The rogue thesaurus strikes again

Cross-posted from an e-mail list ....

dennis wrote:
> Mychal Massie
> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41598
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>
> Rice is one of America's most accomplished individuals, notwithstanding women

This sentence, if it means anything, means that Rice is one of America's most accomplished individuals, in spite of the existence of women, or, perhaps, the attempts of women to stop her. I assume he means "not to mention", though I'm not sure.

> It is interesting to observe that these are not the impuissant or recreant.
[snip]
> This is not recrudence for elitist liberals and the Democrat Party - it is the
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"Impuissant"? "Recreant?" "Recrudence?" What century is this guy living in?

> Herein lies the unfortunate truth: Liberal elites will suffer lecherous
> impotents like Jackson, Sharpton, the NAACP, Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover
> as long as they sing the right tune.

It is hard to be both lecherous and impotent, though it is theoretically possible. But I can't see how Whoopi Goldberg manages it, unless there's something about her anatomy we don't know about. Still, a she-male Whoopi dragging some guy into bed then failing to get an erection, singing all the while, is an interesting image.

Some people should not be let near a thesaurus.