In the annals of rancid-souled, unfunny female comics, Margaret Cho ranks right alongside Janeane Garofalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne, Joy Behar and Sandra Bernhard. Cho is probably probably most famous for using the near-breakdown caused by the cancellation of her 1994 sitcom “All American Girl” to turn herself into one of those bitter, confessional grrrrls in an era when those incredibly unattractive traits are all too often confused with actual talent. 

Cho’s latest show business endeavor was on the most recent season of “Dancing with the Stars”  and saw her disqualified in the early rounds, but not before learning from “the circles that I heard it from” that Sarah Palin is some sort of wicked matriarch pushing her children into potentially humiliating situations on the national stage in order to further her own Machiavellian political goals:

Why did Bristol do Dancing with the Stars? I heard from someone who really should know (really should seriously know the dirt really really) that the only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it. Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly (in the circles that I heard it from) for not winning the election, and so she told Bristol she “owed” it to her to do DWTS so that “America would fall in love with her again” and make it possible for Sarah Palin to run in 2012 with America behind her all the way. Instead of being supposedly “handicapped” by the presence of her teen mom daughter, now Bristol is going to be an “asset” – a celebrity beloved for her dancing. I am sure the show wasn’t in on this (but who knows anything really).

Throughout Ms. Cho’s blog post she makes sure to let us know more than once that she really likes poor little Bristol. Nothing like a bit of concern trolling to bolster what you supposedly heard from an unnamed source. Of course, one unnamed source is all the New York Times needs to attempt to destroy Republicans, so Cho is following a proud journalistic tradition. (more…)

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It’s all over the news how Miley Cyrus and her friends had their pictures taken doing something a lot of teenagers do: making funny faces for the camera. Some claim they were trying to look Asian and making fun of the boy in the photo who actually is Asian. Miley apologized more than once, but that hasn’t stopped the litigation.

Margaret Cho, a comic who became famous by exaggerating the Asian accent of her mother (and has never been one to shy away from publicity) expressed great outrage. She actually penned a song about Miley in protest.

Strangely enough, it turns out that perhaps Margaret tossed the first volley across the racial divide. According to Wikipedia and other sources, Margaret was once a member of the band called  ”White Trash Debutantes.” So it’s okay for Margaret to call herself a “White Trash Debutante” but wrong for an actual White Trash Debutant to make an Asian face?

A line in Margaret’s song asks: “Why isn’t racism against Asians taboo? ” Here’s a better question: “Why isn’t racism against Southern Whites taboo?”