Last week Jon Stewart continued with the “done nothing” theme on The Daily Show, chiding Obama for not yet getting around to reversing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy about gays. He cited Obama’s “full plate” of business.
Stewart then acted apoplectic, displaying his exasperation. “All that stuff you’ve been putting on your plate?” he said. “It’s [expletive] chow time, brother. That’s how you get things off your plate.”
Ric Keller, a former Republican congressman from Florida who once wrote jokes for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, told the Times: “There have been some clear shots coming across the bow from the comic left.”
But Jeff Nussbaum, a Democratic speech and joke writer, disagreed that late-night comedy is a leading indicator of the zeitgeist. “To use an economic term, it is more of a lagging indicator,” he said.
A lagging indicator? Bullshit.
Clinton got crap his entire Presidency, as did George H.W. Bush. Ronald Reagan was never off-limits and was attacked from the time he was in until the time he died. W. was constantly catching crap and it started on the day he was inaugurated and yet we’re supposed to look at the delay in Obama being skewered as representative of some kind of bigger trend?
Stop it! Just stop the damn bullshit already!
It’s because he’s black! People don’t want to be pegged as racists, particularly entertainers.
Why is no one stating the obvious? It took this long because people were terrified of having to wear the scarlet letter of racism as dished out by pieces of crap like Al Sharpton.
If we can’t even be real with ourselves, how the hell can we expect entertainers to be real with us?
This country, as much as I love it, makes me sick.
If you wanna have honest conversations about race, you can’t start them off with the preconception that race is not a factor. Is it always? No. But sometimes, it clearly is, and denying is akin to denying the nose on your face.