Alec Baldwin’s Race Card Game

After enduring another self immolating Bill Maher monologue on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Alec Baldwin was asked if Rush Limbaugh is a racist. To which Alec fell into that trap so many of his peers have in recent days:

“I think you need to always distinguish the rank and file of the Republican Party and conservatives and voters from their media representation and media stars and I believe that the people who are in the media and prominent in the media in the conservative community, speaking on behalf of the Republican Party, have a very clear racist stripe through their commentary, consistently. Not just Limbaugh but all of those people. But I don’t think that their rank and file Republicans are like that.”

Well, at least he didn’t accuse all Republicans. I guess he wanted them to keep some of them watching his show.

If there’s a sure fire way to look old and busted in today’s media world it’s to make the sweeping generalization that people who disagree with your politics are racist. It’s such a 20th Century argument. Calling someone a racist with no proof is hack. It’s like calling someone evil just because they don’t agree with you. Oh, wait–the race card hustlers do that too! They look for any evidence they can, no matter how vague or slight, to blow up into an incident. And if they can’t find one, well, they just make it up. (more…)

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Tags: Al Sharpton, alec baldwin, Limbaugh, Obama, race
Posted Oct 20th 2009 at 10:05 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 24941488 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/10/20/alec-baldwins-race-card-game/Alec+Baldwin%27s+Race+Card+Game2009-10-20+17%3A05%3A57James+Hudnall

Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Janeane Is Off Her Meds and Other Stories

I happened to see some clips of alleged Janeane Garofalo on the Bill Maher show the other night. I have a warning for anyone who sees her in person or is near her: Janeane is off her meds again and the voices in her head have taken control.

She is already on record as believing that anyone who does not worship at the Church of Radical Leftism is a “straight up racist.” Beside not understanding the English translation of her argot “straight up,” I am sure that anyone who is even a little bit clear headed can imagine a world where people who thought Condi was dandy and helped Michael Steele get to the helm of the GOP might not take race as the deciding factor with Obama. Be that as it may, Ms. Garofalo assured us that not only were right-wingers racists, but the GOP has been the bastion of White Supremacy since the 1950’s.

Keeping in mind one of the favorite saying of my friend Larry Elder, “Facts are like kryptonite to toe-tag liberals.” (Mr. Elder defines liberals as “toe-tag” if they believe in government intrusion in our lives from birth until they put the tag on your toe in the morgue.) I will present a few facts to try to bring Janeane back into the real world. (more…)

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Tags: Bill Clinton, Bill Maher, cbs, Condi Rice, David Letterman
Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 9:55 am in Featured Story, News, Political Humor | 240386118 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/10/07/stand-up-notes-from-flyover-country-janeane-is-off-her-meds-and-other-stories/Stand+Up+Notes+From+Flyover+Country%3A+Janeane+Is+Off+Her+Meds+and+Other+Stories2009-10-07+16%3A55%3A52Jeffrey+Jena

The War on Propaganda

“The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.” Joseph Goebbels

There is no shame in artists receiving monetary compensation to sell ideas, products or a presidential agenda. When everything is transparent and contracted aboveboard, this is called advertising. When this process is whispered into being, strategized and set into motion from the shadows of government and from behind closed doors, it is propaganda.

From Sun Tzu to Psy Ops, propaganda has won wars, toppled cultures and changed civilizations. As a self-identified enlightened and educated culture, we  thought ourselves beyond such base manipulation. We were wrong.

Where were the voices of dissent on the NEA conference call when so called “artists” were asked to further the President’s agenda?

I have danced ballets and I have done commercials; one side art, the other side business. What side were the NEA recipients on? (more…)

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Tags: 9/12 DC rally, Constitution Revolution, Goebbels, hate speech, Hitler
Posted Oct 5th 2009 at 6:46 am in Entertainment, Politics | 23500294 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cburgard/2009/10/05/the-war-on-propaganda/The+War+on+Propaganda+2009-10-05+13%3A46%3A35Chris+Burgard

Dave Matthews’ Politics of Racial Paranoia

“Honky,” “cracker,” “whitey,” “spot,” “the white guy” and “my white nigga” are a few of the words and phrases used to describe me by fellow co-workers (along with a few white jokes told to my face on the set of a film) I co-starred in called “Caught Up” in 1998. I was in fact the only principal white actor on a set dominated by black actors, a black director, a black writer and a predominantly black crew. Not once did I think I was being treated in a racist manor. I just felt it was okay for blacks to describe me this way having been led to believe that I owed them this bit of racial jabbing because I, as a white individual, had something to do with the racism they’d experienced throughout their lives.

If the tables had been turned and a predominantly white cast and crew used such racially charged language to describe a black cast member, the Screen Actors Guild would have invaded that production and we would have seen headlines in the media “Racist Cast and Crew, Film Shut Down By SAG.”

In that film one of my scripted lines required that I use the word “nigger.” Before I shot the scene I pulled my fellow actor aside and assured him that this was not a word I took lightly and that I was aware of its historical implications towards blacks. He looked me over as if I were an alien and said “Give me a break, I don’t give shit, I’ve been a nigger all my life. I’m cool with it.” That response came to me as a mixed signal. Not one that said it was okay for me to use the word “nigger,” but one that said my efforts at trying to understand his side of race didn’t matter. (more…)

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Tags: Dave Matthews, Jimmy Carter, Obama, race, racism
Posted Sep 28th 2009 at 11:32 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Politics | 23349897 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlindsey/2009/09/28/dave-matthews-politics-of-racial-paranoia/Dave+Matthews%27+Politics+of+Racial+Paranoia2009-09-28+18%3A32%3A03Joseph+Lindsey

Why Were the Emmys Not ‘Racist’?

I am no fan of awards shows. To me, it is one of the strongest proofs of the weakness of our society that the endeavor to which we give the most prominent and glamorous honors is that of movie and television “acting” (or, to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, “Saying what someone else told you to say”).

I also abhor false or frivolous claims of racism. Of course, according to the media, the end of this scourge was supposed to be of the many dividends of making Barack Obama President, but those of us on the right certainly know this has so far turned out to be one of many lies we were told during the 2008 campaign.  (more…)

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Tags: Bill Maher, black television, Emmys, Golden Age, hbo
Posted Sep 28th 2009 at 5:04 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story, Television | 23319083 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/09/28/why-were-the-emmys-not-racist/Why+Were+the+Emmys+Not+%27Racist%27%3F2009-09-28+12%3A04%3A41John+Ziegler

Celebrity Inferiority: Genetics or Environment?

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Tags: Britney, celebrity, clooney, genetics, racism
Posted Sep 25th 2009 at 1:03 pm in Celebrity News, Video | 23583873 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aklavan/2009/09/25/celebrity-inferiority-genetics-or-environment/Celebrity+Inferiority%3A+Genetics+or+Environment%3F+2009-09-25+20%3A03%3A48Andrew+Klavan

Burt’s Eye View: Telling the Truth About Lies

I wasn’t surprised that Rep. Joe Wilson felt compelled to apologize to President Obama for calling him a liar.  I also wasn’t surprised to hear that within 24 hours, thousands of liberals had sent in over $200,000 in contributions to Wilson’s opponent in next year’s election even though they knew nothing about him except that he was running against Wilson.  Frankly, I wouldn’t have been surprised if the other 434 members of the House had censured, expelled or ridden Rep. Wilson out of Washington, D.C., on a rail.  I mean, where the heck does this guy get off speaking the truth in the hallowed halls of Congress? 

Speaking of Congress, although the research isn’t yet complete, the early indicators are that, rumors to the contrary, you can not get swine flu from exposure to Henry Waxman. 

Scientists at London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine confirmed that 50 years of research found that, aside from price, there was no difference between conventionally-grown foodstuffs and the ugly, under-sized items you find in the organic section at the supermarket.  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, healthcare, Obama, ObamaCare
Posted Sep 24th 2009 at 11:15 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 22860655 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/24/burts-eye-view-telling-the-truth-about-lies/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Telling+the+Truth+About+Lies2009-09-24+18%3A15%3A50Burt+Prelutsky

Daily Gut: Dave Matthews

You may remember when, a few years back, the tour bus belonging to rabid environmentalist/human kazoo Dave Mathews dumped up to 100 gallons of human waste through the grates of a Chicago bridge, drenching folks on a boat below, as well as polluting the river. Well, the chirping goggle-eyed warbler is at it again – this time spewing a load of crap on America, in an interview with CNN.

When the network asked whether the singer agreed with Jimmy Carter, who said America is rife with racism, Matthews said, quote, “Of course it is! I found there’s a fairly blatant racism in America that’s already there, and I don’t think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. …There’s a good population of people in this country that are terrified of the president only because he’s black, even if they don’t say it. And I think a lot of them, behind closed doors, do say it.” (more…)

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Tags: CNN, Dave Matthews, Jimmy Carter, Obama, racism
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 3:51 pm in Celebrity News, Daily Gut | 233962127 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/23/daily-gut-dave-matthews/Daily+Gut%3A+Dave+Matthews2009-09-23+22%3A51%3A28Greg+Gutfeld

Let Them Eat Kale

So I guess it’s the schoolyard chivalry I was raised on that taught me you never beat up on the girl.  Thus, I have held my tongue in regards to the good First Lady, Michelle Obama.  But now it has become too much to bear.   And the tipping point:  Kale — yes, a leafy green vegetable. 

It had to happen, it was inevitable, I suppose.  She slid past us with her, “For the first time, I am proud to be an American” proclamation…and we even looked the other way when she and her husband spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a fun-filled New York City getaway of Broadways shows, dining and shopping.  (Sure, they may have used their own personal cash, but I doubt they ponied up out-of-pocket for the myriad of security vehicles, the legion of secret service agents, the bomb-sniffing dogs, etc, etc. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, David Letterman, michelle obama, Obama, ObamaCare
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 6:42 am in Politics | 232090271 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/09/23/let-them-eat-kale/Let+Them+Eat+Kale2009-09-23+13%3A42%3A54Gary+Graham

The NEA: Defending the Indefensible

It was so much fun watching the ACORN people try and spin their way out of oblivion for the last couple of weeks.  After the first video was posted on Big Government.com they, of course, claimed it was an isolated incident and that the filmmakers were kicked out of numerous other ACORN offices.  When that proved to be false, they tried in vain to claim that the videos were faked and that their employees were the victims of CGI or something and not of their own stupidity and corruption.  When that didn’t work they claimed that the filmmakers, Andrew Breitbart and the entire Fox News network were racist.  Yawn.

NEA’s Yosi Sergant

Monday, we have the NEA under the microscope.  The Obama Administration was caught red-handed (is that “racist”?) funneling tax payer dollars into an official propaganda department.  I can’t wait to see what the excuse will be this time.

These people have mastered the art of defending the indefensible.

Let’s set aside the stupidity of this move.  Anyone familiar with the NEA knows that it pretty much exists to fund leftist propaganda disguised as art.  Officially coordinating it is a bit redundant. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Aldo Raine, Andrew Breitbart, biggovernment.com, Cap and Trade
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 23072655 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/09/23/the-nea-defending-the-indefensible/The+NEA%3A+Defending+the+Indefensible2009-09-23+12%3A03%3A35Leigh+Scott

Barack Obama on Letterman

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Obama on Jimmy Carter: “I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election… So the American people I think gave me this extraordinary honor and that tells you I think a lot about where the country’s at.”

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Tags: Jimmy Carter, Late Night, late show, letterman, Obama
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Racial Schizophrenia

Speaking to NBC News Anchor Brian Williams, former president Jimmy Carter (who was taking a breather between having tea with dictators and lunatics) proffered that not only was South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s inappropriate outburst during President Obama’s speech before a joint session of congress fueled by racism, but the wider opposition to Obama is also based on the fact that Obama is black. Said Carter: “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American.”

During Obama’s 400th speech defending his plans to reform healthcare the president responded to charges that the proposals before congress would provide healthcare for illegal immigrants. The President called the charges false whereupon Wilson forgot his home training (or lost his mind) and called the President a liar.

As it happens, similar words were falling from my own lips at that very same moment. I think most people recognize that a private citizen calling the President a liar in the privacy of their living rooms is rather a different animal from elected officials doing so during a Presidential address. I would also like to believe that most thinking people recognize that boorish is not the same thing as racist. (more…)

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Tags: associated press, healthcare, Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson, Obama
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 8:33 pm in News, Politics | 23227043 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/09/21/racial-schizophrenia/Racial+Schizophrenia2009-09-22+03%3A33%3A45Joseph+C.+Phillips

Daily Gut: Aversive Racism

So after witnessing the waves of antipathy across the country toward President Obama’s policies, New York Times writer Charles Blow introduces his readers to the term, “aversive racism.” It’s a sinister kind of prejudice, Charles explains, that reveals itself in disagreements based on factors “other than race.”

A simpler definition of aversive racism?

If you say it’s not about race, then it’s really about race.

See: if you’re against socialized medicine, it’s really because our President, who’s for it, is black. If you’re against the redistribution of wealth because it goes against your own beliefs in free markets and individual achievement – it’s because Obama is black. If you’ve done a lot of research on global warming, and decided it’s hypothetical hooey – that belief is now racist, since Obama buys into climate change hysteria. (more…)

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Tags: Aversive Racism, Charles Blow, climate change, free markets, Global warming
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 7:56 pm in Daily Gut, Politics | 23203449 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/21/daily-gut-aversive-racism/Daily+Gut%3A+Aversive+Racism2009-09-22+02%3A56%3A28Greg+Gutfeld

Race, Race, Race

Race is once again the biggest issue in America.  Kanye stealing the mic from Taylor, the school bus beating, Joe Wilson’s scream in Congress, ACORN scandals, the Cambridge cop and lastly, CIA-investigating Attorney General Eric Holder calling us all cowards for not talking about race.  Race cards are flying all around us on a daily basis.  Duck!

Let’s talk about race for a moment.

This morning I saw a video of a school bus filled with primarily African-American kids cheering while a white student is beaten to a pulp.  Already the police are saying race had nothing to do with the attack.  Oh really?   So a white kid being beaten has no racial undertones yet Joe Wilson’s inappropriate scream of “You Lie!” is solely about race?  Why, certainly. Just ask Maureen Dowd. (more…)

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Tags: Culture, Joe Wilson, Maureen Dowd, Obama, Politics
Posted Sep 18th 2009 at 10:46 am in Culture, Politics | 225902102 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/09/18/race-race-race/Race%2C+Race%2C+Race2009-09-18+17%3A46%3A51John+Romano

Bill Maher: I Know You Are, But What Am I?

In keeping with what apparently is the Left’s best argument against any opposition to President Obama’s policies, which is that anyone who disagrees with them is a racist, Bill Maher posted his most recent profanity-laced juvenility on the obviously standardless Huffington Post this weekend, informing President Obama that, in order to best the lying racists he is forced to govern, he needs to become “an a**hole.”

I couldn’t help but remember a favorite story that my wife and I tell on each other from time to time. Years ago, we were going through some counseling about our relationship (we’re totally cured now, of course. Just ask my wife). We had two counselors who were partners, one of whom focused on us, but both of whom knew our story.  After a considerable number of sessions had come and gone with no tangible improvement, one day my wife stormed into their office in an obvious fury to see our guy. His colleague, a wonderfully grumpy man, glanced up at her and offhandedly said, “What’s your problem?”

“My husband’s an a**hole.”

He responded flatly, “Maybe you’re the a**hole.” (more…)

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Tags: 9/11 Truthers, Al Jolson, Barack Obama, Bill Maher, bush
Posted Sep 18th 2009 at 6:44 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 22397874 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mrwrestler/2009/09/18/i-know-you-are-but-what-am-i/Bill+Maher%3A+I+Know+You+Are%2C+But+What+Am+I%3F2009-09-18+13%3A44%3A05Mr.+Wrestling+IV

Bill Cosby: ‘Racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama.’

From Cosby’s Facebook page:

I agree with President Carter that racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama. During President Obama’s speech on the status of health care reform, some members of congress engaged in a public display of disrespect. While one Representative hurled the now infamous “you lie” insult at the President, others made their lack of interest known by exhibiting rude behavior such as deliberately yawning and sending text messages ….

Various polls prior to the election indicated that between five and ten percent of Americans would never vote for an African American president. That number, of course, only includes those who actually admitted to their prejudice. How many others harbored such feelings but did not respond honestly when asked the question? And how many people oppose Obama’s plan because the President is African American? (more…)

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Tags: Bill Cosby, health care, Joe Wilson, Obama, race
Posted Sep 17th 2009 at 10:34 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 227986358 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/17/bill-cosby-racism-is-playing-a-role-in-recent-outbursts-against-president-obama/Bill+Cosby%3A+%27Racism+is+playing+a+role+in+recent+outbursts+against+President+Obama.%272009-09-17+17%3A34%3A31Big+Hollywood

Daily Gut: The Man Who Cried

Now, you know a word has lost all meaning when Jimmy Carter finally gets around to saying it.

America’s angriest has-been JUST HAD to weigh in on the Joe Wilson affair, linking it to inherent racism – following in the wispy footsteps of every other lefty blogger.

Check it out, check it outers: (roll tape)

Carter, who I’m now convinced is really Maureen Dowd in a fright mask, seems to ignore the fact that even the White House doesn’t see the racism he sees. This is what Robert Gibbs had to say: (roll tape)

Instead of enjoying the golden years of his life, President Peanut still feels compelled to remind us why he sucked as a leader. He’s just a bitter man who always saw America as part of the problem, never the solution. So even when America elects a black man as President – the act only masks a more sinister urge. (more…)

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Tags: Carter, Gibbs, Obama, race, racism
Posted Sep 16th 2009 at 3:19 pm in Daily Gut | 227482147 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/16/daily-gut-the-man-who-cried/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Man+Who+Cried2009-09-16+22%3A19%3A13Greg+Gutfeld

Van Jones: Out of the Commie Closet — Who’s Next?

I may be the only Jeffersonian Republican to admit this, but former Obama adviser Van Jones should be congratulated. Van Jones has done a great, amazing service for millions of Americans. Van Jones is a hero.

In addition to having a really cool name, Van Jones has done what many are unable, or refuse to do.  He has stepped out of the ideological closet and broadcast to the world the truth; he is a Communist. A loud and proud Marxist hell bent on “transforming” America into a worker’s paradise.

It saddens me that others do not feel comfortable enough to follow in this brave man’s footsteps.  I watch with sadness, and a sense of embarrassment as Jones’ ideological kin hide behind labels like “progressive” and “liberal.”  It’s 2009 people, for how long will our Communist brothers and sisters have to live in the shadows?

It is an important moment in the lives of homosexuals when they “come out” to their friends and family. It is met with a sense of relief, regardless of the consequences and reactions of their loved ones. I can only imagine the sadness, the self-loathing, and injustice felt by all the Trotskyites out there who don’t feel comfortable to share the truth with the rest of us. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, nancy pelosi, ObamaCare, President Obama, racism
Posted Sep 9th 2009 at 11:52 am in Politics | 21933089 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/09/09/van-jones-out-of-the-commie-closet-whos-next/Van+Jones%3A+Out+of+the+Commie+Closet+--+Who%27s+Next%3F2009-09-09+18%3A52%3A46Leigh+Scott

Gay Marriage and Homophobes!

A lot of Republicans may feel that we’d be best-served to avoid this issue altogether.  As a Conservative, however, I feel compelled to explain why many of us out there are opposed to the currently proposed same-sex marriage bills and not to civil unions.  Plus, it’s not everyday that I get to put on a Leprechaun costume!

Note: No tasteless holiday parades were actually performed during the making of this video. (more…)

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Tags: bigotry, civil unions, Elton JOhn, gay marriage, homophobia
Posted Sep 3rd 2009 at 5:49 pm in Political Humor, Politics, Religion, Video | 217770235 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/09/03/gay-marriage-and-homophobes/Gay+Marriage+and+Homophobes%212009-09-04+00%3A49%3A27Steven+Crowder

Next Up: Town Halls on Race?

What would a town hall on race look like? I do not mean the aesthetics – the color of the carpet or where panelists would sit, but the guts of it – the substance. I am pondering the question because I was recently asked to help organize and participate in a series of such discussions across the country and for the life of me I can’t understand what the purpose would be.

I am not one that believes Americans do not talk about race or that we are cowards when it comes to the issue. Indeed Americans chatter about race all the time. After football, analyzing the issue of race seems to be our national pastime. I suppose it’s to be expected as the issue of race and racial equality is woven into the fabric of our country. But we have a very particular and stubborn framework within which we discuss the issue – race equals virtue.

For instance, the President’s recent Supreme Court nomination was more about race than it was jurisprudence – Justice Sotomayor’s race, her views on race and, once seated on the court, whether members of her ethnic group will now favor one political party over the other. (more…)

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Tags: healthcare, race, racism, Sotomayor, town halls
Posted Aug 24th 2009 at 5:44 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 21043490 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/08/24/next-up-town-halls-on-race/Next+Up%3A+Town+Halls+on+Race%3F2009-08-25+00%3A44%3A47Joseph+C.+Phillips

Daily Gut: Does MSNBC Want a Race War?

So on Tuesday, we did a segment on this black dude who showed up in Arizona where Barack Obama was speaking – with an assault weapon and a pistol strapped to his shoulder. We all pretty much agreed, that despite his actions being legal, it was still idiotic. There are many things in life that are legal, but totally nuts if done at the wrong time. For example, when I shower I’m completely naked – no law against that. However, try showing up nude at a Jonas Brothers lunch box signing – that’s another story (I blame it on the Ambien).

But this leads me to MSNBC, where on Tuesday Contessa Brewer – someone I’d like to see in a shower – filed a report about health care protesters showing up armed. In it, she used tape of that same black man carrying an assault rifle and said “there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.”

Of course, like I said – the guy was black. But you never would have known. Because MSNBC has strategically edited the tape, so the race of the armed dude wasn’t revealed. You just assumed he was white, thanks to Contessa. (more…)

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Tags: bush, Contessa Brewer, Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Jonas Brother
Posted Aug 20th 2009 at 2:58 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story, Politics | 208742197 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/08/20/daily-gut-does-msnbc-want-a-race-war/Daily+Gut%3A+Does+MSNBC+Want+a+Race+War%3F2009-08-20+21%3A58%3A57Greg+Gutfeld

Review: ‘District 9’–An Alien Internment Camp?

Is it possible for a film to be both a brilliant, exciting piece of entertainment, and also a completely illogical piece of heavy-handed political propaganda? It is, if the new science-fiction oddity “District 9” is any indication.

Led by a stunning performance by Sharlto Copley, who is not only unknown to audiences outside South Africa, but who had never acted in anything but short films before, “District 9” blasts through its running time with a furious mix of action and satire. Yet its central plotline, focusing on what might happen if space aliens approached Johannesburg and were then held in a segregated district for nearly three decades, is riddled with holes and bangs viewers over the head with its allegories of racial discrimination harkening back to the evil days of that nation’s apartheid policies.

The film kicks off with a fast-paced blend of fake newscasts and faux-documentary footage shot by a camera crew that’s been assigned to cover a mass evacuation of aliens from their home in the city’s District 9. The aliens had come in a giant mother ship back in 1982, but no one has ever figured out why they arrived and left the ship to hover eternally over Johannesburg. (more…)

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Tags: "Predator", Apartheid, District 9, Internment, Neil Blomkamp
Posted Aug 14th 2009 at 6:58 am in Featured Story, Reviews | 204962180 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2009/08/14/review-%e2%80%98district-9%e2%80%99-brilliant-and-stupid/Review%3A+%E2%80%98District+9%E2%80%99--An+Alien+Internment+Camp%3F++2009-08-14+13%3A58%3A48Carl+Kozlowski

Fishy

I’m doing standup in Denver. Shelley is driving me from radio to radio to TV as I do the monkey dance at each station promoting the show, selling tickets. I don’t like this part of the job. I must answer the same 10 questions about Saturday Night Live and try to explain where I’ve been for the last fifteen years. All the DJ’s want are some juicy stories about celebrities. I don’t really have that many. I’m booked at two political talk stations, a rock station, a country station, and two local TV shows.  I guess that’s my demographic! Everyone! I ask Shelley why I’m booked on the political stations. She shrugs, “Well, we didn’t really know…isn’t that what you are doing now?” The first stop I’m told is a “just right of center” show, so I feel free to share my newest shocking information that the White House is asking us to “snitch’” on our friends and family. To report anything “fishy.” This news is so abhorrent to me that I could barely sleep the night before. I immediately emailed Andrew Breitbart to see if it was true. He said yes. I searched the hotel computer web to see if the big shots, the smart people have gotten on this. They were just starting to fight back. The news was so new. Well, at least this administration is entertaining…in a bad way. I’m watching a horror movie every day.

As I share the shocking information that our Freedom of Speech is being attacked, the radio host across from me, his face, it looks like he just ate a lemon. It’s all scrunched up like…he hates me. He abruptly cuts me off and ends my interview. I’m stupefied at the reaction of people who “just can’t handle the truth.” My driver Shelley is a liberal. She doesn’t say anything. As we get in the car I try to apologize, “Well, he asked me why I was a new political activist.  I guess I should just tell jokes.” I mean I have been hired basically to sell tickets to a bar where people will spend lots of money on alcohol. And, I do need to make some money. My husband is a cop. (more…)

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Tags: "Unhappily Ever After", Andrew Breitbart, Beer Summit, Cornyn, Cornyn and Sekulow's letters
Posted Aug 10th 2009 at 12:25 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 203378144 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/08/10/fishy/Fishy2009-08-10+19%3A25%3A11Victoria+Jackson

A Beer is Fine But Forgiveness is Divine

Dennis Miller and I were gabbing on his talk show about the Gates-Crowley affair and a thought occurred to me: Professor Gates needs to forgive Officer Crowley and he also needs to forgive the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.

Here’s what popped into my head on the Miller Show. At the age of five, my mother told me that if my father ever left her she would kill herself, and that if I wanted to prevent that from happening, it was my job to keep him around. This is a heavy responsibility to lay on a kid of five but I accepted it without question. I adored my mother. She was beautiful, smart, sexy and funny. She was also a self-destructive drunk who had room in her heart only for my father. He was a charming sadist with room in his heart for no-one: a hot-shot liberal who helped found the New England branch of the A.C.L.U. but in private often used the word jewbastard.

Their marriage was, to say the least, tumultuous. I had been sent by Central Casting to play the small but important role of the child. After each of their frequent and alcoholic altercations, my father would storm out of the house (actually, the rented, upper half of a house in a working class neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts…Gates-Crowley country) and head off to spend a few days with one of his girlfriends. I’d be sent after him, once actually barefoot in the snow, a sobbing ten year old, to catch up and explain how much I loved and needed him and beg him to come back. “Go home,” he’d tell me. “I’ll be back in a while.” (more…)

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Tags: forgiveness, Harvard, Professor Gates, racism, Sgt. Crowley
Posted Aug 5th 2009 at 5:01 am in Featured Story, Politics | 19920291 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/obean/2009/08/05/orson-post-gates/A+Beer+is+Fine+But+Forgiveness+is+Divine2009-08-05+12%3A01%3A36Orson+Bean

Daily Gut: Joker Poster Boosts Obama’s Coolness

So posters of President Obama made up as Heath Ledger’s Joker with ‘Socialism’ written below it have been showing up around L.A – and it’s being greeted with the usual outrage you’d expect from people who get outraged. Some are calling it racist, others are calling it “mean spirited and dangerous,” while I call it boring, boring, and oh yeah: boring.

The website Newsbusters points out the silliness behind the outrage – after all, President Bush has been depicted as far worse – he’s been portrayed as everything from a bloodsucking vampire in the Village Voice, to the Joker in Vanity Fair, to God forbid, a Republican- everywhere else. No one seemed to mind then. And while people like Bill Maher point out that Obama has been only at this job for six months (whereas Bush earned the bile over eight years) and therefore any criticism is unfair – that’s pure batpoop. Hatred for Bu$hitler began the moment he took office, and the vile lefties only knew Sarah Palin for a few weeks before they were wearing t-shirts with her face and a vulgar word (begins with ‘C’ and rhymes with bunt) beneath it. (more…)

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Tags: anti-heroes, batman, Bill Maher, Bu$hitler, Christian Bale
Posted Aug 4th 2009 at 3:41 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story, News, Politics | 199626151 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/08/04/daily-gut-joker-poster-elevates-obama%e2%80%99s-hip-persona/Daily+Gut%3A+Joker+Poster+Boosts+Obama%27s+Coolness++2009-08-04+22%3A41%3A58Greg+Gutfeld

On Race, ‘No He Can’t!’

This week’s Washington Times column:

Well, that was pathetic. And it wasn’t an accident. The fix was in from the beginning.

Last week’s lackluster “Beer Summit” featuring Sgt. James Crowley, professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was orchestrated to end a national discussion on race, not begin one. That’s why there were no microphones, even though each participant showed himself to be perfectly qualified, astoundingly articulate and camera-ready for an illuminating and much-needed public debate.

The problem for the White House was the more the esteemed professor talked, the more trouble he created for his friend, the president. The clever photo-op sans audio was crafted to yank the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research off the stage, lest anyone begin to question what is being taught at Harvard these days.

Conversely, the more Sgt. Crowley weighed in, and his brave black co-workers spoke out, the more obvious it became that a national discussion featuring this cast of characters may not end with the results the professor and the president wanted. (more…)

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Tags: Beer Summit, biden, bigotry, grades, Henry Louis Gates
Posted Aug 2nd 2009 at 6:25 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 197494137 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/08/02/on-race-no-he-can%e2%80%99t/On+Race%2C+%27No+He+Can%E2%80%99t%21%272009-08-03+01%3A25%3A23Andrew+Breitbart

Jimmy Crowley: One Good Cop

I like Sgt. James Crowley. I like him a lot.

Jimmy, from all accounts, has shown himself to be a stand-up guy. A good man, a good cop. Someone who is respected and loved by the people who matter most in his life: family, friends and the men and women who serve with him in the Cambridge Police Department, back in my home state of Massachusetts. Anyone who saw the strong statements made by Sgt. Leon Lashley and Officer Kelly King in support of their colleague can appreciate that these two people came forward.

I’m happy for Jimmy Crowley because now that the dog and pony show staged by the ringmaster-in-chief is officially over, he can get on with his life. Go back home where he belongs, with his wife and kids, being a dad. He can hold his head high for the way he conducted himself, after being called “a racist” by a good friend of the president during an unfortunate event which should never have occurred in the first place. (more…)

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Tags: Beer Summit, Cambridge Police Department, Obama, Officer Kelly King, race
Posted Aug 1st 2009 at 6:55 am in Featured Story, Politics | 195498122 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jarone/2009/08/01/jimmy-crowley-one-good-cop/Jimmy+Crowley%3A+One+Good+Cop2009-08-01+13%3A55%3A11Jimmy+Arone

The Great Beer Summit of 2009

Event in progress…we go LIVE  to Washington, D.C.

…reporting live on this historic occasion.  A crisis of epic proportions may have been averted…by an invitation from the White House to simply sit down …and have a beer.  This creatively innovative and charmingly elegant President has thrown the old book out and is writing his own.  It’s the audacity of hope and change we can believe in.  It’s a new deal and a new dawning of how business gets done today – over beers.  It has been hinted by White House sources that if today’s summit goes well, possibly other summits may be in the offing.  My source in the Administration said a possible Vodka Fest with Vladimir Putin, a Hookah Pipe Sit-Down with Ahmadinejad, and even a Sake/Mao-tai/RiceCake pow wow with Kim Jong-Il are being floated as of this broadcast with the State Department, Keith Olbermann and Oprah Winfrey.

And now, the President’s helicopter has landed.  The President’s contingent of roughly three thousand security personnel are assuming their perimeters, extension perimeters and contingency perimeters.

Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates await the President beside the picnic table arranged for this seminal benchmark in race relations in America.

The beer is on ice – a large keg bearing the Presidential Seal. (more…)

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Tags: Budweiser, Cambridge Police, Henry Louis, Obama, race
Posted Jul 30th 2009 at 6:50 am in Featured Story, News, Political Humor, Politics | 194658119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/07/30/the-great-beer-summit-of-2009/The+Great+Beer+Summit+of+20092009-07-30+13%3A50%3A11Gary+Graham

Lonewolf Diaries: Arresting Black People is Racist, You Pigs!

I hate to say this, but it must be noted to understand the situation at hand: Black people commit more violent crime per capita than any other race. Now before you go all Johnny Cochran on me here and declare me a racist, let me just state that I am simply addressing a statistic, much like President Obama did last Wednesday. The only difference is that my statistic doesn’t fit into a politically correct agenda with an end game designed to demonize the members of our law enforcement. Do you folks out there honestly assume the worst in all cops? Does it insult you that Barack Obama assumes you do?

“There is a long history of African-Americans and Latino’s being stopped by law enforcement, disproportionately” – Barack Hussein Obama. Boy, there’s a prejudiced little statement… against cops.

Sure it may be true that more minorities in this country are pulled over or even given the once-over by our police officers… But a disproportionate amount… Really? (more…)

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Tags: "Robocop", crime, Henry Louis Gates, Hugo Boss, James Crowley
Posted Jul 28th 2009 at 5:28 pm in Featured Story, Lone Wolf Diaries, News, Politics | 193682320 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/07/28/lonewolf-diaries-arresting-black-people-is-racist-you-pigs/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Arresting+Black+People+is+Racist%2C+You+Pigs%212009-07-29+00%3A28%3A25Steven+Crowder