On Wednesday night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert – in the process of setting up a joke – noted that he had made a review of Toby Keith’s “High Maintenance Woman” on iTunes. And I thought to myself: did he really?
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What. The. Blue. Fuck.
Wow, NG. Any outrage from the right so far? I mean, it’s just as bad as the Joe Lieberman thing, right?
Didn’t think so.
It’s a much better example of the right’s connection to racism than the WaPo Robert E Lee thing.
True that.
Duros – the “Joe Lieberman thing” involved blackface photoshopped onto an actual photograph of a sitting Senator for the purpose of making a political point satirically. This comic has blackface HAND DRAWN on the face of a sitting Senator for the purpose of making a political point satirically.
It is therefore, like, totally different.
Ooooh. I see now.
Thanks for clearing that up, guys.
Nimrod, et. al.- appparently you’ve missed Senator Clinton’s recent forays into black audiences where she often worked in (very bad) southern drawl and traces of black slang into her speeches.
The cartoon is is less “racist” than her pandering to a black audience by trying to physically sound more like them. (Obviously Obama scares her to death.)
Fortunately for Senator Clinton, she’s a Democrat, thus the audiences will put up with it (for now.)
http://www.ifilm.com/profile/breitbart/video/2829104
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9TQq0C3Ac
Like the Connecticut Cowboy clearing brush at the pig ranch he purchased in anticipation of his presidential bid?
What the fuck? That’s a southern drawl now? With the flattened vaaaals and everything? She was born in Illinois, works in New York, and has been married to a southerner for thirty two years. She has a multiple accent.
Honestly, if that’s a “Southern drawl” then Gilbert Gottfiried is Bobby Ewing.
Nice to see you’re so committed to party lines that you have no problem whatsoever with blackface imagery despite being African-American.
Oh- you mean his eco-friendly home in Crawford?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
Don’t change the subject.
The cartoon is less “racist” than her pandering
Irrelevant.
The exact same outrage that was foisted at Jane Hamsher should apply here.
No IOKIYAR bullshit. Put up or shut up.
Senator Clinton’s recent forays into black audiences where she often worked in (very bad) southern drawl and traces of black slang into her speeches.
You linked to one example, not two.
As for that one example, I believe she was quoting this:
Now then, where is the “black slang” she worked into her speech(es)?
Not that I particularly care for this stupid argument but have the conservatives found any actual black people in attendance at Sen. Clinton’s speeches who were offended?
Or are they just too stupid?
Quaker- I’m fully aware from what she was quoting. I mistakenly posted the same clip from two different sources. The accent came out again at Rev. Sharpton’s shindig last week. Or her invoking the name of her “favorite” figure from the past, Harriet Tubman, to a black audience in reference to her microphone not working. It’s the classic “feel your pain” moment from Senator Clinton. It’s funny how these things never come out in front of a white audience, or at the debate last night for that matter.
And clearly, Oliver, I said that the audiences put up with it (in other words are not offended, yet) because, hey- she’s a Democrat. Now if Rudy Gulianni starts talking about Marcus Garvey in a black church, then I’ll say the same thing about him.
As for the blackface thing? Yes, it is certainly very offensive when used to degrade somebody. However, it’s not always automatically offensive. Like when used in historical context or in comedy (unless you don’t understand the joke.) For example, when Gene Wilder wore blackface in “The Silver Streak” it was a funny scene. Was it offensive? Somewhat, but most black people at the time found it funny too, and it probably helped that Richard Pryor was in the scene.
Are the uses in the cases cited above different? To me- yes, and it has nothing to do with “party.” One was used to belittle a Senator who seemed to be a “traitor” to Ms Hamsher. The other was taking a joke to ad absurdum- Hillary’s pandering to African Americans in the face of having a strong black candidate in the race- Her trying to make herself more black by the use of accent and invoking names that black people should care about- as though she is trying to prove that she is just as good a friend to black people as, well – a black man.
On that note Duros (or Nimrod)- were you as offended when Jane Hamsher, or the people who put Michael Steele in black face did so- not as comedy, but to degrade them?
Or are you so committed to your idealogy that you weren’t offended by those examples from the left?
If I remember correctly, Oliver at least made some passing comment to how stupid it was to put Steele in blackface. (I don’t remember on the Lieberman thing though.)
I’m not sure what you’re referring to with Hamsher or Steele, but sure, it’s a really stupid thing to do.
Who plays the maintenance man in the video?