My what tolerance for others...

Woah!

He said "Doubting Thomas."

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2008/08/jones-doubting.html

Hmmm, Uncle Tom...Doubting Thomases

Say those two phrases out loud and see if they sound anything alike.

Seems there were witnesses. They tried to play it down, but seem they heard Uncle Tom too.

Lyle, alderman of the South Side's 6th Ward, said she was standing with Jones when the conversation took place in the lobby of the hotel where the Illinois delegation is staying, but she dismissed it as Jones engaging in harmless banter with someone he knows, although Lyle said she told him, "Emil, that's bad even for you."

Another of the aldermen who was standing in the lobby added, "He said it in jest."

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/1124667,CST-NWS-dem25.article