Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 266 Editor's Choice: 8
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Mocking Polticians
[Read the article: "SNL" spoofs Hillary: "I am a sore loser"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay, let me just say the following; for the past 8 years, late night hosts, sketch shows, the daily show, the colbert report, et all, have been able to mock, belittle, and generally savage the republican party and it's leaders. I mean, just take a look at that show Lil Bush; I mean, I hate Bush and his policies as much as any democrat, but that show is so wrong sometimes. (I do however love the way Dick Cheney talks and how he bites the heads off of chickens...ha!)
There have been many a cheap shot taken at those folks; so why is Hillary Clinton somehow above the fray? Mocking politicians is pretty much as american as, well, apple pie.
Her own husband was a continuing source of some of the best comedy SNL had to offer (i.e. the Phil Hartman in McDonald's explaining political policy by eating everyone else's Big Macs....now that was hilarious! He's in his running clothes with the secret service and he makes a pit stop at the McDonalds to talk to the people. Ohmigod...priceless.)
I've always thought that democrats can dish it out but they can't take it; for some reason, mocking white men is okay but god help you if you make fun of a white woman or a black man.
I can understand saying you didn't think it was funny, because you don't like Amy Pohler, you think the writing was bad, etc., but it was supposed to be biting. Her husband, back when he was presidents, was chubby and loved McDonalds (hence the heart attack.) Clinton, whether fair or not, is seen as the sort of woman who will do anything to win so making fun of that...right on. Now, if they had a sketch with Obama walking on water and healing the sick, that would be friggin awesome. Or better yet, Obama as like a super hero who uses his powers to brainwash the crowd...creating Obamatons!
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What's with all of the talk of rioting?
[Read the article: She's still in it to win it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think African-Americans are going to "riot" if Obama doesn't get the nomination. Jeez, where the hell did you guys hear that? A coalition of Obama supporters, might PROTEST, angrily, but I doubt it's going to be anything like the 1968 Democratic Convention. I really don't think its helpful to threaten Clinton supporters with violence, or for Clinton supporters to imply African-Americans are violent lawbreakers who can't have peaceful demonstrations. If they aren't rioting in New York over the Sean Bell case, if they didn't riot in Louisian over that whole brouhaha, why do you people all assume black people's default atitude is rampaging through the the streets?
What will happen, however, is that a lot of black people will see it as business as usual, as proof that it doesn't matter if you get more votes, if you have more superdelegates, that there is no way the "man" is going to let even a half-black man as president. I think a fair amount of black people will sit out the election, but they AREN'T going to start throwing molotov cocktails in Denver. It's the same way I think a lot of women feel if Clinton doesn't win the nomination.
If you guys are using the term "riot" rhetorically, then I apologize.
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@Notorious W.E.S.
[Read the article: She's still in it to win it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A mormon vs. an alleged muslim...
I don't know. Since one of the bases of the Republican party is Christian conservatives who fear and hate the mormon religion, I think a lot more of them would sit out the election entirely if it was Romney. Besides, Romney didn't get the nomination because he couldn't get enough Republican votes in the primary. Sure, he might have gotten independent support in the general, but that was never tested.
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To all of the haters
[Read the article: Girl crush: Mary J. Blige]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People are complex. No one is perfect. If you disagree with Mary J. Blige about wearing fur, or sporting "bling" then so be it, but can't you just agree that her foundation sounds really cool? I mean, c'mon! Stop hating. It's the same way I see people treat Oprah. Here's a newsflash; despite what Lewis Black might think, the root of all evil isn't a billionare overweight black talk show host. And neither is it an R&B Star trying to do good for single mothers.
You can like people who aren't perfect examples of altruistic wonderfulness. Heck, if I stopped reading, or listening to, or watching movies because I disliked a comment an artist made, I would have failed my Southern Lit class in College, I would never listened to any Elvis Costello (remember that Ray Charles comment?), and I couldn't enjoy Planet of the Apes or any Charlton Heston movie for that matter. (Damn dirty Apes!)
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I never said you couldn't criticize people
[Read the article: Girl crush: Mary J. Blige]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But instead of saying, hey, this foundation sounds like a great idea, I hope she helps people, all you can do is use this post as a reason to criticize what you see as her "crass" commercialism, without even acknowledging the reason why Broad Sheet decided to say they have a girl crush for her. From your post, I can ascertain you don't care about the plight of single mothers in this country.
I mean, c'mon. I'm so sick of people like you; it's like all you can do is tear people down and criticize. Maybe if PETA or any other group who has problems with R&B and Hip Hop actually tried to TALK to people, instead of attacking them, or dismissing any of the good they do because they don't adhere to their pefect model of what an enlightened human being should be, you could actually make a difference in the world. Instead, with your words, you automatically put people on the defensive. As my mother always said, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
And crass commercialism isn't just the provence of Hip Hop and R&B.