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[QUOTE="tomcat, post: 2414858, member: 961"]
Guess I was not the only one who was disturbed by the way Geno came across in, yes, his judgment of what that part of Arkansas is like. I hate to say it, but he was condescending and once said, he couldn't walk it back. It's not like he hasn't had to chase recruits into the countryside before. If the point he was trying to make was that this was more "country" that anywhere else he'd seen, well, why would he feel the need to say that at all? It's just one of those topics for which, as the communications folks say all the time, "the optics are terrible."

And unless he is actively trying to make "Okie Dokie" the kid's nickname (and why the hell would he?) ,  mentioning the phrase just once would have done the trick, allowing him to tell a cute and funny story.  But I think he said "Okie Dokie" a ouple of times more, reinforcing the oddity of something she said.

After all, just think about Ahmnu., which stuck for at least a little while on Faris. The lesson to be learned is that sometimes, the best thing to do is just shut up.
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