its all bs what did they expect when they hired the always brutally truthful mr mac. . this is the same hipecriticalbs that happened when the naaacp had the flap over eddie jackson when he did his routine for them. get bill cosby next time
On 7/12/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The thing I'm getting from this article and from the Presidential > campaigns now is the running almost-joke of how the campaigns are > disclaiming anything and everything immediately. What I noticed most from > this article isn't what Bernie Mac said, but the quote "The incident drew > response from Obama's campaign, which criticized Mac for his choice of > material. 'Sen. Obama told Bernie Mac that he doesn't condone these > statements and believes what was said was inappropriate," spokeswoman Jen > Psaki said in a statement after the event.'" > > Way back when Gerald Ford was President, he had a rep for being a klutz. > Saturday Night Live did a running skit where they'd make up a scenario, like > saying "President Gerald Ford stabbed his own hand with a salad fork, > today". They'd then end the report with something like "Secret Service > agents grabbed the fork, and wrestled it to the ground". > > I'm starting to feel like the campaigns have a similar running joke aspect > to them. Whether it's Wright or Wesley Clark, Hagee or some low-level > flunky, ever day it seems, one of the camps is issuing a disclaimer. If > they'd just said something like "Mr. Mac issue a few off-color remarks that > offended some", that'd be fine. But the formal, direct language of "We do > not condone such-and-such behaviour" is starting to get really silly. > > Is this the shape of the future of politics in an Internet, You Tube and > twenty-four-hour-news world? What happens if one of Obama's daughters gets a > bad grade in school. "The Obama camp would like to say categorically that we > do not condone bad grades in school, and will take steps to ensure this > never happens" > > Amazing... > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <oberonz%40optonline.net> > > Jul 12, 8:00 AM (ET) > > By ASHLEY M. HEHER > > (AP) In this June 7, 2007 file photo, comedian Bernie Mac talks with > reporters on the red carpet at a... > Full Image > > CHICAGO (AP) - Comedian Bernie Mac endured some heckling and a campaign > rebuke during a surprise appearance Friday night at a fundraiser for > Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. > Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in > downtown Chicago, the 50-year-old star of "The Bernie Mac Show" joked about > menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude > language. > "My little nephew came to me and he said, 'Uncle, what's the difference > between a hypothetical question and a realistic question?'" Mac said. "I > said, I don't know, but I said, 'Go upstairs and ask your mother if she'd > make love to the mailman for $50,000.'" > As the joke continued, the punchline evoked an angry response from at least > one person in the audience, who said it was offensive to women. > "It's not funny. Let's get Barack on," a man shouted from the crowd, which > paid $2,300 each to support the Illinois senator. > About 15 minutes later, Obama tried to smooth things over with a joke of > his own. > "We can't afford to be divided by race. We can't afford to be divided by > region or by class and we can't afford to be divided by gender, which by the > way, that means, Bernie, you've got to clean up your act next time," Obama > said. "This is a family affair. By the way, I'm just messing with you, man." > > The incident drew response from Obama's campaign, which criticized Mac for > his choice of material. > "Sen. Obama told Bernie Mac that he doesn't condone these statements and > believes what was said was inappropriate," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a > statement after the event. > Mac, a Chicago native, said he's a longtime Obama supporter and called the > presumptive Democratic nominee a "man's man" while offering him advice for > the duration of the campaign trail. > "People like rumors. They're going to say things like you was at the club > with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight," he said. "You > can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive." > Mac's appearance was Obama's first celebrity event of the evening. Later at > a Lincoln Park nightclub, Obama spoke to a raucous crowd of music fans, who > paid up to $500 per person to see a performance by Wilco lead singer Jeff > Tweedy, and two other band members. > "Before these guys go, I want them to know that I had heard a rumor that > they had suggested that I had nothing by them on my iPod," Obama said. "That > is not true. I love Wilco." > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
