Jay?

Hello?

There’s plenty.

I challenge you to find a hard right-winger that’s not a racist. And I challenge you to find a racist that’s not a right-winger.

How about Michael Richards?

But ALL right-wingers ARE racist. It’s part of the prerequisites.

Starkley,

I guess you’ll have to start defining your terms, because in this particular ‘tube’ the terms “right winger” and Republican always seem to be synonymous. Same with the term “racist” and “bigot.” For example- most of the people who post here that dissent from the dominant view on this blog are considered “right wingers” by the people who share Oliver’s view of the world. And yet does that make all of us racists?

I guess it would help if you could define or give examples of people you consider to be “right wingers.” Which non-left or non-center left people who post here do you consider “right wingers” and “racists?”

Then let’s have some examples of Republicans who you consider conservative, but not “right wingers.” For example- is the current President of the United States a) a conservative b)a right winger, c) a racist, d) b and c, e) all of the above, f) none of the above, or g) layers. Just layers.

(And the Starkley thing- it’s a play on words, but if it offends you I’ll stop calling you that.)

I think I’m the only person on Earth getting this “bad error” shit. But just in case, here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjE0E5lgm9Q

And I challenge you to find a racist that’s not a right-winger.

Louis Farrakhan is a right-winger?

But ALL right-wingers ARE racist. It’s part of the prerequisites.

You can be a Republican and not be a right-winger. Republican, Democrat, Conservative. Those are POLITICAL descriptions. Right-winger is an IDEOLOGICAL one. I challenge you to find a hard right-winger that’s not a racist. And I challenge you to find a racist that’s not a right-winger.

This will all lead to “what’s the difference between a bigot and a racist?” I’d rather not go down that road.

And yes, Sasha Baron Cohen is Jewish, which makes his jokes that much more potent. He’s revealing misogyny, racism, homophobia and cultural ignorance of some Americans by pretending to be a racist, misogynistic, homophobic and culturally ignorant person.

Presumably, the “honky-tonk morons” frame refers to are not.

Plus the fact that he’s jewish, kind of deflects it a bit.

Other than that- that’s twice today!

And Borat is funny for about 10 minutes at a time. Unless you’re from Kazhiczkstan.

(Yeah- I know I spelled it wrong.)

Unlike, for instance, the honky tonk morons who clapped along to Borat’s “Throw the Jew Down the Well” song, as seen on You Tube as well.

Good on them!

It’s not like he said ‘nigger’ in a vacuum. He actually said that years ago, those hecklers would’ve been hung upside down with “forks up their ass”. And he wasn’t joking, he said it in seething anger.

This explosion of racist anger is disappointing, but not shocking (as Mr. Richards thought it would be). It’s unfortunate that the hecklers responded by calling him a “cracker”. You can’t fight hate with hate.

But no matter what the hecklers were doing to rile him up (he’s not used to being heckled?) nothing excuses this attack. It wasn’t in character, it wasn’t satire, he was serious.

And what makes it all the more pathetic is the lack of imagination. Some black people were heckling you and all you can come up with in response is calling them niggers and yearning for a time when you could lynch them and stick forks up their ass? And what is it with racists and right-wingers and sticking things up men’s asses anyway?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEcz9T3MuL4