WHAT'S IN A NAME? This just in: one of the four racist yahoos arrested in connection to the Barack Obama "assassination plot" has the surname Adolf. It's not the one pictured here, but that guy looked the funniest with the mustache.
It's not news that on a daily basis Rush Limbaugh spews crazy vitriol like Linda Blair spewed pea soup. But it is somewhat surprising that his callers love the same movies normal people do. Here's the 'Baugh himself, on his radio show yesterday, talking about liberals "drilling for racism," Caddyshack, and a whole host of other nonsensical stuff:
We all know violent sexpot New York has no respect for herself – really, how could she? – but had you any idea how little she cares for the feelings of others?
In the newest episode of televised pockmark New York Goes to Hollywood, Pollard attempts to research Japanese culture for an upcoming commercial role. Of course, she goes about this not by heading to the library for The Book of Five Rings or scouring Wikipedia, but by asking every Asian person she sees if they can explain Japan. (To a Korean dry cleaner: "Is that the same as being Japanese, or, like, not at all?") HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hilarious! And ironic, considering how the underlying joke here – New York doesn't get that all Asians aren't the same – is pretty similar to one that's plagued blacks for hundreds of years.
We'd love to see how well Pollard would take it were a Japanese person to approach her and ask how she played a crackhead so well in Jungle Fever.
Oh, Jamaican media, do you really want to shake that "Everyone in Jamaica is a dull pothead" myth? If so, what the hell possessed you to you publish black writer Michael Dingwall's recent essay, "Slavery was good for the black man," in a real newspaper? Not only is it horribly written and its punctuation a mess, it's factually inaccurate and deeply, vastly offensive.
Dear L’oreal: We didn’t know you marketed a skin whitening cream in the United States. Could you send us a sample? xo (Click for larger image)
Goddamn, The South! Y'know, we really do try to cut you some slack – seriously, we do – but you just make detesting you so easy sometimes.
During a July 30 interview on talking face Glenn Beck's radio broadcast, Toby Keith, Oklahoman and the musical genius behind the hit pro-lynching anthem "Beer for My Horses," told Beck that he thinks Barack Obama is highly successful with black Americans because "he don't talk, act or carry himself like a black person." Keith then added that he thinks "black society" views Obama as a "Caucasian." HE SAID THIS ON LIVE RADIO WITHOUT ANY SHAME! (Listen for yourself up above.)
For a minor but hilarious consolation, listen for when Beck, shocked, demands, "What does that even mean?" and the doofy Keith responds, "Well, I don't know what that means," sounding like a scolded puppy. Oh, Toby Boy, do you know what anything means?
This is what racists are worried Kwanzaa mornings will look like if Obama wins. They are so right, and we can't wait.
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Even more new information about that Josh Brolin-Jeffrey Wright bar brawl in Shreveport, Louisiana: TMZ is reporting that the "slur" mentioned in our earlier post came not from a fellow bar patron, but Brolin and Wright's arresting officers, who tased and pepper-sprayed the two actors before calling Wright a "nigger."
Update: Actually, both rowdy bar patrons and police officers called Wright a nigger. Nice to hear Louisianans of all stripes finding unity after Katrina.
• Big Brother already has its first racial slur, and the season just started two days ago. [DListed]
• Miley Cyrus seriously needs to just stop taking pictures of herself. [Yeeeah]
• Jay-Z's hotel request: "One giant watermelon was split in two and ornately carved into a mold of Beyonce's breasts. Two cherries were used as nipples." [INO]
• Who wants to see Britney Spears shooting a video in an elevator? [PS]
• Jake Gyllenhaal finds his Blackberry more interesting than Reese's kids. [PITNB]
• The end is nigh: Tyra Banks has been named the hardest working person in showbusiness. [ICYDK]
Oh, The South, what are we gonna do with you?
That scuffle with Shreveport, Louisiana locals and police officers that resulted in the arrests of Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright and several others associated with the film W? Turns out it began after a good ol' Looziana boy hurled a racial slur at Wright.
BACKTRACKING "On his radio show this morning, [Don Imus] said he was just trying to 'make a sarcastic point' when he asked yesterday, about arrest-happy NFL player Pacman Jones, 'What color is he?' As Imus tried to explain, 'What people should be outraged about is that they arrest blacks for no reason. I mean, there's no reason to arrest this kid six times.'"
If there was one person who could attempt to trump NBC Sports’ lead golf analyst Johnny Miller's anti-Italian remarks against Rocco Mediate, it’s none other than America’s Favorite Racist Don Imus. On this morning’s show, Imus & Co. were discussing suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones, who wants to drop his nickname. During the segment, one of his cohorts (perhaps Warner Wolfe?) tells Imus that Jones has “been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005.” Asks Imus: “What color is he?” Response: “He’s African-American.” You know where this is going.
The much anticipated new issue of Vogue Italia, which features solely black models and topics affecting black women, hits European newsstands a week from today. Consumers will have four covers from which to choose, all of them featuring a different black woman.
Inside the magazine, top black models from Iman to Veronica Webb will populate 100 pages of fashion features, thus reminding the world that women of all colors are beautiful, just as long as they're tall and possessed of a very specific type of bone structure.
The publishers of Vogue Italia say they're happy with the latest issue and excited to go back to using mostly white models for another few decades.
This past weekend's Texas Republican state convention was a breeding ground for people who love their Bibles, guns and George W. Bush. I'm generalizing, but, coming from a small Texas town, I can assure you the stereotype holds true more often than not. These buttons, which were sold at the convention, prove my point (and remind me why I left the state to begin with).
[Fox News] has released a statement saying it should not have referred to Mr. Obama’s wife, Michelle, as “Obama’s Baby Mama,’’ as it did on Wednesday in an on-screen headline commonly called a “chyron.”
“A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment,” Bill Shine, a Fox News senior vice president, said in a statement.
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as one “chiefly in African-American usage” that refers to, “The mother of a man’s child, who is not his wife nor (in most cases) his current or exclusive partner.”
Y'know, if you have to apologize for calling an historical black man's wife a tramp and his children bastards, maybe it's time to hang up the microphones. You fucking dicks.
Because he's an imbecile and increasingly insignificant and a drug addict (in that order), Rush Limbaugh needs to say outlandish, off-color nonsense if he is to remain even in the extreme periphery of the public eye. This is a fact of which Limbaugh is quite aware, which is why he's using photographic evidence of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe to remind everyone he's a bigot.
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We were halfheartedly joking yesterday when we guessed that there would be a lot of tactless, racially-motivated humor in the Sex and the City movie, and we were pleasantly surprised when readers who had already seen the flick declared – however cattily – that we were way off base. Turns out those readers are shameful liars.
Anthony Lane's absolutely eviscerating New Yorker review of SATCTM reveals one rather glaring affront on the diversity that makes "the City" so damn great for those of us largely uninterested in its boutiques.
That plea gets second prize for the most revealing line in the film, the winner being Miranda’s outburst as she hunts for an apartment in a mainly Chinese district: “White guy with a baby! Let’s follow him.” So that’s what drives these people: Aryan real estate.
Yay! Stick together, white Americans! And shame on the race-mixers.
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