That Michael Richards thing: Does anyone actually give a shit, tinker's damn, rat's ass, or flying fuck?
Okay, actually this is pretty funny (via Steve Young).
Posted by Ken S at November 28, 2006 11:57 AM | TrackBack (0) |Michael Richards......who be that?
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at November 28, 2006 12:03 PMSo a racist has-been goes on the radio program of a race-baiting has-been to apologize. *yawn* Wake me when something important happens.
Posted by: Boy Named Sous at November 28, 2006 12:14 PMhuh?
Posted by: KG at November 28, 2006 12:25 PMYou haven't turned on a radio, KG?
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at November 28, 2006 12:32 PMPeople are interested in it for the same reason they slow down when they drive by an accident scene: morbid fascination with the destruction of another human being.
Posted by: Julie at November 28, 2006 01:30 PMThe man is apparently not all that pleasant. Go up to him and say that you really enjoyed him in "UHF" and you'll likely have to withdraw with your hands over your ears.
Posted by: Nightfly at November 28, 2006 02:05 PMHow about a flying ratfucking shitdamn?
I might give one of those, if the pay was right.
Posted by: Sigivald at November 28, 2006 02:31 PMNo, not really. This is one of those "slow news week" things, or one of those schadenfreude things, or media self-promotion. ("Let's show the world how P.C. and right-minded we are by talking about this event and acting incredibly shocked that it could happen in 21st century America.")
Last I checked the Constitution, the "right to not be offended by some jackass" isn't in there. I mean, yeah, it sucks to be on the end of some jerk's tirade, but it doesn't suck in such a way that you're due compensation for it.
Posted by: ricki at November 28, 2006 02:43 PMIf you were watching the news out of Chicago you'd swear that it was the only thing happening in the world, well that and the coming cold snap. Seriously, aren't there actually THINGS happening besides this?
Posted by: alli at November 28, 2006 03:41 PMYou know, if I were to call somebody a motherfucker, nobody would leap to the assumption that I had an oedipal fixation. Why brand Richards a racist simply because he – once! – lost his temper and used racial insults instead of sexual or scatological ones?
Posted by: Joel at November 28, 2006 06:31 PMI knew what you were talking about Ken, I was simply trying to show my lack of giving a rat's ass.
Oh, and I haven't listened to talk radio much in the last year, sirius is to thank for that.
Posted by: KG at November 28, 2006 08:43 PMYep, I dont give a toss about it either. Gee a comic being racist...how unusual.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge at November 29, 2006 01:17 AMNot. Even. A. Little. Bit.
Posted by: rightwingprof at November 29, 2006 07:37 AMNo.
Posted by: Even Covered in Mustard, Bingley Couldn't Tempt the Most Desperate of New Orleans Cannibals to Try a Bite at November 29, 2006 08:34 AMGuys disrupted a peid performance and were asked to be quiet. They responded with words meant to hurt. Their target came back with words designed to hurt.
Mutual combat, not worthy of further note except if the system is used to extract money.