By Jim Hagarty
I have no decent explanations for the things that bug me on a regular basis, I freely admit. I want to locate the first person who ever said or wrote this super annoying expression: “Just sayin'”. I would like to take that person out behind the barn and administer a much-needed attitude adjustment. I do not know what it is that “just sayin'” is supposed to mean. Does it mean, which I suspect it does, that I am not responsible for the bullshit I just now expressed and you will have to give me a pass on it because, after all, I am “just sayin'”.
In other words, yes, what I have just expressed is probably unacceptable but I have a right to say it so boo hoo for you if you don’t like it.
“If Obama is really an American citizen, howcum we have never heard him singing a Merle Haggard song? Just sayin’…”
I believe that this expression was especially designed for people who want to get their hatred out there and not be held to account for it. So, if you see it at the end of a comment, read that comment over again and tell me I am wrong.
It is the hater’s shorthand and a little classier than, “Screw you!”
Just sayin’.
