Scandal of the Day
[Guest post by DRJ]
The Scandal-of-the-Day is this Tennessee story about an email that compares Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee. The author of the linked Nashville Scene column says there’s nothing funny about this story, and the email’s author has reportedly lost his contract with the Nashville Convention Bureau as a result.
Free speech has consequences although it would be nice if those consequences were bi-partisan, e.g., CNBC’s Erin Burnett, the Eagles’ Don Henley, and other media sources.
– DRJ
my guess is he was just monkeying around, and didn’t remember to think about the hypocrisy of the MFM….
Bush as chimp or any other animal: funny, appropriate, etc… with nary a hint of indignation to be found.
Ear Leader or the First Klingon as the same? RACIST!!
typical lieberal thin skin and double standards.
Comment by redc1c4 (fb8750) — 3/6/2010 @ 6:23 pm
One would expect something of that nature from Don Henley. Afterall, he was the sleazy rock schlub who used to get 15 and 16 year-old teenyboppers all coked-up and in the jacuzzi until one of ‘em overdosed and his MOP was exposed.
Comment by GeneralMalaise (04e9c2) — 3/6/2010 @ 6:39 pm
Desperado, my ass.
Comment by GeneralMalaise (04e9c2) — 3/6/2010 @ 6:40 pm
This is nothing compared to the unfairness of letting people off the hook for pointing to Dubya’s predilection for fried chicken and watermelon.
Comment by imdw (085706) — 3/6/2010 @ 7:21 pm
Quite frankly, imadimwit, I’m quite ready to show you how I S*I*N*G* with all your dishonorable spewage.
Semper Fi
Comment by John Hitchcock (80001c) — 3/6/2010 @ 7:34 pm
Totally incomprehensible.
Can’t tell if you are off your meds or OD’ing.
Either way, it ain’t pretty.
Comment by EW1(SG) (edc268) — 3/6/2010 @ 7:35 pm
IIRC, antiwar protestors in early 2000′s had a similar photo juxtaposition btw Colin Powell and an ape. This is deplorable no matter who does it.
Comment by gp (4c870c) — 3/6/2010 @ 9:06 pm
I seem to remember there was nothing funny at all about either the Bush-Hitler or the Bush-Chimp posters. But I see that turn-about gets punished while the original vilification is ignored. That’s par for the course. Maybe the designer of the picture needed to make it an albino-chimp? Then it could be seen as a legitimate political statement?
{^_^}
Comment by JD (f3a33a) — 3/6/2010 @ 11:20 pm