The Dangers of Political Correctness
by Tim SlagleClint Eastwood, the iconic, American actor who was robbed last Sunday, came out against political correctness. In an interview with the Daily Express he said, “People have lost their sense of humour. In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth or you will be insulted as a racist.”
Clint Eastwood is one of the last real men in Hollywood. I can’t see any of his lesser heirs to the cinematic throne willing to make such a bold statement. (Aside from the misspelling –I don’t think an American like Clint would have ever pronounced it ”humour.”) Clint is pointing out something important ”free speech” advocates are unwilling to broach: Political Correctness is Dangerous.
There was a time when political correctness was nothing more than a rule protecting certain students from insults on college campuses. Since a majority of tenured professors were the guys who got beat up a lot in eighth grade, it was important for them to create a learning environment where the dorkiest kid on campus could walk to class without hearing the football players snicker at him from behind the bushes.
Since it was just college, nobody really cared too much about the censorship, but now something really scary is going on. The President of the United States belongs to a protected demographic and political correctness has made jokes about him verboten.
Out here in the clubs I see a lot of comics who WANT to make fun of the President, but the audience is uptight about it. When a comic does an Obama joke, you’d think they had just heard a line about a missing child eaten by dogs. I’ve personally had people walk out after a relatively harmless Obama line (”Of course he was offended by the New Yorker Cartoon, you know how those Muslims react to cartoons!”).
The lack of late night Obama humor certainly reflects the fear of violating political correctness more than political bias ( a charge which some critics have accused me of). I think it’s dangerous when you can’t make fun of your leader. The job of the satirist is to remind leaders they are indeed human; and if anyone has ever needed mnemonic therapy, it’s the Marxist god-child currently residing at 1600. After the trashing our last president took, it seems only fair.
Even before Big Hollywood, I was critical of comics afraid to do Obama jokes because I believe the distinction between hack gags and edge material is defined by a willingness to go after the New President. It’s imperative comics on both sides of the aisle recognize the brave few willing to be tarred as “racist” for maintaining the integrity of the art form (for example: there’s some great Obama material, over at Newsbusted).
Meanwhile, like Shane riding off into the sunset, Clint has decided to retire from acting without a performance award. All he has is the satisfaction of knowing he made movie theaters a much better place. He gave us all those great films (and “Every Which Way But Loose,” as well). Meanwhile, like little Joey running after Shane, we are all begging him to “come back.”
In fact, I think we could find a really nice White House for him to spend his retirement in.
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I thought Treacher deserved a best supporting actor award for his performance in "Every Which Way But Loose"
I saw the filming of that at the Zanzabar in Denver, with my wonderful girlfriend at the time!
Please come back, Clint!
(The word is just too small without him)
Mr Eastwood taught me the importance of basic math–the difference between 5 and 6 is extremely important.
The Zanzabar! I was there once …… man.
Political Correctness = Death
I'm thinking it's time to create the bumper sticker…anyone want in?
During the Bush administration, liberals worshipped the movie V for Vendetta and its catchphrase line, "People should not fear their governments- governments should not fear their people." Well, apparently that's only true when a Republican is in office. Because now that Obama's in power, everyone is afraid to do anything even remotely mocking of him, and to his liberal supporters, that's just fine and dandy.
Do it. I hate bumper stickers but I'd sport that one.
The new issue if The Onion confirms their continued political correctness with regard to Obama and safe Bush-bashing. The cover story: Sasha Obama sees scary Bush twins like in The Shining.
Maybe two years from now, SWPL comedy writers feel comfortable enough to make fun of a liberal (half-) black man, but for now it's strictly taboo.
No, you need a microphone and an audience.
"It looks like you blew a seal," said the mechanic. "Nah, that's just a little ice cream," replied the penguin. Opps, are arctic animals off limits, too?
Remember when the Rat Pack would make jokes about Sammy Davis Jr., and he took it like a man? Today, Blue Eyes and Deano would be called racists.
This mick wants his bike back, buey. Because of the DUI.
If you were successful in your equal rights/desegregation campaign to get more Obama comedy on the airwaves, it would surely be the most pathetic political victory of my lifetime.
I have a joke for you:
Why do conservatives whine about the amount of comedians making fun of Obama?
Because they're unfunny losers who have no comedy chops themselves.
I'm actually now becoming shocked at the oceanic depths of pathos displayed by you guys. Wow.
I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but Gran Torino was a magnificent film which was essentially ignored by The Great And Wonderful Academy. My hope was for Mr. Eastwood to land the Best Actor award for his most likely last major film role. Of course, politically-correct-on-steroids Hollywood dictated that they needed to give the pulpit to a thug twit like Sean Penn. Every year on Oscar night they back-pat themselves for "courageous" roles. The only "courageous" actor in that building on Sunday was Robert Downey Jr. for his Tropic Thunder role, and you know the Hollywood PC police still aren't too happy with Mr. Downey. Nomination be damned. We'll miss you, Mr. Eastwood.
A man needs to know his limitations….. I love Clint …he's the man
http://www.myspace.com/blaxeed
We have a grace period here, an extended honeymoon, if you will, regarding Obamo humour. Money is the real politics here in Hollywood, and anywhere in the entertainment business. Once everyone settles down and the idea of the first black president becomes ho-hum (and after Obama has made a few blunders and his approval rating goes down, which is probably inevitable), the comics and writers will take aim at him. Much depends on Obama's own comportment; he called himself a "mutt" when talking about his search for the right White House dog, for example. As Obama lightens the mood, the people, and jokes, will follow.
In my mixed-race family, it's the same way; we routinely make "Asian eyes" at each other and use every racial slur we learned by watching Kung Fu on each other. It's quite funny to hear an Asian who can't tell the difference between one white man and another say, "You all look alike to me." I learned the term "half-half" from Asian friends of my nieces when referring to a mixed-race Eurasian and have seen just as much overt bigotry (the real thing) from Asians toward other races. There is plenty to go around; humour is a good way to break the tension, as Clint pointed out.
Hyperbole = Cool
BTW, I am a Mick, with a sister married to a Latino, a guy I grew up with. We all just got along from the start; I don't remember any problems with race at all, other than just having fun with it.
Yes, ask David Irving who was thrown in prison in Austria for studying History.
Tropic Thunder mocked Hollywood, and I loved every minute of it. Screw the PC police, Simple Jack was hilarious! Thank god he "went full retard," because it "m…m…m…m…m…m..made me h…h…happy"
Clint certainly raised the ire of the biggest racist in Hollywood. Now, in Hollywood and in public schools, if you do not change history to depict black people (in this case) as victim/heroes you are politically incorrect and a a racist.
Way to dilute the real accomplishments of real heroic black folks Spike.
I do agree with Clint. People need to lighten up.
Cuneo – if you have to ask… sheesh ~
Just wanted to mention that our attorney general, who called us all cowards, wants us to have a conversation about race. Well, guess what? I've been having that conversation most of my life and don't appreciate being called a coward. Let's keep talking, shall we?
America's made a lot of progress in the past century and a half. Before the Civil War a black man was sold for fifty dollars. Whereas last fall George Soros had to spend ten million dollars to buy one.
Barack Obama wants to be just like Abe Lincoln. Well, he's certainly making a good start. He's tall, skinny, and he's tearing the country apart. He's just missing one thing — that whole "cannot tell a lie" bit.
How many Obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb?
If the light bulb doesn't want change, it's a racist!
Barack Obama walks into a bar. The bartender says "You'll have to leave." Obama gets mad, says "how come? Is it because I'm black?" The bartender says "No — if I let any smokers in here they'll close me down."
What's the difference between an Obama appointee and Al Capone? When Capone didn't pay his taxes, he actually got punished for it.
How many Obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb?
Zero. They all believe the Sun shines out of his ass.
What's the difference between Rahm Emmanuel and a piranha?
Piranhas only bite when they're hungry.
Penguins live in the Antarctic though some species can be found ranging north to near the Equator.
"Why do conservatives whine about the amount of comedians making fun of Obama?"
Because liberals have a monopoly on everything else there is to whine about.
Heh heh…funny stuff, but it was George Washington who said "I cannot tell a lie", which is apocryphal, at any rate. The day we can't laugh at — or with — our president is a very sad day indeed. I loved the smoker joke.
re: Rexter. It seems no blog is complete without an anti-semitic troll.
The Soros line was great – it's funny because it's true.
You republicans really have a problem here. Your idea of great Obama humor is calling him a Muslim? How about some jokes about his birth certificate or anyone of your other stupid Obama bashes. He is been in office for a little over a month and he is popular and doing the right thing by most peoples account (check the polls). Republicans are a shrinking minority they just don't realize it. You are not popular enough in this country to influence the culture as you once did. You are a party of old white people and you are slowly dying off due to age. Your president wasn't popular and neither is your idea of humour (by the way not a misspelling just the non-American English spelling). This is America love it or leave it. I hope you find your free market utopia out there and finally quit whining.
I don't agree. You will notice that often, the person who complains that some joke offends is NOT claiming to himself be offended. He is often expressing "possible" offense on the part of some unnamed, unidentified aggrieved party. So the wrath that comes down on the first comic who tries a Barack joke will not come from the White House. It will be from a bunch of ObaMessianics who will claim offense on his behalf. They will probably be white, too.
I really laughed at the Soros one and the smoking one. I plan to tell those this weekend to my friends/family. Thanks for the laugh.
Sadly, in the age of envy, freedom has become utopian.
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So are you Canadian or British with your spelling of humour.
Hey Clown,
People are afraid of making fun of Obama? Have you ever watched "Saturday Night Live," you nitwit?
Yeah, you all are pretty funny, Somecat. Your idea of teh funny was calling Bush a chimp. An evil, scheming, mastermind chimp. A retarded chimp. Eight years of retarded evil mastermind chimp, and someone puts one in a cartoon, and suddenly, TEH RACIST!!!
This business of political opposition is American. Remember question authority? Remember dissent is the highest form of patriotism? Guess what? You've made it so that patriotism is now the highest form of dissent.
You're doing nothing but telling us to STFU, because you don't like what we say. Stick it.
You just handled a heckler. Well done.
The polotics of Hollywood is Liberal not Money
If the politics of Hollywood is money explain the string of Islamofacist apologizing, anti US military films that had poorer financal performance than CitiBank.
we HAD our "free market utopia" and lefties couldn't stand it. Using the false premise of class warfare you’ve killed it. I’m sure you're giddy now that your dreams of a totalitarian socialist worker’s paradise is coming true….thanks for bringing us all into your nightmare.
Remember, "Dear Leader" has to give his official approval for jokes made about him. Here's one of the five he's so far pre-approved: A Christian, a Jew and Barack Obama are in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. Barack Obama says, "This joke isn't going to work because there's no Muslim in this boat." Ohhhh Obama, that's soooo funny, you're so awesome *faints*
HAHAHAHA! Pure win, L4L.
WAAAAAAAMBULANCE
If you were successful in your equal rights/desegregation campaign to get more Obama comedy on the airwaves, it would surely be the most pathetic political victory of my lifetime.
I have a joke for you:
Why do conservatives whine about the amount of comedians making fun of Obama?
Because they're unfunny losers who have no comedy chops themselves
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Then stop posting here!!! No one asked you to come to a CONSERVATIVE website and post snarky comments!
Conversations apparently don't include jokes… in contradiction of human experience nearly the world over. Kind of reminds me of the old standby:
Q – what's the difference between a feminist and a optimist?
A – THAT'S NOT FUNNY.
This is America love it or leave it.
After every pathetic celbrity nitwit who threatened to move to Canada or France or frickin' Cybertron when W won re-election…. you come out with THAT? Methinks your irony detectors are on the blink. I'm sure Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Carl Elder, Condi Rice, Michael Steele, and Bobby Jindal appreciate the old white people remark, too. Nice racism there.
PS, we're not the ones dying out – as I recall it's conservatives who oppose abortion.
I'm only 25, but I reckon if I'm old, i'd better start planning for retirement. Shame my 401(K) just went negative….
Clint rules!
http://lonewolfarcher.blogspot.com/
Have you???
I have. When have they made fun of Obama?
I know they've made of the media's treatment of Obama, and they relish projecting Democratic ideals such as attacking children onto Republicans… but I can't recall a skit making fun of The One.
Actually ,Something the Cat dragged in, I think we do realize that we are a minority party. However, do not think that all people who voted for Saint Bama will be snookered forever. Eventually they will wake up to loss of freedom and rebel.
Also, we don't have our principles determined by polls but by what is right and what is wrong. We believe in honor, responsiblity, and individual rights. As far as whining is concerned, we will never be able to reach the level of whining by Dems. It is just not possible.
"People are afraid of making fun of Obama? Have you ever watched "Saturday Night Live," …",
– Wow, the name-calling, so unnecessary, and such a poor reflection of your obvious tolerance for the opinions of your fellow human beings.
And SNL — so far — has really only made fun of the *reaction* of people to Obama. Compared to how they've gone after previous administrations, it's like getting beaten with a feather duster (which btw, can be fun, actually).
[...] Dog Training added an interesting post on The Dangers of Political CorrectnessHere’s a small excerptWhen a comic does an Obama joke, you’d think they had just heard a line about a missing child eaten by Bdogs/B. [...]
A bit of PC hackery going on in my own state: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2...
What a bunch of re tards.
HA–classic!
I think you should check your own irony detector friend. I am throwing back at you what was once thrown at those who whined about Bush. This is America. Obama won by an indisputable margin the majority of the vote.
That doesn't change the fact that your party's demographic is aging and white.
Humour was spelled correctly. The article was published in England, where they have spelled that way since before we were discovered.
As an aside, if you ever find yourself looking for "mashed up" movie trailers, check out the Muppet Version of that movie, "C is for Cookie." It's really, really funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9rzMaAucI4&eu...
"People should not be afraid of cookie, cookie should be afraid of people."
So that's a "yes"?
You demonstrate the phenomenon I am trying to describe. You assume a majority of people would agree with you if only they knew the facts and would quit being snookered. Your side had the chance to rule and made a hash of it. Maybe the Democrats will be worse maybe not. At least they are interested in running the government not just proving that government doesn't work. Your side was given a chance to run the the government of the greatest nation on earth and you put Brownie in charge of FEMA.
Somecat, Obama did win, but where is the change…I had originally begun reading blogs on Huffington Post, and I found it there way, way worse in behaviour by the liberals than I have here. Still waiting to see Obama's change…you know – taking the higher road than he has said the Republicans did. Where have manners and dignity gone…it is open season big time by the liberals to behave or say whatever they believe is their right.
That's because he was doing it wrong.
Q. Why will Obama ride in the back of a Presidential limousine?
A. The Vatican wouldn't sell him a Pope-Mobile.
Oh yeah, well allow me to throw a little BDS logic back at you compadre…
I dispute that margine. Obama stole the election. Hatcrime hatcrime. Stop the hat. Obama lied, people dyed. Stop the not legal war in Pakystan. Shave the whales. Halliburton out back. Make luvs not war. It's called ironing!
Andrew you pretty, pretty silly fool, you know the ironing is just going to go over somecat's head…LOL!
Luvs ya!
Hi Trish. I think he has tried to change the tone of debate but that doesn't mean he controls people who post comments on HuffPo. We could both find bad behaviour in comment sections all day long. The change is also away from Republican policies. He laid out a liberal progressive agenda and was elected on it not because people were fooled – he made it clear what he intended to do.
Celebutard comics hate religion but make a god of their candidate…to the pt that it is heresy to laugh at him.
Oooh…snap!
You're gonna make WAAAAAAAMBULANCE cry…oops, so sorry; he already is.
Note: BIG words…LITTLE…intellect. (snicker)
One only needs to look at the anti-religionist regimes of communism, fascism, Nazism to see the celebration of the cult of personality. The big posters of the Big Brother du jour are rampant in every street corner and TV screen. Leni Riefenstahl must be doing handsprings in Hell!
Obama took it to a new level with a faux Presidential seal while campaigning, a refurbished 737 Boeing with a seat that was embroidered with "President of the US" on the back, Greek columns a la Mount Olympus at his Denver coronation, hob knobbing with the Getty's and dishing over bitter folks who cling to their Glocks and archaic sky gods.
It's a good day to be a heretic.
Political Correctness = Cowardice!
You make my point for me. I am saying that you are a minority NOW that the country is NOW willing to try something else after 40 years of essentially all Republican rule. Bush was the last straw. As far as the rest of your diatribe I won't dignify it with specific rebuttals. It seems you would rather insult imaginary Marxist than engage in a real world debate. By the way and just because you seem to be making a lot of assumptions about me I will let you know that I am a 45 year old white male. I also own a couple of guns, I am veteran, my taxes are being raised, and I don't share your world view.
I've only seen so many Eastwood films, when I was young I saw the movie with orangatang in it, maybe a couple others, I'm not a big film buff. But I saw part of one of his Dirty Harry films yesterday and thought 'You couldn't make this film today, it's just too good.' and I think this confirms it. He's right.
As an American of German descent, I was offended at the use of the term "verboten". Slagle should be more sensitive to those of German descent as we try to overcome the shame of Hitler and his Nazi regime.
And speaking of PC in the movies, perhaps my favorite un-PC quote is from Bogey as Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon" when he said to his secretary, Effie, "You're a good man, sister."
Uhhh… Blue Eyes and Deano probably were racists.
I'm sure they were genuinely affectionate towards Sammy, but they kind of treated him like a mascot, in public.
Collins, let's not forget the terribly funny and clever (not) caricatures of Condoleeza Rice. That was such advanced humo(u)r that I missed b/c I'm just a dumb white cracker.
Jokes are constantly made at the expense of the average white guy. We are the only gender and race not on the multicultural ethnic hurt feelings list written by the perpetually offended on the behalf of every other race self-loathing white liberals during the 1990s.
Hey somecat, at least my party (actually not a Republican, but a conservative) is having children. While your party may be young and motley-colored (not that 'colored'…I wouldn't dare joke about that), they aren't having (enough) children. It's called demographics.
That's why I call him the Big Moca. He really isn't black, is he.
Yes, he likely has the best lines of all time.
"We all got it coming, kid!"
While I agree it was spelled correctly b/c the publication is British, be careful of your etymology!
Humour originally referred to the four body fluids. The first recorded use of it to mean 'funny' was in 1682, well after "we were discovered." In fact, I think the OED lists it as first being used to mean funny in the early 1700s, but I no longer have access to OED Online.
(Just giving you crap, sirron!)
Of course you won't "dignify" my comments with any "specifics" as you posses none. Classic Alinsky [your Community Organizer in Chief's favorite author] dismissal of the other side as somehow beneath your self important "intellect". I make no assumptions about your lifestyle as that is irrelevant. I wouldn't care if you were Michael Moore's personal sex slave, you either can defend your ideas or choose to take the lazy way out with boorish condescension. You started this thread of reasoning yet are running out of ammo, bucko.
If Obama, according to your own assertions, brings some new "change" then why did he blather endlessly about the alleged Constitutional abuses of FISA, claimed to support a filibuster in the Senate and then turn around and vote FOR it?
How are your taxes being raised? Dear Leader promised to cut 95% of everybody's taxes below $250,000. Are you working for George Soros? He doesn't share my world view either.
As a fellow vet, thank you for your service. Did you work at McDonald's or Burger King?
Something the Cat dragged in…priceless!
I LOVE PBHO! If any group of libs can insure conservative, (not Republican, CONSERVATIVE, you hack), leadership, (not rule, that's your deal), for the next forty years, its this gathering of flatulent petulance.
If this is running a government; putting people in charge who have such real problems in paying the taxes they demand from everyone else, (try not paying yours, Shamus, and see how charitable they are to you), give me the anarchy!
Geitner cant handle TurboTax? The (supposed) singular financial genius that can't handle a program that I have used for years, and my twelve-year old can navigate without problems? (I let her work with it) This is a credible excuse? To whom?
"Socialism is the Gospel of Envy."
Forget it, Andrew. "Anyone here from toddes? Yes? I'll talk slower…"
The Big Moca is likely to find out how fast the wind can turn in politics. When the mid-term elections come around, I suspect he will have lost much of his manufactured lustre. As the zen master says, "we'll see!"
"He laid out a liberal progressive agenda and was elected on it …"
Not so much. He was elected because a bunch of dumbazz white people felt enlightened and socially evolved by voting for a black man. And because he has a sexy walk. Like Denzel. (I actually overheard a couple of women saying that while watching Obama pre-election. You can't make that stuff up.)
Think about it: if the above only describes 3% of the popular vote, and you flip that 3% to McCain, that's the election. Describing this as a win for Obama's socialist agenda is disingenuous at best. It assumes that the majority of the people who voted for him actually had a clue as to what his agenda is.
I think Clint inherited John Wayne's mantle. Wayne wasn't afraid to say what was on his mind. Then again, when asked about some of the movies he has directed in the past, Eastwood said in essence that he was too old to worry about people's reactions. "What can they do to me" was his response.
What I find interesting, particularly in the issue of race, is that the left ostensibly wants "everyone equal" and yet to them race is their basis for everything. While politics has always played a part in Oscar selection in the latter years they have gone into hyper drive – Milk won not for it's content but its political statement.
Gran Torino didn't have a chance. But what drove away the judges was precisely why I like it.
Even in the theater people of all races were cracking up over his remarks – so perhaps there is hope.
Well. some one has to pay their taxes. Surely, the young, hispanic voters don't have any money, just ask them.
oh geez, i haven't heard that joke in years.
Well, now that we are in the minority, I expect the laws to change to give us a hand. I think Affirmative Action should be extended to us, and that your kind should have to start supporting US.
What do you think? C'mon, we are old, white and helpless!
Okay, i lol'd at the last one, does that make me a bad person? I think knowing that PETA people would have a coniption makes it even funnier.
McDonalds or Burger King…. I almost did a spit take!!!
And Obama is on his third try for Commerce Secretary and 2nd try for HHS. He had 43 aides as well as his Chief of Staff under Federal scrutiny for the Blago fiasco BEFORE he even took the oath of office. Hell, the Bushies at least didn't get in any judicial hot water until his second term. So much for proving that Obama's "government works".
BTW-You have to love the Big Moca's nerve. Lets see: We are broke and on the edge of collapse. I will spend Trillions to save you but, hey you guys have been irresponsible, so I am taking over the banks, healthcare and the auto industry as I have so much business acumen under my belt. For good measure, I will appt a civil rights lawyer to run the CIA and yes, he is like 78 yrs old too and with a bad wig.
Oh, and we will be taking lots of tax money in the future but next year, we will actually give some of you more and and and.
Any questions for the Professor?
The Great Sensitive's, The Great Pansy Fraternity in Hollyweird can't handle Eastwood to much Testosterone, Americanism and Truth in his work. Keep doing your thing Clint "WE THE PEOPLE" Love what you do and who you are.
That was you… "punk"?
Canadians misspell it too? (ha ha). So is it Troll or Troull if they're from Britain?
Try "Blazing Saddles" if you want to REALLY start a flame war!
I miss the old days…when satire was recognized as such, my kids could roam the neighborhood like we did, without fear of the gangs, drug dealers, and molesters everyone keeps telling me they're locking up…
And Reagan was in office…
Okay
Tom Daschle < Randall Duke Cunningham
"Just another feckless politician that can afford to pay for the polls he needs to keep his reputation clean."
What does that mean? Whatever you are trying to say I am sure it is untrue.
"Obama IS a muslim in apostasy"
I am sure some Ayatollahs would agree with you. So? Still wouldn't be funny.
"I am not overly concerned about any "revolution" from the shrubs and netroots of the Obamanation. They have failed before and they will fail again as the have resoundingly done over the last 40 years. Republicans have all the guns. What is the Left going to do, throw broccolli and bean sprouts at us?"
A bunch of false assertions (why the quotes around revolution). I didn't say that. You switch from "Obamanation" to some un-named failures, to bean throwing left with an embarrassingly childish tough guy impersonation. I would bet on you being the fast food worker.
I was going to say something along the lines of "because Watching liberals throw hissy-fits is fun", but yours is much funnier.
hahahahha "you never go full retard!" Downey deserved some sort of award for that movie. And Tom Cruise, why in the world are so many of his movies boring when he can act that well? And it was one of the few movies that didn't make me hate Ben Stiller.
Your post is made of win and lol's. I too am going to steal the Soros and smoking jokes.
No actually demographics use real numbers and they back up what I said.
see:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15791.h...
"Where're all the white women?"
I wonder if Spike Lee's attacks on Eastwood caused a backlash against his latest film Miracle at St. Anna.
It would have been better for Lee to focus more energy on marketing the film. Miracle's subject matter (Black WWII soldiers) is taboo even for liberal Hollywood.
I thought the quote was "Where BE all the white women"
@ Somecat
That's not true. Here are some non-Muslim Obama jokes by poster Trimegistus:
"America's made a lot of progress in the past century and a half. Before the Civil War a black man was sold for fifty dollars. Whereas last fall George Soros had to spend ten million dollars to buy one.
Barack Obama wants to be just like Abe Lincoln. Well, he's certainly making a good start. He's tall, skinny, and he's tearing the country apart. He's just missing one thing — that whole "cannot tell a lie" bit.
How many Obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb?
If the light bulb doesn't want change, it's a racist!
Humour was spelled correctly. The article was published in England
@TrishP
I was surprised that a liberal country like Canada could re-elect a conservative prime minister:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?i...
If Canada could start moving right, then there is hope for the GOP in America.
Really? Comrade President Obama's popularity is at the same level as Carter's was this far into his presidency, doesn't say much for Obama beings this great wonder that the whole nation except us crazy republicans love.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/index.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Gal...
Actually, looking closely, I belive Obama is LESS Popular then Carter was at this point in time, and Carter took over during a recession as well. So yeah, the whole nation just loves Obama.
I haven't laughed at it in decades. Could we make the seal a bit blacker?
And this notion that Obama won some sweeping victory or landslide, it just shows a complete lack of historical knowledge.
I present to you REAL landslides and REAL sweeping victories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presid...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presid...
hell, even Nixon won by larger margins then Comrade President Obama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presid...
And just to show you its not just Republicans that can win landslides,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presid...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presid...
Once again, our Dear Leader won no mandate. He won, but not a landslide or sweeping victory.
Pretend he's half-white and there'd be no problem.
"There's this half-white guy comes into a bar eating a slice of watermelon, and he says to the barman…"
Now, no one could be offended by a gag that started with a set-up like that.
Couldn't agree more. Political correctness is a blight. Always was, always will be. As for comics making fun of Obama, I don't watch the late night shows, but Jon Stewart has had no problem making fun of the Anointed One. So there's that.
Q.
Why is it okay for Daschle and the delirium of Dems to cheat and still work in government?
A.
Because the Messiah has forgiven them of their sins.
The Republican Party should be a big tent party. Black Americans, White Americans, Asian Americans, Zombie Americans are invited to join. Its not like the Democrats who are prejudgiced. They let the dead vote, but only in Chicago.
If Obama was a World of Warcraft character, what would he be?
A Necromancer Priest, the dead rise to vote, and the living worship him.
Quit it "dulcamara " your being mean! It is fun to grab a leftist dweeb by his forked tongue and nail it to a post, metaphorically off coarse. This is the one place that perhaps the Alinskyites have underestimated, they’re now picking fights with real productive American conservatives that love this country, not worthless parasitic nar-do-well’s, or school kids on a college campus.
The Official Polish Joke Book /The Official Italian Joke Book
Move your mouse over the photos
http://www.amazon.com/Official-Polish-sequel-Ital...
I got this book in the 1970's
You are reading the Italian joke book then you FLIP over the book overend to read the Polish joke book. That alone would drive liberals/socialists crazy today
Right on! If we're the minority we should act like it. I have some paper, I can make signs here about how Comrade President Obama is a liar and a war criminal.
I think if you look at it obectively, the guy DOES look like a monkey. That is OK, folks say I look like a horse's ass and from some angles, they have a point.
Now, can you imagine if anyone said this in public. If you don't believe me, just look at photos of Curious George. If you don't think BO looks like the Curious One, then, I will be an monkey's uncle.
I think you want to go back and check your facts about the RULE part. I think I remember Reagan working with a minority and that Clinton and Carter guy being President. It would be nice to paint the GOP as the only pols who are deficient but lets face it, most of them are whores.
Wish it weren't so.
"I'm so awesome that I'd have sex with myself." I lol'd so hard. I Understand what you mean though. Its the difference between the bully and the guy who is really strong. The bullies try to make themselves look tough by picking on weaker people. People with real strength, you or me, will push back when pushed, and we're not afraid to admit that we're not afraid of tofu eating, tree-shaging, fish kissers.
And thats about the most insulting you'll see me get. I normally try to stay civil.
Try "Paint your Wagon" Reverse bygomy, Clint and Lee Marvin singing… Its amusing and crazy and a good western.
I miss Mel Brooks, he should start making movies again.
For his government to 'work' he would have to have a decent portion of it make into their positions before having to step down or bow out for tax fraud. Apparently you can't throw a stone into the DNC without hitting a tax cheat.
What does that mean, TeeTee?
Give me a break somecat. For every article you find I can find one. For example, for every state that Bush won in 2000, women had an average of 2.11 kids. In states where Gore won, women had an average of 1.89, which is below replacement level.
–Roe effect: those ethnic groups which vote heavily for Democrat have a higher rate of abortions than those who vote Republican.
–Majority of US births occur in wedlock, and those married voted 57% republican 42% democrat.
–The US is the only industrialized nation with birthrate above replacement (2.1).
–Of the ten states w/highest fertility (in 2000), eight voted for Bush. Of the ten states with the lowest, eight of them voted for Gore.
–Even assuming that only half of a woman's (couple's) kids vote the same as their mom (parents), Republicans will still grow as long as Republican (conservative) women (parents) have more kids than Democrat women (parents).
There's "real" numbers for you somecat. Now, go get married and have some kids. Better yet, go comment in a liberal or Democrat forum.
I think Clint Eastwood speaks for how most people feel concerning political correctness. Unfortunately, most of the rationale people aren't invited to do interviews for magazines and newspapers.
http://the100mostannoyingthings.blogspot.com/
You forgot to mention Obama uses Apple products and is down with the Hip Hop.
How many presidents does it take to screw-up a lightbulb?
I know, Bush signed that one. Ok then…
A missing black child is eaten by wild dogs because they were all racists.
Not quite there yet, but at least it's pointed that way.
Bush is stupid! Hahahahaha!
Sorry.
So Clinton, Bush and Obama are sitting around, comparing the sizes of their deficits…
Hmm… getting warmer.
A baby seal walks into a club…
I need help. I know that now.
Eastwood's movies make $$$, p.c.crap usually doesn't. Politically neutral would be the most sensible way to go, wouldn't it Ron Howard? By the way Ron, tragic, tragic hair. I mean, jump of the Golden Gate Bridge tragic. Buddy, Hair Club for Men…and bottle of hair dye…you sell ads on that dome…
What do Rubbermaid and walruses have in common?
They both like tight seals.
Yea, it's off the point, but it came to mind when I read the seal, penguin joke, sorry.
I loved the way Clint would talk to his friends in GT: "You Italian POS", the Polish jokes about him. I have friends of different nationalities and we are the exact same way. We call each other the worst names we can think of…because we can. We'll get some dirty look when we do it in public, but screw them!
As far a Clint not getting the Oscar, Hollywood never recognizes natural actors, the ones that really are that role. John Wayne played John Wayne, a man. There was no difference in any of his roles, he was the man we all hoped we would be in the same circumstance. He finally got an Oscar because they didn't think he'd be around anymore, and, at the time, PC hadn't overtaken Hollywood.
Clint is the same man, and just the fact that he is a real man in the homosexual swamp called Hollywood means he could never be recognized. Unless he plays the role of a friend of Spike Lee, married to Sean Penn. That would do it.
Old Tom, you are truely ignorant. Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin put their careers on the line with Sammy. Frank was his best man when he married a white woman, and ran inteference for Sammy in many ways. Do some reading, like Sammy's bio.
Throwing the racism allegation with no proof, especicially when there is so much contrary evidence is evil and scurillous.
Remember, it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.
No,IronMike got it right on the quote. Yours is the correct Ebonics pronunciation, (I think).
The funniest non-PC line EVER on TV was on Barney Miller. Detectives Wojohoitz (Max Gail – white guy) and Harris (Ron Glass – black guy) are having an argument. Wojo makes some "racist" remark, Harris takes offense and storms out. Barney Miller reads Wojo the riot act. Wojo offers up as an explanation, "How was I supposed to know he's black??"
Man I wish it was that simple.
Me, too, but it was in an "extra" interview, I think in the "Young Frankenstein" director commentary, that Mel himself knew the time for when he could ridicule racism and other stereotypes by being funny and clever was LONG past. Another person of real talent retired way too early by the freak show. Makes me wanna punch 'em in the mouth, Clint style.
I have it, and you are quite correct, sir. My middle girl and I still tear up when we hear, "Way out here, they got a name, for wind and rain and fire". Her name is Mariah.
Maybe it was because he was the size of a leprechaun, and not his race? He was kinda dinky, ya know.
There's a teenage boy w/ Down's in my neighborhood, and he loves that line. He was tossing a football one day in the cul de sac w/ some of the other kids in the neighborhood, and one kid keep running and tripping over bushes and crap trying to get the ball. When the boy with Down's came out with "Hey Josh, dude, you never go full retard!" I nearly peed on myself laughing. That's confidence. And a dang funny kid.
Popularity of Presidents after first month in office:
Carter-69%
Nixon-59%
Reagan-69%
GHW Bush-76%
Clinton-65%
GW Bush-55%
Barack Obama-59%
Popular? I would say, maybe low to average. Notice who had the highest ratings. As for making jokes, the author of this article made that Muslim joke, so as you are here as his guest, then please direct your issues over content with him, please. I don't understand why you came on this blog to insult it, wish death and destruction upon people here, and suggest they leave America. Do you have some sort of anger issues, or a mental defect?
"indisputable margin the majority of the vote"
Yes, generally when a contest is over, someone wins, and someone loses. We mark this by whomever had the "majority of the vote" in all political elections. But, hey, good on you to be so smart and all. As for "indisputable margin," when and where did anyone dispute that Mr. Obama had won, by any margin? I must have missed this event. If you meant by a wide, or large margin, that also would have been incorrect as Mr. Obama won by 52.6% of the vote.Otherwise, I don't have a clue as to WTH you are trying to say. I'm guessing that neither do you.
You forgot the part about how you are an embarassing douchebag.
Ooops, sorry, that must have slipped out.
Well, he has the same ears! Round and cupped, just like CG's.
My nickname at my day job is pinche huero . I love it. (Yeah, latino, I probably spelled it wrong)
I'm just glad the celebrity nitwits didn't move to Canada, we have enough of our own homegrown nitwits here.
And that aging white demographic elected 7 out of 11 Republican Presidents in the last 40 years as a "minority" party. Democrats have had only 1 President to serve 2 terms since FDR in that same time period despite the fact that they have held the majority electorate in that same period of time.
Why?
Democrats have a unique propensity for ADHD. The have already forgot that the anti-war candidate has retained Bush appointed SecDef Gates. That's "change"? Obama's entire Cabinet and brain trust are all re-tread Clintonistas. I seem to recall that Dear Leader hacked pretty heavily on the Clinton years as well as the Bush dynasty yet Prez Zero's entire cabinet can't even pass his own smell test nor pay their taxes to boot.
If you hadn't paid $148,000 in back taxes and weren't Tom Daschle, you'd be wearing jailhouse orange for such an "honest mistake". Obama is nothing special. Never has been. Just another feckless politician that can afford to pay for the polls he needs to keep his reputation clean. [Who do you think pays for those polls? They ain't free, honey] Just another empty suit like Carter had been.
If one were to apply the strict tenets of Islam to his birthright [which derives fro the paternal side of the equation] then Obama IS a muslim in apostasy. You really need to do some more scholarship on the "religion of peace". As far as your ageist and racist comments about white people, aren't you not following Dear Leader's manifesto of being "post-racial" or is only to be used for expediency when you meet a "correct" fellow traveler.
I am not overly concerned about any "revolution" from the shrubs and netroots of the Obamanation. They have failed before and they will fail again as the have resoundingly done over the last 40 years. Republicans have all the guns. What is the Left going to do, throw broccolli and bean sprouts at us?
I always thought this would be a cool bumper sticker:
"If this changes your mind, you are an idiot."
Stuff like that gives me hope that people are actually mature enough to laugh at themselves. I'l laugh at any Mexican joke if I know it's funny and done without ill intention.
Spike Lee is the most racist person I have ever met in person. He spoke at my college, years ago, for "Diversity Week," which meant cater to the black kids week. His entire speech, to an audience of Latino, Asian, Black, White and Native American students, was all about how Blacks need to support all black movies. Then came the Q&A session, where any question from a non-black student was met with disdain and 1-2 word answers. Needless to say that was the last "multicultural" event I took part in.
Blackhawk and malclave, you're missing the point. Oldbama is the new Prophet. Just putting his image on SNL is considered very riske… why, it's border line ridicule! Our friend clown here just mistakes that for humor because he was born without a sense of humor. Sad really. I think there's a charity if you want to donate some cash or a can of tuna or something.
But wait! But I'm fine with being from the Party of Cheney. More blood for oil and all that…it's what you need to get to work in the morning at the fat fryer. However…thou and your blessed brethren led by your Shepherd of Hope are without blame and above reproach. You represent the House of the Holies and are the Pascal Lambs without political blemish. That has been the screed and script played since the Iowa primary. And the feckless politician I was referring to was President Zero not Daschle.
Has your ADHD kicked in? Catholic school will cure that.
As to your insufficient grasp of polling; the reader's Digest version is that Obama spent $125,000,000+ on poll taking during the campaign. McCain's was limited to $145,000,000 for his entire campaign. Pollsters are commissioned to give the best possible light and spin to the questions that they ask of the public on behalf of the contractor. Different polls have different missions but they all have a common purpose: To influence public opinion in favor of their contractor.
It also gives the mob something a little easier to digest to keep them from actually doing an skull sweat. Take yourself, for example.
And actually, the Quran agrees with me as to Obama bin Boogedy Boogedy's heritage. Once again you have to hit the books to dispute this.
The "revolution" that I speak of can be found in many articles on HuffPo, NYT and any other outlet of the Obamanation network. Check your local listings for indoctrination. I see that your well on your way.
You want an example of Democrat failure? Howzabout 52 Americans held hostage in Iran after they invaded American soil and Jimmy Carter wanted to have tea with them. Tried a rescue attempt that killed American servicemen. Democrat failure? Blackhawk Down, USS Cole, the first bombing of the World Trade Center and 2 embassy bombings during Clinton years?
Brevity and disgust keeping from going on because I know that your ADHD might kick in again at any moment. Embarrassed tough guy? Hardly. I'm so awesome that I'd have sex with myself. I sure you can relate to this until your ISP goes down.
I'm just better informed. I have the advantage of working for the Federal government as a humble mailman and write a weekly column for the local paper in Santa Monica, Ca. A pleasure to be at your displeasure.
The dearth of TV comedians willing to take on Obama is fortunately balanced by an abundance of caricaturists–American and international–who manage to find humo(u)r in the Lord High BO. Among others Slate has a backlog of Obama caricatures, positive and negative. The negative seem to be gaining in number recently… http://cartoonbox.slate.com/static/114.html
No. you see, any person of the minority persuasion CANNOT be racist by definition. What is wrong with you?
Clint's right. I don't know what came first, political correctness or "sensitivity".
SO many people are walking around as a mass of sensitivities and don't mind trumpeting to the world that they've been OFFENDED. What bugs me the most are those who are OFFENDED by expressions of faith. I actually had one tell me that my mentioning of Jesus as my Lord was offensive. I fired back that *I* was offended that THEY were offended. Now what?
I'm offended that everyone is offended – but I guess that doesn't count.
It's actually "where all the white women at?" I thought that was one of the funniest lines in the whole movie.
I read somewhere that Mel Brooks wrote the black jokes and Richard Pryor wrote the Jew jokes. Whoever wrote what, they made a movie so funny my sister blew Pepsi out of her nose laughing at it.
It's a classic!
Clint Eastwood is no John Wayne. Wayne stood on his principles until the very end of his life, and I cannot think of a single movie in which appeared where he went against those principles. Eastwood, to my mind, was nothing more than a good-looking "leading man" in his youth. He went to far left with his revisionist "Unforgiven" which was cynical, nihilistic, and thus curried the favor of the Hollywood elite. I saw the movie at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and was apalled at the story and content. To get a better idea of the contrast between Wayne and Eastwood, watch "Sands of Iwo Jima" and compare it with the revisionist and untruthful "Letters from Iwo Jima". Then watch "Island in the Sky" and perhaps follow it up with "The High and the Mighty". Eastwood is deliberately moving to the right in his old age to stir up media attention, and I appreciate some of his comments, but he is no conservative.
Have not seen "GT" but it seems to me that perhaps the only way Eastwood felt he could get away with using the racial slang was by using the character of a white racist. Most movies written by liberal haters have at least one or two gratuitous scenes of white racists. "Bottle Shock" was a good example. I grew up in Northern California wine country, at exactly the time the movie's story took place. Many of my schoolmates were in families which owned wineries. I know the people and I know the area. The scene where the "white racist" truck driver insults the Hispanic character was totally gratuitous and inaccurate. In all my years in that community I never once heard of any such thing taking place. People got along, that's all there was to it.
Who needs official late-night comedians (dinosaurs)? We've got Big Hollywood!
That's awesome. It goes to show you that anyone can develop good comedic timing. The kid sounds great, hopefully he never loses that sense of humor and good grace.
So, it was anti-semitic for Rexter to mention the name of an historian who was jailed for lecturing about his research of 'The History of the Holocaust' (a registered trademark of Big History)? You politically-correct Stazi!
There's a difference between speech meant to demean or destroy and satire that pokes fun at the folly in all cultures. Most cultural groups, through their behaviors, open themselves to being satirized. Although many sensitive liberals seem to have lost the distinction, it seems Clint knows the difference. I'm sure he would abhor the first and support the second. I've visited cultures and countries all over this world and each has its own brand of nationalistic humor. Liberals would destroy free speech to make it conform to their sensitivities. I wonder if there's a word or label about politics for an intolerant political/cultural bigot that carriers the same connotation that 'racist' carries towards race. If there is, it seems the liberals in this country, especially the arrogant hollywood elites, should be called out on it.
"Took it like a man". Really? And what does that even mean, Liberty? TO keep your mouth shut when someone is saying something offensive? To allow for this stereotyping to persist so that you, yourself can engage in the same sort of "humor"?
Mr Davis had been QUITE OUTSPOKEN about his trouble with these slurs after the Rat Pack disbanded. And has said so in a number of places including his own biography. And both SInatra and Martin have long, storied histories as race-baiters and anti-semites, including a history referring to Latino's as "wetbacks" and "server boys".
You want to know what's really funny? Mr. Slag, here, poking fun at college professors all the while showing his supreme ignorance by his lack of understanding of some obvious truths. That's what is really funny.
Like this one for example…
When responding to Mr. Eastwood's quote in the Daily Mail (a British Newspaper), "“People have lost their sense of humour," Mr. Stag said "Aside from the misspelling –I don’t think an American like Clint would have ever pronounced it ”humour." Now that's funny! Surely, Mr Stag, you are not that ignorant as to suggest that the word has been misspelled? Or that the word in question is pronounced differently than "humor", as we say it? Surely, you were making a joke, surely you were not unaware of the fact that the word "humour" is spelled correctly as that is how they spell it (which is, by the way, the ORIGINAL English way of spelling it) and surely your ignorance does not extend any further by suggesting that the word is pronounced differently, too? I guess that was meant as a joke, too? That's funny!
I'm all for the Obama jokes, Mr. Slag, but aren't satirists supposed to be smart? Or, at least, clever? It appears that you are neither, Sir. And that makes you the funniest joke of all.
Why do you hate America so much?
Why do I hate American so much? Really? You got that from my post above? Really? Oh, enlighten me, Doctor DOUCHEBAG, where did I say that? Or, is that just the CLICHED label you put on anyone who might share a different perspective than that of your own? Hate America? Can't you come up with your own jingoistic slogan, rather than parrot those of your fellow brethren?
I noticed what you DIDN'T DO, I noticed that you didn't make any substantive claims about what I actually wrote. And why is that? Because what I wrote is FACTUAL, perhaps? Or, are you simply not intelligent enough to add anything of value to this discussion? Oh, wait. That's right. What you said makes perfect sense. Allow me to lay it out for you like a ninth grade level logic problem…
IF Max uses facts to criticize the behavior of dead Crooners, THEN he hates America.
Of course. That makes perfect sense. Oh, but wait, there's more…
Maybe you took offense cause you're old and simply don't like when people criticize those whom you have had a fondness for these many years, and since they are considered Icons, you believe they are beyond reproach? Maybe that's it. But that would be just as foolish and laughable as your original claim given that both Mr. Sinatra and Mr. Martin were DEVOUT Democrats their whole lives.
Anything else you'd like to add to this discussion, you hate-mongering, ignorant twit?
I only diagree with one comment. He may be one of the few men left in America, not just Hollywood. Standup gentlemen!
Can someone put this to music
He came to the masses from mountaintops high
He promised advances to the hard-done by.
Hope and change was the name of his game
Critics, forewarned, dare not say his name.
His rhetorical gift was his foot in the door
To heal the planet and give aid the poor.
He preached love and faith, not power and muscle
From Chicago’s south side, where he learned his hustle.
The media worship and admirers swoon
Their legs get all tingly when he enters a room
No vetting or challenge could hold him back
And oh, did I mention he’s black?
Now Illinois’ loss is Washington’s gain
Of another president who can feel our pain.
A new kid in town to show us the ways
To make us all equal, if we do what he says.
The economy’s bad, it’s capitalist’s fault
Government’s duty is to open the vault.
It’s urgent, folks hurtin’ like never before
Let’s mortgage the future so they can have more.
We built a land of freedom and wealth
But will the messiah destroy it by stealth?
Our Ancestors struggled to build these lands
With courage and faith and the skill of their hands.
Sitting here, thinking, how this all came to be
And whether my freedom will be history.
So think hard people what it means to be free;
And what someone’s free ride is costing me.
But yours and my freedom is no-one’s to take
Especially by a phoney demagogue fake.
So stand up, defend what our Ancestors gave
To the land of the free and the home of the brave.
"Surely, you were making a joke"
I absolutely was.
Thank you for recognizing something, that went way over the heads, of a lot of detractors.
Thank you for your response, Mr. Slagle. I apologize if I suggested that you were not clever, however, your Obama/Muslim joke, the one posted on your website that caused people to walk out during your performance, just isn't all that funny. And not because of this history of LIES surrounding said comment, I just didn't think it was all that funny.
That's not to say that YOU aren't funny, but I do think there is a line.
Making fun of someone's religion is FAIR game because one's RELIGION is a CHOICE. But making fun of one's race, or using racial stereotypes is LAZY and IMMATURE. And that's where I think the line should be drawn.
It's not that stereotypical humor isn't funny on occasion, I just think it's SIMPLISTIC, and too far beneath anyone who dares to refer to oneself as a satirist. Satirists need to be smarter than that and relying on those sort of stereotypes just isn't very smart or clever.
As a big Obama supporter who spent 18 months working on his campaign, I welcome whatever Obama jokes you might have, so please send them my way.
We live in increasingly bitter and polarizing times. I think EVERYONE needs to step back and allow people to take all of our leaders down a peg, be it the ones you support or the one's I support in kind.
Political correctness is ultimately about respecting the differences and opinions of others, even though I would agree that is had been hijacked by those who treat it like some sort o tenant of their soon-to-be fascist regime. And yes, I'm a LIBERAL and I just said that.
If I was complaining that people didn't laugh at the Obama / Muslim joke, you might have a point. But it was a walk out. That implies an entirely different thing. They walked out because it WAS funny, because people were laughing at their President. And after what Republicans have endured for the past eight years, such a tantrum is completely uncalled for.
Incidentally, it happened again Friday Night. Same line. The audience went nuts when it happened too. Something about the line, sure sticks in the craw of Obamaphiles; and their inability to leave a room quietly, made the crowd think it was all a set up.
Finally, suggesting that the current occupant might be a Muslim (not like there's anything wrong with that) is exceedingly mild, considering jokes about the previous President accused him of squandering this nation's blood for the sake of his oil portfolio.
You know – I could almost go along with the politically correct crowd as they go about their mission putting larger and larger chunks of political speech, social discourse and just plain talk out of bounds. I am almost ready to say "Stop – You win! Just leave me alone and I will speak the way you want, avoid subjects that are verboten and at least try to think like the good and "sensitive " prole you want me to be. I will do this because you are unrelenting and possessed of a fierce and demonic energy that I am just too tired to resist any longer. All that I ask is that you drop the pretense and quit demanding that I indulge in your Orwellian fantasy that you are, at the same time, the most courageous and freeedom-loving defenders of free speech on the planet. Give us all a break! Just drop the mask and tell us straight from the shoulder that you are all about repression and censorship and slapping the duct tape over the mouths of those you don't agree with. It's OK! You win ! I know it's for my own good. Mea Culpa.
Huh? Ron Howard's movies make a ton of money. That's why he's considered one of the most successful film directors. Did you bother watching "Apollo 13"?
As for this whole anti-PC-rant, telling jokes about people based on their race, ethnicity, gender, etc. is pretty lame. Would you appreciate it if you were a war veteran who had lost a limb and heard someone making a joke about crippled soldiers?
Common courtesy and decency should tell us that making fun of others isn't right. Do you think Jesus would sit around making fun of other people?
"Would you appreciate …someone making a joke about crippled soldiers?
So you're saying that a person's race is a disability?
Careful there Gunnar, your bigotry is showing
Sure, some do. Then there's "Frost Nixon". It's an ego trip aimed at conservatives and it DIED on the vine. Tough. I must have touched a nerve with his horrible red hair. Tough. If he'd gone to a regular school, he would have endured much worse. He might have learned some middle American values. He's a millionaire, ggod for him. He won't get another dime from me. Screw him. So, about the hair ? What, you too? Get a wig, and buck it up, Bucky.
And what in the HELL do injured soldiers have to do with this? If they were decended from Bozo the Clown they wouldn't have been injured? Ron, track down a Bozo, get a paternity test, HURRY!
Yes, a walkouts do imply a different thing. It implies that those people are so entrenched in their beliefs that they are unable to welcome any humor in the door that might make fun of those beliefs and that signals to be that they are fundamentalists, LIBERAL fundamentalists, which is no less dangerous or annoying than Conservative or Religions one's.
As far as Bush sending troops into harm's way for his own personal profit, well again, I am Liberal and I find that kind of rhetoric to be both preposterous and despicable. However, is it a stretch to say that he knowingly did so despite strong evidence that stood in the face of his stated reasons for doing so, that he willfully ignored any or all evidence to the contrary? No. I don't think that's a stretch.
Finally, I think that Muslim joke might go over better in time. I think Obama supporters are still raw about the lies that were flung in his direction, as say, Sarah Palin's or McCain supporters are still raw about the same.
The reason that the Liberal Party didn't win was because they had a very weak leader. If there had been a stronger leader, the Liberals could have won or a lot closer than they had.
Given that Mr. Sinatra endorsed Reagan for President in 1976 and 80, sang at his inaugaration and campaigned alongside him in 1984, how could he have remained a DEVOUT Democrat?
He was Reagan DEMOCRAT? Ever heard of one of those many MILLIONS, you IGNORANT TWIT?
Have anything else so enlightening to say?
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