A Saturday Obama Two-fer
* Messiah of the Year
* New Reality Show
RidesAPaleHorse sent us the above image after reading "Competing optics: Cheering Germans or American military? Update: Snubbing wounded soldiers? Update: Touring Berlin instead? Update: It is/is not a campaign event?" at Hot Air.
Of course, this image is not appropriate for serious media discussions about Barack Obama, who very well could be our 44th president.
So, we looked around and found a much more appropriate RAPH image for those who crave the policially-incorrect.
Since it's mildly NSFW (Not safe for work), readers may access it by clicking on the link below.
Politically Incorrect Pic of Barack Obama - NSFW
Two-for-one Saturday politicaly-incorrect antics are almost as much fun as cartoons used to be.
by Mondoreb & RidesAPaleHorse
images: RidesAPaleHorse
Pixelaneous #50:
Politically-Incorrect Candy
PC Storm Troopers Overlook Old-time Candy favorite
Back in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, back before Policial Correctness had gotten its grip on the American consciousness, at most convenience or general stores, a kid could purchase a confection that was sure to produce a monster sugar rush: candy cigarettes.
"Eventually You'll Get Pretend Cancer: The Bizarre World of Candy Cigarettes", succinctly sums up the candy cigarette:
For the past 100 years, a variety of chocolate, candy, and bubble-gum confections have been manufactured that simulate the appearance of actual cigarettes. For the first 65 or so years, the major cigarette corporations either looked the other way or took an active part in ensuring that the candy package reproductions were "faithful" to their less-appealing tobacco brothers. For some reason, a lot of people believe candy cigarettes were "totally outlawed" in the United States sometime in the past, when in actuality, the major players have remained one step ahead of governmental regulation via sluggish self-policing and a strong commitment to what ESPN would call "Extreme Hiding."
Less popular, though no less PC--or tasty--are bubble gum cigarettes, a sample which is pictured below.
The forces of PC are weaker in foreign countries and candy cigarettes are a popular item, both for manufacture and for consumption. The next three pix are candy cigarettes manufactured in Mexico.
In many places in the USA, you can still purchase candy cigarettes, though they are many times stored out of sight, behind the counter with the Playboy magazines and the condoms.
And that's our trip down Memory Lane to when you could munch on a candy cigarette without fear of offending anyone--but the dentist.
[NOTE: The last three pix come from Cardhouse.com. For a fascinating tour through the world of foreign, and especially Mexican, candy cigarettes, check out "The Cardhouse Non-American Candy Cigarette Exhibition".]
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by Mondoreb
images: DBKP;
* candy warehouse
* cardhouse
The coverage yesterday of Duane Chapman, star of TV's Dog the Bounty Hunter and the 'N-word'-spiked tape from his cellphone conversations about his son's black girlfriend seemed familiar. Dog wasn't the first to put his foot into his mouth. Here's a quick look at media celebrities who did it before Dog.
Arts and Entertainment Network immediately announced that production of "Dog the Bounty Hunter" had been suspended. Later news clarified that the show hadn't been canceled, only pulled off the air. Chapman said that he was "sorry" and wanted to meet with black leaders to "make things right". The rehabilitation began for Dog.
There is a template for this type of incident:
1-commit a faux pas;
2-discovery of said remark;
3-media amplification;
4-public remorse by the personality;
5-meetings with "leaders" in the offended community
6-drop out of sight for awhile; sometimes enrolling in some sort of counseling.
7-and finally, rehabilitation.
Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
Dog was only the latest media personality to fall victim to political correctness. Some of the incidents listed below are people saying in public what is said more privately. Some are reprehensible. All are revealing looks at what the personality says when the microphones are switched off.
The physically-difficult act of inserting the foot in the mouth is much more easily done in the media spotlight.
1-Don Imus
Shock jock Imus had his 'Imus in the Morning' show canceled by CBS for his "nappy-headed hos" remark. Imus followed the template will soon be back on the air.
2-Kramer (Michael Richards)
Richards' use of the 'N-word' at a comedy club in an on-stage tirade wasn't so funny. The former "Seinfeld" star is staying out of sight and hoping the public forgets the image he presented that night.
3-Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder
Former bookie and NFL analyst Snyder said in 1988 the black athlete is "bred to be the better athlete because, this goes all the way to the Civil War when ... the
slave owner would breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid." Snyder later apologizes for the comments but his career as a broadcaster was over.
4-Howard Cosell
"Look at that little monkey go!"
In September 1983, referring to wide receiver Alvin Garrett of the
Washington Redskins; the statement was denounced as racist, but it was
pointed out that Cosell had regularly used the same term to describe
small players of all races, as well as his grandchildren.
5-Ken Hatfield
Any major college football coach could be fairly lumped into the 'media personality' category. Rice University football coach Ken Hatfield has found himself in a
swirl of controversy for recent comments attributed to him about
homosexuals in The Chronicle for Higher Education, a weekly newspaper
for college administrators and faculty members.
In a story about gay athletes in the Nov. 1 issue titled "The
Loneliest Athlete," Hatfield is quoted as asserting homosexuality
clearly conflicts with his religious beliefs and that he would
consider removing a player from the team if that player said he was
gay.
The article's author, Jennifer Jacobson, writes: "(Hatfield) says that
while he would not necessarily kick a player off the team for being
gay, he probably would think hard about it."
6-Mel Gibson
Gibson, arrested for speeding last year and obviously intoxicated, berated the arresting officer with anti-Semitic slurs. It was an odd look at history, but Gibson put his worldview on display. Gibson received universal condemnation after apologizing and entering rehab.
7-Halle Berry
Halle Berry has apologized after allegedly making a Jewish joke –
which was then edited out for broadcast – at a taping of The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno last Friday.
Berry was involved in a segment with Leno in which she showed
computer-distorted photos of herself. According to the New York Post's
Page Six, Berry showed one image in which she had a large, distorted
nose and said, "Here's where I look like my Jewish cousin!"
When the program aired later that night, the word "Jewish" was cut,
and a laugh track was inserted in its place.
After she made the remark, Leno said, "I'm glad you said it." Berry,
41, then said, "Oh my God, have I just like ruined my career.."
David Brooks, writing in the New York Times last year in "The Death of Multiculturalism", detailed the apparent passing-away of Political Correctness. In it, he lists some of the reasons for its demise. He remarks about the Democrat Party's move away from a champion of PC.
In 1994 multiculturalism was at its high-water mark, and Richard Bernstein wrote ''Dictatorship of Virtue,'' describing its excesses: the campus speech codes, the forced sensitivity training, the purging of dead white males from curriculums, the people who had their careers ruined by dubious charges of racism, sexism and ethnocentrism.Brooks' noting of the shifting of emphasis among Democrats is worth noting.
Then two years later, the liberal writer Michael Tomasky published ''Left for Dead,'' which argued that the progressive movement was being ruined by multicultural identity politics. Democrats have lost the ability to talk to Americans collectively, Tomasky wrote, and seem to be a collection of aggrieved out-groups: feminists, blacks, gays and so on.
Goodbye, Jesse Jackson. Goodbye, Gloria Steinem. Hello, Harry Truman.There are other media personalities that have revealed more of themselves to the public than they would have wished. We couldn't list them all. The ones we listed were the ones that occurred to us.
They won't be the last.
by Mondoreb & Little Baby Ginn
[photo:rockin'rob]
Sources:
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Wikipedia on Don Imus
Kramer on Tape
CBS News
Sports Illustrated
Wikiquote
UH
Wikipedia on Mel Gibson
People
New York Times
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