Talk:Earl Butz

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::Butz took over the Department of Agriculture during the last period in American history that food prices climbed high enough to generate political heat. His legacy would be to make sure that never happened again. In 1972 Russia, suffering disastrous harvests, purchased 30 million tons of American grain. Butz had helped to arrange that sale in the hope of giving a boost to crop prices in order to bring restive farmers tempted to vote for George McGovern into the Republican fold
Is taken verbatim from page 51 of Pollan's book. It should either be quoted or paraphrased.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DivF (talk • contribs) 07:12, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
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message: Several paragraphs were removed, all unsourced libelous material was removed, and the source given for the Air Force One remarks is not sufficiently reliable. Please see: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons and Wikipedia:Reliable sources.--DO11.10 00:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Poor Earl.  The one thing he'll be remembered for, and fear of liability ensures the quote won't appear even here.  Google his name and "loose shoes" if you want to know what it was alleged he said.  Asat 04:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem here is not an issue of "liability", the problem is a lack of reliable sources for the inflammatory comments. The citation that was provided was essentially a blog, however the official policy is that Material found in self-published books, zines, websites or blogs should never be used, unless written or published by the subject. If the comments can be attributed to a reliable source they can certainly be returned to the article. Really, just think, would you want people to quote something YOU might have said (true or not) on Wikipedia without a good source to back it up? I certainly wouldn't.--DO11.10 22:05, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of libelous material

message: This is sourced (time magazine) and notable for two reasons - first, such a statement by the U.S. Sec. of Ag., acting in his official capacity, is clearly worthy of interest, as shown by the attention given by major media like time
Second, those old enough to recall the Nixon presidency will know that their was a great deal of hypocrysiy about foul language - in the privacy of the oval office, nixon cursed like a sailor, but in his public persona, he was pure and chastized others who were note. The butz quote is part of this presidential history. (not that nixon was alone in his hypocrysy, but I think he was more aggresive)Cinnamon colbert 13:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Butz is famous more for his racist statements than for any policies he espoused in office. The context is already present in the article itself. I think the "no maka the rules" thing is germane, and well referenced. Uucp 14:20, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a little context in the next section, but the section in question needs re-written, and expanded. As it is now is not appropriate for an encyclopedia. Instead of just throwing out that quote with only a shred of context, why not expand give the political and media response to it. and also make it NPOV. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 14:43, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Woh. It was a quote from Time Magazine, with footnote, and you blew away the history? Uucp 14:53, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Mathglot (talk) 23:32, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: loose mouth

message: It's variously mentioned that Earl Butz had the nickname "Rusty". If someone could dig out a good authoritative source on that, then maybe an incoming redirect of Earl "Rusty" Butz could be added. 31.18.248.254 (talk) 23:51, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earl "Rusty" Butz 

message: "Earl Butz" is the name of the enormous pig in Jane Smiley's book "Moo".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.145.197 (talk) 04:47, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture 

message: There is some confusion over WHEN the debate took place, '77 or '78. I am investigating and will correct if needed. brtom (talk) 16:26, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Butz-Berry Debate