hey, if you didn’t work to earn it, then you have no right to it. None!!! Got it? You Brits are so dang liberal it hurts. You might want to remember who saved your butts through two world wars. Get off your limey high horse. This woman is an embarrassment to the U.S. and certainly to Florida. She has a degree in speech and communication? From where? She must have picked it up cheap at a K-Mart blue light special. I’m sick to death of listening to you Brits bashing George Bush and everything conservative. Look at the mess you’ve got in Gordon Brown. The man has the personality of a turnip. And while I liked Tony Blair personally, his politics stunk. The only good thing he did was to side with America on the war on terrorism. And by the way, I would be just as embarrassed if this woman was white. It has nothing to do with her color. She’s an idiot, whatever color she is.

I AM IMPRESSED!……with ernestfla.   This was the best reply of all—especially better than that UK woose.

I, too, am quite impressed with what ernestfla had to say. Very intelligent and well written, unlike my own. I must admit I wrote in the heat of the moment. I’m an American, living in the Republic of Ireland and I’m sick of the Brits liberal bashing of conservatives. When our currant president was elected, you would have thought he was a newly discovered god in this part of the world. They don’t understand how anyone could be against him. But here, so much is taken care of by the government, they just don’t know any better. It’s the normal way of life for them. Single mothers toss out perfectly good strollers if they are in the way because the government will just give them a new one. Because I’m a diabetic, I’m entitled to get all my medications free. I don’t agree with that, but I accept it and am grateful for it. I don’t think it’s my due or that it is owed to me. Especially since I’m not Irish. Too many people in America think they are entitled to anything and everything without working for it. NOT !!

The sad part is that even if she were able to speak correctly, she is still a disgrace to our country. As is, Obama, McCain, Dodd, et al. Obama is a socialist of the Nth degree but he is a very eloquent speaker making most of the people listening to him believe he has an IQ far surpassing any one else who has held office. I beg to differ in that I believe that Reagan and JFK were much smarter. As for using the word ‘me’ in place of ‘I’ as one person was castigating another earlier, I have seen news anchors and teachers and others of all walks of life misuse them. It irks me to no end that we have people who cannot communicate and appear as dumb as dirt. We had a judge here a while back got upset when someone used the term "blackmail" in a meeting regarding something that as going on. He thought it was a derogatory term being used in a racial context and wanted the person who said it to apologize. I wonder how he would have responded had someone said ’niggardly". LMAO. In that same vain, a city local to me had the name COONS on the side of their water tower with a picture of a raccoon. Now any one who has lived in any part of the south knows, coon is an abbreviation of the word raccoon (as I am going coon hunting). Someone moved in and found this term derogatory and made the city change the wording on the tower to Raccoons. I will leave it to you to determine where this person came from and what their ethnicity.

I’m with Ernestfla.  In recent years the so-called Republican party, with a few exceptions, has not stood for the republic embodied in the Constitution.  On numerous occasions as major issues came before the Congress, RINOs like Lindsay Graham, John McCain, Specter, Snowe et al, voted with or spoke for the open borders, collectivist, blame-America-first crowd and the Republican Party wondered why campaign contributions were down so much in 2008.  Then we watched while voters repudiated the RINOs by voting in Democrats, who promptly showed their true colors by doing everything they could to destroy the republic and replace it with their version of democracy (also known as a workers’ socialist paradise, democratic republic or people’s republic).  Financing it is no problem at all, since they now control the printing presses, and as all Keynsians know, "deficits don’t matter."  They can complete the razing/replacement by diverting funds from our already overloaded and underfunded military—-in a time of war, no less—-to "social programs and economic justice"  while they talk with terrorists and convince them to make nice and stop trying to kill us.  There is a ray of hope in all of this though; their overreaching is alienating millions, even many of their formerly most ardent supporters.  Just as four years of Carter ushered in eight years of Reagan and a sharp move back toward the Constitution, and Reagan’s least auspicious move was handing the reins to Bush I, whose renegging on "Read my lips: No new taxes" gave us eight years of Slick Willie, but just two years in, after the Hilliary-care attempt birthed the 1994 Republican Revolution, which fizzled as too many Republicans morphed into RINOs, etc….  Returning to the Constitution (and Article I, Section 10. No State….shall make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts….) will not be easy, but with God all things are possible, and despite the secularists denials, this republic was founded as a Christian nation.  We will have a lot of cleaning up to do.  Most of our universities have become propaganda/ indoctrination mills, with left wing professors enjoying yhr full support of left wing administrations.  Incoming college freshmen have been prepped for twelve years in NEA (teachers’ union) dominated government (a.k.a. public) schools, which always seem to be able to excuse their ever decreasing performance, as fewer and fewer high school grads can read or write well enough to fill out a job application, while pushing through yet another tax increase because teachers are so underpaid, etc….Yechhhh!
In the words of Tiny Tim, "God bless us every one!"

Indeed, this honorable woman does not have the gift of elocution that our graceful President Barack Obama has. It is not relevant whether she is black or white, her speech is difficult to listen to. Some people simply have no place in front of a microphone.

Love the orange robe. I can imagine A. Frank Smith wearing something like that during Pike initiation at the Alpha Eta chapter.

Best Regards,

Michael T. Kirner

akitagator wrote-
Kinda reminds me of another current politician who has GREAT trouble speaking…unless, of course, he’s looking at a teleprompter!

I have to hand it to you agitator – or whatever – never thought I would live to see something written by someone who never heard George W. Bush try to speak extemporaneously.

doesn’t anyone have a problem with tis idiot’s wasting of congressional time (and taxpayers’ money) to extol the virtues of a college football team?

I’ve been voting straight liberal since the Reggie White assassination.

Representative Brown is just as smart, articulate and intelligent as President Bush. She probably went to Yale too.

WHY BOTHER DISCUSS THIS WHOLE BSINESS AS IF IT MEANT ANYTHING?

I LOVE THE GUY WHO CALLED IT RACIST THE ULTIMATE DEFENCE _ TOTALLY MEANINGLESS.

GOSH WHY DID I SPEND ANY TIME COMMENTING

If Florida isn’t careful, they will develop the same reputation Massachusetts has  . . . they are well known for continually electing morons to congressional and senatorial seats! e.g. Kennedy, Kerry, Barney Frank, etc. No wonder they are known as M****s!

Eff Colli.

Attack a black, and it is sure to bring out every racist Amerikkkan living in Florida. Brown read with a typical southern "black" accent which is no crime, but amongst those who are constantly trying to point out the "inferiority of black people, it seems to be a major crime. Why this video was even circulated says more about the person who first put it forth rather than the speaker.

The only critcism I have is that this type of crap (Brown’s speech) was even necessary and shows the stupidity of the entire Florida legislature for placing ridiculous items on their agenda. What a waste of time!
There is already too much emphasis placed on all sports in this country.
What does it add to the quality of life for us all. We know sports make a lot of money for the promoters and advertisers. What these comments should be criticizing is the system that pushes athletes through the educational system while delivering a sub-standard education. I for one am tired if those athletes who go on to become millionaires just because they can run fast, put a ball through a hoop and then thank their mothers and god for their undeserved position in life. Then, we wonder why this country is going down the tubes – misplaced and petty priorities. Amerikkkan Pie is a rancid and foul tasting dessert.

So tell me, all you geniuses on this thread, were you as upset by 8 years of embarrassing speeches by George W. Bush as you were by this 3 minute clip of Rep. Brown?  Because Bush made speeches like this – and worse – about every other day through 2 terms in office.  And he was the President, not one of 435 elected congressmen.

President Fortunate Son, Moron 43 in Chief, could be relied on to mangle the English language practically every time he stood in front of a microphone.

Fess up – how many of you cared, or did you just make excuses for him?

This thread is so full of hypocricy, it’s mind-boggling.

brrushing is right, and stole my thunder.  The term "than ME" is NOT
accepted though!

empressc,

YOUR diatribe is RACIST! I had a coworker that ALSO spoke horrible
English, and  she was WHITE!  Ironically, though, she was ALSO from
Florida!  I have also known eloquent blacks.

All,

You know what I hate?  The US taxpayer is NOT paying them to use
this as a soapbox for their own agenda!  They should be discussing
the budgets and law, and NOT garbage such as college sports!

And she says that the school SHE went to was the BEST ACADEMIC school in the nation!  That is an insult to the entire nation. 

Searcher,

Some of what Bush said WAS cultural, and did he ever try to present dreck like Ms. Brown?  As for the 8 minutes, that is silly.  With the president, 8 minutes=8 minutes.  With the reps, 3 minutes could equal 1305 minutes!  That is almost 22 HOURS!  And YEP, sometimes they speak to an EMPTY ROOM, JUST so their diatribe can be televised!  NO WONDER why they DON’T do their jobs!  and I have sometimes seen them speak such dreck for HOURS, EVEN to an empty house!

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Shame
on all of you who have attacked this unfortunate woman for her dialect and
thusly her intelligence! Each of you that have done this are nothing but
hateful, resentful, malicious bullies and smirking bigots, which is typical of
most hardened right-wingers. And, oh, did I say Tea Partiers also?

You all have about as much love for America and its founding principles and
ideals as a vicious water moccasin (cotton mouth for those of you from the
south) has for its victims, and you can go straight to Hell and not pass Go or
collect any government benefits (which we all know that you do anyway while
speaking out against it with the other side of your mouths — Oh generation of
Hypocrites!)

For those of you commenting that stand on my side and have defended this woman
(regardless of her politics or political views), you are the real champions for
the real right side of life. Thank you.