So, Michael Richards Hates Hecklers?
This seems to be consuming a lot of talk radio and blogger time these days. The whole video of Michael Richards blowing up at his mediocre stand-up act and usually racial slurs to heckle his hecklers is cute and all. I never liked the guy. I never liked Seinfeld. I wasn't even real crazy about the SNL-lite show Fridays he was part of back in the 80's. And so now we find he knows how to use ethnic slurs. SO WHAT?
Well, money's to be made, so that's so what. Professional racists and hucksters like Al Sharpton need incidents like this to stay relevant and pretend that they speak for anyone with any melanin in their skin pigment. That is obvious to anyone who doesn't buy into the fairy tale that only whites can be racist. However, one thing out of this did escape me.
Why should anyone have to apologize to hecklers? If anything, the hecklers should apologize to all the people who paid to get into the comedy club and then who, instead of listening to Richard's act, had to listen to these pathetic losers make total jackasses out of themselves. They should also apologize to all of America, because we have been forced to listen to this crap day in and day out. They should apologize to all those people who are going to be forced to hear or read stories in the news and magazines about how they can be more racially sensitive than Richards. And they should get a gift basket from Mel Gibson who is thanking Yahweh that he's not the only one in the doghouse anymore.
Should it impress me that a bunch of certified geniuses went to a club and acted like the morons they were and then were attacked by a semi-stable performer for treating him like garbage? Not really. Do I care to see the video? No, I need those couple minutes of my life for something important like waiting in line at the BMV.
It's times like these I wish we still had public floggings...
This seems to be consuming a lot of talk radio and blogger time these days. The whole video of Michael Richards blowing up at his mediocre stand-up act and usually racial slurs to heckle his hecklers is cute and all. I never liked the guy. I never liked Seinfeld. I wasn't even real crazy about the SNL-lite show Fridays he was part of back in the 80's. And so now we find he knows how to use ethnic slurs. SO WHAT?
Well, money's to be made, so that's so what. Professional racists and hucksters like Al Sharpton need incidents like this to stay relevant and pretend that they speak for anyone with any melanin in their skin pigment. That is obvious to anyone who doesn't buy into the fairy tale that only whites can be racist. However, one thing out of this did escape me.
Why should anyone have to apologize to hecklers? If anything, the hecklers should apologize to all the people who paid to get into the comedy club and then who, instead of listening to Richard's act, had to listen to these pathetic losers make total jackasses out of themselves. They should also apologize to all of America, because we have been forced to listen to this crap day in and day out. They should apologize to all those people who are going to be forced to hear or read stories in the news and magazines about how they can be more racially sensitive than Richards. And they should get a gift basket from Mel Gibson who is thanking Yahweh that he's not the only one in the doghouse anymore.
Should it impress me that a bunch of certified geniuses went to a club and acted like the morons they were and then were attacked by a semi-stable performer for treating him like garbage? Not really. Do I care to see the video? No, I need those couple minutes of my life for something important like waiting in line at the BMV.
It's times like these I wish we still had public floggings...
posted by Rob Beck | 10:04 PM
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